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Explore 9 Types of Literature to Develop Lifelong Readers and Writers
This book will get kids excited about exploring 9 different genres: Realistic Fiction, Mystery, Folk Literature, Autobiography, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Informational Reports, Biography, Poetry, and Historical Fiction. Descriptions and samples of each genre are included, along with great cross-curricular activities and literature links. ... Read more

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A Bit Disappointed
I was a bit disappointed with this book. I was not expecting to have a little excerpt of a story and a worksheet to fill in. I wanted more substance. I will use the book but I have to do a LOT of work to make it worth our while. I also think the that the author could have used more interesting selections. I don't mean to sound harsh but the other reviews were what sold me and I don't think the book is quite as good as they seem to. However, it's not a terrible book and it gives me a jumping off point to build from. Hope this helps.

Already have used this book in my class
This was a great transaction!This book was exactly what I was needing.Thanks

What a find!
I'm doing my student teaching in a master's program in Oregon.I'm in a school district that doesn't have set 'guidelines' for what you teach and when you teach it so when my supervisor said I was going to teach 'literary genre', I was lost.I researched the topic and quickly realized that it was a dry and boring topic that would need a lot of help.I found this book online and thought it could work (even though it's geared toward 4-8 grade students, my 3rd and 4th graders did wonderfully).I was amazed at how much information was stuffed into that book and how many reproducible-quality worksheets were available.Nothing in the book was just 'so-so'- it was all fantastic and the kids LOVED the topic and the interesting and creative writing assignments.Boy, just when I was at my wits end creatively speaking, in stepped this book (by scholastic, OF COURSE) and saved me.Teachers and parents, this is a fabulous resource.

Teaching literature to children? or Children's Literature?
This is a great, inexpensive resource for teachers!It offers concrete examples of books representing the various genres, and exercises as well!This is a blessing for the teacher of Literature for Children courses! ... Read more

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Genres of Literature provides an exciting standards-basedapproach to reading, writing, and oral communications in the languagearts classroom for middle school students. This book includes a myriadof reproducible and hands-on activities that promote a deepunderstanding and appreciation of a variety of genres. There arestrategies for read-alouds, reading and writing journals, sustainedsilent reading, large and small group discussion guidelines, andconferencing ideas. Students at this level will be able to makereal-life connections to the literature they read and create whileteachers meet the National Council of English Teacher's standards in afun and approachable format. A variety of genres are included withemphasis on student selection. Bloom's Taxonomy is incorporatedthroughout. Supports Reading Next/Adolescent Literacy Initiatives.

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Nine essays offer thoughtful analyses of 19th-century nonfiction writing by women, examining the writers themselves, their work, and their careers, and adding an important elementto critical understanding of women's literary history. Discussion includes how this literature affected and reflected 1 ... Read more

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This dissertation is a modest attempt at examining the literary and historical back-grounds pertaining to the evolution of the travel genre in Arabic literature. The study's main objective is to pursue the literary, historical, and sociopolitical proofs that the travel genre in the Arab Islamic culture, did not only provide the medium of self expression and identity since the early beginnings of the Arabic culture, but eventually evolved into becoming an integral part in the creation of the modern Arabic literary forms. The travel genre or rahil in the poetic and narrative compositions of the pre-Islamic legendaries, such as the poets Imru al-Qais and Antara ibn-Shaddad, as well as, the poet and ascetic Umayah bin abi al-Salt, provide evidence as to the early use of the travel genre to articulate themes of individual, cultural, and religious magnitudes. Whereas the travel narratives of Ibn Jubayr, Ibn Battuta, and Ibn Khaldun, employ the inherited actual and spiritual properties of the travel genre to describe and discern the state of the Islamic Ummah, or community, as well as their place in it, the Maqamas of the travelers al-Tahtawi, al-Shidyaq, and al-Muwaylihi, expanded the use of the genre to articulate intercultural dialogues on both individual and national levels. The writings of the 1988 Nobel Laureate for literature Najib Mahfuz, the leading Arab feminist Nawal al-Sa'adawi, and the diplomat and author Yahya Haqqi, not only help infuse the inherited Arabic travel motif with new realizations of the East-West dichotomy, but also initiate the contemporary literary trends to reconcile the two cultures. ... Read more

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This is a collection in translation of recent essays by Tzvetan Todorov, one of the most eminent of today's literary critics. The essays concentrate on the idea of genre, literary or otherwise, and asks such questions as: What is literature? What is genre? Which are the major literary genres? In the first section, Todorov proposes definitions for the notions of literature, discourse, and genre.Following is a general discussion of the two principal literary genres, fiction and poetry.Finally, in the third section of essays, Todorov examines individual authors as case studies: among them Poe, Dostoyevsky, Baudelaire, Conrad, and James. ... Read more

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Literature, Broken Down into Its Components
Tzvetan Todorov has become a giant in literary criticism ever since his first emergence as a thinker in the 1960's.GENRES IN DISCOURSE - this English translation by Catherine Porter appeared in 1990 - is a slim but intellectually dense treatise on what differentiates and defines literature, in both the largest sense and the most minute.Todorov explores the functional and structural elements of literature; the origin of genres; narratology; poetry when "verse" is removed; and the complex interaction between reader and text.He then moves to separate essays discussing Dostoevsky, Poe, Conrad, and James.The chapter on James, "The Awkward Age," catches Todorov at his best as he explores the meaning and incomprehension of words and sentences as a central theme in James's work.

Todorov is a master of discourse, as his arguments contain the logic of classic reasoning with the leaps of an inventive thinker.Make no mistake - this book is for the academic and the literary critic, and not for the casual reader.Paragraphs sometimes need to be read several times to understand their full meaning, but for those who are interested in theories of literature, the rewards are worth the concentration needed. ... Read more

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This collection places fiction and non-fiction genres side by side, encouraging readers to explore the way writers write and readers read. Stories include:Not at Home, Richardson; I Used to Live Hear Once, Rhys; May and June, Rendall; The Forgotten Enemy, Clarke; Getting Away from it All, Walsh; Among the Rhinos from Speak to the Earch, Wattervile; Journeys by Railway from Stranger on a train; The Pleasures of Railways, Theroux; Roald Dahl, Micorsoft Encarta; Flying from Roald Dahl, Treglown; Survival from Going Solo, Dahl; and many more. Paperback160pp ... Read more

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Following the structure of other titles in the Continuum Introductions to Literary Genres series, Native American Literatures includes: A broad definition of the genre and its essential elements. A timeline of developments within the genre. Critical concerns to bear in mind while reading in the genre. Detailed readings of a range of widely taught texts. In-depth analysis of major themes and issues. Signposts for further study within the genre. A summary of the most important criticism in the field. A glossary of terms. An annotated, critical reading list. This book offers students, writers, and serious fans a window into some of the most popular topics, styles and periods in this subject. Authors studied in Native American Literatures include: N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdrich, James Welch, Linda Hogan, Gerald Vizenor, Sherman Alexie, Louis Owens, Thomas King, Michael Dorris, Simon Ortiz, Cater Revard and Daine Glancy ... Read more

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A particularly wise fortune cookie...
To the previous responder...Mircea Eliade, immanent philosopher of anthropology, stated in his book The Myth of Eternal Return that, with regards to "archaic man," "our concern has been to draw the attention of the philosopher, and of the cultivated man in general, to certain spiritual positions that, although they have been transcended in various regions of the globe, are instructive for our knowledge of man and for man's history itself"(xxv). Dr. Lundquist is introducing, in perspicuous language, a postmodern approach to Native American literatures, revealing how pervading, spurious colonialist and reductive attitudes have long kept people of rich spiritual, mythic, and cultural heritage muted and in the dark. Touching on semiotics, Levinasian ethics, Native Christian discourse, anthropology, and deconstruction (among other approaches) Lundquist adroitly shows how Western metaphors of progress, radical individualism, as well as binary attitudes towards America's indigenous peoples not only contravene the truth but also injure our nation and deprives us of other metaphors that could heal various wounds. As Eliade asserts, looking to the past, i.e. Native American history both past and present, we can find new ways of connecting ourselves to our environment both geographical, political, and social.

Through introducing various terms like ecopsycology, original trauma, ontogenetic crippling, and other important terms Lundquist guides the neophyte through some of the more influential books, providing new paradigms and foundational insight through which to approach them.

Dr. Lundquist had a focus on Native American studies in her PhD and spent significant time among various tribes. In UT, where she teaches and resides, she is respected in local tribes and regularly teaches classes on Native American Literature. I have taken several university courses from her, including Native American Lit where I was introduced to this book, and can assert from first-hand experience her expansive familiarity as well as intellectual mastery of material both modern and archaic. I highly recommend this book to people interested in critical theory, Native American lit and ethnographic studies. The book also provides a rich bibliography that can be used as an excellent guide towards further study.

This book will not only challenge your western paradigms but also give you a strong theoretical foundation from which to approach Native American studies.

Excellent Introduction to Native American Literature
That Dr. Lundquist is a most skillful teacher and careful scholar is evident throughout her work. Here, she serves as a welcoming guide for the student interested in approaching multi-cultural studies generally and Native American literature specifically. She avoids the pitfall of overgeneralizing about a diverse body of literature. Instead, she has devised a cultural bridge for the literary student that celebrates the diversity of Native literature and puts it in an accessible context for both the scholar and the casual student.Dr. Lundquist is a pioneer in the nascent genre of Native American literary criticsm, and this book deserves a place in the library of any student interested in the indigenous literature of the Americas.

Stating the obvious
While this book may provide decent preliminary overview for someone who knows nothing about Native American literature, it lacks any original incite and critical depth.
One of it's crucial claims states that one should "Read Native American Literature open to the possibility that you might find yourself rethinking your view of the world" (29).
I could have gotten the same message from a fortune cookie.This is definitely not literary criticism.
Coming from someone who has spent significant graduate research on Native American literature, I recommend that you do not waste your time reading this so-called "critical work." ... Read more

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ewspapers, magazines, and other periodicals reached a peak of cultural influence and financial success in Britain in the 1850s and 1860s, out-publishing and out-selling books as much as one hundred to one. But although scholars have long known that writing for the vast periodical marketplace provided many Victorian authors with needed income--and sometimes even with full second careers as editors and journalists--little has been done to trace how the midcentury ascendancy of periodical discourses might have influenced Victorian literary discourse.

In The Dynamics of Genre, Dallas Liddle innovatively combines Mikhail Bakhtin's dialogic approach to genre with methodological tools from periodicals studies, literary criticism, and the history of the book to offer the first rigorous study of the relationship between mid-Victorian journalistic genres and contemporary poetry, the novel, and serious expository prose. Liddle shows that periodical genres competed both ideologically and economically with literary genres, and he studies how this competition influenced the midcentury writings and careers of authors including Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Harriet Martineau, Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, and the sensation novelists of the 1860s. Some Victorian writers directly adopted the successful genre forms and worldview of journalism, but others such as Eliot strongly rejected them, while Trollope launched his successful career partly by using fiction to analyze journalism's growing influence in British society. Liddle argues that successful interpretation of the works of these and many other authors will be fully possible only when scholars learn to understand the journalistic genre forms with which mid-Victorian literary forms interacted and competed. ... Read more

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Here is a long-overdue genre guide to a previously ignored body of literature. The book aims to provide the reader and readers' advisor with an introduction to 20th-century gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered literature. All popular genres of literature are examined, including fiction, drama, and life stories (biography, autobiography, and memoirs), with the main emphasis on current fiction. More than 1,100 titles are organized according to genres, subgenres, and formats. Annotations provide brief, engaging plot summaries, information about awards, indication of which populations are addressed (e.g., gay, lesbian), and often suggestions for read-alikes. Subject terms or keywords accompany each entry to enhance access to more read-alikes. A brief history of the literature, comments on the genres, and tips for working with readers make this an essential guide and reference resource.

Here is a long-overdue genre guide to a previously ignored body of literature. The book aims to provide the reader and readers' advisor with an introduction to 20th-century gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered literature. All popular genres of literature are examined, including fiction, drama, and life stories (biography, autobiography, and memoirs), with the main emphasis on current fiction. More than 1,100 titles are organized according to genres, subgenres, and formats. Annotations provide brief, engaging plot summaries, information about awards, indication of which populations are addressed (e.g., gay, lesbian, teen), and often suggestions for read-alikes. Subject terms or keywords accompany each entry to enhance access to more read-alikes. A brief history of the literature, comments on the genres, and tips for working with readers make this an essential guide and reference resource.

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Survey of biographies, poetry, novels, histories and other writings covering 1300 years ... Read more

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Succint yet detailed
thoroughly referenced/annotated essays from more than a handful of big names in the field of Tibetology, honoring the Gelukpa scholar Geshe Lhundup Sopa (b. 1923) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and covering the period from the mid-7th to 20th century. It needs to be pointed out here that, apart from a paper by Per Kvaerne, little or no mention is made of the Bon scriptural legacy, and of writings pertaining to folk religion (unless the steppe asian myth of Ge-sar, whose name stems from 'caesar' of Rome, is considered as such), and current (post-1949) secular literature.

Editors' introduction (pp. 11-38)
I. History and biography (pp. 39-69): Leonard van der Kuijp - Tibetan historiography [annals (Lo rgyus), royal genealogies (rGyal rabs), religious histories (Chos 'byung)]; James B. Robinson - The lives of Indian Buddhist saints [rNam thar].
II. Canonical texts (pp. 70-169): Paul Harrison - A brief history of the Tibetan bKa' 'gyur [Kanjur]; Tadeusz Skorupszki - The canonical tantras of the New Schools [gSar ma pa]; Jeffrey D. Schoening: Su(u)tra commentaries in Tibetan translation; Joe Bransford Wilson - Tibetan commentaries on Indian sha(a)stras; Per Kvaerne - The literature of Bon; Janet Gyatso - The gTer ma ['hidden treasure,' apocryphal] literature.
III. Philosophical literature (pp. 170-228): Jeffrey Hopkins - The Tibetan genre of doxography; Shunzo Onada - bsDus grwa; Guy Newland - Debate manuals (Yig cha) in dGe lugs monastic colleges; Donald S. Lopez, Jr. - Polemical lit. (dGag lan).
IV. Literature on the paths (pp. 229-89): David P. Jackson - The bsTan rim. Graded expositions of the Bodhisattva's path; Michael J. Sweet - Mental purifictions (Blo sbyong); Jules B. Levinson - Tibetan treatises on grounds and paths; Matthew Kapstein - gDams ngag [personal instructions?]. Technologies of the Self.
V. Ritual (pp. 290-357): Yael Bentor - Literature on consecration (Rab gnas); John Makransky - Offering (mChod pa) in ritual lit.; Daniel Cozort - Sadhana (sGrub thabs). Means of achievement for deity yoga; José I. Cabezón - Firm feet and long lives (Zhabs brtan).
VI. Literary arts (pp. 358-421): Geoffrey Samuel - The Gesar epic of East Tibet; Roger R. Jackson - Poetry in Tibet (Glu, mGur, sNyan sngag); Leonard van der Kuijp - Tibetan belles-lettres. The influence of Dandin and Ksemendra; Beth Newman - The Tibetan novel and its sources.
VII. Non-literary arts and sciences (pp. 422-84):P. C. Verhagen - Influence of Indian Vyakarana on Tibetan indigenous grammar; Rebecca R. French - The law codes of the dGa' ldan pho brang; Todd Fenner - A Tibetan medical tantra (rGyud bzhi); Erberto Lo Bue - Tibetan literature on art.
VIII. Guidebooks and reference works (pp. 485-514): John Newman - Itineraries [Lam yig] to Sambhala; Dan Martin - Tables of contents (dKar chag).
Index (pp. 521-49).

Related materials: A. I. Vostrikov's (1904-37) "Tibetan Historical Literature," first English edition: 1970 Calcutta; the indefatigable E. Gene Smith's "Among Tibetan Texts: History and Literature of the Himalayan Plateau," 2001.

A facinating (albeit scholarly) vista of Tibetan literature
Academic students as well as non-academic amateurs will find this study, which includes thirty essays on a whole range of different instances of Tibetan literature, very useful and inspiring. Its main interest lies in the broad overview it offers of the great variety of material written in Tibetan over the centuries and of the state of current research attained by international scholarship in this field. As pointed out by the editor in his introduction, applying the term `genre'to the field of Tibetan literature raises, in itself, interesting problems of definition. Furthermore, as this work was not intended to be an encyclopaedia or comprehensive overview of all the existing `genres' in Tibetan literature (the editor also conveniently lists the omissions or subject areas which are not covered), the reader will be all the more curious to find further reading material on the subject. Each essay is from ten to twenty pages long and is followed by the notes and a bibliography pertaining to the subject, thus making it a good starting point for a more in-depth study of the particular `genre'. This study proves how dynamic this field of literary research has been over the past thirty years and we hope a second study, including many of the previously omitted subjects (especially some of the modern `genres') will be published in a not too distant future. ... Read more

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There are many competing anthologies of southern literature, but this is the first companion. Neither a survey of masterpieces nor a biographical sourcebook, THE COMPANION TO SOUTHERN LITERATURE treats every conceivable topic found in southern writing from the pre-Columbian era to the present, referencing specific works of all periods and genres.

Read its copious offerings straight through in alphabetical order (ANCESTOR WORSHIP, BLUE-COLLAR LITERATURE, CAVES) or skip randomly at whim (GUILT, THE GROTESQUE, WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON). Whatever approach you take, THE COMPANION'S authority, scope, and variety in tone and interpretation will prove a boon and a delight. Explored here are literary embodiments of the Old South, New South, Solid South, Savage South, Lazy South, and "Sahara of the Bozart." As up-to-date as grit lit, K Mart fiction, and postmodernism, and as old fashioned as Puritanism, mules, and the tall tale, these five hundred entries span a reach from LADY to LESBIAN LITERATURE.

The volume includes an overview of every southern state's belletristic heritage while making it clear that the southern mind extends beyond geographical boundaries to form an essential component of the American psyche. The South's incredibly rich literature provides the best means of understanding the regions deepest nature, and THE COMPANION TO SOUTHERN LITERATURE will be an invaluable tool for those who take on that exciting challenge. ... Read more

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Excellent reference book of Southern Literature and all things Southern
This single volume, though hefty, is comprehensive.It has references from A-Z of everything--theme, genre, place, person, or movement--related to the South. If you are curious about the South, the development of Southern Literature, or the history of the region, it's in this book. You will be amazed at the wealth of information contained in this reference.

Sit Down with Southern Comfort
The Companion is a massive (1000+ pp)encyclopaedic approach to Southern literature (and culture, though The Companion makes no explicit claims toward tackling that subject).It has articles on people and works among other things, each authored by a wide variety of modern scholars.There is a wonderful index and a table of contents that arranges entries by groups (including Themes, Language, Religion, Music, etc.). The Companion is as current as any book of this type can be; thus, while the Companion contains entries on the Internet and some contemporary authors, both of these entries are destined to be somewhat dated even before the book hit the presses. It is a useful volume for students of Southern Literature, though, as with any encyclopedia, it must be considered as first-stop.The Companion refers readers to other texts and doesn't pretend to exhaust the subject matter of any of its entries. The Companion should also find favor with teachers who include (or want to include) Southern authors in their classrooms.The Companion provides instructors with quick reference contexts for many works that might profitably be included in a classroom. ... Read more

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The genre of Children's Literature encompasses a wide range of works, including classics of world literature, picture books and easy-to-read stories, fairy tales, fables as well as folk songs and other orally transmitted materials.This volume will help readers gain a deeper understanding of the commonalties and diversities within this genre. (20011001) ... Read more

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This wide-ranging study explores the ideological framework of genre in Old French and Occitan literature by charting the relationship between ideology and gender in five key genres: the chansons de geste, courtly romance, the Occitan canso, hagiography and the fabliaux. Simon Gaunt offers new readings of canonical Old French and medieval Occitan texts such as the Chanson de Roland, Chrétien de Troyes' Chevalier de la charrete, and lyrics by Bernart de Ventadorn. In addition, he considers many less well-known works and less familiar genres such as hagiography and the fabliaux. Drawing on contemporary feminist theory, he examines how masculinity, as well as femininity, is constructed in medieval French and Occitan texts, and he shows that gender is a crucial element in the formation of the ideologies that underpin medieval literary genres. ... Read more

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This is the first collection of feminist critical essays by and about women in South Africa to appear outside of that country. Many of the pieces were written after February 1990, when President de Klerk lifted the ban on black political organizations. The recognition that a just society cannot be achieved without freedom from gender oppression as well as racial oppression informs these essays and has a direct bearing on the creation of a new society in South Africa. ... Read more

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Tail-rhyme romance unites a French genre with a continental stanza form, so why was it developed only in Middle English literature? For English audiences, tail-rhyme becomes inextricably linked with the romance genre in a way that no other verse form does. The first examples are recorded near the beginning of the fourteenth century and by the end of it Chaucer's Sir Thopas can rely on it to work as a shorthand for the entire Middle English romance tradition. How and why this came to be is the question that Anglicising Romance sets out to answer. Its five chapters discuss the stanza's origins; the use of tail-rhyme in Anglo-Noman literature; questions of transmission and manuscript layout; the romances of the Auchinleck manuscript; and the geographic spread of tail-rhyme romance. The individual entries in the Appendix present newly reassessed evidence for the provenance and date of each of the thirty-six extant tail-rhyme romances. ... Read more

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Combining literary history with cultural studies and feminist historiography, this text revises standard assumptions about Victorian ideas of history, finding an awareness of and experimentation with gender and genre that prefigure theoretical and scholarly concerns in contemporary women's history. ... Read more

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George Eliot’s more than fifty long and short journeys within England took her to dozens of sites scattered around the country. Revising the traditional notion that George Eliot drew her settings and characters only from the areas of her Warwickshire childhood, Kathleen McCormack demonstrates that English travel furnished the novelist with a wide variety of originals for the composite characters and settings she would so memorably create.

McCormack traces the way in which George Eliot gathered material during her travels and also drafted long sections of the novels while away from her London home. She argues that by examining the choices George Eliot made in transforming, discarding or directly describing her English originals, we might take a significant step forward in the interpretation of her writings. Where other critics have tried to interpret characters as one-to-one renderings of living or dead models, for example, this study reveals more elaborate blendings of what George Eliot called the ‘widely sundered elements’ that made up her fiction. McCormack also reaches the fascinating conclusion that the novels were a form of coded communication between the author and people in her life, including other prominent Victorians such as Edward Burne-Jones, Robert Lytton and Barbara Bodichon.

Presenting fresh biographical information and original insights into George Eliot’s writing strategies, George Eliot’s English Travels promises a decisive shift in our understanding of one of the most important figures in Victorian literature.