"A palimpsest is at once easy to define and, at the same time, so infinitely various as to defy all denotation. A thrifty technique employed by the ancients to recycle scarce resources? Or a metaphor for the human mind? A text that overwrites another text? Or a culture that overwrites another culture? This concise, readable volume examines texts written by such figures as William Blake, Wilkie Collins, Edgar Allan Poe, and Frederick Doug ..."
"Percy Bysshe Shelley's utopian vision was largely a product of the tumultuous final quarter of the eighteenth century, when the American, French, and industrial revolutions profoundly changed the way in which social, political, and economic relationships were viewed. In A Brighter Morn, noted Shelley scholars identify the qualities of this unique brand of utopianism, which was a complex and frequently conflicted blend of the personal, p ..."
Dream Revisionaries Gender and Genre in Women's Utopian Fiction, 1870-1920 by DarbyLewes Hardcover, 216 Pages, Published 1995 by University Alabama Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8173-0795-0, ISBN: 0-8173-0795-8
"Dream Revisionaries charts the evolution of women's utopian writing in Britain and the United States between 1869 and 1920. This period saw the emergence of a new kind of utopian text--one that redefined women's roles in society and questioned the very foundations of the social order on both sides of the Atlantic. During the period under study, more than one hundred remarkably diverse utopian narratives written by women were published o ..."
Nudes from Nowhere Utopian Sexual Landscapes by DarbyLewes Textbook Binding, 240 Pages, Published 2000 by Rowman & Littlefield ISBN-13: 978-0-8476-9815-8, ISBN: 0-8476-9815-7
"Nudes from Nowhere is the history of the idea that women and the land are analogous. This idea is traced from the earliest etiological myths that present the earth as a womb from which life sprang, to British pornographic texts which feminized nature and masculinized culture. The ultimate effect of treating woman as landscape instead of land is to alter the metaphor of woman from wild nature to cultural artifact.This study further track ..."
"Although they wrote in the same historical milieu as their male counterparts, women writers of the 19th- and early 20th-centuries have generally been "ghettoized" by critics into a separate canonical sphere. These original essays argue in favor of reconciling male and female writers, both historically and in the context of classroom teaching. While some of the essays pair up female and male authors who write in a similar style or with ..."
"The nineteenth-century Künstlerroman self-consciously addresses the devices of fiction—and in doing so, tends toward irony and self-reflection, and prefigures postmodernism. A work of art written about an artist creating a work of art is, in a sense, a novel in which the author is a character. The essays in this collection examine the work of major nineteenth century authors that attempted to merge fiction and reality into a unified who ..."
"Darby Lewes shows how a lifetime of living with, breeding, showing, and training several breeds of dogs influenced her distinguished career as an educator in A Portrait of the Student as a Young Wolf: Motivating Undergraduates. No less than necessary reading for any teacher looking to develop students’ enthusiasm, abilities, and confidence, Portrait is not only a step by step guide to motivating undergraduate students, but an invaluabl ..."
Nudes from Nowhere Utopian Sexual Landscapes by DarbyLewes Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2000 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-8476-9814-1, ISBN: 0-8476-9814-9
"Nudes from Nowhere is the history of the idea that women and the land are analogous. This idea is traced from the earliest etiological myths that present the earth as a womb from which life sprang, to British pornographic texts which feminized nature and masculinized culture. The ultimate effect of treating woman as landscape instead of land is to alter the metaphor of woman from wild nature to cultural artifact. This study further tra ..."
"Although they wrote in the same historical milieu as their male counterparts, women writers of the 19th- and early 20th-centuries have generally been "ghettoized" by critics into a separate canonical sphere. These original essays argue in favor of reconciling male and female writers, both historically and in the context of classroom teaching. While some of the essays pair up female and male authors who write in a similar style or with ..."