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This is a book about the long cultural shadow cast by a single bestselling novel, Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda (1894), which introduced Ruritania, a colourful pocket kingdom. In this swashbuckling tale, Englishman Rudolf Rassendyll impersonates the king of...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-01-15
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This is a book about the long cultural shadow cast by a single bestselling novel, Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda (1894), which introduced Ruritania, a colourful pocket kingdom. In this swashbuckling tale, Englishman Rudolf Rassendyll impersonates the king of...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-01-15
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This book features a collection of essays, shedding subversively new light on Romanticism and its canon of big-six, white, male Romantics by focusing on marginalised, forgotten and lost writers and their long-neglected works. Probing the realms of literary and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-01-13
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'PHILOSOPHY, or the doctrine and discipline of ideas' as S. T. Coleridge understood it, is the theme of this book. It considers the most vital and mature vein of Coleridge's thought to be the contemplation of ideas objectively, as existing powers. A theory of ideas...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-01-09
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'PHILOSOPHY, or the doctrine and discipline of ideas' as S. T. Coleridge understood it, is the theme of this book. It considers the most vital and mature vein of Coleridge's thought to be the contemplation of ideas objectively, as existing powers. A theory of ideas...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-01-09
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This book explores how nineteenth-century science stimulated the emergence of weird tales at the fin de siècle, and examines weird fiction by British writers who preceded and influenced H. P. Lovecraft, the most famous author of weird fiction. From laboratory...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-01-07
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This book is an in-depth study of Latina girls, portrayed in five coming-of-age narratives by using spaces and places as hermeneutical tools. The texts under study here are Julia Alvarez’s Return to Sender (2009), Norma E. Cantú’s Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-20
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This book begins with the assumption that the presence of non-human creatures causes an always-already uncanny rift in human assumptions about reality. Exploring the dark side of animal nature and the ‘otherness’ of animals as viewed by humans, and employing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-10
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This book considers the influence that sixteenth-century and early seventeenth-century mathematical thinking exerted on the writing and production of popular drama between about 1587 and 1603. It concentrates upon six plays by five early modern dramatists: Tamburlaine,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-30
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This book focuses on literal and metaphorical ruins, as they are appropriated and imagined in different forms of writing. Examining British and American literature and culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the book begins in the era of industrial modernity...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-28
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In diesem Buch analysiert Edvin Cami Polaritäten wie Ost und West, Islam und Christentum, Religion und Säkularität, Eigenheit und Fremdheit, Konflikt und Begegnung im literarischen Schaffen Goethes. Über die Gedichtsammlung West-östlicher Divan hinaus wird das Thema...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-11-27
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This volume considers the work and life of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851). It looks not only at Frankenstein and its composition, sources, themes and reception but at the wide range of other work by Shelley including such novels as The Last...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-23
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Leserschaft und Kritik der Frühen Neuzeit betrachteten das Reiseschrifttum als zentrale Möglichkeit, den eigenen, begrenzten Lebensraum zu erweitern. Literarische Texte hingegen wurden aufgrund ihrer erfundenen Inhalte kaum als adäquates Bildungsmittel betrachtet. Am...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-11-18
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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...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-11-14
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Seit Frank Witzel 2015 den Deutschen Buchpreis für sein bisheriges opus magnum Die Erfindung der Roten Armee Fraktion durch einen manisch-depressiven Teenager im Sommer 1969 erhielt, rückt der 1955 geborene Autor, Zeichner und Musiker nachdrücklich in den Fokus der...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-11-11
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-06
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Voices and Books in the English Renaissance offers a new history of reading that focuses on the oral reader and the voice- or performance-aware silent reader, rather than the historical reader, who is invariably male, silent, and alone. It recovers the vocality of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-10-24
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Voices and Books in the English Renaissance offers a new history of reading that focuses on the oral reader and the voice- or performance-aware silent reader, rather than the historical reader, who is invariably male, silent, and alone. It recovers the vocality of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-10-24
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