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  1. Feminine Singularity :
    The Politics of Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century Literature /
    Author: Chatterjee, Ronjaunee,
    Published: [2022]; ©2022
    Publisher:  Stanford University Press,, Stanford, CA :

    What happens if we read nineteenth-century and Victorian texts not for the autonomous liberal subject, but for singularity-for what is partial, contingent, and in relation, rather than what is merely "alone"? Feminine Singularity offers a powerful... more

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    What happens if we read nineteenth-century and Victorian texts not for the autonomous liberal subject, but for singularity-for what is partial, contingent, and in relation, rather than what is merely "alone"? Feminine Singularity offers a powerful feminist theory of the subject-and shows us paths to thinking subjectivity, race, and gender anew in literature and in our wider social world. Through fresh, sophisticated readings of Lewis Carroll, Christina Rossetti, Charles Baudelaire, and Wilkie Collins in conversation with psychoanalysis, Black feminist and queer-of-color theory, and continental philosophy, Ronjaunee Chatterjee uncovers a lexicon of feminine singularity that manifests across poetry and prose through likeness and minimal difference, rather than individuality and identity. Reading for singularity shows us the ways femininity is fundamentally entangled with racial difference in the nineteenth century and well into the contemporary, as well as how rigid categories can be unsettled and upended. Grappling with the ongoing violence embedded in the Western liberal imaginary, Feminine Singularity invites readers to commune with the subversive potentials in nineteenth-century literature for thinking subjectivity today.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Article (edited volume)
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781503632318
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    Subjects: English literature; Femininity in literature.; French literature; Subjectivity in literature.; Women in literature.; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
    Other subjects: difference.; femininity.; feminism.; likeness.; nineteenth century.; singularity.; subjectivity.
    Scope: 1 online resource (224 p.)
  2. Writing the Mind :
    Social Cognition in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction /
    Author: Walser, Hannah,
    Published: [2022]; ©2022
    Publisher:  Stanford University Press,, Stanford, CA :

    Novels are often said to help us understand how others think-especially when those others are profoundly different from us. When interpreting a character's behavior, readers are believed to make use of "Theory of Mind," the general human capacity to... more

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    Novels are often said to help us understand how others think-especially when those others are profoundly different from us. When interpreting a character's behavior, readers are believed to make use of "Theory of Mind," the general human capacity to attribute mental states to other people. In many well-known nineteenth-century American novels, however, characters behave in ways that are opaque to readers, other characters, and even themselves, undermining efforts to explain their actions in terms of mental states like beliefs and intentions. Writing the Mind dives into these unintelligible moments to map the weaknesses of Theory of Mind and explore alternative frameworks for interpreting behavior. Through readings of authors such as Charles Brockden Brown, Herman Melville, Martin Delany, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charles Chesnutt, and Mark Twain, Hannah Walser explains how experimental models of cognition lead to some of the strangest formal features of canonical American texts. These authors' attempts to found social life on something other than mental states not only invite us to revise our assumptions about the centrality of mind reading and empathy to the novel as a form; they can also help us understand more contemporary concepts in social cognition, including gaslighting and learned helplessness, with more conceptual rigor and historical depth.

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Article (edited volume)
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781503632042
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    Subjects: American fiction; Philosophy of mind in literature.; Social perception in literature.; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
    Other subjects: American literature.; United States.; cognition.; fiction.; nineteenth century.; philosophy of mind.; psychology.; theory of mind (ToM).
    Scope: 1 online resource (272 p.)
  3. Bolesław Prus and the Jews /
    Author: Friedrich, Agnieszka,
    Published: [2021]; ©2021
    Publisher:  Academic Studies Press,, Boston, MA :

    Bolesław Prus and the Jews shows the complexity of the so-called “Jewish question” in nineteenth-century Congress Poland and especially its significance in Prus’ social concept reflected in his extensive body of journalistic work, fiction, and... more

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    Bolesław Prus and the Jews shows the complexity of the so-called “Jewish question” in nineteenth-century Congress Poland and especially its significance in Prus’ social concept reflected in his extensive body of journalistic work, fiction, and treatises. The book traces Prus’ evolving worldview toward Jews, from his support of the Assimilation Program in his early years to his eventual support of Zionism. These contrasting ideas show us the complexity of the discourse on Jewish issues from the individual perspective of a significant writer of the time, as well as the dynamics of the Jewish modernization process in a “non-existent” partitioned Poland. The portrait of Prus that emerges is surprisingly ambivalent.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781644695746
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    Series: Jews of Poland
    Subjects: Antisemitism; Authors, Polish; Jews in literature.; Jews; HISTORY / Europe / Eastern.
    Other subjects: Boleslaw Prus.; Congress Poland.; Eastern Europe.; Jewish Question.; Polish literature.; Positivism.; Zionism.; antisemitism.; assimilation.; history.; journalism.; modernization.; nineteenth century.; novelist.; politics.
    Scope: 1 online resource (296 p.)
  4. Gothic death 1740-1914 :
    a literary history /
    Author: Smith, Andrew,
    Published: 2016.; ©2016
    Publisher:  Manchester University Press,, Manchester, UK :

    Drawing on a range of popular Gothic and Victorian novels, poems and short stories, this book provides the first full length study of representations of death and dying in Gothic texts between 1740 and 1914. more

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    Drawing on a range of popular Gothic and Victorian novels, poems and short stories, this book provides the first full length study of representations of death and dying in Gothic texts between 1740 and 1914.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1-5261-0108-4; 1-5261-1525-5; 1-5261-0107-6
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    Series: Manchester Gothic
    Subjects: Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English; English literature; Death in literature.; Literature.; Literature & Literary Studies.; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General.; LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance.; Biography, Literature & Literary studies
    Other subjects: Corpse.; Creativity.; Death.; Gothic.; Romanticism.; Uncanny.; Writing.; nineteenth century.
    Scope: 1 online resource (224 pages) :, digital, PDF file(s).
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    Previously issued in print: 2016.

    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    Introduction 1. Touched by the dead: eighteenth-century Gothic poetics 2. Mourning, memory and melancholy: constructing death in the 1790s-1820s 3. From writing to reading: Poe, Brontë and Eliot 4. Gothic death and Dickens: executions, graves and dreams 5. Loving the undead: Haggard, Stoker and Wilde 6. Decoding the dying: Machen and Stoker Conclusion Index.
  5. Before trans :
    three gender stories from nineteenth-century France /
    Author: Mesch, Rachel,
    Published: [2020]; ©2020
    Publisher:  Stanford University Press,, Stanford, CA :

    A fascinating exploration of three individuals in fin-de-siècle France who pushed the boundaries of gender identity. Before the term "transgender" existed, there were those who experienced their gender in complex ways. Before Trans examines the lives... more

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    A fascinating exploration of three individuals in fin-de-siècle France who pushed the boundaries of gender identity. Before the term "transgender" existed, there were those who experienced their gender in complex ways. Before Trans examines the lives and writings of Jane Dieulafoy (1850–1916), Rachilde (1860–1953), and Marc de Montifaud (1845–1912), three French writers whose gender expression did not conform to nineteenth-century notions of femininity. Dieulafoy fought alongside her husband in the Franco-Prussian War and traveled with him to the Middle East; later she wrote novels about girls becoming boys and enjoyed being photographed in her signature men's suits. Rachilde became famous in the 1880s for her controversial gender-bending novel Monsieur Vénus, published around the same time that she started using a calling card that read "Rachilde, Man of Letters." Montifaud began her career as an art critic before turning to erotic writings, for which she was repeatedly charged with "offense to public decency"; she wore tailored men's suits and a short haircut for much of her life and went by masculine pronouns among certain friends. Dieulafoy, Rachilde, and Montifaud established themselves as fixtures in the literary world of fin-de-siècle Paris at the same time as French writers, scientists, and doctors were becoming increasingly fascinated with sexuality and sexual difference. Even so, the concept of gender identity as separate from sexual identity did not yet exist. Before Trans explores these three figures' lifelong efforts to articulate a sense of selfhood that did not precisely align with the conventional gender roles of their day. Their intricate, personal stories provide vital historical context for our own efforts to understand the nature of gender identity and the ways in which it might be expressed.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Media type: Ebook
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    ISBN: 1-5036-1235-X
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    Edition: 1st ed.
    Subjects: Transgender men; Authors, French; Gender identity
    Other subjects: Dieulafoy, Jane, (1851-1916.); Rachilde, (1860-1953.); Montifaud, Marc de, (1845-1912.); France.; Jane Dieulafoy.; Marc de Montifaud.; Rachilde.; biography.; feminism.; gender.; history.; nineteenth century.; photography.; transgender.
    Scope: 1 online resource (361 pages), illustrations
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.

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  6. Bolesław Prus and the Jews /
    Author: Friedrich, Agnieszka,
    Published: [2021]; ©2021
    Publisher:  Academic Studies Press,, Boston, MA :

    Bolesław Prus and the Jews shows the complexity of the so-called “Jewish question” in nineteenth-century Congress Poland and especially its significance in Prus’ social concept reflected in his extensive body of journalistic work, fiction, and... more

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    Bolesław Prus and the Jews shows the complexity of the so-called “Jewish question” in nineteenth-century Congress Poland and especially its significance in Prus’ social concept reflected in his extensive body of journalistic work, fiction, and treatises. The book traces Prus’ evolving worldview toward Jews, from his support of the Assimilation Program in his early years to his eventual support of Zionism. These contrasting ideas show us the complexity of the discourse on Jewish issues from the individual perspective of a significant writer of the time, as well as the dynamics of the Jewish modernization process in a “non-existent” partitioned Poland. The portrait of Prus that emerges is surprisingly ambivalent.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1-64469-575-8; 1-64469-574-X
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    Series: Jews of Poland
    Subjects: Antisemitism; Authors, Polish; Jews in literature.; Jews; HISTORY / Europe / Eastern.
    Other subjects: Prus, Bolesław, (1847-1912); Boleslaw Prus.; Congress Poland.; Eastern Europe.; Jewish Question.; Polish literature.; Positivism.; Zionism.; antisemitism.; assimilation.; history.; journalism.; modernization.; nineteenth century.; novelist.; politics.
    Scope: 1 online resource (296 p.)
  7. Romantic women's life writing :
    reputation and afterlife /
    Author: Civale, Susan,
    Published: 2019.
    Publisher:  Manchester University Press,, Manchester :

    This book explores how the publication of women's life writing influenced the reputation of its writers and of the genre itself during the long nineteenth century. It provides case studies of Frances Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Robinson and... more

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    This book explores how the publication of women's life writing influenced the reputation of its writers and of the genre itself during the long nineteenth century. It provides case studies of Frances Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Robinson and Mary Hays, four writers whose names were caught up in debates about the moral and literary respectability of publishing the 'private'. Focusing on gender, genre and authorship, this study examines key works of life writing by and about these women, and the reception of these texts. It argues for the importance of life writing--a crucial site of affective and imaginative identification--in shaping authorial reputation and afterlife. The book ultimately constructs a fuller picture of the literary field in the long nineteenth century and the role of women writers and their life writing within it.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
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    ISBN: 1-5261-0128-9; 1-5261-0127-0
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    Edition: 1st ed.
    Subjects: English literature
    Other subjects: Burney, Fanny, (1752-1840); Wollstonecraft, Mary, (1759-1797); Robinson, Mary, (1758-1800); authorship.; auto/biography.; celebrity.; genre.; life writing.; literary afterlife.; nineteenth century.; reception.; reputation.; self-fashioning.
    Scope: 1 online resource (301 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 'Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman': Frances Burney's Diary (1842-46) and the reputation of women's life writing -- 'A man in love': Revealing the unseen Mary Wollstonecraft -- 'Beyond the power of utterance': Reading the gaps in Mary Robinson's Memoirs (1801) -- 'By a happy genius, I overcame all these troubles': Mary Hays and the struggle for self-representation -- Coda: Virginia Woolf's Common reader essays and the legacy of women's life writing -- Select bibliography -- Index.
  8. Rocks of nation :
    the imagination of Celtic Cornwall /
    Author: Trower, Shelley,
    Published: 2015.; ©2015
    Publisher:  Manchester University Press,, Manchester, UK :

    Rocks of nation reveals how the imagination of nations, and races, is grounded in rocks. In doing so it makes a striking contribution to theories of nation, offering new insights into how national identity is bound up with materiality. The 'Celts',... more

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    Rocks of nation reveals how the imagination of nations, and races, is grounded in rocks. In doing so it makes a striking contribution to theories of nation, offering new insights into how national identity is bound up with materiality. The 'Celts', in particular, are imagined to be a primitive race, much like the rocks on which they live. Rocks themselves, in turn, are felt to have a ghostly life of their own. The human identification with living landscapes lies behind attempts to claim exclusive ownership, as natives are understood to belong to, and are part of, the land or nation itself, while immigrants are excluded. The book provides an in-depth case study of Cornwall and its economy in the wider context of Britain and the rise of nationalist politics, especially in England and Scotland.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook; Data medium
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    ISBN: 1-78499-619-X; 1-78499-681-5
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series: Manchester Gothic
    Subjects: Human geography; Nationalism; Rocks; English literature; Literature and society; Politics and literature; Literature.; Literary Studies / General.; History Of Ideas.; Regional Geography.; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography.; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies.; History of ideas
    Other subjects: Celtic Britain.; Cornwall.; New Age writing.; detective fiction.; geological folklore.; geological journals.; geological poetry.; ghost stories.; gothic fiction.; landscapes.; modernist novels.; national territory.; nationhood.; native race.; nineteenth century.; romance novels.; travel narratives.
    Scope: 1 online resource (272 pages) :, digital, PDF file(s).
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    Introduction 1. Primitive rocks: the Geological Societies of London and Cornwall, Humphry Davy and sublime mineral landscapes 2. Rocks and race: geological folklore and Celtic literature, from Cornwall to Scotland 3. On the cliff edge of England: trembling rocks in sensation fiction and empire Gothic 4. Haunted houses and prehistoric stones: savage vibrations in ghost stories and D. H. Lawrence's Kangaroo 5. Living stones and the earth: dreams of belonging in Cornish nationalist and new age environmental writing 6. Clay: de-composed granite in Jack Clemo's anti-nationalist writing Conclusion Index.