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Buccaneers and Privateers: The Story of the English Sea Rover, 1675-1725
Author: Richard Frohock
In the late seventeenth century, Spain dominated the Caribbean and Central and South America—establishing colonies, mining gold and silver, and gathering riches from Asia for transportation back to Europe. Seeking to disrupt Spain’s nearly unchecked empire-building and siphon off some of their wealth, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British adventurers led numerous expeditions into the Caribbean and the Pacific and many wrote accounts of their exploits. For British readers who were eager for news of the New World, sea-voyage narratives emerged as a popular channel of information. The sea rovers captivated readers with their tales of exotic places, shocking hardships and cruelties, and their daring engagements with national enemies. Widely distributed and read, buccaneering and privateering narratives contributed significantly to England’s imaginative, literary rendering of the Americas during this time. They provided a venue for public dialogue about sea rovers and their position within empire. Buccaneers and Privateers: The Story of the English Sea Rover, 1675-1725 analyzes the literary and rhetorical construction of voyagers and their histories, and, by extension, the representation of English imperialism in popular sea-voyage narratives of the period.
May 2012 ISBN: 978-1611493870 $65.00
Formal Revolution in the Work of Baudelaire and Flaubert
Author: Kathryn Oliver Mills
In Formal Revolution in the Work of Baudelaire and Flaubert, Kathryn Oliver Mills argues that despite the enduring celebrity of Baudelaire and Flaubert, their significance to modern art has been miscast and misunderstood. To date, literary criticism has paid insufficient attention to these authors' literary form and their socio-cultural context. In addition, critical literature has not always adequately integrated individual works to each author’s broader oeuvre: on the one hand critics do not often maintain rigorous distinctions among texts when discussing Baudelaire and Flaubert, and on the other hand scholars of Baudelaire and Flaubert have not consistently considered the relationship of individual texts to either writer’s corpus. Furthermore, critical focus has been on the modernity of Les Fleurs du mal, Madame Bovary, and L'Education Sentimentale. Addressing these lacunae in scholarship on Baudelaire and Flaubert, Formal Revolution in the Work of Baudelaire and Flaubert puts forth the argument that the modern esthetics developed by Baudelaire in Le Peintre de la vie moderne, and by Flaubert in his correspondence, are best embodied by Baudelaire's collection of prose poems, Le Spleen de Paris, and by Flaubert's short, poetic tales, Trois contes. Formal Revolution places these relatively less well-known but last published works in relationship with the artistic goals of their authors, showing that Baudelaire and Flaubert were both acutely aware of the need to launch a new form of literature in order to literally "come to terms with" the dramatic changes transforming the nineteenth-century into the Modern Age. More specifically, Formal Revolution demonstrates that for Baudelaire and Flaubert the formal project of fusing prose with poetry—as poetic prose in the case of Flaubert, as poetry in prose in the case of Baudelaire—was crucial to their mission of "painting modern life." This work concludes that experimentation with literary form represents these two seminal writers' major legacy to modernity; suggests that the twentieth-century might have gone too far down that road; and speculates about the future direction of literature. The modernity of Baudelaire and Flaubert, still relevant today but often taken for granted, needs to be reexamined in light of the cultural, formal, and contextual considerations that inform Formal Revolution in the Work of Baudelaire and Flaubert.
April 2012 ISBN: 978-1611493948 $65.00
The Irish Fairy Tale: A Narrative Tradition from the Middle Ages to Yeats and Stephens
Author: Vito Carrassi
Beginning with a critical reappraisal of the notion of "fairy tale" and extending it to include categories and genres which are in common usage in folklore and in literary studies, this book throws light on the general processes involved in storytelling. It illuminates the fundamental ways in which a culture is formed, while highlighting important features of the Irish narrative tradition, in all its wealth and variety and in its connections with the mythical and historical events of Ireland. The Irish Fairy Tale argues that the fairy tale is a kind of "neutral zone," a place of transition as well as a meeting place for popular beliefs and individual creativity, oral tradition and literary works, historical sources and imaginary reconstructions, and for contrasting and converging views of the world, which altogether allow for a deeper and more sophisticated understanding of reality. The book focuses on stories by Yeats and Stephens, whose approach to the subject marks the culmination of a long tradition of attempts at linking past and present and of bridging the gap between what appear to be contradictory facets of a single culture. This leads to a comparative study of Joyce’s Dubliners, which illustrates the universal and exemplary nature of the notion of fairy tale put forward in the work.
May 2012 ISBN: 978-1611493801 $29.95
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