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Publishing The Victorian Novel, Rachel Buurma
Publishing The Victorian Novel, Rachel Buurma
Rachel S Buurma
“Publishing the Victorian Novel” looks to the methods of book history and literary criticism to ask how we might understand the ways Victorian publishers and authors (alongside editors, publishers’ readers, librarians, and booksellers) worked together to make novels. Paying attention to both the material and literary aspects of this making, the essay examines a few different scenes of novel publication with a particular focus on the way Victorian novelists, publishers, and reading publics understood aspects of the publication process like the serialization of novels, the three-volume novel, and the authority of the novelist and publisher. In an attempt to capture …
“Daren’T Joke About The Dead”: James Joyce’S Concerted Effort To Include Humor In The “Hades” Episode Of Ulysses, Barry Devine
“Daren’T Joke About The Dead”: James Joyce’S Concerted Effort To Include Humor In The “Hades” Episode Of Ulysses, Barry Devine
Barry Devine
It is now widely accepted that during the revisions between The Little Review and the publication of Ulysses, Joyce went back over many episodes to strengthen the Homeric allusions. He added dozens of flower references to the “Lotus Eaters” episode, food references to “Lestrygonians,” and even more death and underworld allusions to “Hades.” At the same time, however, he was also doing much more than just multiplying the connections to Homer. He also added hundreds of references to Dublin popular culture, Irish nationalism, historical figures, and more. These new allusions have nothing to do with Homer, but Joyce collected pages …
Melville And The Trope Of The Starving American Artist In Rome, Erika Schneider
Melville And The Trope Of The Starving American Artist In Rome, Erika Schneider
Erika Schneider
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Capturing A Pivotal Moment: The Genesis Of ‘Towards Break Of Day’ By William Butler Yeats, Barry Devine
Capturing A Pivotal Moment: The Genesis Of ‘Towards Break Of Day’ By William Butler Yeats, Barry Devine
Barry Devine
William Butler Yeats and his wife, George, were married in October, 1917. Their marriage marks a pivotal point in Yeats’s writing career. This is the point at which he began his philosophical work, A Vision, and at which he wrote many of the poems in his collection Michael Robartes and the Dancer. The drafting of one poem in particular captures elements of the pre-marriage and post-marriage periods of his life. The Yeats who begins to write ‘Towards Break of Day’ is a very different man than the one who completed it, and the poem itself goes through drastic changes as …
"Collective Commerce And The Problem Of Autobiography", Andrew Kopec
"Collective Commerce And The Problem Of Autobiography", Andrew Kopec
Andrew Kopec
This essay partakes in an ongoing conversation about the importance of economics to Olaudah Equiano's slave narrative. I argue that Equiano's text links the singular autobiographical subject to a future collective of Africans schooled in the protocols of international commerce. Equiano's text, I suggest, imagines this collective commerce as a solution to the evils of chattel slavery.
"Irving, Ruin, And Risk", Andrew Kopec
"Irving, Ruin, And Risk", Andrew Kopec
Andrew Kopec
This article offers a new interpretation of Washington Irving and professional authorship, identifying how his experience of financial ruin led him to risk his capital in the literary marketplace.