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This book examines the role of food in the life and works of Thomas Hardy, analysing the social, political and historical context of references to meals, eating and food production during the nineteenth century. It demonstrates how Hardy’s personal relationship to the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-31
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This book argues that the most interesting depictions of blindness in French fiction are those which call into question and ultimately undermine the prevailing myths and stereotypes of blindness which dominate Western thought. Rather than seeing blindness as an...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-08-18
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This book addresses the questions 'What did Thomas Hardy think about history and how did this enter into his writings?' Scholars have sought answers in 'revolutionary', 'gender', 'postcolonial' and 'millennial' criticism, but these are found to be unsatisfactory. Fred...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-17
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This book offers a major reassessment of John Clare’s poetry and his position in the Romantic canon. Alert to Clare’s knowledge of the work of his Romantic contemporaries and near contemporaries, it puts forward the first extended series of comparisons of Clare’s poetry...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-19
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This book brings the study of nineteenth-century illustrations into the digital age. The key issues discussed include the difficulties of making illustrations visible online, the mechanisms for searching the content of illustrations, and the politics of crowdsourced...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-19
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This book brings to the foreground the largely forgotten “Fancy” of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and follows its traces as they extend into the nineteenth and twentieth. Trivialized for its flightiness and femininity, Fancy nonetheless provided seventeenth-...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-11
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This book explores various forms of cultural influence and exchange between Britain and the Nordic countries in the late eighteenth century and romantic period. Broadly new-historicist in approach, but drawing also on influential descriptions of genre, discipline,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-27
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This book is about Victorian women’s representations of colonial life in India. These accounts contributed to imperial rule by exemplifying an idealized middle-class femininity and attesting to the Anglicisation of the subcontinent. Writers described familiarly feminine...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-09
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This book explores the phenomenon of second sight in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Second sight is a form of prophetic vision associated with the folklore of the Scottish Highlands and Islands. Described in Gaelic as the An-da-shealladh or ‘the two sights’,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-02
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This book explores the decades between the Reform Acts of 1832 and 1884 when British poets such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Arthur Hugh Clough, Robert Browning, and Algernon Charles Swinburne, along with their transatlantic contemporary Walt Whitman, defended the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-05-19
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This book is the first full critical history of incognito social investigation texts – in other words, works detailing their authors’ experiences whilst pretending to be poor. The most famous example is Down and Out in Paris and London, but there has been a vast...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-05-08
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This book considers Keats’s major poems as exercises in Romantic historicism. The poetry’s rich allusiveness represents Keats’s effort to reclaim the British canon for Cockney revisionism, and reveals Keats characteristically invoking the past to define his contemporary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-04-15
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In the early nineteenth century, the public lecture emerged as one of the Anglo-American world's most important cultural forms. On both sides of the Atlantic, audiences and performers transformed a cultural practice with origins in the medieval cloister into an...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-04-06
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Der Band entwirft Umrisse einer neuen Literaturgeschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Die Aktualität des 19. Jahrhunderts geht weit über die geteilten Erfahrungen radikaler Modernisierungsschübe, sozialer Unsicherheiten und globaler Erschließungsbewegungen hinaus. Sie...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2017-04-05
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Friedrich Schlegels Lebenslauf - von der revolutionsbegeisterten Jugend über die Jenaer Jahre bis zur Konversion zum Katholizismus - spiegelt die ganze Romantik. Seine theoretischen Schriften lieferten die Grundlagen für etliche romantische Autoren („progressive...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2017-04-04
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This book of interdisciplinary essays serves to situate the original Sherlock Holmes, and his various adaptations, in a contemporary cultural context.This collection is prompted by three main and related questions: firstly, why is Sherlock Holmes such an enduring and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-17
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Jane Austen’s minor female characters expose the economic and social realties of British women in the long eighteenth century and reflect the conflict between intrinsic and expressed value within the evolving marketplace, where fluctuations and fictions inherent in the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-22
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GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017'Never mind those self-help manuals urging that some classic novel may change your life; in this sparkling study of the birth, growth and afterlife of Hugo's evergreen blockbuster, David Bellos argues that Les Misérables already has'...
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Penguin
Parution :
2017-01-26
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This book shows that the publishers and editors of the radical press deployed Romantic-era texts for their own political ends—and for their largely working-class readership—long after those works’ original publication. It examines how the literature of the British...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-20
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This book tracks across history and cultures the ways in which writers have imagined cyclones, hurricanes, and typhoons, collectively understood as “tropical weather.” Historically, literature has drawn upon the natural world for its store of symbolic language and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-09
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