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Studies in Victorian and Modern Literature

A Tribute to John Sutherland

Edited by William Baker - Contributions by Rosemary Ashton; Tony Bareham; Michael Caines; Mario Curreli; Simon Eliot; Lara Feigel; David Finkelstein; Simon Frost; Simon Gatrell; Philip Horne; Linda Hughes; Graham Law; Deirdre Le Faye; David Lodge; Brian Maidment; Karl Miller; K. M. Newton; Robert L. Patten; Fred Schwarzbach; Patrick Scott; Joanne Shattock; Cedric Watts; Alexis Weedon; René Weis and Troy J. Bassett

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.

University Press Copublishing Division / Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

Pages: 332 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-1-61147-692-7 • Hardback • July 2015 • $115.00 • (£88.00)

978-1-61147-693-4 • eBook • July 2015 • $109.00 • (£84.00)

Subjects: Literary Criticism / American / General, Biography & Autobiography / Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Literary Criticism / General

Studies in Victorian and Modern Literature

A Tribute to John Sutherland

Hardback

eBook

Summary

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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University Press Copublishing Division / Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

Pages: 332 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-1-61147-692-7 • Hardback • July 2015 • $115.00 • (£88.00)

978-1-61147-693-4 • eBook • July 2015 • $109.00 • (£84.00)

Subjects: Literary Criticism / American / General, Biography & Autobiography / Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Literary Criticism / General

Author

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

Table of Contents

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

Studies in Victorian and Modern Literature

A Tribute to John Sutherland

Studies in Victorian and Modern Literature

A Tribute to John Sutherland

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