Bøker utgitt av Edward Everett Root

This commanding two-volume project on Samuel Richardson's classic is an essential source for 18th century studies. It presents the most valuable critical, intellectual and aesthetic responses to this great novel from 1900 to 1950, when Frank Kermode re-assessed the relative significance of Richardson and Henry Fielding and affirmed the superior "value" of Richardson's moral and formal achievement.Professor Yount pursues four main goals: to place the critical materials she has gathered here and reprinted in their immediate historical contexts; to offer insight into works conceived at a time when the discipline of English studies as we know it was in its earliest stages of development; to illuminate the significance of responses toClarissa that seem outdated or naive by today's scholarly standards; and to identify recurrent themes, highlighting the novel's ongoing and often controversial appeal in the first half of the twentieth century.These volumes reprint key commentaries and provide an introduction to the materials reprinted. They also offer scholarly background to these and discuss others omitted for reasons of space.

This work by Professor William D. Rubinstein, the leading academic expert on wealth-holding in Britain over the past two centuries, comprises a series of volumes which will provide similar information on all persons leaving £100,000 or more down to 1914.For every person included, accurate information is given about his or her occupation or source of wealth, parentage and family background, education, marriage, children, and heirs, religion, political involvement, and land ownership.Virtually none of this information has ever been compiled before, and this work provides a unique, accurate, and realistic of the wealthy elite in Britain during and just after the Napoleonic Wars.The picture which emerges is a surprisingly conservative one, with wealth centred not in the new industries of the Industrial Revolution, but in London, especially in the City of London, as well as in the landed aristocracy, in fortunes made in the east and west Indies, and riches derived from "Old Corruption," by government employees and placemen. The Introduction to this work provides useful summaries of the main trends.This set of volumes will be of considerable interest to economic, social, and political historians, to genealogists and family historians, and to local historians and historians of local communities.

Starting with an unusual, 'revivalist' phase in the history of socialism in the late 1880s and early 1890s, this book goes on to explore the distinctive character of socialism in English history more widely understood. The book characterises 'the three socialisms': associationism, statism and collectivism...

These volumes comprise a unique and original work which provides comprehensive biographical information on all 884 persons who left personal estates of ¿100,000 or more in Britain from 1809, when these sources begin in a usable form. ¿100,000 is the equivalent of about ¿10 million today.

That Ezra Pound was the chief architect of Modernism in English and American poetry is well established. So, too, is the fact that in T. S. Eliot he discovered a peer, whose early career he fostered. Together, Pound and Eliot defined what Modern Poetry meant. But they also had peers in two great Irish writers: Yeats in poetry and Joyce in fiction.

This two-volume set brings together the essential and extensive publications by Professor Thompson otherwise scattered in many journals. These pieces form a major supplement to his classic book English Landed Society.

This two-volume set brings together the essential and extensive publications by Professor Thompson otherwise scattered in many journals. These pieces form a major supplement to his classic book English Landed Society.

The leading historian in this field here offers a number of specific studies which do much to illuminate the politics, literature and culture of alternative visions.Contents: Introduction. “Moral Force” and “Physical Force” in the Poetry of Chartism: John Mitchell and David Wright of Aberdeen; Mrs Rochester and Mr Cooper: Alternative Visions of Class, History and Rebellion in the “Hungry Forties”; Voices of Anger and Hope from the 1840s to the 1940s: Hugh Williams, T.E. Nicholas and Idris Davies; Bart Kennedy: Hater of Slavery, Tramp and Professor of Walking; Rebels on the Stage: Turn-of-the-Century Plays by Wilde, Galsworthy, Jones and Lawrence; The Shipbuilders’ Story; Felled Trees – Fallen Soldiers; Individual, Community and Conflict in Scottish Working-Class Fiction, 1920-1940; Genteel Anarchism: Herbert Read’s Poetry of Two Wars; Foregrounding the Kitchen: Everyday Domestic Life in Painting and Drama (with illustrations); Anti-authoritarianism in James Kelman’s Late-Twentieth-Century Fiction; John Burnside’s Living Nowhere as Industrial Fiction. Index.

This book begins with 'ways of seeing' the lives and times of religious and other organisations as instances of cultural creativity, and as rival clusters of social potential. It tells the story of class conflict over forms of association - for example between the Friendly Societies and the private insurance industry since National Insurance began with Lloyd George in 1911. Stephen uses his experience at Ruskin College to think practically as well as historically about co-operative schools, 'access' to Higher Education and the idea of a co-operative university. The book ends by suggesting ways forward for Co-operative Studies and co-operative politics - examining the obstacles and opportunities facing twenty-first century Co-operative and Mutual Enterprise.

This revelatory and often startling book is the most unusual insider-story about book publishing ever issued. It pivots on the enormous changes in publishing, its culture and politics over four tumultuous decades since the 1970s. / The book does so in providing a detailed blow-by-blow account of the author's struggles over the eventual publication of his classic and magisterial work Charles Dickens and His Publishers. This was originally issued in 1978 - and reissued in a second revised edition by Oxford University Press in 2017. / "Behind The Scenes" is an essential 'read' for every author faced with the complexities of the modern publishing world. / It deals with the many distinct components: authorship, illustration, bibliography, printing, cultural formations, circulation, readership, and use. Valuably, too, it is about the many challenges to overcome. / Robert Patten shows what has recently happened to scholarly publishing, as instanced by his book with OUP. He analyses how the process of soliciting, editing, publishing, and selling one retail title was and is conducted (and how changes have happened since the 1970s); who initiates and formulates a project, and how; under what cultural regimes-legal, commercial, academic. He asks what combination of agencies [persons, machinery, distribution systems] enables a book to be manufactured, marketed and sold in the various ways in which books reach the marketplace today. It is a key work in communications history.

A leading historian asks questions, and presents a fresh view of unresolved mysteries. Who shot JFK? Who did the 'Jack the Ripper' murders? Did Richard II murder the Princes in the Tower? Was the man calling himself Rudolf Hess and who landed in Scotland in WW2 really Hitler's Deputy etc...

New edition of the well-known study by the leading international expert on wealth formation and the wealthy in the 19th and 20th centuries in Britain.

This major new work on significant but neglected or marginalised late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Irish women writers could not be more timely.  / This collection presents international research on the work of Irish women writers at the turn of the twentieth century. Discovering new voices and introducing original perspectives on the lives, works and networks of more familiar literary figures, these essays make a key contribution to contemporary feminist recovery projects and remapping the landscape of Irish literature of this period. / There is a burgeoning interdisciplinary and international field in which a diverse range of hitherto neglected Irish women writers have been recovered, and their lives, works, networks and other contexts illuminated.  Irish Women Writers at the Turn of the Twentieth Century capitalises on this rich, diverse and innovative field, drawing on new scholarship that develops existing strands of enquiry further. It also opens up new avenues for exploration. / The strengths of the work is in its seeking of new engagements specifically in relation to Irish women’s cultural economies, particularly literary networks, access to literary production and publication, the long nineteenth century and emergent modernist aesthetics. A further key concern is the politics of retrieval of lost women’s lives and writings, the relationship of Irish feminist critical projects to the ongoing acts of commemoration associated with the formation of the Irish state, and increasing concerns with the future-proofing of ‘lost’ feminist digital recovery projects of the 1990s. / This new collection of original work offers new scholarship about these concerns in late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Irish women’s writing. It draws attention to the significant figure of the Irish New Woman, feminism in the archives, vegetarianism and suffrage, anthologies and the canon, literary and publishing networks, digital methodologies, and women’s writing and intellectual journals, newspaper and periodical histories. / Waking The Feminists, a movement campaigning for better female representation in the arts was established in Ireland in 2015. The launch of ‘Fired!’, a ‘convergence of practising women poets and academics responding to the publication of The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets (2017) protested against the exclusion of Irish women poets generally from the literary canon, including many who were popular and prolific during the nineteenth century. / Two recently held events – ‘Irish Women Playwrights and Theatremakers’ (2017) and the symposium, “Occluded Narratives: Researching Irish Women’s Writing (2016) - foregrounded the interest in these areas and the plenitude of new research. The present book draws on work first presented at the editors’ symposium, “Occluded Narratives: Researching Irish Women’s Writing (1880-1910)” (May Immaculate College, Limerick 2016) where the Irish Women’s Writers Network was also launched.

This revised edition includes an introduction and bibliographical guide to electoral sources for the important period of reforms, 1832-1885, by Professor H. J. Hanham. It remains an essential work of reference for any serious study of the electoral system of the UK. It is an indispensable work by the noted Parliamentary insider who devoted his life to his compendiums.

Who really wrote the Shakespeare plays? This important literary and cultural controversy is livelier and more widely discussed than ever before. Here, nine leading experts offer their version of who wrote the plays.

The commemoration of the Easter Rising centenary in 2016 posed the key question of whether - leaving aside the revolutionary decade (1913-1923) - it was appropriate to talk about a "revolutionary Ireland". The revolutionary decade brought about a change of governance and led to Ireland's independence, but the new Irish Free State fell short of the proclaimed intentions of the imagined republic. The new state veered away from the influence of labour and socialism to become an institutional replica, and a staunchly socially conservative one, of the British system. It was only from the 1960s onwards that Irish society started to open itself up to more liberating social practices and patterns. This volume offers entirely new work which highlights the historical moments at which it would be possible to talk about a political or social revolution in Ireland, while also considering that in the years when Ireland became "the Celtic Tiger", certain social involutions took place. The contributors include independent researchers who write about their topics within a theoretically informed, scholarly, framework. Yet it is precisely their independence from academia that provides their chapters with fresh and multidisciplinary perspectives. Others are well established scholars. It is precisely the wealth of approaches and of disciplines (history, sociology, film studies and literary studies) that enriches the volume and broadens the scope. This volume discusses the idea of revolution in Ireland from a multi- and inter-disciplinary perspective. It covers, on the one hand, the political revolution, mainly the Easter Rising 1916, and on the other the social transformations that the country underwent following the claims for civil rights and the sexual revolution of the late 1960s both in the USA and Europe. Changes in Northern Ireland resulting from the cease fire declaration of the IRA in 1994 are also examined. The kind of state - its conservative political regime and social configuration - that emerged after independence points towards the potentially oxymoronic nature of the phrase "revolutionary Ireland." Yet Ireland's European location has made the country easily permeable to external influences. These, when allied with Ireland's process of modernisation, managed to rupture social strictures. Yet, while patterns in religious practice, gender roles and sexuality have inexorably moved towards much more liberal standards, during the decade known as "Celtic Tiger Ireland" the country experienced an involutionary process as regards racism and discrimination against emigrants and asylum seekers. These studies approach the Easter Rising and the revolutionary period from different perspectives and methodologies: archival research, oral history, postcolonial analysis of documentaries on the Easter Rising, critical discourse analysis of witness statements and research into gendered violence in the Easter Rising aftermath. From this history-based section, the volume shifts to social and cultural issues mainly as refracted and articulated through literature and film: the ground breaking literary work of Edna O'Brien, the shifting grounds for masculinity in Roddy Doyle's The Van, the radical changes in cinematic representations of the Northern Troubles following the IRA's cease fire, Evelyn Conlon's vindication of women's historical voices and presence, and research into Direct Provision Centres. The volume ends with an interview to political activist and page and performer poet Sarah Clancy and the inclusion of two unpublished poems by her.

This attractively illustrated new collaborative work examines dress, style and performance as a significant pleasure of fiction. It illuminates many significant factors of Victorian life. The book examines the ways in which Victorian writers, illustrators, periodicals, designers and clothing manufacturers have critiqued the social ideologies inherent in dress, fashion and imaginative engagement with clothes.This is the first volume in the New Paths in Victorian Popular Fiction and Culture series being published by EER. The series comprises specially commissioned work based on innovative or under-researched perspectives on Victorian literature and culture. As an aesthetic medium, fashion expresses a person's life course, their ideas, desires and beliefs, and fiction itself is a site where these issues can be resolved.Not only were fictional characters made recognisable through their dress, but readers of serial fiction encountered them in between adverts, cartoons, print and patterns. Thus, how dress is depicted in fiction responds to its material paratext. Victorian dress and literature equally licensed or discouraged particular forms of clothing, fantasies and moralities about men and women, as well as distinctions between generations. As a result, this volume's multidisciplinary approach engages with theoretical perspectives on dress history, periodical publications, archives and dress.The book is shaped in four distinct sections. Writers engage with fashion and material culture using an interdisciplinary methodology, as well as through fashion's multiple performances as depicted in text, image and design.Part 1, 'Fashion and Hierarchies of Knowledge' examines how periodicals, journalism and couture established 'fashion' as a discipline.Part 2's 'Artistic Engagement with Fashion's Material Culture' focuses on how fabric, printed patterns and illustrations critique social constructions of beauty and femininity.Part 3, 'Conduct and Clothing', considers novelistic depictions of fashion with regard to scientific, racial and gender identities. These are cross-related to reader consumption and behaviour.Part 4, 'Consumption and Fashionable Performance', examines periodicals, genres and drama as performative in their own right.

These volumes comprise a unique and original work which provides comprehensive biographical information on all 884 persons who left personal estates of ¿100,000 or more in Britain from 1809, when these sources begin in a usable form. ¿100,000 is the equivalent of about ¿10 million today.

The great man's career was riddled with contradictions. This new book highlights these, and shows the difficulties he experienced as well as his ultimate successes.; Until now, little or nothing has been said about the many contradictory and anomalous positions Churchill took throughout his career.

"What to make of the British?" is a question that puzzled Stendhal throughout his whole life. In this new work, which is both a biography and an exercise in cultural history, David Ellis brings to bear on the issues it raises much new and unfamiliar information.

The shocks to British society from the Boer War - and the discovery of the unfitness of soldiers was a seminal moment It was seen to represent all that was wrong, and corrupt, in British society. War abroad and poverty at home was a dangerous equation. Power at the perimeter of the Empire meant decay at its centre. It was these key problems which the expert contemporary contributors assessed.

This new work is currently the only book devoted to the teaching of one of the most canonical and frequently taught American authors.In addition to a Preface by the noted Hawthorne scholar Larry J. Reynolds [University Distinguished Professor and Thomas Franklin Mayo Professor of Liberal Arts Department of English Texas A&M University] the contributors include well-known and rising teacher-scholars who offer theoretical and pedagogical approaches to Hawthorne’s four published novels and a wide range of his short stories.The specially commissioned essays are designed to help teachers meet students at points of genuine interest and need. They incorporate biographical, literary, historical, and multidisciplinary scholarship. The studies are further grounded in specific contexts such as literature surveys, interdisciplinary humanities courses, upper division literature seminars, and study abroad courses.Special emphasis is given to the issues of gender, science, and visual culture (including film adaptations). Offering both theoretical and practical classroom resources, this anthology confirms the continued vitality of Hawthorne’s work – his critiques of religious and moral authority are more relevant than ever in today’s global political environment – even as it showcases how today’s “Hawthorne” is more of a diverse amalgam of texts and perspectives than ever before. Given its diversity of approaches and authors (including essayists from Germany, Israel, and Sweden), Nathaniel Hawthorne in the College Classroom charts new paths for reading and teaching Hawthorne in the 21st century. 

 This new book by the eminent critic provides an informative and timely survey of contemporary approaches to Joyce and modern Irish writing over almost 40 years.In a fresh opening survey Pierce explores the new departure for fiction heralded by A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and this is followed by essays on the hybrid landscape in Ulysses and on the distinctive style and humour of the ‘Eumaeus’ episode. Other pieces focus on the appeal of Irish short-story writer, Benedict Kiely, anthologies of Irish writing, and Irish writing in the years 2006-9.The second half of The Joyce Country is devoted to twenty-six reviews of books about Joyce written from the 1980s to the present and grouped under several headings including ‘Joyce’s European Cities’, ‘Joyce, Yeats and the Matter of Ireland’, ‘Ulysses in Perspective’, and ‘Joyce and Modernism’.

This is a detective story about what happened next in the past. It prompts us to ask how we might know what we don't know we don't know. It is illustrated with 150 illustrations in colour. The work is focused on people and their inclinations, as book buyers and not only as book borrowers.

Numunwari is a gigantic salt-water crocodile - sacred to the Aboriginal community, and the keeper of the secrets of their ancient customs. It lives in Arnhem Land in a remote part of northern Australia. But when it moves downstream terror breaks out.

This famous and comprehensive study presents the causes and effects of the 'mass market' revolution between 1850 and 1914, which led to our 'modern' world. The changes were unprecedented, extraordinary, democratic, and wide-ranging. They affected everyone. They still do so.

The distinguished author evaluates what evidence exists, and the many and varied theories offered on each unsolved but nagging mystery. He goes behind the scenes to examine much that remains in the shadows. He enquires about clandestine intrigues, whitewashed evidence, fraudulent claims, and much that many historians have previously ignored.

"There cannot be much serious doubt that in the last twenty years Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie has been one of the most - if not the most - original, versatile, and imaginative historians in the world...LAWRENCE STONE, New York Review of Books.