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Cosmopolitanism and Transatlantic Circles in Music and Literature traces the transatlantic networks that were constructed between a select group of composers, including Edvard Grieg, Edward MacDowell, and Percy Grainger, and the writers with whom they shared...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-10-26
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Haunted Selves, Haunting Places in English Literature and Culture offers a series of readings of poetry, the novel and other forms of art and cultural expression, to explore the relationship between subject and landscape, self and place. Utilizing an interdisciplinary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-10-24
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Why do readers claim that fictional worlds feel real? How can certain literary characters seem capable of leading lives of their own, outside the stories in which they appear? What makes the experience of reading a novel uniquely pleasurable and what do readers lose...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-10-24
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This book analyzes the four novels and fifty-six stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle describing the adventures and discoveries of Sherlock Holmes. Michael J. Crowe suggests that nearly all the Holmes stories exhibit the pattern known as a Gestalt shift, in which...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-10-10
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This book offers the first account of the dead as an imagined community in the early nineteenth-century. It examines why Romantic and Victorian writers (including Wordsworth, Dickens, De Quincey, Godwin, and D’Israeli) believed that influencing the imaginative...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-09-29
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This book offers an innovative reassessment of the way Victorians thought and wrote about visual experience. It argues that new visual technologies gave expression to new ways of seeing, using these to uncover the visual discourses that facilitated, informed and shaped...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-09-22
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Das Stichwort „Romantik“ wird Ende 1798 von Novalis erfunden, der das Modell der „Romantischen Poesie“ als welterzeugendes und weltbeschreibendes, genetisch-generisches Verfahren fasst. „Romantik“ ist nicht nur die Lehre von einer literarischen Form, des „Romans“, und...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-09-18
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The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens is a comprehensive and up-to-date collection on Dickens's life and works. It includes original chapters on all of Dickens's writing and new considerations of his contexts, from the social, political, and economic to the scientific,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-09-13
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The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens is a comprehensive and up-to-date collection on Dickens's life and works. It includes original chapters on all of Dickens's writing and new considerations of his contexts, from the social, political, and economic to the scientific,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-09-13
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Mit seinen Texten geht Rainer Maria Rilke der Spur einer ‚Essenz‘ des Lebens nach. In seinen Werken ist die Überzeugung eingeschrieben, dass das Kunstwerk eine metaphysische Wahrheit transportiert, die sich jedoch ihrerseits schwer fassen lässt und beständig „im...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-09-12
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This book examines the development of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s intellectual legacy in Britain and America from 1834 to 1934 by focusing on his late role as the Sage of Highgate and his programme of educating young minds who were destined for the higher professions...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-08
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As the essays in this volume reveal, Keats’s places could be comforting, familiar, grounding sites, but they were also shifting, uncanny, paradoxical spaces where the geographical comes into tension with the familial, the touristic with the medical, the metropolitan...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-03
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This book explores the relationship between Dickens and canonical Romantic authors: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Percy and Mary Shelley, and Keats. Addressing a significant gap in Dickens studies, four topics are identified: Childhood, Time, Progress, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-29
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Das Kleist-Jahrbuch 2018 dokumentiert die Verleihung des Kleist-Preises 2017 mit den Reden des Preisträgers Ralf Rothmann, der Vertrauensperson der Jury Hanns Zischler und des Präsidenten der Heinrich-von-Kleist-Gesellschaft Günter Blamberger. Es beinhaltet weiterhin...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-08-27
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This book examines the various ways in which the German philosopher Friedrich Schelling was read and responded to by British readers and writers during the nineteenth century. Challenging the idea that Schelling’s reception was limited to the Romantics, this book shows...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-18
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Fossil Poetry provides the first book-length overview of the place of Anglo-Saxon in nineteenth-century poetry in English. It addresses the use and role of Anglo-Saxon as a resource by Romantic and Victorian poets in their own compositions, as well as the construction...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-08-09
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Fossil Poetry provides the first book-length overview of the place of Anglo-Saxon in nineteenth-century poetry in English. It addresses the use and role of Anglo-Saxon as a resource by Romantic and Victorian poets in their own compositions, as well as the construction...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-08-08
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This book brings together theories of spatiality and mobility with a study of travel writing in the Victorian period to suggest that ‘idleness’ is an important but neglected condition of subjectivity in that era. Contrary to familiar stereotypes of ‘the Victorians’ as...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-02
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In John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, the pilgrims cannot reach the Celestial City without passing through Vanity Fair, where everything is bought and sold.In recent years there has been much analysis of commerce and consumption in Britain during the long eighteenth...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-07-26
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In John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, the pilgrims cannot reach the Celestial City without passing through Vanity Fair, where everything is bought and sold.In recent years there has been much analysis of commerce and consumption in Britain during the long eighteenth...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-07-25
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