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This book presents ten new chapters on John Keats's medical imagination, beginning with his practical engagement with dissection and surgery, and the extraordinary poems he wrote during his 'busy time' at Guy's Hospital 1815-17. The Physical Society at Guy's and the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-12-06
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Ralph Waldo Emerson's dementia, an ordeal that marked his final two decades, has never been a secret among those who study Emerson's life. Still, few have focused on the period of Emerson's decline. Thus, his later thinking has succumbed to a process of critical...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-12-05
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This volume is the first to identify a significant body of life narratives by working-class women and to demonstrate their inherent literary significance. Placing each memoir within its generic, historical, and biographical context, this book traces the shifts in such...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-02
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What explains the enduring popularity of white-authored protest fiction about racism in America? How have such books spoken to the racial crises of their time, and why do they remain important in our own era? White Writers, Race Matters explores these questions and the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-11-22
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This book is the first major ecocritical study of the relationship between British Romanticism and climate change. It analyses a wide range of texts – by authors including Lord Byron, William Cobbett, Sir Stamford Raffles, Mary Shelley, and Percy Shelley – in relation...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-20
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This book argues that the female philosopher, a literary figure brought into existence by Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, embodied the transformations of feminist thought during the transition from the Enlightenment to the Romantic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-17
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This book seeks to frame the “the idea of India” in the American imaginary within a transnational lens that is attentive to global flows of goods, people, and ideas within the circuits of imperial and maritime economies in nineteenth century America (roughly...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-09
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Die unterschiedlichen Erzählformen der Idylle in der Literatur des deutschsprachigen Realismus stehen im Mittelpunkt dieses Bandes. Spätestens seit Jean Paul hat sich die Idylle aus ihren arkadischen Szenerien herausgelöst und ist in alle Winkel der erzählten Welt...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2017-11-08
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The demise of the monarchy and the bodily absence of a King caused a representational crisis in the early republic, forcing the American people to reconstruct the social symbolic order in a new and unfamiliar way. Social historians have routinely understood the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-11-01
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This volume considers Joseph Conrad’s use of multiple genres, including allusions to sensation fiction, pornography, anthropology, and Darwinian science, to respond to Victorian representations of gender in layered and contradictory representations of his own. In his...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-25
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This book rethinks the notion of nineteenth-century capital(s) from geographical, economic and symbolic perspectives, proposing an alternative mapping of the field by focusing on different loci and sources of capital. Walter Benjamin’s essay ‘Paris, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-17
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This book views Romantic literature’s discourses of childhood, education, and reproduction through the eyes of four early nineteenth-century British authors who were uniquely implicated in those discourses. Hartley and Sara Coleridge, children of Samuel Taylor...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-17
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This book provides the first thematic survey and analysis of nineteenth-century writing that imagined outcomes that history might have produced. Narratives of possible worlds and scenarios—referred to here as “alternate histories”—proliferated during the nineteenth...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-17
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This book explores the literary representation of late Victorian and early Edwardian London from an auditory perspective, arguing that readers should ‘listen’ to impressions of the city, as described by writers such as Conrad, Doyle, Ford and Gissing. It was in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-13
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'Wonderfully entertaining, hilarious. Contains the distilled wisdom of some of the greatest writers who ever lived' Allison Pearson, Sunday TelegraphWhat should I do with my life?What if my love is not returned?Why do bad things happen? The answers to some of life's...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2017-10-05
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This book is a thorough, eco-critical re-evaluation of Lord Byron (1789-1824), claiming him as one of the most important ecological poets in the British Romantic tradition. Using political ecology, post-humanist theory, new materialism, and ecological science, the book...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-04
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Nineteenth-century investigations into the nervous system produced extraordinary discoveries that changed ways of thinking far beyond the scientific community. Over the course of the century, scientists began to conceive of the subject not principally as soul, mind, or...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-10-03
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This book is a historically informed and textually grounded study of the connections between Montaigne, the inventor of the essay, and Nietzsche, who thought of himself as an “attempter.” In conversation with the Essais, Nietzsche developed key themes of his oeuvre:...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-30
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This book repositions thinking about rhythm, meter and versification during the “Mechanical Age.” Cutting across disciplinary boundaries, the book examines the rhythmical workings of poems alongside not only Victorian theories of prosody and poetics but also...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-13
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This book uses the figure of the Victorian heroine as a lens through which to examine Jane Austen’s presence in Victorian critical and popular writings. Aimed at Victorianist readers and scholars, the book focuses on the ways in which Austen was constructed in fiction,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-05
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