D. J. Palmer
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199510177
- eISBN:
- 9780191700972
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199510177.003.0016
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
Although English Literature was first included among the subjects for the pass examination in 1873, and English Language and Literature was introduced in the special examinations for women in 1881, ...
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Although English Literature was first included among the subjects for the pass examination in 1873, and English Language and Literature was introduced in the special examinations for women in 1881, the significant starting point of the development of modern English studies at Oxford University was the establishment of the Merton Professorship of English Language and Literature. Created by statute in 1882, it was the outcome of various representations made to the 1877 Commission, though it did not conform exactly with any of them. Indeed, both the title of the new chair and the duties prescribed for its holder were somewhat unrealistic as well as imprecise, for ‘English Language’ was generally understood to mean the philological study of Old and Middle English, while ‘English Literature’ as an academic subject was widely and loosely conceived as an aesthetic and cultural engagement with great authors, useful as examination fodder for pass candidates and women, entrants to the civil service, and students in the civic universities.Less
Although English Literature was first included among the subjects for the pass examination in 1873, and English Language and Literature was introduced in the special examinations for women in 1881, the significant starting point of the development of modern English studies at Oxford University was the establishment of the Merton Professorship of English Language and Literature. Created by statute in 1882, it was the outcome of various representations made to the 1877 Commission, though it did not conform exactly with any of them. Indeed, both the title of the new chair and the duties prescribed for its holder were somewhat unrealistic as well as imprecise, for ‘English Language’ was generally understood to mean the philological study of Old and Middle English, while ‘English Literature’ as an academic subject was widely and loosely conceived as an aesthetic and cultural engagement with great authors, useful as examination fodder for pass candidates and women, entrants to the civil service, and students in the civic universities.
Christopher Hilliard
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199695171
- eISBN:
- 9780199949946
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199695171.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter examines the engagement of Scrutiny contributors and F. R. Leavis's pupils with wider publics. F. R. Leavis's idea of ‘minority culture’ was not simply ‘elitist’ but envisioned a chain ...
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This chapter examines the engagement of Scrutiny contributors and F. R. Leavis's pupils with wider publics. F. R. Leavis's idea of ‘minority culture’ was not simply ‘elitist’ but envisioned a chain of ever larger ‘publics’ that could be guided indirectly by a critical minority. The chapter discusses his own public interventions during the 1960s and 1970s, and contrasts them with those of his followers, who went in for the sorts of popularizing usually practised by British intellectuals in the twentieth century. The focus is on the seven-volume Pelican Guide to English Literature edited by Boris Ford, which projected Scrutiny interpretations to a mass audience. Working from the Penguin archives, the chapter charts the series's publishing history, and explores the ways the context of a survey text affected critical judgements in the Scrutiny mode.Less
This chapter examines the engagement of Scrutiny contributors and F. R. Leavis's pupils with wider publics. F. R. Leavis's idea of ‘minority culture’ was not simply ‘elitist’ but envisioned a chain of ever larger ‘publics’ that could be guided indirectly by a critical minority. The chapter discusses his own public interventions during the 1960s and 1970s, and contrasts them with those of his followers, who went in for the sorts of popularizing usually practised by British intellectuals in the twentieth century. The focus is on the seven-volume Pelican Guide to English Literature edited by Boris Ford, which projected Scrutiny interpretations to a mass audience. Working from the Penguin archives, the chapter charts the series's publishing history, and explores the ways the context of a survey text affected critical judgements in the Scrutiny mode.
Bernard Bergonzi
- Published in print:
- 1991
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198112617
- eISBN:
- 9780191670817
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198112617.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter discusses how the religious, ethical, and aesthetic constituents have also become weakened. Its discussion supplements the previous chapter, where the global expansion of writing in ...
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This chapter discusses how the religious, ethical, and aesthetic constituents have also become weakened. Its discussion supplements the previous chapter, where the global expansion of writing in English has weakened the cultural-nationalist strand in the institution of ‘English Literature’. Literary humanism is one of the concepts introduced and discussed.Less
This chapter discusses how the religious, ethical, and aesthetic constituents have also become weakened. Its discussion supplements the previous chapter, where the global expansion of writing in English has weakened the cultural-nationalist strand in the institution of ‘English Literature’. Literary humanism is one of the concepts introduced and discussed.
Simon Eliot and Christopher Stray
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199543151
- eISBN:
- 9780191772337
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199543151.003.0014
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History, Economic History
Although the Press had been publishing major works of history for centuries, the arrival of the Clarendon Press Series and the introduction of a modern history degree in the 1870s encouraged a ...
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Although the Press had been publishing major works of history for centuries, the arrival of the Clarendon Press Series and the introduction of a modern history degree in the 1870s encouraged a plethora of new textbooks such as Stubbs's Select Charters as well as major research publications such as Rogers's History of Agriculture and Prices. The teaching of law in Oxford was reformed in the 1870s, and this gave rise to a range of publications by Holland, Anson, Twiss, and Markby aimed at its students and beyond, and mostly published in the Clarendon Press Series. Unlike history and law, English language and literature did not feature in the University's curriculum until 1894, so publishing in these subjects was aimed at school markets and at other universities, and extension courses. Middle English texts were favoured, as the Press's approach was firmly philological; however Shakespeare also featured strongly, and later eighteenth and nineteenth century literature was also included in the Clarendon Press Series.Less
Although the Press had been publishing major works of history for centuries, the arrival of the Clarendon Press Series and the introduction of a modern history degree in the 1870s encouraged a plethora of new textbooks such as Stubbs's Select Charters as well as major research publications such as Rogers's History of Agriculture and Prices. The teaching of law in Oxford was reformed in the 1870s, and this gave rise to a range of publications by Holland, Anson, Twiss, and Markby aimed at its students and beyond, and mostly published in the Clarendon Press Series. Unlike history and law, English language and literature did not feature in the University's curriculum until 1894, so publishing in these subjects was aimed at school markets and at other universities, and extension courses. Middle English texts were favoured, as the Press's approach was firmly philological; however Shakespeare also featured strongly, and later eighteenth and nineteenth century literature was also included in the Clarendon Press Series.
Stefan Collini
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- November 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780198800170
- eISBN:
- 9780191839986
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198800170.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History, Cultural History
This chapter begins with the observation that a number of literary critics in this period express the hope that a new form of ‘cultural history’ would provide the basis for an evaluative assessment ...
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This chapter begins with the observation that a number of literary critics in this period express the hope that a new form of ‘cultural history’ would provide the basis for an evaluative assessment of the direction of social change. They look to those trained as critics, not to historians, for such an approach, one that tries to identify the ‘quality of living’ in evidence in various periods. The chapter shows how such work played an important part in a wider public’s understanding of history in the years between the 1940s and the 1970s, with the Pelican Guide to English Literature providing a notable illustration. The chapter suggests that the reception of Williams’s unconventional book, The Long Revolution, in 1961 can be seen to mark the end of the style of work considered in the previous chapters.Less
This chapter begins with the observation that a number of literary critics in this period express the hope that a new form of ‘cultural history’ would provide the basis for an evaluative assessment of the direction of social change. They look to those trained as critics, not to historians, for such an approach, one that tries to identify the ‘quality of living’ in evidence in various periods. The chapter shows how such work played an important part in a wider public’s understanding of history in the years between the 1940s and the 1970s, with the Pelican Guide to English Literature providing a notable illustration. The chapter suggests that the reception of Williams’s unconventional book, The Long Revolution, in 1961 can be seen to mark the end of the style of work considered in the previous chapters.
Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry, and Melissa Raine (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781526129154
- eISBN:
- 9781526141996
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781526129154.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature
For 700 years, Geoffrey Chaucer has spoken to scholars and amateurs alike. How does his work speak to us in the twenty-first century? This volume provides a unique vantage point for responding to ...
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For 700 years, Geoffrey Chaucer has spoken to scholars and amateurs alike. How does his work speak to us in the twenty-first century? This volume provides a unique vantage point for responding to this question, furnished by the pioneering scholar of medieval literary studies, Stephanie Trigg: the symptomatic long history. While Trigg's signature methodological framework acts as a springboard for the vibrant conversation that characterises this collection, each chapter offers an inspiring extension of her scholarly insights. The varied perspectives of the outstanding contributors attest to the vibrancy and the advancement of debates in Chaucer studies: thus, formerly rigid demarcations surrounding medieval literary studies, particularly those concerned with Chaucer, yield in these essays to a fluid interplay between Chaucer within his medieval context; medievalism and ‘reception’; the rigours of scholarly research and the recognition of amateur engagement with the past; the significance of the history of emotions; and the relationship of textuality with subjectivity according to their social and ecological context. Each chapter produces a distinctive and often startling interpretation of Chaucer that broadens our understanding of the dynamic relationship between the medieval past and its ongoing re-evaluation. The inventive strategies and methodologies employed in this volume by leading thinkers in medieval literary criticism will stimulate exciting and timely insights for researchers and students of Chaucer, medievalism, medieval studies, and the history of emotions, especially those interested in the relationship between medieval literature, the intervening centuries and contemporary cultural change.Less
For 700 years, Geoffrey Chaucer has spoken to scholars and amateurs alike. How does his work speak to us in the twenty-first century? This volume provides a unique vantage point for responding to this question, furnished by the pioneering scholar of medieval literary studies, Stephanie Trigg: the symptomatic long history. While Trigg's signature methodological framework acts as a springboard for the vibrant conversation that characterises this collection, each chapter offers an inspiring extension of her scholarly insights. The varied perspectives of the outstanding contributors attest to the vibrancy and the advancement of debates in Chaucer studies: thus, formerly rigid demarcations surrounding medieval literary studies, particularly those concerned with Chaucer, yield in these essays to a fluid interplay between Chaucer within his medieval context; medievalism and ‘reception’; the rigours of scholarly research and the recognition of amateur engagement with the past; the significance of the history of emotions; and the relationship of textuality with subjectivity according to their social and ecological context. Each chapter produces a distinctive and often startling interpretation of Chaucer that broadens our understanding of the dynamic relationship between the medieval past and its ongoing re-evaluation. The inventive strategies and methodologies employed in this volume by leading thinkers in medieval literary criticism will stimulate exciting and timely insights for researchers and students of Chaucer, medievalism, medieval studies, and the history of emotions, especially those interested in the relationship between medieval literature, the intervening centuries and contemporary cultural change.
Jago Morrison
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780719084362
- eISBN:
- 9781781707098
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719084362.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
Chinua Achebe has long been regarded as Africa's foremost writer. In this major new study, Jago Morrison offers a comprehensive reassessment of his work as an author, broadcaster, editor and ...
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Chinua Achebe has long been regarded as Africa's foremost writer. In this major new study, Jago Morrison offers a comprehensive reassessment of his work as an author, broadcaster, editor and political thinker. With new, historically contextualised readings of all of his major works, this is the first study to view Achebe's oeuvre in its entirety, from Things Fall Apart and the early novels, through the revolutionary Ahiara Declaration – previously attributed to Emeka Ojukwu – to the revealing final works The Education of a British Educated Child and There Was a Country. Contesting previous interpretations which align Achebe too easily with this or that nationalist programme, the book reveals Achebe as a much more troubled figure than critics have habitually assumed. Authoritative and wide-ranging, this book will be essential reading for scholars and students of Achebe's work in the Twenty-First Century.Less
Chinua Achebe has long been regarded as Africa's foremost writer. In this major new study, Jago Morrison offers a comprehensive reassessment of his work as an author, broadcaster, editor and political thinker. With new, historically contextualised readings of all of his major works, this is the first study to view Achebe's oeuvre in its entirety, from Things Fall Apart and the early novels, through the revolutionary Ahiara Declaration – previously attributed to Emeka Ojukwu – to the revealing final works The Education of a British Educated Child and There Was a Country. Contesting previous interpretations which align Achebe too easily with this or that nationalist programme, the book reveals Achebe as a much more troubled figure than critics have habitually assumed. Authoritative and wide-ranging, this book will be essential reading for scholars and students of Achebe's work in the Twenty-First Century.
Michael Kirkham
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780853235439
- eISBN:
- 9781786945396
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853235439.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry
In Passionate Intellect: The Poetry of Charles Tomlinson, Michael Kirkham provides a critical reading of the poetry of Charles Tomlinson. Within the text, Kirkham addresses readers already interested ...
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In Passionate Intellect: The Poetry of Charles Tomlinson, Michael Kirkham provides a critical reading of the poetry of Charles Tomlinson. Within the text, Kirkham addresses readers already interested in Tomlinson’s poetry, but also those who are unfamiliar with it. Kirkham aims to open up the understanding of the poet’s work by providing a contextual commentary on the poems and by advising ways to read them. The text is split into six chapters that follow the progression of Tomlinson’s poetry from his early career to the his work in the 1980s, and make a comment on the historical context as well as the meaning, quality and value contained in each poem. The text also goes to great length to explain the distinction between a ‘nature’ poem and a ‘human’ poem, and uses Tomlinson’s work as examples of each.Less
In Passionate Intellect: The Poetry of Charles Tomlinson, Michael Kirkham provides a critical reading of the poetry of Charles Tomlinson. Within the text, Kirkham addresses readers already interested in Tomlinson’s poetry, but also those who are unfamiliar with it. Kirkham aims to open up the understanding of the poet’s work by providing a contextual commentary on the poems and by advising ways to read them. The text is split into six chapters that follow the progression of Tomlinson’s poetry from his early career to the his work in the 1980s, and make a comment on the historical context as well as the meaning, quality and value contained in each poem. The text also goes to great length to explain the distinction between a ‘nature’ poem and a ‘human’ poem, and uses Tomlinson’s work as examples of each.
Gwyneth Jones
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780853237839
- eISBN:
- 9781786945389
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853237839.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Gwyneth Jones’s Deconstructing the Starships: Science Fiction and Reality is a collection of critical essays, speeches and reviews, split into three sections: ‘All Science is Description’, ‘Science, ...
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Gwyneth Jones’s Deconstructing the Starships: Science Fiction and Reality is a collection of critical essays, speeches and reviews, split into three sections: ‘All Science is Description’, ‘Science, Fiction and Reality’, and ‘The Reviews’.
The book looks at 20th century science fiction through a feminist lens and explores the evolution of science fiction and fantasy writing during an era of scientific and technological development. From a feminist point of view, Jones discusses the relationships between men and women in science fiction and unpacks the significance of the power imbalances that come out of those relationships. Jones also addresses the increasing closeness in the barriers between science fiction and reality and offers insightful predictions towards the future.Less
Gwyneth Jones’s Deconstructing the Starships: Science Fiction and Reality is a collection of critical essays, speeches and reviews, split into three sections: ‘All Science is Description’, ‘Science, Fiction and Reality’, and ‘The Reviews’.
The book looks at 20th century science fiction through a feminist lens and explores the evolution of science fiction and fantasy writing during an era of scientific and technological development. From a feminist point of view, Jones discusses the relationships between men and women in science fiction and unpacks the significance of the power imbalances that come out of those relationships. Jones also addresses the increasing closeness in the barriers between science fiction and reality and offers insightful predictions towards the future.
Jeffrey J. Williams
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780823263806
- eISBN:
- 9780823266432
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823263806.003.0011
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter profiles M. H. Abrams, a major critic of British Romantic literature and founding editor of Norton anthologies of literature. It draws on an in-depth interview and gives revealing ...
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This chapter profiles M. H. Abrams, a major critic of British Romantic literature and founding editor of Norton anthologies of literature. It draws on an in-depth interview and gives revealing personal details about his work and career.Less
This chapter profiles M. H. Abrams, a major critic of British Romantic literature and founding editor of Norton anthologies of literature. It draws on an in-depth interview and gives revealing personal details about his work and career.
Alison Booth
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198759096
- eISBN:
- 9780191819728
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198759096.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 19th Century Literature, Prose (inc. letters, diaries)
Opening up the concepts of literary reception and author “countries,” the conventions of the homes and haunts, and the history of house museums, this Introduction locates the book in relation to ...
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Opening up the concepts of literary reception and author “countries,” the conventions of the homes and haunts, and the history of house museums, this Introduction locates the book in relation to previous scholarship and acknowledges many aspects of tourism and many writers not included in this study. It interrogates the division between popular practical criticism (visiting sites associated with a text) and academic methods. It argues that the spatial and material elements of homes and settings have shaped canons and the definitions of “English” and “American” literatures; regional, national, and transatlantic dimensions of the study are delineated. A discussion of method and an overview of the histories of tourism, homes and haunts publications, and house museums accompany chapter summaries. Introductions to the diverse writers, themes, and historical contexts help guide the reader into the book.Less
Opening up the concepts of literary reception and author “countries,” the conventions of the homes and haunts, and the history of house museums, this Introduction locates the book in relation to previous scholarship and acknowledges many aspects of tourism and many writers not included in this study. It interrogates the division between popular practical criticism (visiting sites associated with a text) and academic methods. It argues that the spatial and material elements of homes and settings have shaped canons and the definitions of “English” and “American” literatures; regional, national, and transatlantic dimensions of the study are delineated. A discussion of method and an overview of the histories of tourism, homes and haunts publications, and house museums accompany chapter summaries. Introductions to the diverse writers, themes, and historical contexts help guide the reader into the book.
Susan Gillingham
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- April 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199652419
- eISBN:
- 9780191766053
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199652419.003.0009
- Subject:
- Religion, Biblical Studies, Judaism
Chapter 9 assesses reception in English literature. Jewish use is primarily twentieth century: a comparison of Psalms 1 and 2 in The Jewish Study Bible, The Artscroll Tanach, and Tehillim:The Book of ...
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Chapter 9 assesses reception in English literature. Jewish use is primarily twentieth century: a comparison of Psalms 1 and 2 in The Jewish Study Bible, The Artscroll Tanach, and Tehillim:The Book of Psalms illustrates how Jewish exegesis influenced English translation. Christian reception starts as early as the ninth century Anglo-Saxon Eadwine Psalter, and, later, The Psalter of Richard Rolle, and Langland’s Piers Plowman. By the sixteenth century translations proliferate: Coverdale, The Geneva Bible and The King James Bible illustrate different readings of Psalm 1. Poetic experimentation also becomes popular: examples include Sidney, and later, Sandys, King, Milton, and Burns. Modern translations have different preoccupations, namely gender-inclusiveness (Psalm 1) and political correctness (Psalm 2). The psalmists’ worldview becomes more open to criticism (Moore [Psalm 1], Jackson [Psalms 1 and 2], and Haiku). The conclusion notes the progression from an earlier interest in aesthetic representation to a present concern to make these psalms universally palatable and ‘moral’.Less
Chapter 9 assesses reception in English literature. Jewish use is primarily twentieth century: a comparison of Psalms 1 and 2 in The Jewish Study Bible, The Artscroll Tanach, and Tehillim:The Book of Psalms illustrates how Jewish exegesis influenced English translation. Christian reception starts as early as the ninth century Anglo-Saxon Eadwine Psalter, and, later, The Psalter of Richard Rolle, and Langland’s Piers Plowman. By the sixteenth century translations proliferate: Coverdale, The Geneva Bible and The King James Bible illustrate different readings of Psalm 1. Poetic experimentation also becomes popular: examples include Sidney, and later, Sandys, King, Milton, and Burns. Modern translations have different preoccupations, namely gender-inclusiveness (Psalm 1) and political correctness (Psalm 2). The psalmists’ worldview becomes more open to criticism (Moore [Psalm 1], Jackson [Psalms 1 and 2], and Haiku). The conclusion notes the progression from an earlier interest in aesthetic representation to a present concern to make these psalms universally palatable and ‘moral’.
Gwyneth Jones
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780853237839
- eISBN:
- 9781786945389
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853237839.003.0014
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
In this review of David Brin’s Glory Season, Jones foregrounds the issues that arise when feminism is looked at from a male perspective. She criticises the text for presenting a feminist utopia so ...
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In this review of David Brin’s Glory Season, Jones foregrounds the issues that arise when feminism is looked at from a male perspective. She criticises the text for presenting a feminist utopia so clearly designed by a man and analyses the sexual stereotyping that comes out of it.Less
In this review of David Brin’s Glory Season, Jones foregrounds the issues that arise when feminism is looked at from a male perspective. She criticises the text for presenting a feminist utopia so clearly designed by a man and analyses the sexual stereotyping that comes out of it.
Michael Kirkham
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780853235439
- eISBN:
- 9781786945396
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853235439.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry
In this introductory chapter, Kirkham provides a biography of Charles Tomlinson’s early life to present day. It prepares the reader for the contents of the following chapters and foregrounds ...
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In this introductory chapter, Kirkham provides a biography of Charles Tomlinson’s early life to present day. It prepares the reader for the contents of the following chapters and foregrounds Tomlinson’s abilities and status as both a poet and a painter.Less
In this introductory chapter, Kirkham provides a biography of Charles Tomlinson’s early life to present day. It prepares the reader for the contents of the following chapters and foregrounds Tomlinson’s abilities and status as both a poet and a painter.
Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry, and Melissa Raine
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781526129154
- eISBN:
- 9781526141996
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781526129154.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature
This chapter surveys current research, methodologies and debates in Chaucer criticism and medievalism studies as they appear in this volume, and discusses their relationship with the scholarship of ...
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This chapter surveys current research, methodologies and debates in Chaucer criticism and medievalism studies as they appear in this volume, and discusses their relationship with the scholarship of Stephanie Trigg.Less
This chapter surveys current research, methodologies and debates in Chaucer criticism and medievalism studies as they appear in this volume, and discusses their relationship with the scholarship of Stephanie Trigg.
John Kerrigan and Peter Robinson (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780853235156
- eISBN:
- 9781786945365
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853235156.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry
The Thing About Roy Fisher, edited by John Kerrigan and Peter Robinson, brings together critical essays that aim to increase the awareness of the literature produced by Roy Fisher during his forty ...
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The Thing About Roy Fisher, edited by John Kerrigan and Peter Robinson, brings together critical essays that aim to increase the awareness of the literature produced by Roy Fisher during his forty year writing career. The following studies offer analytical research that focus on the historical context and influences surrounding Fisher’s writing, including the writer’s block he experienced in the late 1960s and his personal relationship to the city of Birmingham. The text also makes a comment on the work’s reception from both critical and public opinion and measures how well Fisher’s poetry is considered today. As well as providing contextual and factual detail, the book also concentrates on an assessment of Fisher’s varied poetic style, a manner of writing that only highlights the poet’s decision to reject the constraints of British lyrical poetry of the time, and outlines the recurring motifs and crossed boundaries present in his poetry.Less
The Thing About Roy Fisher, edited by John Kerrigan and Peter Robinson, brings together critical essays that aim to increase the awareness of the literature produced by Roy Fisher during his forty year writing career. The following studies offer analytical research that focus on the historical context and influences surrounding Fisher’s writing, including the writer’s block he experienced in the late 1960s and his personal relationship to the city of Birmingham. The text also makes a comment on the work’s reception from both critical and public opinion and measures how well Fisher’s poetry is considered today. As well as providing contextual and factual detail, the book also concentrates on an assessment of Fisher’s varied poetic style, a manner of writing that only highlights the poet’s decision to reject the constraints of British lyrical poetry of the time, and outlines the recurring motifs and crossed boundaries present in his poetry.
Michael Kirkham
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780853235439
- eISBN:
- 9781786945396
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853235439.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry
Chapter three traces a historical progression of Tomlinson’s poetry, focusing closely on the distinction between his ‘nature poems’ and ‘human poems’ published during the twenty year period ...
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Chapter three traces a historical progression of Tomlinson’s poetry, focusing closely on the distinction between his ‘nature poems’ and ‘human poems’ published during the twenty year period 1958-1966. The chapter discusses the treatment of human experience within natural landscape and describes the ways in which the two genres of human and nature poetry can exist both separately and in unison.Less
Chapter three traces a historical progression of Tomlinson’s poetry, focusing closely on the distinction between his ‘nature poems’ and ‘human poems’ published during the twenty year period 1958-1966. The chapter discusses the treatment of human experience within natural landscape and describes the ways in which the two genres of human and nature poetry can exist both separately and in unison.
James Keery
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780853235156
- eISBN:
- 9781786945365
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853235156.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry
In this second chapter, James Keery closely reads Fisher’s early poetry from the 1950s. In his analysis, Keery explores the poetry’s historical context and interrelations, in order to develop a ...
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In this second chapter, James Keery closely reads Fisher’s early poetry from the 1950s. In his analysis, Keery explores the poetry’s historical context and interrelations, in order to develop a well-rounded perspective on the period. While the chapter focuses mainly on work produced in the 1950s, Keery also discusses later poems written by Fisher that adopt the themes previously established in the 1950s.Less
In this second chapter, James Keery closely reads Fisher’s early poetry from the 1950s. In his analysis, Keery explores the poetry’s historical context and interrelations, in order to develop a well-rounded perspective on the period. While the chapter focuses mainly on work produced in the 1950s, Keery also discusses later poems written by Fisher that adopt the themes previously established in the 1950s.
Ian Sansom
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780853235156
- eISBN:
- 9781786945365
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853235156.003.0009
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry
The title of chapter eight, written by Ian Sansom, is inspired by a line in one of Fisher’s poems, ‘Toyland’. The chapter itself focuses on Fisher’s lighter and more comedic work and asks the ...
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The title of chapter eight, written by Ian Sansom, is inspired by a line in one of Fisher’s poems, ‘Toyland’. The chapter itself focuses on Fisher’s lighter and more comedic work and asks the question, has Fisher’s work been taken too seriously in public and critic opinion? To answer this question, Sansom explores the critical understanding of Fisher and takes a look at the poet’s use of self-awareness and humour in order to provide an analysis of the successfulness of Fisher’s comedic writing. Sansom focuses mainly on poems found in the Consolidated Comedies collection, and makes particular comment on ‘“Other Titles by Roy Fisher”’, ‘North Wind Harrying the North’, ‘One World’, and ‘Toyland’.Less
The title of chapter eight, written by Ian Sansom, is inspired by a line in one of Fisher’s poems, ‘Toyland’. The chapter itself focuses on Fisher’s lighter and more comedic work and asks the question, has Fisher’s work been taken too seriously in public and critic opinion? To answer this question, Sansom explores the critical understanding of Fisher and takes a look at the poet’s use of self-awareness and humour in order to provide an analysis of the successfulness of Fisher’s comedic writing. Sansom focuses mainly on poems found in the Consolidated Comedies collection, and makes particular comment on ‘“Other Titles by Roy Fisher”’, ‘North Wind Harrying the North’, ‘One World’, and ‘Toyland’.
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226276519
- eISBN:
- 9780226276540
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226276540.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
This chapter deals with the overseas market of W. & R. Chambers. As they expanded into the British market, they also began to develop their “connection” overseas. Given their early commitment to ...
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This chapter deals with the overseas market of W. & R. Chambers. As they expanded into the British market, they also began to develop their “connection” overseas. Given their early commitment to stereotyping, it is hardly surprising that W. & R. Chambers hoped to use it to improve their international distribution. They hoped that stereotype plates would be a way of persuading American printers to work with them, instead of reprinting works without permission or payment, but it is shown that the realization of their international dream would be difficult to prove. The arrangement with Gould, Kendall, and Lincoln for the Cyclopaedia of English Literature taught W. & R. Chambers a number of useful lessons. Making Edinburgh responsible for producing copies of all the Chambers publications for audiences far beyond Scotland would require a more extensive, modern printing establishment.Less
This chapter deals with the overseas market of W. & R. Chambers. As they expanded into the British market, they also began to develop their “connection” overseas. Given their early commitment to stereotyping, it is hardly surprising that W. & R. Chambers hoped to use it to improve their international distribution. They hoped that stereotype plates would be a way of persuading American printers to work with them, instead of reprinting works without permission or payment, but it is shown that the realization of their international dream would be difficult to prove. The arrangement with Gould, Kendall, and Lincoln for the Cyclopaedia of English Literature taught W. & R. Chambers a number of useful lessons. Making Edinburgh responsible for producing copies of all the Chambers publications for audiences far beyond Scotland would require a more extensive, modern printing establishment.
