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Nineteenth-century readers had an appetite for books so big they seemed to contain the whole world: immense novels, series of novels, encyclopaedias. Especially in Eurasia and North America, especially among the middle and upper classes, people had the space, time, and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-11-14
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This book represents the first full-length study of the relationship between neo-Victorianism and nineteenth-century sensation fiction. It examines the diverse and multiple legacies of Victorian popular fiction by authors such as Wilkie Collins and Mary Elizabeth...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-11
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This book explores women’s short supernatural fiction between the emergence of first wave feminism and the post-suffrage period, arguing that while literary ghosts enabled an interrogation of women’s changing circumstances, ghosts could have both subversive and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-08
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This volume explores the multiple connections between the two most canonical authors in English, Jane Austen and William Shakespeare. The collection reflects on the historical, literary, critical and filmic links between the authors and their fates. Considering the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-06
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This book views late Victorian femininity, the New Woman, and gender through literary representations of the figure of the monster, an appendage to the New Woman. The monster, an aberrant occurrence, performs Brecht’s “alienation effect,” making strange the world that...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-10-18
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„Eine Romanbibliothek der rigorosesten Auswahl, und beschränkte man sie auf ein Dutzend Bände, auf zehn, auf sechs, – sie dürfte ‚Effi Briest’ nicht vermissen lassen“ (Thomas Mann). Das Handbuch stellt den bekanntesten Roman Theodor Fontanes und damit einen der...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-10-02
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Der 58. Jahrgang des Heine-Jahrbuchs enthält aktuelle Forschungsbeiträge zu Leben, Werk und Wirkungsgeschichte Heinrich Heines, Rezensionen und die neueste Bibliographie der Heine-Literatur. Außerdem dokumentiert er die Verleihung des Heine-Preises der...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-09-30
Collection :
Heine-Jahrbuch
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Das Kleist-Jahrbuch 2019 dokumentiert die Verleihung des Kleist-Preises 2018 mit den Reden des Preisträgers Christoph Ransmayr, der Vertrauensperson der Jury László Földényi und des Präsidenten der Heinrich-von-Kleist-Gesellschaft Günter Blamberger. Den Schwerpunkt...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-09-24
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This book considers the complex ways in which the hotel functions to express the shifting experiences of modernity in the works of such authors as Anthony Trollope, Wilkie Collins, Arnold Bennett, H.G. Wells, and Elizabeth Bowen. The text contributes to the critical...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-30
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Remediating Shakespeare in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries analyzes literary remediations of Shakespeare’s works, particularly those written for young readers. This book explores adaptations, revisions, and reimaginings by Lewis Theobald, the Bowdlers, the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-01
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Thomas Owens explores some of the exultant visions inspired by Wordsworth's and Coleridge's close scrutiny of the night sky, the natural world, and the domains of science. He examines a set of scientific patterns drawn from natural, geometric, celestial, and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-05-30
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Thomas Owens explores some of the exultant visions inspired by Wordsworth's and Coleridge's close scrutiny of the night sky, the natural world, and the domains of science. He examines a set of scientific patterns drawn from natural, geometric, celestial, and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-05-30
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Throughout the nineteenth century, the performance of sacred drama on the English public stage was prohibited by law and custom left over from the Reformation: successive Examiners of Plays, under the control of the Lord Chamberlain's Office, censored and suppressed...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-05-27
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Throughout the nineteenth century, the performance of sacred drama on the English public stage was prohibited by law and custom left over from the Reformation: successive Examiners of Plays, under the control of the Lord Chamberlain's Office, censored and suppressed...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-05-27
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War and Peace and Anna Karenina are widely recognised as two of the greatest novels ever written. Their author, Leo Tolstoy, has been honoured as the father of the modern war story; as an innovator in psychological prose and forerunner of stream of consciousness; and as...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-05-24
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War and Peace and Anna Karenina are widely recognised as two of the greatest novels ever written. Their author, Leo Tolstoy, has been honoured as the father of the modern war story; as an innovator in psychological prose and forerunner of stream of consciousness; and as...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-05-24
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An award-winning poet offers a brilliant introduction to the joys--and challenges--of the genreIn Don't Read Poetry, award-winning poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers an accessible introduction to the seemingly daunting task of reading, understanding, and...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2019-05-21
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Most of us have, at one time, been obsessed with something, but how did obsession become a mental illness? This book examines literary, medical, and philosophical texts to argue that what we call obsession became a disease in the Romantic era and reflects the era’s...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-29
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This collection brings together new articles by leading scholars who reappraise George Eliot in her bicentenary year as an interdisciplinary thinker and writer for our times. Here, researchers, students, teachers and the general public gain access to new perspectives on...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-09
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Disaffected Parties reveals how alienation from politics effected crucial changes to the shape and status of literary form. Recovering the earliest expressions of grumbling, irritability, and cynicism towards politics, this study asks how unsettled partisan legacies...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-02-14
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