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A bold new literary history that says women's writing is defined less by domestic concerns than by an engagement with public life In a bold and sweeping reevaluation of the past two centuries of women's writing, At Home in the World argues that this body of work has been defined less by domestic concerns than by an active engagement with the most pressing issues of public life: from class and religious divisions, slavery, warfare, and labor unrest to democracy, tyranny, globalism, and the clash of cultures. In this new literary history, Maria DiBattista and Deborah Epstein Nord contend that even the most seemingly traditional works by British, American, and other English-language women writers redefine the domestic sphere in ways that incorporate the concerns of public life, allowing characters and authors alike to forge new, emancipatory narratives. The book explores works by a wide range of writers, including canonical figures such as Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Harriet Jacobs, Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Toni Morrison; neglected or marginalized writers like Mary Antin, Tess Slesinger, and Martha Gellhorn; and recent and contemporary figures, including Nadine Gordimer, Anita Desai, Edwidge Danticat, and Jhumpa Lahiri. DiBattista and Nord show how these writers dramatize tensions between home and the wider world through recurrent themes of sailing forth, escape, exploration, dissent, and emigration. Throughout, the book uncovers the undervalued public concerns of women writers who ventured into ever-wider geographical, cultural, and political territories, forging new definitions of what it means to create a home in the world. The result is an enlightening reinterpretation of women's writing from the early nineteenth century to the present day.

English literature --- Feminism and literature. --- Literature and anthropology. --- Marginality, Social, in literature. --- Outsiders in literature. --- Popular literature --- Sex role in literature. --- Women authors --- History and criticism.

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L'association des mots « théâtre » et « peuple » a produit en France nombre de pratiques, de théories, d'utopies. Du théâtre du Peuple ou de l'Égalité sous la Révolution au théâtre du Peuple de Maurice Pottecher, du « théâtre national, populaire, universel » pensé par Victor Hugo au premier TNP ouvert en 1920, les conditions d'un théâtre nouveau et d'une société refondée ont été posées. Quelles voies esthétiques et idéologiques empruntèrent les pensées sociales de la scène ? Théâtre du peuple national ou théâtre de classe ? Théâtre d'éducation ou d'émancipation ? Théâtre citoyen ou fête civique ? Du théoricien-dramaturge Louis-Sébastien Mercier au metteur en scène Firmin Gémier, les réponses sont variées. Elles demeurent toutes d'actualité.

Society in literature. --- Theater and society --- Politics and literature --- French drama --- Popular literature --- Dramatists, French --- Peuple dans la littérature. --- Théâtre et société --- Politique et littérature --- Théâtre français --- Littérature populaire --- Dramaturges français --- Popular literature. --- Theater and society. --- History. --- History --- Themes, motives. --- History and criticism. --- Political and social views. --- Histoire. --- Thèmes, motifs. --- Histoire et critique. --- Pensée politique et sociale. --- France --- Sociology of literature --- French literature --- Theatrical science --- Drama --- Theater --- Political aspects --- France. --- Theater and society - France - History --- Theater - Political aspects - France - History

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In Transcultural Lyricism: Translation, Intertextuality, and the Rise of Emotion in Modern Chinese Love Fiction, 1899–1925 , Jane Qian Liu examines the profound transformation of emotional expression in Chinese fiction between the years 1899 and 1925. While modern Chinese literature is known to have absorbed narrative modes of Western literatures, it also learned radically new ways to convey emotions. Drawn from an interdisciplinary mixture of literary, cultural and translation studies, Jane Qian Liu brings fresh insights into the study of intercultural literary interpretation and influence. She convincingly proves that Chinese writer-translators in early twentieth century were able to find new channels and modes to express emotional content through new combinations of traditional Chinese and Western techniques.

Chinese fiction --- Translating and interpreting. --- Intertextuality. --- Interpretation and translation --- Interpreting and translating --- Language and languages --- Literature --- Translation and interpretation --- History and criticism. --- Western influences. --- Translating --- Translating and interpreting --- Intertextuality --- History and criticism --- Western influences --- S02/0300 --- S16/0195 --- S16/0475 --- China: General works--Chinese culture and the World and vice-versa --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Thematic studies --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Popular literature (incl. fairy tales, legends, storytelling) --- Chinese literature --- Criticism --- Semiotics --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Translators

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"Bringing together leading scholars of literature, history, library studies, and communications, Print Culture Histories Beyond the Metropolis rejects the idea that print culture necessarily spreads outwards from capitals and cosmopolitan cities and focuses attention to how the residents of smaller cities, provincial districts, rural settings, and colonial outposts have produced, disseminated, and read print materials. Too often print media has been represented as an engine of metropolitan modernity. Rather than being the passive recipients of print culture generated in city centres, the inhabitants of provinces and colonies have acted independently, as jobbing printers in provincial Britain, black newspaper proprietors in the West Indies, and library patrons in "Middletown," Indiana, to mention a few examples. This important new book gives us a sophisticated account of how printed materials circulated, a more precise sense of their impact, and a fuller of understanding of how local contexts shaped reading experiences."--

Books and reading --- Book industries and trade --- Literature publishing --- Transmission of texts --- Popular literature --- Popular culture --- Literary transmission --- Manuscript transmission --- Textual transmission --- Criticism, Textual --- Editions --- Manuscripts --- Literary publishing --- Literature --- Publishers and publishing --- History. --- History and criticism. --- Publishing --- History --- History and criticism --- E-books --- 655.4 --- 655.4 Publishing and bookselling in general --- 655.4 Uitgeverij. Boekhandel--algemeen --- Publishing and bookselling in general --- Uitgeverij. Boekhandel--algemeen

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This book examines nobrow, a cultural formation that intertwines art and entertainment into an identifiable creative force. In our eclectic and culturally turbocharged world, the binary of highbrow vs. lowbrow is incapable of doing justice to the complexity and artistry of cultural production. Until now, the historical power, aesthetic complexity, and social significance of nobrow “artertainment” have escaped analysis. This book rectifies this oversight. Smart, funny, and iconoclastic, it scrutinizes the many faces of nobrow, throwing surprising light on the hazards and rewards of traffic between high entertainment and genre art.

Popular culture. --- Popular literature. --- Literature, Popular --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Literature. --- Communication. --- Civilization --- Literature --- Cultural studies. --- Literary History. --- Media Studies. --- Cultural History. --- Cultural Studies. --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Evaluation of literature --- Criticism --- Literary style --- Cultural history --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Sociology --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- History. --- History and criticism. --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Books and reading --- Popular culture --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Literature-History and criticism. --- Civilization-History. --- Literature—History and criticism. --- Civilization—History. --- Western countries. --- Occident --- Western countries --- Western nations --- Western world --- Developed countries