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This book provides a critical study of the relationship between Robert Burns and the United States of America, c.1786-1866. Though Burns is commonly referred to as Scotland’s “National Poet”, his works were frequently reprinted in New York and Philadelphia; his verse...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-23
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Die Fabel vom Schwarzkünstler Faust gehört zu den großen Stoffen der Weltliteratur. Ihre Ursprünge liegen in der Umbruchszeit zwischen Mittelalter und Neuzeit, durch Goethes Bearbeitung erlangte sie Weltruhm. Daneben stehen zahlreiche Adaptionen in allen Kulturen, in...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-07-14
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George Eliot for the Twenty-First Century reexamines Eliot two hundred years after her birth and offers an innovative critical reading that seeks to change perceptions of Eliot. Tracing Eliot’s literary reception from the nineteenth century to the late...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-13
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Blake’s ‘Human Form Divine’ has long commanded the spotlight. Beastly Blake shifts focus to the non-human creatures who populateBlake’s poetry and designs. The author of ‘The Tyger’ and ‘The Lamb’ was equally struck by the ‘beastliness’ and the beauty of the animal...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-27
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Senior colonial officer from 1813 to 1859, Inspector General James Barry was a pioneering medical reformer who after his death in 1865 became the object of intense speculation when rumours arose about his sex. This cultural history of Barry’s afterlives in Victorian to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-27
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Das Kompendium verzeichnet alle nachweisbaren Schiller-Vertonungen, die von den 1780er Jahren bis zur Gegenwart entstanden sind. Dabei wurden sowohl Schillers Gedichte als auch seine Dramen berücksichtigt. Überwiegend handelt es sich um Lieder, Chöre, Kantaten,...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-06-20
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Musik in Baden-Württemberg | Quellen und Studien
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There was a power of endurance about her, and a courage that was almost awful.
Did Lady Mason forge a codicil to her husband's will, allowing Orley Farm to pass to her son or not? Orley Farm centres on this case of forgery, and the anguish and guilt of Lady Mason....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-06-18
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There was a power of endurance about her, and a courage that was almost awful.
Did Lady Mason forge a codicil to her husband's will, allowing Orley Farm to pass to her son or not? Orley Farm centres on this case of forgery, and the anguish and guilt of Lady Mason....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-06-18
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The Black Middle Ages examines the influence of medieval studies on African-American thought. Matthew X. Vernon focuses on nineteenth century uses of medieval texts to structure racial identity, but also considers the flexibility of medieval narratives more broadly in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-13
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Modern Marriage and the Lyric Sequence investigates the ways in which some of our best poets writing in English have used poetic sequences to capture the lived experience of marriage. Beginning in 1862 with George Meredith’sModern Love, Jane Hedley’s study utilizes the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-04
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British Romantic Literature and the Emerging Modern Greek Nation makes an original contribution to the field ofBritish Romantic Hellenism (and Romanticism more broadly) by emphasizing the diversity of Romantic-era writers’ attitudes towards, and portrayals of, Modern...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-24
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This book explores women writers’ involvement with the Gothic. The author sheds new light on women’s experience, a viewpoint that remains largely absent from male-authored Colonial Gothic works. The book investigates how women writers appropriated the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-19
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This collection establishes the term ‘medical paratexts’ as a useful addition to medical humanities, book history, and literary studies research. As a relatively new field of study, little critical attention has been paid to medical paratexts. We understand paratext as...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-15
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Have industrial-age technologies and visual discourses transformed us into spectators of the real, and can realist fiction make that transformation visible to us? This book brings Situationist Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle and an array of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-10
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Where Is All My Relation? presents the first sustained academic discussion of the poetry, pottery, and culture of David Drake, an antebellum slave who distinguished himself by composing verse on the ceramics he produced in the years leading up to the Civil War. During...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-05-09
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This book explores how writers responded to the rise of the newspaper over the course of the nineteenth century. Taking as its subject the ceaseless intertwining of fiction and journalism at this time, it tracks the representation of newspapers and journalists in works...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-04
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This book argues that nineteenth-century editors created the modern idea of English Renaissance literature. The book analyses the theories and practices of editors who worked on Shakespeare, but also on complete editions of a remarkable range of early modern writers,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-03
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This volume examines the anxieties that caused many nineteenth-century writers to insist on literature as a laboured and labouring enterprise. Following Isaac D’Israeli’s gloss on Jean de La Bruyère, it asks, in particular, whether writing should be ‘called working’....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-04-20
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This book examines the phenomenon of the reappearance of characters in nineteenth-century French fiction. It approaches this from a hitherto unexplored perspective: that of the twin history of the aesthetic notion of originality and the legal notion of literary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-04-19
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This book aligns concepts and methods from book history with new literary research on a globally studied writer. An innovative three-part approach, combining close reading the evidence of reading, scrutiny of international book distribution circuits, and of Conrad's...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-04-18
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