Essaka Joshua's Books

This book provides new period-appropriate concepts for understanding Romantic-era physical disability through function and aesthetics.

This important contribution to both Romantic and cultural studies situates literature by Wordsworth, Southey, Hunt, Clare, and Blake within the context of folklore and popular customs associated with May Day. Romantic responses to May Day bring into focus a range of issues now regarded as central to the writing of the period - the natural world, city life, the pastoral, regional and national identities, popular culture, cultural degeneration, and cultural difference. Essaka Joshua explores new connections between these issues in the context of a set of heterogeneous cultural practices that are rooted in the traditions and activities of diverse social groups. She shows how Romantic writers have positioned themselves in relation to what has become known as the public sphere, and the way in which they articulate an understanding of the common sphere as a site of plebeian self-expression. Joshua's nuanced account acknowledges the full complexity of class formations and inter-class relationships and permits noncanonical and canonical texts such as the Prelude, Songs of Innocence and Experience, and 'The Village Minstrel' to be reinterpreted in a cultural context that has not been previously explored by literary critics.

This book provides new period-appropriate concepts for understanding Romantic-era physical disability through function and aesthetics.

This title was published in 2001. Pygmalion and Galatea presents an account of the development of the Pygmalion story from its origins in early Greek myth until the twentieth century. It focuses on the use of the story in nineteenth-century British literature, exploring gender issues, the nature of artistic creativity and the morality of Greek art.

The official Journal of the John Clare Society, published annually to reflect the interest in, and approaches to, the life and work of the poet John Clare.

Book's by Essaka Joshua

Physical Disability in British Romantic Literature

Physical Disability in British Romantic Literature

The Romantics and the May Day Tradition

The Romantics and the May Day Tradition

Physical Disability in British Romantic Literature

Physical Disability in British Romantic Literature

Pygmalion and Galatea

Pygmalion and Galatea

John Clare Society Journal, 28 (2009)

John Clare Society Journal, 28 (2009)

Pygmalion and Galatea

Pygmalion and Galatea

The Romantics and the May Day Tradition

The Romantics and the May Day Tradition

John Clare Society Journal, 28 (2009)

John Clare Society Journal, 28 (2009)

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