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This book explores how a group of Victorian liberal writers that included George Eliot, Walter Pater, and Matthew Arnold became attracted to new theories of religion as a function of race and ethnicity. Since the early modern period, British liberals had typically...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-04-05
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The Emergence of the Fourth Dimension describes the development and proliferation of the idea of higher dimensional space in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries. An idea from mathematics that was appropriated by occultist thought, it emerged in the fin de...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-04-05
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Algebraic Art explores the invention of a peculiarly Victorian account of the nature and value of aesthetic form, and it traces that account to a surprising source: mathematics. The nineteenth century was a moment of extraordinary mathematical innovation, witnessing the...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-04-05
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Algebraic Art explores the invention of a peculiarly Victorian account of the nature and value of aesthetic form, and it traces that account to a surprising source: mathematics. The nineteenth century was a moment of extraordinary mathematical innovation, witnessing the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-04-05
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This book explores how a group of Victorian liberal writers that included George Eliot, Walter Pater, and Matthew Arnold became attracted to new theories of religion as a function of race and ethnicity. Since the early modern period, British liberals had typically...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-04-05
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The Emergence of the Fourth Dimension describes the development and proliferation of the idea of higher dimensional space in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries. An idea from mathematics that was appropriated by occultist thought, it emerged in the fin de...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-04-05
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Sleep and the Novel is a study of representations of the sleeping body in fiction from 1800 to the present day which traces the ways in which novelists have engaged with this universal, indispensable -- but seemingly nondescript -- region of human experience. Covering...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-04-04
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This book examines one work dealing with madness from each of five prominent authors. Including discussion of Fowles, Hamsun, Hesse, Kafka, and Poe, it delineates the specific type of madness the author associates with each text, and explores the reason for that - such...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-03-16
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'What had happened to the lost manuscripts, what train of chances took Rolfe to his death in Venice? The Quest continued'One summer afternoon A.J.A. Symons is handed a peculiar, eccentric novel that he cannot forget and, captivated by this unknown masterpiece,...
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Penguin
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2018-03-08
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This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students and readers a comprehensive selection of the work of Robert Browning (1812-1889). Accompanied by full scholarly apparatus, this is the first one-volume fully annotated edition of Browning's poetry. It...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-03-01
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Die Studie von Jill Bühler untersucht ausgehend von Richard von Krafft-Ebings Psychopathia sexualis (1886) die literarische und wissenshistorische Vorgeschichte des Lustmords. Sie stellt fest, dass sich Krafft-Ebings Theorie maßgeblich aus literarischen und ...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-02-28
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This book examines women’s domestic occupations in the Romantic-period novel at the most intimately human level. By examining the momentary thought and feeling processes that informed the playing of a harp, the stitching of a dress, or the reading of a gothic novel, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-02-20
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This book considers indigenous-language translations of Romantic texts in the British colonies. It argues that these translations uncover a latent discourse around colonisation in the original English texts. Focusing on poems by William Wordsworth, John Keats, Felicia...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-02-15
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This book presents a fundamental reassessment of Sara Coleridge. It examines her achievements as an author in the public sphere, and celebrates her interventions in what was a masculine genre of religious polemics. Sara Coleridge the religious author was the peer of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-02-12
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Until the nineteenth century, consumptives were depicted as sensitive, angelic beings whose purpose was to die beautifully and set an example of pious suffering – while, in reality, many people with tuberculosis faced unemployment, destitution, and an unlovely death in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-05
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Was leistet die Literaturwissenschaft, wie liest man Texte, welche Leitlinien und Überzeugungen liegen Interpretationen zugrunde? Dieser Frage wird anhand der faszinierenden Rezeptionsgeschichte von Annette von Droste-Hülshoffs Die Judenbuche (1842) nachgegangen. Die...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-02-03
Collection :
Abhandlungen zur Literaturwissenschaft
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This book explores Henry James’s negotiations with nineteenth-century ideas about gender, sexuality, class, and literary style through the responses of three women who have never before been substantively examined in light of their relationships to his work. Writing in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-01-28
Collection :
American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
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This collection of thirteen specially commissioned essays by international scholars takes a fresh look at the profound impact of the Peninsular War on Romantic British literature and culture. The expertly authored chapters explore the valorization of Spain by...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-27
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This book offers new interpretations of Tennyson’s major poems along-side contemporary geology, and specifically Charles Lyell’s Principles of Geology (1830-3). Employing various approaches – from close readings of both the poetic and geological texts, historical...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-13
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This book reveals the breadth and depth of women’s engagements with Arthurian romance in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Tracing the variety of women’s responses to the medieval revival through Gothic literature, travel writing, scholarship, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-11
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