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British Literature and the Life of Institutions charts a literary prehistory of the welfare state in Britain around 1900, but it also marks a major intervention in current theoretical debates about critique and the dialectical imagination. By placing literary studies in...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-11-25
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Zaynab Fawwaz (d. 1914) emerged from an obscure childhood in the Shi'I community of Jabal 'Amil (now Lebanon) to become a recognized writer on women's and girls' aspirations and rights in 1890s Egypt. This book insists on the centrality of gender as a marker of social...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-05
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Zaynab Fawwaz (d. 1914) emerged from an obscure childhood in the Shi'I community of Jabal 'Amil (now Lebanon) to become a recognized writer on women's and girls' aspirations and rights in 1890s Egypt. This book insists on the centrality of gender as a marker of social...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-05
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The postbellum period saw many privileged Americans pursuing a civilized ideal premised on insulation from pain. Medico-scientific advances in anesthetics and analgesics and emergent religious sects like Christian Science made pain avoidance seem newly possible.The...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-11-04
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The postbellum period saw many privileged Americans pursuing a civilized ideal premised on insulation from pain. Medico-scientific advances in anesthetics and analgesics and emergent religious sects like Christian Science made pain avoidance seem newly possible.The...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-11-04
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Das „Genie“ als etwas Gebärendes, Lebens-Verantwortendes – und damit Mütterliches? Auf dieser Grundlage wirft die Studie einen neuen Blick auf die Geniefigur in der deutschsprachigen Literatur von 1750-1950. Den Ausgangspunkt bildet eine Überlegung von Julia Kristeva,...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2021-10-25
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Political, literary, and cultural historians of the early modern Anglophone world have long characterized the crucial century between 1642 and 1742 as the period when absolutist theories of sovereignty yielded their dominance to shared models of governance and a...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-10-21
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Political, literary, and cultural historians of the early modern Anglophone world have long characterized the crucial century between 1642 and 1742 as the period when absolutist theories of sovereignty yielded their dominance to shared models of governance and a...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-10-21
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This is a book about readers on the move in the age of Victorian empire. It examines the libraries and reading habits of five reading constituencies from the long nineteenth century: shipboard emigrants, Australian convicts, Scottish settlers, polar explorers, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-10-21
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This is a book about readers on the move in the age of Victorian empire. It examines the libraries and reading habits of five reading constituencies from the long nineteenth century: shipboard emigrants, Australian convicts, Scottish settlers, polar explorers, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-10-21
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This book takes a postcritical perspective on Joseph Conrad’s central texts, including Heart of Darkness, The Secret Agent, Under Western Eyes, and Lord Jim. Whereas critique is a form of reading that prioritizes suspicion, unmasking, and demystifying, postcritique...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-09-17
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Das Kleist-Jahrbuch 2021 enthält neben Beiträgen zur ›Politik des Rechts im Werk Heinrich von Kleists‹ von Bernd Fischer, Antonia Eder, David Pan, Bernhard Greiner, Johannes F. Lehmann, Tim Mehigan und Christian Moser weitere Abhandlungen von Rüdiger Görner, Andreas...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2021-09-13
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"A sign we are, uninterpreted. Painless we are and have almost / lost the language in a foreign country." Thus begins the second version of Friedrich Hölderlin's hymn dedicated to goddess of memory, Mnemosyne. "Hölderlin and the Consequences" wants to remember this...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-09-08
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This book re-locates Elizabeth Gaskell’s ‘smaller stories’ in the literary and cultural context of the nineteenth century. While Gaskell is recognised as one of the major novelists of her time, the short stories that make up a large proportion of her published work have...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-26
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This book frames British Romanticism as the artistic counterpart to a revolution in subjectivity occasioned by the rise of "The Rule of Law" and as a traumatic response to the challenges mounted against that ideal after the French Revolution. The bulk of this study...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-06
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Performativity of Villainy and Evil in Anglophone Literature and Media studies the performative nature of evil characters, acts and emotions across intersecting genres, disciplines and historical eras. This collection brings together scholars and artists with different...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-07-24
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This book aims to establish the position of the sidekick character in the crime and detective fiction literary genres. It re-evaluates the traditional view that the sidekick character in these genres is often overlooked as having a small, generic or singular role—either...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-07-24
Collection :
Crime Files
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Der Band untersucht das Modernwerden des deutschen Romans im 18. Jahrhundert als eine narrativierte Auseinandersetzung zwischen Zufall und Romanform. Die ‚Arbeit am Zufall‘ beschreibt, wie der moderne Roman sich selbst formt, indem er auf verschiedene Weise Zufälligkeit...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2021-07-23
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Die Arbeit befasst sich mit spezifischen poetischen und ästhetischen Verfahren im Werk Friedrich Schillers, mittels derer abstrakte, sich eindimensionalen Darstellungsweisen entziehende, gesellschaftliche Strukturen sichtbar gemacht werden. Als zentrale...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2021-07-16
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„Es ist ein neuer Schauder, aber keine alte Furcht.“ Jean Pauls Sentenz birgt eine Ästhetik des Phantastischen in nuce. Sie gründet nicht zuletzt auf der Philosophie Friedrich Heinrich Jacobis und zielt auf den Wesenskern der Romantik. Neben Werken von Mozart,...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2021-07-16
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