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"John Erickson examines four major authors from the "third-world", Assia Djebar, Abdelkebir Khatibi, Tahar ben Jelloun, and Salman Rushdie, all of whom have critiqued the relationship between Islam and the West. Erickson analyzes the narrative strategies they deploy to explore the encounter between Western and Islamic values and reveals their use of the cultural resources of Islam, and their intertextual exchanges with other "third-world" writers. These writers, he argues, valorize expansiveness and indeterminacy in order to represent individuals and groups that live on the margins of society."

"In this study, Mark Parker proposes that literary magazines should be an object of study in their own right. He argues that magazines such as the London Magazine, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, and the New Monthly Magazine, offered an innovative and collaborative space for writers and their work, indeed, magazines became one of the preeminent literary forms of the 1820s and 1830s. Examiningthe dynamic relationship between literature and culture which evolved within this context, Literary Magazines and British Romanticism claims that writing in such a setting enters into a variety of alliances with other contributions and with ongoing institutional concernsthat give subtle inflection to its meaning. The book provides the only extended treatment of Lamb’s Elia essays, Hazlitt’s Table-Talk essays, “Noctes Ambrosianae,” and Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus in their original contexts, and should be of interest to scholars of culturaland literary studies as well as Romanticists."

"The Tudor era has long been associated with the rise of nationalism in England, yet nationalist writing in this period often involved thedenigration and outright denial of Englishness. Philip Schwyzerargues that the ancient, insular, and imperial nation imagined in the works of writers such as Shakespeare and Spenser was not England but Britain. Disclaiming their Anglo-Saxon ancestry, the English sought their origins in a nostalgic vision of British antiquity.Focusing on texts including The Faerie Queene, English and Welsh antiquarian works, The Mirror for Magistrates, Henry V, and King Lear, Schwyzer charts the genesis, development, and disintegration of British nationalism in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.An important contribution to the expanding scholarship on early modern Britishness, this is the first study of its kind to give detailedattention to Welsh texts and traditions, arguing that Welsh sources crucially influenced the development of English literature andidentity."

"In early modern lyric poetry, the male poet or lover often appears not as powerful and masterly but rather as broken, abject, and feminine. Catherine Bates examines the cultural and literary strategies behind this representation and uncovers radically alternative models of masculinity in the lyric tradition of the Renaissance. Focusing on Sidney, Ralegh, Shakespeare, and Donne, she offers astute new readings of a wide range of texts, a sonnet sequence, a blazon, an elegy, a complaint, and an epistle. She shows how existing critical approaches have too much invested in the figure of the authoritative male writer to be able to do justice to the truly radical nature of these alternative masculinities. Taking direction from recent psychoanalytic theories of gender formation, Bates develops critical strategies that make it possible to understand and appreciate what is genuinely revolutionary about these texts and about the English Renaissance lyric tradition at large."

"Ann Ardis questions commonly held views of radical modernism at the turn of the twentieth century. She depicts the "men of 1914," (as Wyndham Lewis called the coterie of writers centered around Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and James Joyce) as only one among a number of groups intent on redefining the cultural objectives of British literature at the turn of the twentieth century. Simultaneously, Ardis reclaims key examples of non-modernist aesthetic effort associated with British socialism and feminism of the period."