Goody Two-Shoes and other 18th-century British stories
Edited by Henry M. Wallace
ISBN: 978-1-988963-01-3
Forthcoming October 1st, the first collection of its kind: 18th-century British short stories. Connoisseurs will partake in Humour, Mores, and Adventures of Gentlemen and Gentleladies in London and where so e’er in England and North Britain.
47 stories, some of them never before anthologized. Authors include: Ned Ward, Daniel Defoe, Richard Steele, Delarivier Manley, Joseph Addison, Thomas Gordon, Jonathan Swift, Eliza Haywood, Matthew Concanen, Erasmus Philips, Elizabeth Singer Rowe, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Christopher Smart, John Hawkesworth, Edward Moore, John Boyle, George Colman the Elder, Bonnell Thornton, Thomas Warton, Oliver Goldsmith, Alexander Kellet, Isaac Bickerstaff, Thomas Chatterton, John Aikin, Elizabeth Griffith, Henry Mackenzie, Leonard McNally, Horace Walpole, Alexander Fraser Tytler, Nathan Drake, Robert Burns, Mary Hays, Maria Edgeworth, Hannah More.
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These Immortal Creations:
An Anthology of British Romantic Poetry
Edited by Sylvia Hunt
The Romantic poet is both man and myth. He inherits an ancient birthright and creates a new heritage. He is prophet, seer, priest, bard, creator of (imaginative) worlds, hero, and myth-maker. He is also a man speaking to other men. Wordsworth described his poetic ‘calling’ when he wrote “poetic numbers came/ Spontaneously, and cloth’d in priestly robe/ My spirit, thus singled out, as it might seem,/ For holy services.” Blake demanded that his readers “Hear the voice of the Bard.” Coleridge states that the poet is a powerful figure who “brings the whole soul of man into activity.”
Poets are, according to Shelley, the vehicles for the spirit of the age and for the ages to come; they are “the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” In fact, in his Defense of Poetry (1821), Shelley endows both poetry and the poet with divine power, labeling the former “immortal creations” and the latter a person who “participates in the eternal, the infinite and the one.”
The poets in this anthology would all define imagination differently; however, they all have espoused the primacy of imagination and placed it as the root source for creativity.
With its over 120 poems arranged in chronological order, the present anthology follows very closely the development of Romantic poetry in Britain from its beginnings in the 1780s to the early years of Victoria’s reign.
This is also the most diverse anthology of Romantic literature: out of twenty-seven authors, fifteen are male and twelve female. The reader will be able to see how the female poets of the Romantic Movement found self-empowerment in the construction, articulation and publication of a feminized poetic identity.
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Monsters and Monstrosity in 21st-Century Film and Television
Edited by Cristina Artenie and Ashley Szanter
The ubiquitous presence of the monstrous on screen evokes myriad interpretations. In certain cases, we love to love the monster. In others, we bond over mutual desire to see it conquered, vanquished. The inherent mutability of the monster provides us with endless opportunities to reimagine, reenvision, and reencounter these creatures. This volume contains discussions and dissections of monsters across multiple media and geographical origins. In its entirety, this volume endeavors to examine how 21st-century media presents and contends with the body and mind of the monster. What do they reveal about us culturally, individually, as a community? What can we learn from them?
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Specialists: Passions & Careers
Edited by Cristina Artenie and Dannielle Joy Davis
Is the pursuit of the doctorate the ultimate intellectual “survival of the fittest” challenge? Are There common characteristics and experiences that result in success while earning the PhD? Can examining the experiences of individuals successful in pursuing the doctorate lead us towards learning how to increase success rates and decrease doctoral attrition?
The intent of this work is to address these questions and highlight the experiences of those who have earned or are in pursuit of the doctorate. Through learning from varied experiences of those who have earned or are striving towards the highest academic degree in higher education, we can understand what characteristics assist in rendering success and completion. In addition, by considering the challenges and struggles faced by those holding and pursuing the doctorate, leaders in higher education can determine what strategies may work in ameliorating the process and creating greater equity in terms of graduate education outcomes.
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Reaching for Intelligence Past
Guillaume Brunet, Lorraine Gaudreau, Agathe Riverin
ISBN: 978-0-9950291-5-6 (for the English version)
Live through a conflict…and resolve it with intelligence. An achievable goal if both parties remain intelligent and share a common interest
Who hasn’t lived a conflict with a colleague, a client, a boss, a business partner? Obviously, remaining in conflict, not achieving one’s objectives, and failing to perform are not viable options.
It’s difficult for all to intelligently solve a conflict, but not impossible. We’ll dive into it through diverse real experiences seen through the eyes of this book’s characters.
“Through the chapters emerges a practical know-how, elegant yet without pretention, anchored in solid knowledge offered with simplicity. This knowledge is the result of years of conflict resolution, reflecting the authors’ ability to imagine innovative ways to deliver a message while soliciting emotion and action.” (Thérèse Laferrière, Incumbent Professor, Faculty of Education, Université Laval)
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À la Recherche de l’Intelligence Perdue
Guillaume Brunet, Lorraine Gaudreau, Agathe Riverin
ISBN: 978-0-9950291-6-3 (pour la version française)
Vivre un conflit…et le régler avec intelligence. Un défi réalisable si les deux parties en conflits sont intelligentes et qu’elles ont un intérêt commun.Qui n’a pas vécu de conflits avec un collègue, un client, un patron, un partenaire d’affaires? Évidemment, rester en conflit, ne pas atteindre ses objectifs, et ne pas performer ne sont pas des options.
Il est difficile pour tous de régler intelligemment un conflit, mais pas irréalisable. Nous allons nous y attarder par diverses expériences vécues par les personnages de ce livre.
« À travers les chapitres, se manifeste un savoir pratique, élégant et sans prétention, appuyé sur un savoir savant, mais offert avec grande simplicité. Qui plus est, un savoir pratique, construit à travers des années d’aide à la résolution de conflits, reflétant la grande capacité des auteurs à imaginer des façons innovantes de “faire passer le message” en sollicitant l’émotion et l’action » (Thérèse Laferrière, Professeure titulaire, Faculté des sciences de l’éducation, Université Laval)
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Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein is, arguably, one of the most iconic novels in English literature. With its powerful, unsettling plot, isolated characters, and the wretched Creature at its center, it has become part of the Western cultural fabric. Mary Shelley reminds us that the error of the scientist can only have dreadful consequences if the rest of society proves to be irresponsible. Frankenstein’s one sin is a sin of omission, rather than a sin of commission: he fails to accept the responsibilities of his creativity, and for this he is fearfully punished. But the real villain of the work is all mankind, the social animal that blindly abuses his tools.
Frankenstein is read today in two slightly different versions: the first edition of 1818, written by a very young Mary Shelley; and the edition of 1831, in which irreversible fate is more powerful than human free will. Other, minor, differences between the two texts originate in yet another version of 1823. In the present edition, we have preferred the 1818 original text, more useful for the student of British Romanticism, but we have incorporated all those corrections from 1823 that the novelist chose to preserve in 1831, in the hope of doing justice to the young Mary Shelley, without entirely disregarding the wishes of the mature author.
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Ana Isabel: A Respectable Girl
Antonia Palacios
ISBN: 978-0-9950291-1-8
This is the first English translation of one of the key works of 20th-century Venezuelan fiction. Published in 1949, Ana Isabel: A Respectable Girl by Antonia Palacios is a classic coming-of-age story set in Caracas in the 1920s, exploring issues of race, class, and gender and exposing the colonial and patriarchal legacy of the country in the era before urban development and the dependence on an oil economy.
A modern Latin American classic and the Venezuelan counterpart of Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street (1984), Ana Isabel: A Respectable Girl broke with the symbolic realist genre in vogue in Latin American narrative works and inaugurated a new form of expression with poetic overtones.
“Without patronizing or writing a manifesto, Antonia Palacios acknowledges the complexities, evokes the atmosphere and exposes the contradictions of a bygone era in Caracas.” (Maria Gracia Pardo, University of Miami)
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Dracula: A Study of Editorial Practices
Cristina Artenie
ISBN:978-0-9939951-8-7
Dracula: A Study of Editorial Practices focuses on deconstructing sanctioned Dracula criticism which, for decades, has constructed Transylvania as the land of the vampires. The present study is an unforgiving close look at scholarly editions of Stoker’s novel and shows that the scholarship and the editorial practices are flawed.
Following in the Saidian tradition, this study makes the case that the editors of Dracula have misrepresented Transylvania, Romania, and East Central Europe in general, with little regard to the peoples and cultures of the region.
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Dracula: The Postcolonial Edition
Bram Stoker
ISBN: 978-0-9939951-9-4 (paperback) ISBN: 978-0-9950291-0-1 (hardcover)
This is the first postcolonial edition of Bram Stoker’s gothic classic. For scholars interested in decolonization in literary studies this is a prime example. Jonathan Harker’s colonial adventure and Bram Stoker’s imperialist discourse are restored to their original context of British economic and political involvement in East-Central Europe. This edition relies both on British and Romanian sources and exposes the cultural appropriation and distortion of Romanian history and folklore. Among the many threads the editors have followed is the very significant one related to the superimposition of the vampire onto Romanian beliefs. This edition avoids the misinformation perpetuated by previous editions of Dracula published during the last four decades. It carefully supplies geographical, historical, ethnographical, and cultural information that will help future scholars as well as the general public. In correctly placing Stoker’s novel within British colonial literature, this edition draws attention to the dangers of Othering and of turning a blind eye to Victorian and neo-Victorian practices.
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Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
ISBN 978-0-9939951-7-0
*Student edition, with an introduction by Jane Austen specialist Sylvia Hunt * Lightly annotated * The unabridged text of a great classic * Academic, easy-to-read format, aimed primarily at undergraduate and AP English courses * Comprehensive introduction that helps students navigate Jane Austen’s world, the novel, and the issues relevant for today’s reader.
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Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
John Cleland
ISBN: 978-0-9939951-6-3
This is a scholarly edition addressing different expectations of the readership, by including both the original text and an updated version. In the former, today’s readers can follow the unadulterated voice of the narrator, Fanny Hill, with all the lexical and grammatical blunders of a “country girl.”
In the latter, the spelling and the punctuation have been corrected, but strictly according to eighteenth-century standards, so that nothing of the tone and flavour of the original text is lost. This is the most extensively annotated edition of Cleland’s novel, with over 300 explanatory notes.
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Gothic and Racism
ISBN: 978-0-9939951-4-9
*Collection of essays analyzing the various manifestations of racism in Gothic narratives: literature, film, TV, architecture * Essays range from traditional topics and interpretations of Gothic as vehicle for racism to Gothic as subversion and resistance to white, heteronormative privilege.
Contributors:
Avishek Parui; Meital Orr; Joanna Wilson; Jessica E. Birch; Mark Henderson; Monalesia Earle; Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni, Mariana Zarate, and Patricia Vazquez; Lance Hanson; Cristina Artenie; Ipshita Nath and Anubhav Pradhan.
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Histopias: From the Bible to Cloud Atlas
Dragos Moraru
ISBN: 978-0-9939951-5-6
*Histopias are fictional retellings of the history of the world * They inquire into the remote past and/or future of mankind * History as narrated by histopias is unity in fragmentariness * *Authors of histopias include Julian Barnes, David Mitchell, Bernard Shaw, Roberto Calasso, Carlos Fuentes, Jorge Luis Borges.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
ISBN: 978-0-9939951-3-2
*Student edition * Scholarly annotated * The final version of Oscar Wilde’s classic with a new introduction by specialist Avishek Parui * Academic, easy-to-read format, aimed primarily at undergraduate and AP English courses * Comprehensive introduction that helps students navigate the author’s world and the text.
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Dracula Invades England
Cristina Artenie
ISBN: 978-0-9939951-0-1
*A long overdue study of the social, political and cultural context of Bram Stoker’s Dracula * A welcome addition to Dracula studies, using British and Romanian sources * A postcolonial look at Dracula * The book argues that Stoker was at least in part inspired by the marriage of Vlad Tepes’ descendant, Mary of Teck, to the future king George V.
Bram Stoker’s Dracula, a Count and a vampire in nineteenth-century Transylvania, is also an immortal fifteenth-century Romanian ruler. He has posed as his own offspring over many generations and is ready to invade England and create a loyal army of the undead.
In real life, the historical Dracula invaded England twice through his Transylvanian offspring, the Tecks, who married into the British Royal Family in 1866 and 1892. Bram Stoker was there to report it: he knew Dracula’s descendants personally and, in his 1897 novel, he told the story of the corruption of English blood by a foreign invader from remote Transylvania.
In the nineteenth century, Dracula’s native lands had become a neo-colony of the British Empire and the Lower Danube, which feature prominently in Stoker’s novel, was controlled by the British.
The present study offers a fresh perspective into the historical and biographical context of the genesis of Dracula, as well as an analysis of the personality of the historical character chosen by Stoker as a model for his vampire Count.
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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
ISBN: 978-0-9939951-1-8 
*Student edition, with an introduction by Jane Austen specialist Sylvia Hunt * Lightly annotated * The unabridged text of a great classic * Academic, easy-to-read format * Comprehensive introduction that helps students navigate Jane Austen’s world, the novel and the issues relevant to today’s reader.
Just as Jane Austen herself has been misinterpreted, so have her novels. The perception that Austen’s stories are little more than simple romantic vignettes of English country life and social custom has generally been an accepted reading. This interpretation of her work is based more on our nostalgic re-construction of the Regency period, influenced in part by Hollywood’s understanding of Austen’s novels, as well as a failure to read beneath the author’s satiric humour.
While her novels do end with the heroine’s wedding, Austen is just as, if not more, interested in all the other women who populate her stories. These are the women who are not necessarily provided with the happy ending, either through their own fault or because of forces outside of their limited control. The tongue-in-cheek irony behind Austen’s comment that Pride and Prejudice is “too light, bright, & sparkling” is often overlooked. In fact, Pride and Prejudice is a protofeminist critique of contemporary education and marriage that aligns her less with sentimental novelists like Fanny Burney and Maria Edgeworth and more with feminist thinkers like Mary Wollstonecraft. Austen’s humour is deceptive; beneath the surface lays a deep dissatisfaction with the type of life the term ‘gentility’ forces on women.
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My Own Land’s Sins: An Anthology of Victorian Poetry
ISBN: 978-0-993-9951-2-5
*Versatile selection of 90 poets in 200 pages * More poets in fewer pages than any other anthology * Prepared for an undergraduate course of Victorian poetry or Victorian literature * Poems arranged in chronological order, covering the entire reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901) * Includes a wide range of significant poems: major, controversial, socially involved, militant, satirical, children’s verse * * The selection reflects the changing poetical taste, favouring shorter, more modern poems instead of the longer ones, reminiscent of the Romantic tradition.
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