Studies in Victorian and Modern Literature: A Tribute to John Sutherland

by William Baker (Editor), Rosemary Ashton (Contribution by), Tony Bareham (Contribution by), Michael Caines (Contribution by), Mario Curreli (Contribution by)

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781611476927
Publisher:	Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Publication date:	07/29/2015
Pages:	362
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

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

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? René 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

Editorial 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