Marshall Brown

The Romance of Real Life, a common title in nineteenth-century European and American fiction, identifies the basic dilemma confronting realists throughout the century: reality is not always interesting, and romance is not always believable. This simple thesis, familiar in individual cases, has never been explored as comprehensively as here. Equally attentive to philology, stylistics, plot layout, and the slow trends that transform genres, Marshall Brown’s study offers a unique slant on fictional form as a challenge rather than a rigid container, traced through a rare combination of minute close readings and large-scale synopses. Following examinations of recent theories of form and of periodization, the book turns to the Romantic theory of the novel in the very disparate discourses in Germany, Britain, and France, then to early and marginal examples of realism, poems in novels, chapter groupings, and parallels between American and European fiction; it concludes with the disruption of realism by the new short story genre and with the ghosts in late-century novels that pave the way toward modernism.

A History of European Realism

The Romance of Real Life

Wit and Humor of Well-known Quotations

A Choice Collection

Wit and Humor

Susan J. Wolfson

Reflecting varieties of theory and practice in both verse and prose from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, these essays by many of America's leading literary scholars call for a reinvigorated formalism that can enrich literary studies, open productive routes of commerce with cultural studies, and propel cultural theory out of its thematic ruts. This book reprints Modern Language Quarterly's highly acclaimed special issue Reading for Form, along with new essays by Marjorie Perloff, D. Vance Smith, and Susan Stewart, and a revised introduction by Susan Wolfson. With historical case studies and insightful explorations, Reading for Form offers invaluable material for literary critics in all specializations.

Reading for Form

Essays on eighteenth-century literature from MLQ.

An MLQ Reader

Eighteenth-century Literary History

In this collection, Marshall Brown has gathered essays by twenty leading literary critics to appraise the current state of literary history. In provocative, sometimes combative essays, they discuss the writing of literary history, the nature of our interest in tradition, and the ways that literary works act in history. The Uses of Literary History addresses the uses of evidence, anachronism, the dialectic of texts and contexts, particularism and the resistance to reductive understanding, the construction of identities, memory, and the endurance of the past. New Historicism, nationalism, and gender studies appear in relation to more traditional issues, such as textual editing, taste, and literary pedagogy. From a range of disciplinary perspectives, old and new, The Uses of Literary History surveys the theoretical and practical issues that confront scholars at work on the literary past and its relation to the present.

The Uses of Literary History

Wit and Humor of Bench and Bar

Karen Kice

Architect and artist Marshall Brown is making space for the future by remixing the legacy of modern architecture in this exploration of his visionary urban ideas, brought to life through extraordinary collages, drawings, models, and photographs. Groundbreaking architect Marshall Brown presents a vision of the future through cross-disciplinary explorations that leverage the possibilities of scale, media, and time in this survey of three unique projects. With an introduction by curator Karen Kice, discover Brown's work through a deep dive into his seminal projects for New York, Chicago, and Detroit. Recurrent Visions journeys into the cities, places, and spaces of the future crafted by the hands of today, with contributions from today's leading architectural thinkers, Monica Ponce de Leon, Joseph Becker, Allison Glenn, and Adrienne Brown, featuring three projects: UNITY Plan for the MTA Vanderbilt Rail Yards, Brooklyn Dequindre Civic Academy, Detroit Smooth Growth Urbanism, Chicago Discover the voice shaping the future of our urban experience. Ideal reading for designers, architects, and scholars, this book presents work that encourages discovery, exploration, and time travel, by one of the most forward-thinking architects and urbanists of our time.

The Architecture of Marshall Brown Projects

Recurrent Visions

Turning Points demonstrates the role of style and form in promoting and shaping cultural development by studying important critics, and analyzing cultural change in literature, music, art, and philosophy.

Essays in the History of Cultural Expressions

Turning Points

Using an outmoded term in an entirely new way, Preromanticism seeks the common ground of British literature from 1740 to 1798 not in foreshadowings of Romanticism but in incomplete discoveries and in impediments to expression that Romanticism was to lift. Featuring readings of masterpieces in all genres that draw widely on recent innovations in literary theory, it highlights the variety of experimentation in a transitional epoch.

Preromanticism

Louis Menand

A. Walton Litz

Glyn P. Norton

George Alexander Kennedy

Christa Knellwolf

Lawrence S. Rainey

Christopher Norris

Alastair J. Minnis

Claude Julien Rawson

Maynard Mack Professor of English Claude Rawson

Jessica Osborn

Hugh Barr Nisbet

Ian Richard Johnson

Raman Selden

Rafey Habib

Christa Knellwolf King

This 1999 volume is the standard work of reference on early modern literary criticism in Europe.

The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 3, The Renaissance

Combining a new genealogy for the gothic novel with original research into gothic contexts in German idealist thought and romantic psychology, The Gothic Text offers lively readings of British and Continental novels pointing back toward the Enlightenment and ahead toward Freud.

The Gothic Text

Marshall Brown

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