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The Science of Starving in Victorian Literature, Medicine, and Political Economy is a reassessment of the languages and methodologies used, throughout the nineteenth century, for discussing extreme hunger in Britain. Set against the providentialism of conservative...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-04-24
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This book examines the relationship between Romantic-period writing and the activity that Samuel Taylor Coleridge christened 'mountaineering' in 1802. It argues that mountaineering developed as a pursuit in Britain during the Romantic era, earlier than is generally...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-04-16
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This book examines the relationship between Romantic-period writing and the activity that Samuel Taylor Coleridge christened 'mountaineering' in 1802. It argues that mountaineering developed as a pursuit in Britain during the Romantic era, earlier than is generally...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-04-16
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This book serves as a retrieval and reevaluation of a rich haul of comic caricatures from the turbulent years between the Reform Bill crisis of the early 1830s and the rise and fall of Chartism in the 1840s. With a telling selection of illustrations, this book deploys...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-03-17
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This book explores the extraordinary proliferation of novels based on Henry James’s life and works published between 2001 and 2016, the centenary of his death. Part One concentrates on biofictions about James by David Lodge and Colm Tóibín, and those written from the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-03-11
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This book explores the contradictions of biography. It charts shifting approaches to the writing and reading of biographies, from post-hagiographical attitudes of the Enlightenment, heroic biographies of Romanticism and irreverent modernist portraits through...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-03-09
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Eduard von Keyserlings Werk geriet, trotz prominenter Fürsprecher wie Hermann Hesse, Herman Bang oder Thomas Mann, so häufig in Vergessenheit, wie es wiederentdeckt wurde. Zumeist erscheint Keyserling als ästhetischer Spätling, der nostalgisch von untergehenden...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-02-28
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Studies of fashion and literature in recent decades have focused primarily on representations of clothing and dress within literary texts. But what about the author? How did he dress? What where her shopping practices and predilections? What were his alliances with...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-02-13
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As a teacher of Plato in Oxford's Literae Humaniores, Walter Pater was informed by philosophy from his earliest essays to his last book. The Platonism of Walter Pater examines Pater's deep engagement with Platonism throughout his career. It overturns his reputation as a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-06
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As a teacher of Plato in Oxford's Literae Humaniores, Walter Pater was informed by philosophy from his earliest essays to his last book. The Platonism of Walter Pater examines Pater's deep engagement with Platonism throughout his career. It overturns his reputation as a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-06
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Romanticism and the Letter is a collection of essays that explore various aspects of letter writing in the Romantic period of British Literature. Although the correspondence of the Romantics constitutes a major literary achievement in its own right, it has received...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-01-29
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Anticipatory Materialisms explores nineteenth and early twentieth-century literature thatanticipates and pre-empts the recent philosophical ‘turn’ to materiality and affect. Critical volumes that approach literature via the prism of New Materialism are in the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-01-25
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This book features a collection of essays, shedding subversively new light on Romanticism and its canon of big-six, white, male Romantics by focusing on marginalised, forgotten and lost writers and their long-neglected works. Probing the realms of literary and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-01-13
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'PHILOSOPHY, or the doctrine and discipline of ideas' as S. T. Coleridge understood it, is the theme of this book. It considers the most vital and mature vein of Coleridge's thought to be the contemplation of ideas objectively, as existing powers. A theory of ideas...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-01-09
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'PHILOSOPHY, or the doctrine and discipline of ideas' as S. T. Coleridge understood it, is the theme of this book. It considers the most vital and mature vein of Coleridge's thought to be the contemplation of ideas objectively, as existing powers. A theory of ideas...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-01-09
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This book explores how nineteenth-century science stimulated the emergence of weird tales at the fin de siècle, and examines weird fiction by British writers who preceded and influenced H. P. Lovecraft, the most famous author of weird fiction. From laboratory...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-01-07
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This book begins with the assumption that the presence of non-human creatures causes an always-already uncanny rift in human assumptions about reality. Exploring the dark side of animal nature and the ‘otherness’ of animals as viewed by humans, and employing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-10
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This book focuses on literal and metaphorical ruins, as they are appropriated and imagined in different forms of writing. Examining British and American literature and culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the book begins in the era of industrial modernity...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-28
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In diesem Buch analysiert Edvin Cami Polaritäten wie Ost und West, Islam und Christentum, Religion und Säkularität, Eigenheit und Fremdheit, Konflikt und Begegnung im literarischen Schaffen Goethes. Über die Gedichtsammlung West-östlicher Divan hinaus wird das Thema...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-11-27
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This volume considers the work and life of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851). It looks not only at Frankenstein and its composition, sources, themes and reception but at the wide range of other work by Shelley including such novels as The Last...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-23
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