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FDU Press: New Titles 2002–2003THE COLONIAL AMERICAN STAGE, 1665–1774A Documentary Calendar Edited By ODAI JOHNSON and WILLIAM J. BURLING Drawing upon newspapers, contemporary correspondence and diaries, playbills, and governmental documents, The Colonial American Stage, 1665–1774: A Documentary Calendar presents a day-by-day calendar of every known performance by a professional or amateur company or solo performer and all related information from the beginning of the colonial period to the closing of the theaters at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War in October of 1774. Included are complete play and cast lists (where available), actor and civic benefits, building contracts, pricing schedules, advertisements relating to personnel, dates, seasons, premieres of plays, authors, companies, sources, occasional reviews, juridical acts that impacted the theater, maps, an extensive analytical introduction, bibliography, and index. This Calendar gathers together all of the known, existing material relating to the theaters, productions, and personnel of companies and individuals performing in the American colonies, reexamines all previously published primary evidence and claims; and offers extensive new information from sources unknown or unavailable to previous researchers, thus superceding all previous reference works on the subject. Odai Johnson teaches in the University of Washington's School of Drama. William J. Burling is Professor of English at Southwest Missouri State University. PUBLISHED ISBN 0-8386-3903-8 $55.00EVELYN WAUGHA Literary Biography, 1924–1966 By JOHN HOWARD WILSON This is the second in a three-volume literary biography of Evelyn Waugh. The first volume covered Waugh's childhood and education and their influence on his writing. This book focuses on the intersection between literature and biography, not on one or the other. Relatives, wives, children, friends, and associates inspired much of Waugh's writing, and this book traces the origins of his fiction in his experience. More than most of the other books about Waugh, Evelyn Waugh: A Literary Biography draws on his diaries, letters, journalism, travel books, and autobiography. The author also interviewed several members of Waugh's family, who provided previously unpublished material and clarified lingering issues on the interpretation of Waugh's life and work. PUBLISHED ISBN 0-8386-3885-6 $36.50JOANNA BAILLIEA Literary Life By JUDITH BAILEY SLAGLE Joanna Baillie: A Literary Life is the first full-length biography of the Scottish playwright (1762–1851) based on new archival research, biographical evidence, and critical commentary. The work begins with a chronology listing family births, marriages, and deaths and adds publication dates and performance dates for Baillie's plays. After the Introduction's statement of purpose and theoretical stance, chapter 1 provides an account of Baillie's childhood and education based on archival research and on her own autobiographical papers. The ensuing chapters move through her most creative and theoretical years toward her death in 1851. Biographical evidence and critical commentary about her works are arranged chronologically, with chapter 3 dedicated almost solely to Baillie and Sir Walter Scott. Chapter 4 follows with accounts of other relationships which paralleled most of those same years. Chapter 5 continues with a focus on Baillie's religious philosophy and on her final years of copious publishing, while chapter 6 marks her death and subsequent estimation. Judith Bailey Slagle is an Associate Professor and Chair of English at East Tennessee State University. PUBLISHED ISBN 0-8386-3949-6 $43.50 CIVIL HUMORThe Poetry of Gavin Ewart By STEPHEN WEST DELCHAMPS This book is a comprehensive study of the poetry of the British poet Gavin Ewart (1916–1995). The Introduction relates Ewart's poetry to Edward Mendelson's notion of "civil poetry." Chapter 1 offers biographical information relevant to Ewart's early career, between 1933 and 1950. Chapter 2 discusses Ewart's earliest poetry and some of its influences and affinities. Chapter 3 begins with a discussion of Ewart's first collection, Poems and Songs (1939), and goes on to discuss the small number of poems Ewart published during the years of World War II and just after. Chapter 4 offers background material for Ewart's later career, starting in about 1960. Chapter 5 discusses frequent references in Ewart's poetry to poetic "craft," the poet's audience, and his participation in a community of poets, living and dead. Chapter 6 reviews Ewart's handling of four characteristic themes: place, work, family, and death. Chapter 7 offers observations on Ewart's sexually explicit poetry. Stephen West Delchamps is a writer, editor, and aspiring poet. AUGUST 2002 ISBN 0-8386-3933-X $49.50EDVARD MUNCH AND THE PHYSIOLOGY OF SYMBOLISMBy SHELLEY WOOD CORDULACK This book explores how and why the influential Norwegian artist Edvard Munch exploited late nineteenth-century physiology as a means to express the Symbolist soul. Nineteenth-century physiology connected the body, specifically the physiological processes of respiration, alimentation, circulation, and motor responses, to the human psyche. Munch's series of paintings through the 1890s, known collectively as the Frieze of Life, also looked to the physiologically functioning (and malfunctioning) living organism for both its visual and organized metaphors. Munch used his colors, shapes, and lines to symbolize soul states, which were in turn the results of physiological processes. His representations of the physiology of metabolism and death, for example, allowed him to mold and resolve his thoughts on the meaning of art, life, and immortality, particularly in response to the general pessimism and absence of traditional spirituality otherwise found in his work. Thus, he drew upon physiology in order to penetrate the greatest mysteries of love, life, God, and cosmos. Shelley Wood Cordulack is Associate Professor of Art History at Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois. Illustrated with nearly forty black and white and six color illustrations. AUGUST 2002 ISBN 0-8386-3891-0 $55.00THE IMPERIAL EXECUTIVE IN AMERICASir Edmund Andros (1637–1714) By MARY LOU LUSTIG Edmund Andros, a soldier, administrator, courtier, and diplomat, served a succession of Stuart monarchs in the Old and New Worlds. This study differs from most past assessments of Andros that portray him in a negative light. Instead it concentrates on his role in protecting and defending England's New World colonies as governor of New York, the Dominion of New England, and Virginia. His most significant achievement in New York was to avoid an Indian war and to conclude the Covenant Chain agreement with the Five Nations of the Iroquois. In New England, he brought a united government to a wide territory, while in Virginia he provided for the defense of the province during King William's War. In all three gubernatorial posts, he set a standard for ethical Indian relations. Adversely affected in his American governorships by events in England, Andros's career illustrates the close relationship between Old and New Worlds. Andros left a better defined, more secure empire for England. The structure of that empire is clearly reflected in a study of his life. Mary Lou Lustig is Associate Professor at West Virginia University. AUGUST 2002 ISBN 0-8386-3936-4 $59.50RECREATIONAL SERVICES FOR OLDER ADULTSBy JAY S. SHIVERS The first three chapters of this book contain gerontological information concerning the aging process, demographics, changes in the style of living of aging persons, and vulnerabilities encountered. It also explicates fundamental beliefs in the need for active engagement—socially, physically, cognitively, and emotionally. Chapters four and five define and explain the basis for recreational service in the community setting and treatment centers or other sites for the planned participation of disabled homebound older adults. Chapters six through eight detail the specifics of recreational programming practices for use by professional practitioners. The remainder of the text is devoted to the practical development of all forms of recreational programming in which older adults may desire to participate and provides step by step instruction for the initiation and operation of a comprehensive, balanced recreational service. Jay S. Shivers is Professor and Coordinator of the professional preparatory program in Recreational Service Education in the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut. AUGUST 2002 ISBN 0-8386-3944-5 $49.50SLAVE OF DESIRESex, Love, and Death in The 1001 Nights By DANIEL BEAUMONT Slave of Desire explores the medieval Arabic work The Thousand and One Nights, drawing on the ideas of Freud, Jacques Lacan, and Slavoj Z;abiz;abek for its literay criticism. While psychoanalytic thought provides an important theoretical frame, the analyses also make reference to the ideas of such thinkers as Hegel, Kant, and Descartes to reveal the sophistication and complexity of narrative fiction in The Thousand and One Nights. Through its analysis of well-known stories such as the frame tale of Shahrazad and King Shahriyar, "The Porter and the Three Ladies of Baghdad," "The Hunchback," and "Qamar az-Zaman," and many others, Slave of Desire demonstrates how this medieval Arabic fiction still speaks to us today about perennial concerns—power and violence, love and betrayal, sex and death. Daniel Beaumont is an Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Rochester. AUGUST 2002 ISBN 0-8386-3874-0 $39.50THREE TALES BY ALEKSEY APUKHTINTranslated by PHILIP TAYLOR During his lifetime Aleksey Apukhtin (1840–93) was considered a foremost Russian poet and prominent figure in St. Petersburg society of the time. He was a lifelong friend of Tchaikovsky (they were both educated at the School of Jurisprudence in St. Petersburg). Their friendship was often strained in later life, possibly as a result of the fact that Apukhtin never went out of his way to conceal his homosexuality, whilst the composer tried strenuously to mask his own. Apukhtin turned to prose in the last years of his life, and the few works that he completed appeared for the first time posthumously. The present edition contains the first English translations of The Papers of Countess D*** and The Diary of Pavlik Dolsky, and a modern translation of Between Life and Death. The publication is an interesting sidelight on the work of one of the lesser figures who was writing at a time when Tolstoy dominated the literary scene. Philip Taylor is a professional translator and freelance writer. AUGUST 2002 ISBN 0-8386-3945-3 $34.50WRITING BACKSylvia Plath and Cold War Politics By ROBIN PEEL Writing Back: Sylvia Plath and Cold War Politics explores the relationship between Plath's writing and Cold War discourses and argues that the time (1960–1963), the place (England), and the global politics are important factors for us to consider when we consider the rhetoric of Plath's later poetry and fiction. Based on fresh readings arising from new research, this study argues that Plath should not be depoliticized, and examines her writing alongside the discourses of the period as expressed in newspaper reporting, magazines, and BBC radio. In contrasting her relationship with institutions in America in the 1950s with her responses in England to church, the American arms industry, the National Health Service, and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament it becomes clear that the process of cultural defamiliarization causes Plath to question the model of the individual artist divorced from society, a model of the writer that had previously seemed so attractive. Robin Peel is a Principal Lecturer in English at the University of Plymouth in the United Kingdom. SEPTEMBER 2002 ISBN 0-8386-3868-6 $45.00THE REEL SHAKESPEAREAlternative Cinema and Theory Edited by LISA S. STARKS and COURTNEY LEHMANN The Reel Shakespeare: Alternative Cinema and Theory models an approach to Shakespeare and cinema that is concerned with the "other" side of Shakespeare's Hollywood celebrity, taking the reader on a practical and theoretical tour through important, non-mainstream films and the oppositional messages they convey. This volume attempts to "escape from Hollywood" and the restricted range of meanings it brings to the phenomenon of Shakespearean adaptation, examining instead the marginal, radical, and experimental uses to which Shakespeare has been put in twentieth-century film culture through four areas of inquiry: "Art of Film: Shakespeare and Early Cinema," "Film of Art: Shakespeare and Avant-Garde Cinema," "Film on the Edge: Shakespeare and Counter-Cinema," and "Film in Class: Shakespearean Cinema and Radical Pedagogy." Along with an introduction that traces the role of Shakespeare in the history of alternative cinema, two articles on the use of Shakespearean film in the radical classroom, and a selective bibliography, the collection includes essays on early silent adaptations of Hamlet, Greenway's Prospero's Books, Godard's King Lear, Hall's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Taymor's Titus, Polanski's Macbeth, Welles' Chimes at Midnight, and Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho. Lisa S. Starks is an assistant professor of English at the University of South Florida. Courtney Lehmann is an assistant professor of English and Film Studies at the University of the Pacific. OCTOBER 2002 ISBN 0-8386-3939-9 $48.50SCIENTIST OF THE STRANGEThe Poetry of Peter Redgrove By PAUL BENTLEY This text provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the poetry of Peter Redgrove, a highly original and important poet whose work is concerned with the transformations of nature and the human psyche. After an introductory chapter on Redgrove's life and ideas, the poems are considered in chronological order to trace the evolution of this poet's distinctive style. Redgrove's poetic development is related to development in British poetry generally ("the Movement" of the 1950s, the "Martian" school of the late 1970s) and in particular to the work of Ted Hughes, Redgrove's closest point of contact in contemporary poetry. The study shows how Redgrove's image as an English eccentric—the "Scientist of the Strange"—is a self-conscious construct of the poems, a wry strategy for engaging the reader. These poems of process are also related throughout to Julia Kristeva's discourse on abjection, poetic language, and the "subject-in-process" in order to bring to the fore what is most contemporary about Redgrove's practice. Paul Bentley is lecturer in Literary Studies at the College of St. Mark & St. John, Plymouth, England. NOVEMBER 2002 ISBN 0-8386-3947-X $38.50SHAKESPEARE STUDIES VOLUME XXXEdited By LEEDS BARROLL Shakespeare Studies, edited by Leeds Barroll, Scholar in Residence at the Folger Shakespeare Library, is an international volume published every year in hard cover, containing essays and studies by critics and cultural historians from both hemispheres. It also includes substantial reviews of significant books and essays dealing with the cultural history of early modern England, as well as the place of Shakespeare's productions—and those of his contemporaries—within it. Volume XXX features a Symposium organized by S. P. Cerasano on the topic Mere Archaeology: Theatre History Updates presenting eight theatrical historians who examine new developments in dramatic manuscript studies, in studies of court culture, and in the status of archaeological evidence concerning public playhouses in early modern London. A Forum presents five scholars discussing "The Idea of History in Renaissance Studies," while three full-length articles deal with Henry V, and Cymbeline. Volume XXX also includes thirty reviews of books written by distinguished scholars on various topics such as early modern visual culture, and the poet Aemelia Lanyer. NOVEMBER 2002 ISBN 0-8386-3962-3 $60.00SUCH RARE CITINGSThe Prose Poem in English Literature By NIKKI SANTILLI Such Rare Citings is the first full-length account of the British prose poem, its history, and status as a genre. Prose poetry is not a recognized literary form in England, where it remains largely unknown. This book not only aims to place British prose poetry within the larger literary framework, but also contributes to the discussion of what constitutes the genre, while posing the question: is there a discernible "British style"? The author examines the structure and style of prose poems together with texts that move toward or away from the form in order to locate and explain the genre's defining characteristics. Extending from the Romantic period to the twentieth century, Such Rare Citings offers analyses of prose poems by writers from Coleridge to Samuel Beckett. It uncovers the historical development of the genre in Britain, occasionally thwarted by writers themselves, and calls for inclusion in theoretical discussion and international anthologies. Nikki Santilli is an independent scholar. NOVEMBER 2002 ISBN 0-8386-3951-8 $47.50"ALL THIS READING"The Literary World of Barbara Pym Edited By FRAUKE LENCKOS and ELLEN J. MILLER Twenty-one years after her death, Barbara Pym's novels continue to be read and reread, discussed and debated by discerning readers. Her unique legacy is the world she created, one that is recognizably hers alone. These eighteen essays by noted scholars and critics examine the theme of reading in Pym's books. Through their various fresh approaches to the possibilities of readerly identification, a new and compellingly progressive image of Barbara Pym emerges—that of an author engaged in an ongoing dialogue with those who consider reading a reciprocal act. The first part of the book examines the significance of reading in Pym works, both of her bookish heroines as well as for the author herself. The second part reveals literary encounters and collaborations in her life and works. The diversity and originality of these thoughtful contributions ensure a permanet place for Barbara Pym in twentieth-century literature. Frauke Lenckos is an instructor in the Liberal Education for Adults Programs at the University of Chicago and the Newberry Library, Chicago. Ellen J. Miller is the Director of Publications at Harvard Law School. DECEMBER 2002 ISBN 0-8386-3956-9 $43.50THE CHOREOGRAPHY OF ANTONY TUDORFocus on Four Ballets By RACHEL DUERDEN The Choreography of Antony Tudor: Focus on Four Ballets presents both an analytical overview of the ballets created for the stage by Antony Tudor and in-depth critical analysis of four key works: Jardin aux Lilas (1936), Dark Elegies (1937), Pillar of Fire (1942) and The Leaves are Fading (1975). Part I examines the range of Tudor's work for the ballet stage, both in England in the 1930s and in America from the early 1940s until the end of his career. Part 2 examines the four important works in-depth, with detailed reference to the notated sources of each ballet. The central focus throughout is the investigation of Tudor's choreographic style, with reference especially to his exceptional musicality and his keen sense of psychological subtlety. The theoretical perspective is indebted to aesthetics and the philosophy of art, but also with reference to post structural issues and the semiotics of music. Rachel Duerden leads the Dance program at the Manchaster Metropolitan University in England. DECEMBER 2002 ISBN 0-8386-3948-8 $43.50FOLK-TAXONOMIES IN EARLY ENGLISHBy EARL R. ANDERSON A folk-taxonomy is a semantic field that represents the particular way in which a language imposes structure and order upon the myriad impressions of human experience and perception. Thus, for example, the experience of color in modern English is structured around an inventory of twelve "basic" color terms; but languages vary in the number of basic color terms used, from thirteen or fourteen terms to as few as two or three. Anthropological linguists have been interested in the comparative study of folk-taxonomies across contemporary languages, and in their studies they have sometimes proposed evolutionary models for the development and elaboration of these taxonomies. The evolutionary models have implications for historical linguistics, but there have been very few studies of the historical development of a folk-taxonomy within a language or within a language family. Folk-Taxonomies in Early English undertakes this task for English, and to some extent for the Germanic and Indo-European language families. The semantic fields studied are basic color terms, seasons of the year, geometric shapes, the five senses, the folk-psychology of mind and soul, and basic plant and animal life-forms. Anderson's emphasis is on folk-taxonomies in Old and Middle English, and also on the implications of semantic analysis for our reading of early English literary texts. Earl R. Anderson is Interim Dean of Arts and Sciences at Cleveland State University. DECEMBER 2002 ISBN 0-8386-3916-X $55.00AN IMAGIST AT WARThe Complete War Poems of Richard Aldington By MICHAEL J. COPP This collection brings together for the first time all the war poems of Richard Aldington. The collection is intended to reaffirm Aldington's position as an important voice in the literature of the First World War. Of the ninety-six poems in the collection, forty-four form the carefully structured sequence of poems that go to make up Aldington's Images of War, published in 1919. These are preceded by seven Early Poems, and followed by twenty-four Additional Poems, and seventeen Prose Poems. Finally, extracts from four longer poems are included. A substantial Introduction includes the following subsections: "War Literature: the Boom Years," "Death of a Hero," "Roads to Glory," "Publishing the War Poems," "Aldington's War Service," "Aldington and H.D.," and "Aldington and Imagism." Each of the five groups of poems is preceded by a short introduction containing analyses of and comments upon some of the key poems so as to bring out the qualities and concerns of Aldington's war verse. The book concludes with a Select Bibliography. Michael J. Copp is a tutor for the Board of Continuing Education of Cambridge University, where he teaches courses on twentieth-century literature. DECEMBER 2002 ISBN 0-8386-3952-6 $38.50MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE DRAMA VOLUME 15Edited by JOHN PITCHER Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an international volume published every year in hardcover, containing essays and studies by critics and cultural historians from both hemispheres, as well as substantial reviews of the many significant books and essays dealing with the cultural history of medieval and early modern England as expressed and realized by its drama, exclusive of Shakespeare. Volume 15 offers articles devoted to the historical contexts for drama in sixteenth-century England. One of these is a substantial discussion of prostitution in Elizabethan London, based on archival research. Another piece is focused on the efforts of the Chamberlain's Men to satisfy the tastes of their audiences for political and other topical issues of the day. The volume also contains essays on genre and rhetoric in early modern plays, and on the convention for representing character types on the Renaissance stage (with special reference to the figures of the crone and of the city wife). Further essays concentrate on dramatic authorship, and the publication and printing of plays, and on the connections between Mankind and the fifteenth-century controversy over preaching. The final article is given over to the texts and contexts of newly discovered songs by Aurelian Townshend, intended for an unrecorded 1630s masque by the Merchant Adventurers. As usual, reviews in the volume are substantial and wide-ranging: among the books reviewed are ones on the history of morris dancing, staging in Shakespeare's theaters, costumes and clothing, gender and colonialism, and the texts and performances of Jonson's plays. John Pitcher is Vice President and an Official Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford. DECEMBER 2002 ISBN 0-8386-3963-1 $72.50STAGE DIRECTIONS IN HAMLETNew Essays and New Directions Edited by HARDIN L. AASAND The subject of stage directions in Hamlet, those brief semiotic codes that are embellished by historical, theatrical, and cultural considerations, produces a rigorous examination in the fifteen essays contained in this collection. Each essay uses the textual provenance of the Hamlet quartos and the folio for different critical ends. Scholars of Hamlet like John Meagher, Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor, Eric Rasmussen, Pamela Mason, George Walton Williams, Bernice W. Kliman, James Hirsh, James Lusardi, and June Schlueter attend to the kind of historical recovery of the staged effect that Alan Dessen has professed; others such as Steven Urkowitz, Edna Boris, David Brailow, and Iska Alter consider the implications of the textual stage direction for its energy in generating modern productions, asserting the power of the stage direction to be reinscribed for each generation of playgoers; and still other scholars like F. Nicholas Clary, Alan Young, and Hardin Aasand examine the rich cultural value of stage direction to produce visual documents that reflect and further effect dramatic productions. This volume encompasses essays that are guardedly inductive in their critical approaches, as well as those that critique modern productions that attempt to achieve Shakespearean effect through a modern aesthetic. The volume also includes essays that enunciate the production of stage business as a cultural interplay between productions and social agencies outside the theater. Hardin Aasand is Professor of English and Chair of the Department of Language and Literature at Dickinson State University. DECEMBER 2002 ISBN 0-8386-3946-1 $42.50THE WOND'ROUS ARTWilliam Blake and Writing By JOHN B. PIERCE The "wond'rous art of writing" is a phrase taken from a lyric introducing Blake's last major poem, Jerusalem, but it records an interest in writing manifest throughout his career. In The Wond'rous Art: William Blake and Writing John B. Pierce offers an extended analysis of what writing means to Blake as a thematic, formal, and theoretical construct. Arguing that writing, both as a thematic concern and a physical action, forms a site of contention for the representation of and resistance to signification, this study yokes two dominant contraries in Blake criticism: the emphasis on the material aspect of Blake's work and practical matters of textual production familiar from the work of Joseph Viscomi, and the post-structuralist approach to Blake suggested in the work of critics such as Peter Otto and Donald Ault. John B. Pierce is Professor of English at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada. DECEMBER 2002 ISBN 0-8386-3938-0 $39.50THE BOY GENERALThe Life and Careers of Francis Channing Barlow By RICHARD F. WELCH Drawing heavily on primary source material, The Boy General is the first full-length account of a remarkable man whose life and careers—lawyer, soldier, politician—illuminate the dramatic changes which transformed American life in the nineteenth century. His Civil War career, comprising the bulk of the book, encompassed almost all the major campaigns in Virginia. Beginning the war as a private and rising to major general, Barlow garnered the reputation as a combat leader of unusual pugnacity and effectiveness. Twice wounded, at Antietam and Gettysburg, he played a key role in the desperate fighting which marked Grant's 1864–65 campaign against Lee. After Appomattox, Barlow returned to civilian life and entered New York State politics. Although he was an effective attorney general, initiating suits against the Tweed Ring, his unfiltered honesty harmed him politically. His public refusal to support his party's efforts during the disputed election of 1876 effectively ended his governmental prospects and he ended his life in private law practice. Richard F. Welch has been teaching history, American History, Western Civilization and Irish History at C. W. Post College, Long Island University since 1982. 2003 ISBN 0-8386-3957-7 $48.50CLASSIC SOILCommunity, Aspiration, and Debate in Bolton, Lancashire 1819–46 By MALCOLM HARDMAN Archive material from Bolton and elsewhere in the U.K. provides the first intimate portrait of a region characterized in 1845 by Friedrich Engels as "classic soil on which English manufacture has achieved its master work." Other contemporaries called Bolton "the Athens of Lancashire." It was home to inventors Crompton and Arkwright, and an established center of polemical writing (its enemies of the civil-war period dubbed it "Geneva of the North"). Under Romanticism, it saw the boyhood and adolescence of Thomas Cole, America's painter of Arcadias, and bred idealists like Eliza Sharples, revolutionary advocate of birth control. The Reform Act of 1832 enfranchised Liberal financiers of the Anti-Corn-Law League, drawn from Bolton's "sensational" array of paternalistic capitalists. Actual writings of the participants, in prose and verse, illuminate the strengths and failures of this material and spiritual culture, seedbed for the English-speaking world, whose antecedents were examined in A Kingdom in Two Parishes (FDUP). Malcolm Hardman currently holds a personal Readership at Warwick University in England. 2003 ISBN 0-8386-3966-6 $45.00THE DIARIES OF GIACOMO MEYERBEER, VOL. 4Edited and Translated by ROBERT IGNATIUS LETELLIER Volume 4 of the Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer is devoted to the last years (1857–64). While advancing age and declining health saw a waning of the composer's personal optimism, this was hardly the case artistically speaking. His love for opéra comique found further expression in the composition and successful staging of Dinorah (1859), one of his most exquisite works, while his remaining energy was lavished on the creation of L'Africaine, his posthumous valediction and artistic swansong. Meyerbeer's characteristic zeal and dedication continued until the few months before his death. This last volume contains a series of glossaries listing his compositions, and the musical and theatrical works he attended throughout his life. A bibliography of the composer, his contemporaries, and the operatic and social milieu of his times, completes the critical apparatus. Robert Ignatius Letellier teaches for the Board of Continuing Education at Cambridge University and the Maryvale Institute in England. 2003 ISBN 0-8386-3845-7 $69.50THE EMERGENCE OF STATE GOVERNMENTParties and New Jersey Politics, 1950–2000 By JEFFREY M. STONECASH State governments have increased their responsibilities since the 1950s. Change in New Jersey has been particularly dramatic. In 1950 there were no major state taxes and very little aid to local governments. Since then the state has adopted an income and sales tax, several increases in those taxes, and major increases in aid to local governments. This study tracks this major shift in the state's role, focusing on the interaction of changing notions of fairness, party differences in electoral bases, and the impact of recessions. Party interactions are crucial to explaining cumulative change. Democrats, with a less affluent electoral base, consistently, if very reluctantly, responded to social problems, recessions, court rulings, and enacted state tax increases. Tax enactments often put critical Republicans in power in the next election. Republicans, faced with heavy criticism from Democrats, largely left tax enactments in place, resulting in a steadily growing role for state government. Jeffrey M. Stonecash is Professor of Political Science at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University. 2003 ISBN 0-8386-3953-4 $45.00EMERSON'S CONTEMPORARIES AND KEROUAC'S CROWDA Problem of Self-Location By BRADLEY J. STILES Writers of the Beat Generation were conscious that they shared thematic and philosophical concerns with writers of the American Renaissance. This study provides the first extended examination of interests held in common by these two groups. In Nature (1836), Emerson described a self composed of two parts: an eternal, timeless consciousness, and a separate identity existing within the constraints of the space/time continuum, inhabiting the body. American nineteenth-century writers tried to locate the kernel of individual identity within this soul/body complex—a process this study refers to as self-location. However, by Kerouac's time, the concept of space/time becomes a mixture of memory, imagination, and popular culture, and this shift makes the enterprise of self-location more frustrating, and perhaps less relevant, for the writers who pursue it. The writers studied include Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson, Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Amiri Baraka. Bradley J. Stiles is an English Instructor at Clackamas Community College in Oregon City, Oregon. 2003 ISBN 0-8386-3960-7 $39.50GOING THEIR SEPARATE WAYSAgrarian Transformation in Kenya, 1930–1950 By ROBERT M. MAXON From 1930 to 1950, Vihiga and Gusiiland, relatively similar regions of western Kenya, went their separate ways and in opposite directions. For Gusiiland this involved a more extensive involvement in the agricultural economy of Kenya as the region moved, over the next two decades, to become a major producer of small holder cash crops, part of the country's agrarian revolution zone. Vihiga, on the other hand, moved from being the major source of commodity production for sale in western Kenya to a region which could no longer feed itself from its own resources after 1950. Vihiga's place in the Kenyan economy after 1950 was primarily that of a labor-exporting zone. This account of the contrasting experiences of the Vihiga and Gusiiland provides a framework for enhanced understanding of the history of agrarian change in Africa. Robert M. Maxon is Professor of History at West Virginia University. 2003 ISBN 0-8386-3893-7 $46.50HOME, MAISON, CASAThe Politics of Location in Works by Jean Rhys, Marguerite Duras, and Erminia Dell'Oro By ERICA L. JOHNSON In Home, Masion, Casa, Erica L. Johnson presents a comparative study of the highly problematic concept of "home" in works by authors born and raised in colonial contexts, and repatriated as young adults to European "homelands" which they had never before seen. Jean Rhys, Marguerite Duras, and Erminia Dell'Oro—from British Dominica, French Indochina, and Italian Eritrea, respectively—write at an angle to nationalist or imperialist constructions of home. As intercultural subjects, each established in her fiction representations of home which are linked to but never contained by geographical boundaries; instead, home figures as a site of loss or desire, a tool of imperial ideology, and most importantly, a means of grounding their literary voices. By imagining as well as remembering an idea of home, they create what Johnson refers to as terragraphica, or a place from which to write. Johnson shows the importance of terragraphica through an analysis of the related concepts of home, exile, repatriation, and colonial migration. Erica L. Johnson holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California. 2003 ISBN 0-8386-3961-5 $42.50ITALIAN FEMINIST THEORY AND PRACTICEThe Debate on Equality and Sexual Difference Edited by GRAZIELLA PARATI and REBECCA WEST The volume is made up of an Introduction by the editors, Graziella Parati and Rebecca West, and six essays by leading scholars of Italian feminist theory. In the Introduction, the editors discuss the general issues that condition the debate on equality and difference as articulated in the work of French, American, and Italian feminist thinkers; they also describe the arguments contained within the six essays that follow. In the first section, "Sexual Difference Made in Italy," which includes essays by Carol Lazzaro-Weis and Lucia Re, the core issues involved in talking about concepts of sexual difference, especially within Italian feminism, are presented. These issues are tied to theories and practices that can be found in French feminism, but they are shaped by the specific Italian sociohistorical and political context. The second section, "Equality is Not Enough," which contains the essays of Luisa Muraro, Adriana Cavarero, Lea Melandri, and Teresa de Lauretis, explores many elements of the theoretical debate on difference, and its role in contemporary feminist thought in Italy and elsewhere. Graziella Parati is an Associate Professor at Dartmouth College. Rebecca West is Professor of Italian and Cinema/Media Studies at the University of Chicago. 2003 ISBN 0-8386-3959-3 $36.50ITALIAN WOMEN AND THE CITYEssays Edited by JANET LEVARIE SMARR and DARIA VALENTINI Studies of the city, and of women's experiences of the city, have focused primarily on modern times, especially as modernism was defined in large part by urban life. Italy, however, has a long history of urban-centered culture, and women have been a vocal part of that culture since the Renaissance. This volume, therefore, looks at the art and literature of both earlier and more modern periods to investigate the meanings of the city for Italian women, the intensely gendered meanings (for both sexes) of those city spaces that excluded women, and the conditions that permitted a limited permeability of gendered boundaries. Two aspects to the combination of "women" and "city" are salient to these investigations. One involves their metaphorical relationship. Urbs, città, ville—the words for city tend to be grammatically feminine, and a long tradition of representation associates the city with a woman. Women, especially writers, could exploit, modify, or resist the prevailing uses of such metaphors. The second aspect of connection involves social realities. What was or is the relation of the (female) city with the real women who inhabit it? What kind of site has it provided for women seeking a satisfying life for themselves? How has art and literature, by men and by women, represented the relationship of female persons or characters to urban spaces? Janet Levarie Smarr is Professor of Theatre and Italian Studies at the University of California in San Diego. Dario Valentini is an Assistant Professor of Italian at Stone Hill College in Easton, MA. 2002 ISBN 0-8386-3965-8 $38.50JAMES JOYCE AND VICTIMSReading the Logic of Exclusion By SEAN P. MURPHY An innovative study that locates Joyce's work in the context of politics and philosophy, James Joyce and Victims elaborates issues central to both modernity and cultural studies—economics, victimage, politics, nationality, gender, and modes of knowing—in a way that speaks to the relationships shared by theory and literary texts, culture and the specific products born out of culture. This text examines Joyce's response to the dominant linguistic and philosophical systems that, because of their inner logics of exclusion, inevitably produce economic, religious, and sexual victims. Drawing on Marx, Freud, Hegel, and others, Sean Murphy illuminates Joyce's texts, from Dubliners (1914) through Ulysses (1922), to disclose to readers the extent to which traditional syntax, order, and narrativity contribute to class-based, religious, and gender oppression. In Finnegans Wake (1939) Joyce introduces an alternative, quadratic logic that defies mastery. Joyce breaks the cycle of victimage at the level of language at the same time that he exposes the limits and consequences of power, individualism, conceptions of the modern subject, and colonialism. Sean P. Murphy is an Assistant Professor of English at Central Michigan University. 2003 ISBN 0-8386-3950-X $45.00LOVE, TEARS, AND THE MALE SPECTATORBy KENNETH MacKINNON Film studies most influential account of cinema spectatorship labels it "male," differentiated from the female variety by its phallic, sadistic visual pleasure. The male of this account is not an actual man in the cinema audience but a textually constructed viewing position. Over time, however, the investigation of female spectators' experience blurs that distinction. This book weighs the evidence for the nature of male spectatorship. It considers fantasy, masquerade, readership, and the questioning of sex and gender achieved by queer theory and by appeal to anthropology and genetics. It recognizes the cruciality of love as an element in Hollywood narrative, and so questions both the male's alleged mastery when he is "feminized" by love, and film studies habit of declaring the love story female territory. Analyses of five 1950s movies suggest that, if the male on screen is an identification point for the male in the audience, then his experience is far from that of secure mastery. Kenneth MacKinnon is Professor of Film Studies at the University of North London. 2003 ISBN 0-8386-3955-0 $36.50NATIVE AMERICAN POWER IN THE UNITED STATES, 1783–1795By CELIA BARNES This book is a study of the role of Native Americans in the physical and political development of the United States during the first few years of its existence. An evaluation of the function and operation of power both within Native American groups and their relations with outsiders, which informed their diverse and complex strategies of resistance to white westward expansion, forms a central component of the study. That resistance, strengthened by alliances with the British on the northern frontier and Spain in the south, did more than just physically prevent the United States from occupying its western territories. It fostered early federal-state antagonism, stimulated east-west sectionalism, and heightened international tensions on the continent almost to the point of war. The new republic of the United States was based on a precarious and as yet unformed political structure, its integrity threatened by both foreign interference and domestic fragmentation. The Native American contribution to the fragility of the union during this period made them key players in the struggle to create a stable and enduring union. Celia Barnes is currently working as Director of Studies at the Piccadilly School of English in Bolzano, Italy. 2003 ISBN 0-8386-3958-5 $43.50NEGOTIATING SURVIVALFlorence and the Great Schism (1378–1417) By ALISON WILLIAMS LEWIN Internal crises and external conflict made stability a rare feature of city life in the northern Italian communities of the Renaissance. When the papacy became bifurcated in 1378, the normal tensions in and among city-states escalated sharply. Rival pontiffs battled for revenues, lands, and allies in Italy; aggressive rulers of first Milan and then Naples took advantage of the papacy's weakness to expand their own holdings; and other European powers sporadically intervened as well, pursuing their own theological and political visions. The city of Florence, long one of the richest and most diplomatically astute of the communes, found its resources and ingenuity strained to the utmost in a forty-year-long struggle to maintain its independence, trade networks, and prestige. During this time, leaders of the various regimes guiding the Arno republic shifted priorities and alliances as needed to preserve their city's status. Negotiating Survival follows the many twists and turns of strategy and vision that enabled the republic to emerge transformed but intact from the enormous strains created by the Great Schism. Alison Williams Lewin is an Associate Professor of History at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia. 2003 ISBN 0-8386-3940-2 $49.50TAFT, WILSON, AND THE WORLD ORDERBy DAVID H. BURTON William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson were the two most farsighted American statesmen of their generation. By the end of World War I they had come to agree in principle that there must be created a league of nations organization, the machinery for settling international disputes, thereby avoiding another world war. How as individuals they arrived at this common conclusion and how and why in concert or as individual leaders they failed to achieve their singular purpose this book carefully examines in a non-accusatory fashion. David H. Burton is the General Editor of The Collected Works of William Howard Taft. 2003 ISBN 0-8386-3969-0 $36.50THOMAS PYNCHONReading from the Margins Edited by NIRAN ABBAS Thomas Pynchon: Reading from the Margins is a collection of essays by various academics looking at how identity is shaped, gendered, and contested throughout Pynchon's work. By exploring sociological, anthropological, literary, and political dimensions, the contributors revise important ideas in the debate over individualism using political and feminist theory and examine the different ways in which their writings embody, engage, and critique the official narratives generated by America's culture. The first half of the book is a site for the mutually constitutive interaction between discourses about the body and the materiality of specific bodies. These essays serve as the locus for thinking differently about both feminist histories and feminist futures, and the political aims of cultural criticisms. The second half of the book questions the context and pretext of political ideas of nationhood, political states, and political parties, the economic divisions of fiscal and monetary policies, and the sociological concepts of societies, tribes, and families. The papers question the forces of monopoly to exclude and obscure the underside of the American dream, the degradation of dreams, and what dreams become. With its interdisciplinary approach, Thomas Pynchon, will appeal to students and scholars of American literature, culture, gender studies, sociology, and politcs. Niran Abbas is a Research fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London (School of English and Humanities). 2003 ISBN 0-8386-3954-2
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