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Literature, Language and Culture
Whose Book is it Anyway?
A View From Elsewhere on Publishing, Copyright and
Creativity
Edited by Janis Jefferies and Sarah Kember
Whose Book is it Anyway? is a provocative collection of essays that opens out the copyright
debate to questions of open access, ethics, and creativity. It includes views – such as artist’s
perspectives, writer’s perspectives, feminist, and international perspectives – that are too
often marginalized or elided altogether.
The diverse range of contributors take various approaches, from the scholarly and the
essayistic to the graphic, to explore the future of publishing based on their experiences as
publishers, artists, writers and academics. Considering issues such as intellectual property,
copyright and comics, digital publishing and remixing, and what it means (not) to say one
is an author, these vibrant essays urge us to view central aspects of writing and publishing
PB £25.95 9781783746484 in a new light.
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9781783746538 The Life and Letters of William Sharp and
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2019 | 234 x 156 mm | 460 pp. | 21 colour ill.
“Fiona Macleod”
Volume 1: 1855–1894
William F. Halloran
William Sharp (1855–1905) conducted one of the most audacious literary deceptions of his
or any time. Sharp was a Scottish poet, novelist, biographer and editor who in 1893 began to
write critically and commercially successful books under the name Fiona Macleod. This was
far more than just a pseudonym: he corresponded as Macleod, enlisting his sister to provide
the handwriting and address, and for more than a decade “Fiona Macleod” duped not only
the general public but such literary luminaries as William Butler Yeats and, in America, E. C.
Stedman.
With an introduction and detailed notes by William F. Halloran, this richly rewarding collection
offers a wonderful insight into the literary landscape of the time, while also investigating a
strange and underappreciated phenomenon of late-nineteenth-century English literature. It
is essential for scholars of the period, and it is an illuminating read for anyone interested in
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2018 | 234 x 156 mm | 710 pp. | 18 colour ill.
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Comparative Studies
Exploring the Interior
Essays on Literary and Cultural History
Karl S. Guthke
In this fascinating collection of essays Harvard Emeritus Professor Karl S. Guthke examines
the ways in which, for European scholars and writers of the eighteenth and early nineteenth
century, world-wide geographical exploration led to an exploration of the self. Guthke
explains how in the age of Enlightenment and beyond intellectual developments were
fuelled by excitement about what Ulrich Im Hof called “the grand opening-up of the wide
world”, especially of the interior of the non-European continents. This outward turn was PB £16.95 9781783743933
complemented by a fascination with “the world within” as anthropology and ethnology HB £27.95 9781783743940
focused on the humanity of the indigenous populations of far-away lands – an interest in EPUB £5.99 9781783743964
human nature that suggested a way for Europeans to understand themselves, encapsulated MOBI £5.99 9781783743971
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repute, it is eye-opening reading for all those with an interest in the literary and cultural
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history of (and since) the Enlightenment. 2018 | 234 x 156 mm | 366 pp. | 1 b&w ill.
Love and its Critics
From the Song of Songs to Shakespeare and Milton’s Eden
Michael Bryson and Arpi Movsesian
This book is a history of love and the challenge love offers to the laws and customs of its times
and places, as told through poetry from the Song of Songs to John Milton’s Paradise Lost. It
is also an account of the critical reception afforded to such literature, and the ways in which
criticism has attempted to stifle this challenge.
The book engages with some of the seminal literature of the Western canon, including the
Bible, the poetry of Ovid, and works by English authors such as William Shakespeare and
John Donne, and with criticism that stretches from the earliest readings of the Song of
Songs to contemporary academic literature. Lively and enjoyable in its style, it attempts to PB £27.95 9781783743483
restore a sense of pleasure to the reading of poetry, and to puncture critical insistence that HB £39.95 9781783743490
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2017 | 234 x 156 mm | 576 pp. | 16 colour ill.
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Comparative Studies
The Classic Short Story, 1870–1925
Theory of a Genre
Florence Goyet
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the short story—sometimes seen as the
ultimate test of an author’s creativity—was at its most popular. This expanded and updated
translation of Florence Goyet’s influential La Nouvelle, 1870–1925: Description d’un genre
à son apogée (Paris, 1993) is the only study to focus exclusively on this classic period across
different continents. Ranging through French, English, Italian, Russian and Japanese writing—
particularly the stories of Guy de Maupassant, Henry James, Giovanni Verga, Anton Chekhov
PB £17.95 9781909254756 and Akutagawa Ryūnosuke—Goyet shows that these authors were able to create brilliant
HB £32.95 9781909254763 and successful short stories using the very simple ‘tools of brevity’ of that period.
EPUB £5.95 9781909254787 In this challenging and far-reaching study, Goyet looks at classic short stories in the
MOBI £5.95 9781909254794 context in which they were read at the time: cheap newspapers, higher-end periodicals
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and intellectual journals. She demonstrates that, despite the apparent intention of these
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stories to question bourgeois ideals, they mostly affirmed the prejudices of their readers.
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2014 | 234 x 156 mm | 210 pp. | 1 b&w ill.
In doing so, her book forces us to re-think our preconceptions about this ‘forgotten’ genre.
Letters of Blood
and Other Works in English
Göran Printz-Påhlson. Edited by Robert Archambeau
Göran Printz-Påhlson will go down in history as the author of some classic poems… and
one of Sweden’s most learned, innovative and sharp-witted literary critics.
— The Independent
This collection brings together for the first time select works in English by the major
Swedish modernist poet and critic Göran Printz-Påhlson. It was Printz-Påhlson who
PB £15.95 9781906924560 introduced poetic modernism to Scandinavia, and his essays and poems delve deeply
HB £29.95 9781906924577 into English, American, and continental modernist traditions.
EPUB £5.95 9781906924591 As well as Letters of Blood, the collection includes the full text of The Words of the Tribe,
MOBI £5.95 9781906924607 a major statement on modern poetics, in which Printz-Påhlson explores the significance
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of primitivism in Romanticism and Modernism, and the nature of metaphor and literary
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0017 materialism. The collection also includes essays on style, irony, realism, and the relationship
2011 | 234 x 156 mm | 210 pp.
between historical drama and historical fiction, as well as studies of American poetry.
Printz-Påhlson’s poetry in English continues to explore these themes by different, often
surprisingly innovative, means.
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The Juggler of Notre Dame
and the Medievalizing of Modernity
The Juggler of Notre Dame and the
Medievalizing of Modernity
Volume 1: The Middle Ages
Jan M. Ziolkowski
Funny, erudite, compelling, ‘The Juggler of Notre Dame’ stretches every boundary of what
an academic book is. It has given me—and will give all its readers—further permission to
extend the definition of the scholarly book. Imaginative, well-researched, genre-bending,
this book makes multiple contributions to the fields of medieval history, philology, art history,
performance studies, reception theory, and medievalism. PB £28.95 9781783744336
—Prof. Kathryn Rudy, University of St Andrews HB £38.95 9781783744343
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nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of XML FREE 9781783745708
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2018 | 178 x 254 mm | 406 pp. | 153 colour ill.
centuries and continents, the medieval period is understood through the lens of its (post)
modern reception in Europe and America. Profound connections between the verbal and
the visual are illustrated by a rich trove of images, including book illustrations, stained glass,
postage stamps, architecture, and Christmas cards.
The Juggler of Notre Dame and the
Medievalizing of Modernity
Volume 2: Medieval Meets Medievalism
Jan M. Ziolkowski
A lifetime’s knowledge has been poured into these pages with passion and dedication, and
the reader feels, and shares, the author’s enthusiasm along the Juggler’s journey from the PB £28.95 9781783745067
Middle Ages to the present. From medieval French manuscripts we follow the tale through HB £38.95 9781783745074
early modern religious literature, post-Romantic editorial endeavours, anthologies of national EPUB £5.99 9781783745098
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literature and children’s fiction, to modern adaptations in ballet, opera, and the visual arts.
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a major achievement. 2018 | 178 x 254 mm | 354 pp. | 190 colour ill.
—Prof. Barbara Ravelhofer, Durham University
Volume 2: Medieval Meets Medievalism deals with the influence of the tale in nineteenth- and
early-twentieth-century Europe and America, and the development of literary medievalism
at this time.
The Juggler of Notre Dame and the
Medievalizing of Modernity
Volume 3: The American Middle Ages
Jan M. Ziolkowski
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Volume 3: The American Middle Ages hinges upon two figures influenced by the juggler: Henry HB £38.95 9781783745227
Adams, scion of Presidents and distinguished cultural historian whose works contributed EPUB £5.99 9781783745241
to the rise of medievalism in America during the Gilded Age, and Ralph Adams Cram, the MOBI £5.99 9781783745258
architect whose vision of Gothic accounts directly or indirectly for the campuses of West PDF FREE 9781783745234
Point, Princeton, Yale, Chicago, Notre Dame, and many other universities across America. XML FREE 9781783745265
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2018 | 178 x 254 mm | 492 pp. | 346 colour ill.
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The Juggler of Notre Dame
and the Medievalizing of Modernity
The Juggler of Notre Dame and the
Medievalizing of Modernity
Volume 4: Picture That: Making a Show of the Jongleur
Jan M. Ziolkowski
Volume 4: Picture That: Making a Show of the Jongleu examines the famous Le jongleur de
Notre Dame by the French composer Jules Massenet, which took Europe by storm after
premiering in 1902 and then crossed the Atlantic to the impresario Oscar Hammerstein and
the diva Mary Garden, who gave the opera new legs as a female juggler.
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https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0147 Volume 5: Tumbling into the Twentieth Century
2018 | 178 x 254 mm | 520 pp. | 340 colour ill.
Jan M. Ziolkowski
Volume 5: Tumbling into the Twentieth Century. This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes
explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval
French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The
Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but
is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the Madonna in the
crypt; he is saved when the statue, delighted by his skill, miraculously comes to life.
Jan Ziolkowski tracks the poem from its medieval roots to its rediscovery in late nineteenth
century Paris, before its translation into English in Britain and the United States. The visual
influence of the tale on Gothic revivalism and vice versa in America is carefully documented
with lavish and inventive illustrations, and Ziolkowski concludes with an examination of the
explosion of interest in The Juggler of Notre Dame in the twentieth century and its place
in mass culture today. In this volume Jan Ziolkowski follows The Juggler of Notre Dame
PB £28.95 9781783745340 as it cavorts through new media, including radio, television, and film, becoming closely
HB £38.95 9781783745357 associated with Christmas and embedded in children’s literature.
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2018 | 178 x 254 mm | 408 pp. | 267 colour ill.
Medievalizing of Modernity
Volume 6: War and Peace, Sex and Violence
Jan M. Ziolkowski
Volume 6: War and Peace, Sex and Violence. In this volume Jan Ziolkowski tracks the
poem from its medieval roots to its rediscovery in late nineteenth-century Paris, before its
translation into English in Britain and the United States. The visual influence of the tale on
Gothic revivalism and vice versa in America is carefully documented with lavish and inventive
illustrations, and Ziolkowski concludes with an examination of the explosion of interest in The
Juggler of Notre Dame in the twentieth century and its place in mass culture today. In this
concluding volume, Ziolkowski explores the popularity of The Juggler of Notre Dame from
the 1930s through the Second World War, especially in the Allied Resistance. Its popularity
in the United States was subsequently maintained by figures as diverse as Tony Curtis and W.
H. Auden, and although recently the story and medievalism have lost ground, the future of
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2018 | 178 x 254 mm | 332 pp. | 171 colour ill.
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Literature, Language and Culture
American Studies
Henry James’s Europe
Heritage and Transfer
Edited by Dennis Tredy, Annick Duperray and Adrian Harding
Taken both as a whole and individually this collection of essays makes a real contribution to
James studies.
— Professor Adrian Poole, University of Cambridge
As an American author who chose to live in Europe, Henry James frequently wrote about
cultural differences between the Old and New Worlds. The plight of bewildered Americans
adrift on a sea of European sophistication became a regular theme in his fiction.
This collection of twenty-four papers from some of the world’s leading James scholars
offers a comprehensive picture of the author’s cross-cultural aesthetics. It provides
detailed analyses of James’s perception of Europe—of its people and places, its history
and culture, its artists and thinkers, its aesthetics and its ethics—which ultimately lead to
a profound reevaluation of his writing.
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2011 | 234 x 156 mm | 316 pp. | 7 b&w ill.
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University English and Contemporary Fiction in Conflict
Martin Paul Eve
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Edited by Jean Mudge
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The Impact of Germany on English Children’s Books 1780–1918
David Blamires
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Literature, Language and Culture
English Studies
Text Genetics in Literary Modernism
and Other Essays
Hans Walter Gabler
This collection of essays from world-renowned scholar Hans Walter Gabler contains writings
from a decade and a half of retirement spent exploring textual criticism, genetic criticism, and
literary criticism. In these sixteen stimulating contributions, he develops theories of textual
criticism and editing that are inflected by our advance into the digital era; structurally analyses
PB £23.95 9781783743636 arts of composition in literature and music; and traces the cultural implications discernible in
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book design, and in the canonisation of works of literature and their authors.
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MOBI £5.99 9781783743674 Distinctive and ambitious, these essays move beyond the concerns of the community of critics
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XML FREE 9781783744879 think their urgencies by bringing together the orthodox tenets of different schools of textual
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0120 criticism. He moves between a variety of topics, ranging from fresh genetic approaches to
2018 | 234 x 156 mm | 410 pp. | 46 colour ill. the work of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, to significant contributions to the theorisation of
scholarly editing in the digital age.
An Anglo-Norman Reader
Jane Bliss
This book is an anthology with a difference. It presents a distinctive variety of Anglo-Norman
works, beginning in the twelfth century and ending in the nineteenth, covering a broad range of
genres and writers, introduced in a lively and thought-provoking way. Facing-page translations,
into accessible and engaging modern English, are provided throughout, bringing these texts to
life for a contemporary audience.
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HB £29.95 9781783743148 The collection offers a selection of fascinating passages, and whole texts, many of which are
EPUB £5.99 9781783743162 not anthologised or translated anywhere else. It explores little-known byways of Arthurian
MOBI £5.99 9781783743179 legend and stories of real-life crime and punishment; women’s voices tell history, write
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cure people’s ailments and how to keep clear of the law; and stories from the Bible are retold
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0110 with commentary, together with guidance on prayer and confession.
2018 | 234 x 156 mm | 416 pp.
Tennyson’s Poems
New Textual Parallels
R. H. Winnick
Roy Winnick effectively updates the annotations so vital to scholarship in Christopher Ricks’s
1987 edition of Tennyson to create an important new reference work. Particularly significant
are the echoes of women poets that Winnick locates in Tennyson’s poetry in addition to new
biblical and classical allusions. In its print version Tennyson’s Poems: New Textual Parallels is
a handbook for systematic study of Tennyson; in digital form it is a highly useful searchable
database. —Prof. Linda K. Hughes
PB £17.95 9781783746613 In Tennyson’s Poems: New Textual Parallels, R. H. Winnick identifies more than a thousand
HB £28.95 9781783746620 previously unknown instances in which Tennyson phrases of two or three to as many as several
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words are similar or identical to those occurring in prior works by other hands—discoveries
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2019 | 234 x 156 mm | 308 pp.
www.openbookpublishers.com 50 Literature, Language and CultureDickens’s Working Notes
for Dombey and Son
Tony Laing
This book is the result of a huge amount of scholarly labour, is comprehensively thought through,
clearly and scrupulously presented, and genuinely useful to Dickens scholars. Dickens’s Working
Notes for Dombey and Son is more accessible than the equivalent portion of Harry Stone’s PB £21.95 9781783742233
expensive standard publication, Dickens’s Working Notes (1987), and superior in the quality and HB £34.95 9781783742240
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This critical edition of the working notes for Dombey and Son (1848) is ideal for readers who wish
2017 | 273 x 210 mm | 224 pp. | 62 colour ill.
to know more about Charles Dickens’s craft and creativity. Drawing on the author’s manuscript
in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London—and containing hyperlinked facsimiles—Dickens’s
Working Notes for Dombey and Son offers a new digital transcription with a fresh commentary
by Tony Laing. Unique and innovative, this is the only edition to make Dickens’s working methods
visible.
Literature Against Criticism
University English and Contemporary Fiction in Conflict
Martin Paul Eve
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the modern university. 2016 | 234 x 156 mm | 248 pp. | 11 b&w ill.
—Bryan Cheyette, Chair in Modern Literature, University of Reading
Martin Paul Eve’s engaging and far-reaching study explores the novel’s contribution to the
ongoing displacement of cultural authority away from university English. Spanning the works of
Jennifer Egan, Ishmael Reed, Tom McCarthy, Sarah Waters, Percival Everett, Roberto Bolaño and
many others, Literature Against Criticism forces us to re-think our previous notions about the
relationship between those who write literary fiction and those who critique it.
WINNER OF THE KATHARINE BRIGGS
FOLKLORE AWARD
The Anglo-Scottish Ballad
and its Imaginary Contexts PB £17.95 9781783740277
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written and oral transmission of ballads for over half a millennium, effectively challenging many 2014 | 234 x 156 mm | 227 pp. | 11 b&w ill.
of the received tropes of ballad studies.
— James Revell Carr, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
The End of the World
Apocalypse and Its Aftermath in Western Culture
Maria Manuel Lisboa
This book examines historical and imaginary scenarios of Apocalypse, the depiction of its likely
triggers, and imagined landscapesin the aftermath of global destruction. Its discussion moves PB £15.95 9781906924508
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scientific research and the visual arts to create a penetrating, multi-disciplinary study that provides
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profound insight into one of Western culture’s darkest and most enduring preoccupations. 2011 | 234 x 156 mm | 219 pp.
Literature, Language and Culture 51 www.openbookpublishers.comWhy Do We Quote?
The Culture and History of Quotation
Ruth Finnegan
Quoting is all around us. But do we really know what it means? How do people actually quote
today, and how did our present systems come about? This book brings together a down-to-
earth account of contemporary quoting with an examination of the comparative and historical
background that lies behind it and the characteristic way that quoting links past and present,
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the far and the near. Drawing from anthropology, cultural history, folklore, cultural studies,
HB £29.95 9781906924348 sociolinguistics, literary studies and the ethnography of speaking, Ruth Finnegan’s fascinating
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ill.
Make We Merry More and Less
An Anthology of Medieval English Popular Literature
Douglas Gray and Jane Bliss (ed.)
This anthology offers a fruitful exploration of the boundary between literary and popular
culture, and showcases an impressive breadth of literature, including songs, drama, and ballads.
Familiar texts such as the visions of Margery Kempe and the Paston family letters are featured
alongside lesser-known works, often oral. This striking diversity extends to the language: the
anthology includes Scottish literature and original translations of Latin and French texts. The
book was left unfinished at Gray’s death; it is here edited by Jane Bliss.
PB £18.95 9781783747108 The Faculty of English, University of Oxford, has generously contributed to this publication.
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Letters of Blood
and Other Works in English
Göran Printz-Påhlson. Edited by Robert Archambeau
Dictionary of the British English
Spelling System
Greg Brooks
Coleridge’s Laws
A Study of Coleridge in Malta
Barry Hough and Howard Davis. Introduction by Micheal John Kooy.
www.openbookpublishers.com 52 Literature, Language and CultureYeats Annual in association with the Institute of English Studies
Yeats Annual is published by Open Book Publishers in association with the Institute of English Studies, University of London.
Yeats Annual is the leading scholarly journal on the poet, and it is described by Bernard O’Donoghue as ‘a powerful base of biographical
and textual knowledge. Since 1982 the vade mecum of Yeats.’
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Yeats’s Legacies
Yeats Annual No. 21
Warwick Gould (ed.)
The admirable ‘Yeats Annual’ . . . a powerful base of biographical and textual knowledge. Since
1982 the vade mecum of Yeats.
— Bernard O’Donoghue, The Times Literary Supplement
The two great Yeats Family Sales of 2017 and the legacy of the Yeats family’s 80-year tradition
of generosity to Ireland’s great cultural institutions provide the kaleidoscope through which
these advanced research essays find their theme. Hannah Sullivan’s brilliant history of Yeats’s
versecraft challenges Poundian definitions of Modernism; Denis Donoghue offers unique family
memories of 1916 whilst tracing the political significance of the Easter Rising; Anita Feldman
addresses Yeats’s responses to the Rising’s appropriation of his symbols and myths, the daring Yeats Annual, No. 21
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and the Ghosts of The Winding Stair (1929) in Rapallo. Having co-edited both versions of A Vision,
Catherine Paul offers some profound reflections on ‘Yeats and Belief’. Grevel Lindop provides a
pioneering view of Yeats’s impact on English mystical verse and on Charles Williams who, while
at Oxford University Press, helped publish the Oxford Book of Modern Verse. Stanley van der
Ziel looks at the presence of Shakespeare in Yeats’s Purgatory. William H. O’Donnell examines
the vexed textual legacy of his late work, On the Boiler while Gould considers the challenge
Yeats’s intentionalism posed for once-fashionable post-structuralist editorial theory. John Kelly
recovers a startling autobiographical short story by Maud Gonne. While nine works of current
biographical, textual and literary scholarship are reviewed, Maud Gonne is the focus of debate
for two reviewers, as are Eva Gore-Booth, Constance and Casimir Markievicz, Rudyard Kipling,
David Jones, T. S. Eliot and his presence on the radio.
Essays in Honour of Eamonn Cantwell
Yeats Annual No. 20
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emerging T. S. Eliot.
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Yeats’s Mask
Yeats Annual No. 19
Edited by Margaret Hill Harper and Warwick Gould
Yeats’s Mask, Yeats Annual No. 19 is a special issue in this renowned research-level series.
Fashionable in the age of Wilde, the Mask changes shape until it emerges as Mask in the system
of A Vision. Chronologically tracing the concept through Yeats’s plays and those poems written
as ‘texts for exposition’ of his occult thought which flowers in A Vision itself (1925 and 1937),
the volume also spotlights ‘The Mask before The Mask’ in numerous plays including Cathleen
Ni-Houlihan, The King’s Threshold, Calvary, The Words upon the Window-pane, A Full Moon in
Yeats Annual, No. 19 March and The Death of Cuchulain. There are excurses into studies of Yeats’s friendship with the
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The Living Stream
Yeats Annual No. 18
Edited by Warwick Gould
Yeats Annual No. 18 is another special number in this renowned research-level series offering a
tribute to the pioneering Yeats scholar, A. Norman Jeffares. Memories of the man are shared by
Seamus Heaney, Christopher Rush and Colin Smythe, who compiles a bibliography of Jeffares’s
work. Terence Brown, Neil Corcoran, Warwick Gould, Joseph M. Hassett, Phillip L. Marcus, Ann
Saddlemyer, Ronald Schuchard, Deirdre Toomey and Helen Vendler offer essays on such topics
as Yeats and the Colours of Poetry, Yeats’s Shakespeare, Yeats and Seamus Heaney, Lacrimae
Rerum and Tragic Joy, Raftery’s work on Yeats’s Thoor Ballylee, Edmund Dulac’s portrait of Mrs
George Yeats, The Tower as an anti-Modernist monument, with close studies of ‘Vacillation’, ‘Her
Triumph’, and ‘The Cold Heaven’. Throughout, the essays are inflected with memories of Jeffares
and his critical methods. The volume is rounded with further essays on A Vision by Neil Mann and
Matthew de Forrest, as well as reviews of recent editions and studies.
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French Studies
Bourdieu and Literature
John R.W. Speller
Speller’s volume aims not only to provide an account of Bourdieu’s main theories and
analyses of literature, but also has the polemical aim of refuting critics who suggest that
Bourdieu’s view of literature, grounded as it is in an analysis of the social relations of the
cultural field, is deterministic and reductive.
— Helen Finch, Journal of Contemporary European Studies
One of the foremost French intellectuals of the post-war era, Pierre Bourdieu has become
a standard point of reference in the fields of anthropology, linguistics, art history, cultural
studies, politics, and sociology, but his long-standing interest in literature has often been
overlooked. This wide-ranging, rigorous and accessible study explores the impact of
literature on Bourdieu’s intellectual itinerary, and how his literary understanding intersected
with his sociological theory and thinking about cultural policy.
Bourdieu and Literature is the first full-length study of Bourdieu’s work on literature
in English, and it provides an invaluable resource for students and scholars of literary
studies, cultural theory and sociology.
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Les Bienveillantes de Jonathan Littell a créé l’événement de la rentrée littéraire 2006. Selon
l’auteur, la portée du roman dépasse le seul génocide des Juifs pour revêtir une dimension
universelle. Les angles d’approche dans Les Bienveillantes de Jonathan Littell sont aussi
nombreux que variés sans prétendre à l’exhaustivité. Ce recueil n’est pas un jugement de
l’œuvre, ni une interrogation sur sa recevabilité, pas plus qu’une assertion sur les limites de
sa légitimité en tant que roman ou une justification, mais ce recueil est novateur puisque le
premier à se concentrer sur le texte des Bienveillantes.
Le présent recueil offre un riche éventail d’angles d’approches. Ainsi les analyses
ont-elles accentué les personnages qu’ils soient historiques ou fictifs. Mais aussi, les
aspects formels, comme la vision du narrateur, le style, la composition, l’esthétique
et les influences littéraires. Et encore, les thèmes tels le parricide, l’homosexualité,
l’antisémitisme et la Shoah. L’idéologie impliquée se devait d’être interrogée également.
Un autre thème crucial du roman est la question qu’il pose entre le Bien et le Mal et sa
banalisation. La réception de l’œuvre et les raisons de son succès qui lui valu plusieurs
grands prix littéraires a été abordée ainsi que les éléments du grotesque que certains
n’ont pas manqué de remarquer.
Les Bienveillantes (The Kindly Ones), caused a literary sensation in 2006. Described as
‘deliberately repellent’ by The New York Times, Jonathan Littell’s novel tells the story of
World War II through the eyes of former SS officer Maximilien Aue. This is the first academic
study of this controversial, best-selling work.
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Littell’s work and is essential reading for anyone interested in representations of World
War II, the Holocaust and contemporary French literature.
All the essays in this collection are written in French.
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These fresh and informative translations recover texts that have not recently been revived, or do not exist at all in a critical edition in
English. Including cutting-edge interactive and multimedia resources, the literature is brought to life using musical recordings, hypertext
annotations and vivid illustrations.
L’idée de l’Europe
au Siècle des Lumières
Textes réunis par Rotraud von Kulessa et Catriona Seth
Face aux défis – entre autres politiques – auxquels sont confrontés différents pays européens,
les chercheurs dix-huitiémistes ont souhaité revenir sur des expressions anciennes de valeurs
partagées et les interrogations passées sur des questions qui restent souvent d’actualité.
Au Siècle des Lumières, nombre d’hommes et de femmes de lettres ont envisagé l’avenir du
continent en particulier pour entériner leur souhait de garantir la paix en Europe. Les textes,
réunis dans cette anthologie, et signés des grands écrivains du temps (Rousseau, Montesquieu,
Voltaire, Kant, Hume ou encore Staël), comme d’oubliés de l’histoire, présentent, avec quelques
Open Book Classics, Vol. 6 excursus chronologiques (de Sully à Hugo) les réflexions de penseurs d’un dix-huitième siècle
ISSN: 2054-216X (Print); 2054-2178 (Online) aux bornes chronologiques étendues – l’émergence et la chute de l’Empire engendrent des
bouleversements nombreux –, sur l’Europe, son histoire, sa diversité, mais aussi sur ce qu’ont en
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Denis Diderot
Rameau’s Nephew—Le Neveu de Rameau
A Multi-Media Bilingual Edition
Editor M. Hobson. Translators K.E. Tunstall and C. Warman.
Music Conservatoire National de Musique de Paris, director P. Duc
It is no exaggeration to say that Hobson, Tunstall, and Warman, with the aid of Pascal Duc and
his students at the aforementioned Conservatoire have attempted something truly remarkable:
reconstructing the cultural context of one of the most complex and important works in eighteenth-
century literature. [...] poring over the richness of this critical edition unquestionably allows for a
deeper understanding of what is arguably Diderot’s most multifaceted and brilliant text.
Open Book Classics, Vol. 4 —Andrew S. Curran, H-France Review, 17 (January 2017), 1–3.
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Probably completed in 1772–73, Denis Diderot’s Rameau’s Nephew fascinated Goethe, Hegel,
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HB £32.95 9781909254916 shares. This interactive, multi-media and bilingual edition offers a brand new translation of
EPUB £5.95 9781909254930 Diderot’s famous dialogue, and it also gives the reader much more. Portraits and biographies
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2016 | 234 x 156 mm | 257 pp. musique et de danse de Paris, illuminate the wider musical context of the work, enlarging it far
101 colour ill. | 18 embedded audio files beyond its now widely understood relation to opéra comique.
This new edition includes: Introduction |Original text |English translation | Embedded audio-files
| Explanatory notes | Interactive material | 100 colour illustrations | Additional online resources
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Tolerance
The Beacon of the Enlightenment
Edited by Caroline Warman
Tolerance has attracted widespread media coverage on its launch on the 1st anniversary
of the Charlie Hebdo attacks on 7 January 2016, with articles on BBC News, The Guardian,
Times Higher, MashableUK, and Bookanista.
Inspired by Voltaire’s advice that a text needs to be concise to have real influence, this anthology
contains fiery extracts by forty eighteenth-century authors, from the most famous philosophers
of the age to those whose brilliant writings are less well-known. These passages are immensely
diverse in style and topic, but all have in common a passionate commitment to equality, freedom, Open Book Classics, Vol. 3
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Related Titles
On History
Introduction to World History (1831); Opening Address at the Faculty of Letters,
9 January 1834; Preface to History of France (1869)
Jules Michelet. Transl. by F. Kimmich and E.K. Kaplan. Introduction by L. Gossman
Open Book Classics, Vol. 1
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German Studies
Love and Intrigue
Friedrich Schiller. Translated by Flora Kimmich
Written between 1782 and 1784, Kabale und Liebe bears the marks of life at the court
of the despotic Duke of Württemberg, from which Schiller had just fled, and of a fraught
liaison he entered shortly after his flight. It tells the tale of a love affair that crosses the
boundaries of class, between a fiery and rebellious young nobleman and the beautiful
and dutiful daughter of a musician. Their affair becomes entangled in the competing
purposes of malign and not-so-malign figures present at an obscure and sordid princely
Open Book Classics, Vol. 11 court somewhere in Germany. It all leads to a climactic murder–suicide Love and
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Intrigue, the third of Schiller’s canonical plays (after The Robbers and Fiesco’s Conspiracy
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at Genoa), belongs to the genre of domestic tragedy, with a small cast and an action
indoors. It takes place as the highly conventional world of the late eighteenth century
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2019 | 234 x 156 mm | 130 pp. | 7 colour ill.
Hyperion, or the Hermit in
Greece
Howard Gaskill
Friedrich Hölderlin’s only novel, Hyperion (1797–99), is a fictional epistolary autobiography
that juxtaposes narration with critical reflection. Returning to Greece after German exile,
following his part in the abortive uprising against the occupying Turks (1770), and his failure
as both a lover and a revolutionary, Hyperion assumes a hermitic existence, during which he
writes his letters. Confronting and commenting on his own past, with all its joy and grief, the
Open Book Classics, Vol. 10 narrator undergoes a transformation that culminates in the realisation of his true vocation.
ISSN: 2054-216X (Print); 2054-2178 (Online) Though Hölderlin is now established as a great lyric poet, recognition of his novel as a
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2019 | 234 x 156 mm | 234 pp. | 1 b&w ill. Hölderlin’s language to an English-speaking reader.
Don Carlos Infante of Spain
A Dramatic Poem
Friedrich Schiller. Translated by Flora Kimmich
Schiller described Don Carlos as ‘a family portrait in a princely house.’ It interweaves
political machinations with powerful personal relationships to create a complex and
resonant tragedy. The conflict between absolutism and liberty appealed not only to
audiences but also to other artists and gave rise to several operas, not least to Verdi’s
Open Book Classics, Vol. 9
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great Don Carlos of 1867. The play, which the playwright never finished to his satisfaction,
lives on nonetheless among his best-loved works and is translated here with flair and skill
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Die Europaidee
im Zeitalter der Aufklärung
Rotraud von Kulessa und Catriona Seth (Hg.)
Angesichts der aktuellen Herausforderungen – nicht zuletzt politischer Natur – mit denen sich viele
europäische Staaten konfrontiert sehen, haben sich die Aufklärungsforscher entschlossen, auf Open Book Classics, Vol. 8
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18. Jahrhunderts zu Europa, seiner Geschichte, seiner Vielfalt, aber auch zu den Gemeinsamkeiten
der Nationen, die trotz ihrer Vielfalt eine geographische Einheit bilden. Die Texte zeigen uns so
die historischen Ursprünge des Projektes der europäischen Einigung, erörtern die Vorteile einer
assoziierten Türkei und einer Einbindung des Maghreb sowie die Bedeutung des europäischen
Handels. Sie verweisen auch auf die durch die historischen Unruhen verursachten Ängste wie
auch auf die Zukunftsperspektiven eines vereinten Europas.
This book is written in German.
Wallenstein Open Book Classics Series, Vol. 5
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targeted to undergraduates, it is accompanied by an authoritative introductory essay by Roger
Paulin. Kimmich’s translation will be an invaluable resource for students of German, European
literature and history, and military history, as well as to all readers approaching this important set
of plays for the first time.
Fiesco’s Conspiracy at Genoa
Friedrich Schiller. Translated by Flora Kimmich. Introduction by John Guthrie
Within two years of the success of his first play Die Räuber on the German stage in 1781, Schiller
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