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This book explores the narratives of girlhood in contemporary YA vampire fiction, bringing into the spotlight the genre’s radical, ambivalent, and contradictory visions of young femininity. Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska considers less-explored popular vampire series for girls, particularly those by P.C. and Kristin Cast and Richelle Mead, tracing the ways in which they engage in larger cultural conversations on girlhood in the Western world. Mapping the interactions between girl and vampire corporealities, delving into the unconventional tales of vampire romance and girl sexual expressions, examining the narratives of women and violence, and venturing into the uncanny vampire classroom to unmask its critique of present-day schooling, the volume offers a new perspective on the vampire genre and an engaging insight into the complexities of growing up a girl.

Girls in literature. --- Vampires in literature. --- Young adult fiction. --- Fiction --- Young adult literature --- Fiction. --- Children's literature. --- Goth culture (Subculture). --- Literature, Modern --- Youth --- Fiction Literature. --- Children's Literature. --- Gothic Studies. --- Contemporary Literature. --- Youth Culture. --- Literature --- Juvenile literature --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Novelists --- Gothic culture (Subculture) --- Subculture --- 20th century. --- 21st century. --- Social life and customs. --- Philosophy

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Nurse Memoirs from the Great War in Britain, France, and Germany examines an understudied corpus of memoirs in English, French, and German stemming from the unprecedented involvement of women in the war effort. Jerry Palmer considers the memoirs in relationship to public opinion, collective memory and other women’s writing about the war. Through close-readings of the memoirs and their contexts, the book identifies themes present in the texts and considers the nurse memoir as rhetoric—examining to what extent the texts are promoting or countering arguments in the public sphere about their involvement or more widely about women’s position in society. Palmer explores the multiple contexts related to the nurse memoirs, including public response to volunteer wartime nursing, the organisation of the military health services of the three nations and their conduct in the war, and changes in the post-war organization of public health services and the professionalization of nursing.

History of human medicine --- Literature --- World history --- geneeskunde --- geschiedenis --- literatuur --- anno 1900-1999 --- Europe --- Literature, Modern --- Creative nonfiction. --- European literature. --- Medicine and the humanities. --- Medicine --- Military history. --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- Non-Fiction Literature. --- European Literature. --- Medical Humanities. --- History of Medicine. --- Military History. --- 20th century. --- History.

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Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Life includes new research on the best-known of the posthumous publications: A Moveable Feast, 1964 (and the 2009 A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition); Islands in the Stream, 1970; and The Garden of Eden, 1986. Linda Wagner-Martin provides background and intertextual readings—particularly of the way Hemingway’s unpublished stories (“Phillip Haines was a writer”) and his fiction from Men Without Women and Winner Take Nothing interface with the memoir. The revised edition also highlights and provides background on Hemingway’s treatment of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein, his life in Paris in the 1920s, and his connection to the poetry scene there—putting this in conversation with Mary Hemingway’s edits of A Moveable Feast. The new chapters also illuminate the reception of Islands in the Stream and a new way of understanding the role of gender and androgyny in The Garden of Eden. On a whole, the book draws from extensive archival research, particularly correspondence of all four of Hemingway’s wives.

Authors, American. --- Hemingway, Ernest, --- American authors --- Hemingway, Ernest --- Kheminguėĭ, Ėrnest --- Hai-ming-wei, --- Hemingvej, Ernest --- Hemingwei --- Hīminjwāy, Arnist --- Ḣeminguei̐, E. --- Ḣeminguei̐, Ernest --- Heminguej, Ernest --- Heminguej, E. --- Hemingṿey, Ernesṭ --- Haminghwāy, Arnist --- Hayminghwāy, Arnis, --- Himinghwāy, Arnist --- Himinghwāy, --- Hemingvejs, Ernests --- Hemingṿe, Ernesṭ --- Chemingouaiē, Ernest --- Heminguwei, Ānesuto --- Haimingwei, Eneisite --- Haimingwei, Ouneisite --- Haimingwei, Ennasite --- Hemingwei, Ŏnesŭtʻŭ --- Хемингуэй, Эрнест --- Хемингуэй, Э. М. --- המינגווי, ארנסט --- המינגווי, ארנסט, --- המינגוי, ארנסט --- המינגוי, ארנסט, --- העמינגוועי, ערנעסט --- 海明威, --- E. ヘミングウェイ, --- همنغواي، ارنست --- همينگوى، ارنست --- ヘミングウェイ, アーネスト, --- 헤밍웨이, 어네스트, --- 海明威, 欧内斯特, --- Chaiminkouaiē, Ernest --- Literature, Modern --- America --- Fiction. --- Creative nonfiction. --- Literature --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- North American Literature. --- Fiction Literature. --- Non-Fiction Literature. --- Literary History. --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Evaluation of literature --- Criticism --- Literary style --- Fourth genre (Creative nonfiction) --- Literary nonfiction --- Narrative nonfiction --- Nonfiction, Creative --- Nonfiction, Literary --- Nonfiction, Narrative --- Prose literature --- Fiction --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Novelists --- 20th century. --- Literatures. --- History and criticism. --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Philosophy

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“Foregrounding some of the most canonical and widely studied Gothic and Romantic texts, offering readings that are at once vibrant and new while still somehow familiar in the best possible way, Edelman makes it clear just how fundamental a concern with generation is to any understanding of the period. This work is deeply learned and wonderfully accessible—and profoundly urgent.” —James Robert Allard, Brock University, Canada, and author of Romanticism, Medicine, and the Poet’s Body (2007) “Edelman argues that contemporary theories of embryology (not yet an empirical science) debate often contradictory concerns about origins, identity, hybridity, and the potential for an infinite number of forms. Gothic narratives express similar anxieties, adapting to popular and high art, changing historical circumstances, and media unimaginable at their birth. Reading the evolution of Gothic in the context of inherently contradictory theories of embryology illuminates the literature’s own contradictions. (Is it conservative or revolutionary? Feminist or misogynist?) Edelman’s learned and cogent exposition of this unexpected biological context will engage not only students of the Gothic tradition, but also the growing audience discovering the material and scientific roots of Romanticism.” —Anne Williams, Professor of English Emeritus, University of Georgia, USA, and author of Art of Darkness: A Poetics of Gothic (1995) This book argues that embryology and the reproductive sciences played a key role in the rise of the Gothic novel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Diana Pérez Edelman dissects Horace Walpole’s use of embryological concepts in the development of his Gothic imagination and provides an overview of the conflict between preformation and epigenesis in the scientific community. The book then explores the ways in which Gothic literature can be read as epigenetic in its focus on internally sourced modes of identity, monstrosity, and endless narration. The chapters analyze Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto; Ann Radcliffe’s A Sicilian Romance, The Italian, and The Mysteries of Udolpho; Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; Charles Robert Maturin’s Melmoth the Wanderer; and James Hogg’s Confessions of a Justified Sinner, arguing that these touchstones of the Gothic register why the Gothic emerged at that time and why it continues today: the mysteries of reproduction remain unsolved. Diana Pérez Edelman is Associate Professor of English at the University of North Georgia, Gainesville, USA.

Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English --- English literature --- History and criticism. --- English gothic fiction (Literary genre) --- English fiction --- Literature, Modern --- Fiction. --- Literature --- Feminism and literature. --- Goth culture (Subculture). --- Science --- Medicine and the humanities. --- Nineteenth-Century Literature. --- Fiction Literature. --- Feminist Literary Theory. --- Gothic Studies. --- History of Science. --- Medical Humanities. --- Humanities and medicine --- Humanities --- Gothic culture (Subculture) --- Subculture --- Literature and feminism --- Literature and philosophy --- Philosophy and literature --- Fiction --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Novelists --- 19th century. --- Philosophy. --- History. --- Women authors --- Theory --- Philosophy

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The Emergence of Neuroscience and the German Novel: Poetics of the Brain revises the dominant narrative about the distinctive psychological inwardness and introspective depth of the German novel by reinterpreting the novel’s development from the perspective of the nascent discipline of neuroscience, the emergence of which is coterminous with the rise of the novel form. In particular, it asks how the novel’s formal properties—stylistic, narrative, rhetorical, and figurative—correlate with the formation of a neuroscientific discourse, and how the former may have assisted, disrupted, and/or intensified the medical articulation of neurological concepts. This study poses the question: how does this rapidly evolving field emerge in the context of nineteenth century cultural practices and what were the conditions for its emergence in the German-speaking world specifically? Where did neuroscience begin and how did it broaden in scope? And most crucially, to what degree does it owe its existence to literature?

Literature and science --- Neurosciences --- History --- Neural sciences --- Neurological sciences --- Neuroscience --- Medical sciences --- Nervous system --- Poetry and science --- Science and literature --- Science and poetry --- Science and the humanities --- Literature, Modern --- Fiction. --- European literature. --- Medicine and the humanities. --- Communication in science. --- Science --- Nineteenth-Century Literature. --- Fiction Literature. --- European Literature. --- Medical Humanities. --- Science Communication. --- History of Science. --- Communication in research --- Science communication --- Science information --- Scientific communications --- Humanities and medicine --- Humanities --- European literature --- Fiction --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Literature --- Novelists --- 19th century. --- History. --- Philosophy