Overview

This book is both a celebration of the life and career of the eminent literary scholar, critic, and journalist John Sutherland and an extension of Sutherland’s work in various fields, including nineteenth- and twentieth-century Anglo-American literature, the publishing industry, and its impact upon creativity and literary puzzles. With contributions from over twenty-five distinguished critics, literary journalists and scholars, this book goes beyond merely describing Sutherland’s work. The essayists pay homage to Sutherland while also staking their own critical/scholarly claims. From investigating the publishing dimension, Victorians major and minor, the complexities of Dickens and George Eliot, the “archeology” of Pride and Prejudice to examining the implications of Shakespearean souvenirs, literary puzzles, and Non-Victorians, the essays offer fresh dimensions to Sutherland’s rich career as a professor, critic, and journalist.

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Author:   William Baker ,  Rosemary Ashton, professor emerita ,  Tony Bareham ,  Michael Caines
Publisher:   Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Imprint:   Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.10cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.658kg
ISBN:  

9781611476927

ISBN 10:   1611476925
Pages:   362
Publication Date:   29 July 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction I The Publishing Dimension 1 Reconsidering the Unknown Public: A Puzzle of Literary Gains Simon Frost 2 The Blackwood Female Literary Network, 1880-1910 David Finkelstein 3 Trace Collaboration and the Problem of Evidence: Anna Jameson and Ottilie von Goethe Linda K. Hughes 4 Margaret Oliphant and the Changing House of Blackwood Joanne Shattock 5 Wheels of Desire: The Popular Adaptations of A. E. W. Mason's Thrillers from the 1900s to the 1930s Alexis Weedon II Victorians Major and Minor 6 Moral Puzzles in Adam Bede Rosemary Ashton 7 Structure, Tone and Temper in Charles Lever's Lord Kilgobbin Tony Bareham 8 Sister Acts: The Prevalence of Literary Families in the Victorian Period Troy Bassett 9 Why Did William Butler Yeats Leave William Allingham Out? Simon Gatrell 10 Again the Zelig Effect: Israel Zangwill and the Modern Short Story Graham Law 11 Beyond Pickwick-Seymour's Sketches and Regency Print Culture Brian Maidment 12 Another 'Spoiling Hand' at Work on Middlemarch? K. M. Newton 13 Rethinking the Endings of Great Expectations Robert L. Patten 14 Erect His Statue and Worship It : A Victorian Shakespeare Souvenir Fred Schwarzbach 15 The Satirist Satirized: Thackeray's Snobs and William North's Anti-Punch Patrick Scott III Non-Victorians and Puzzles 16 The Elephant in the Classroom Michael Caines 17 The Inheritors: Conrad and Ford's Incursion into Wellsland Mario Curreli 18 Two Quiet Years: The University Press in Oxford in 1770 and 1845 Simon Eliot 19 Where Are Our Moral Foundations? Emily Dickinson and Henry James Philip Horne 20 The Archaeology of Pride and Prejudice Deirdre Le Faye 21 The Fallen Idol: From Story to Screen David Lodge 22 My Collaboration with John Sutherland Cedric Watts 23 Angelica's Susan: A Challenge from Real Life? Rene Weis PART IV: John Sutherland's Life and Work 24 John Sutherland: A Life William Baker 25 Some of His Many Books Karl Miller 26 A Lesson in Tact Lara Feigel Notes on Contributors INDEX

Reviews

Playing off [Sutherland's] particular enthusiasms, these critics write, as he does himself, with curiosity, commitment and clarity.... [T]he self-deprecating Sutherland...has here, indirectly, produced yet another appetizing literary spread. * Times Literary Supplement *

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William Baker is distinguished emeritus professor of English, Northern Illinois University.

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