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Affect Theory and Literary Critical Practice develops new approaches to reading literature that are informed by the insights of scholars working in affect studies across many disciplines, with essays that consider works of fiction, drama, poetry and memoir ranging...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-31
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This collection of critical essays explores the literary and visual cultures of modern Irish suburbia, and the historical, social and aesthetic contexts in which these cultures have emerged. The lived experience and the artistic representation of Irish suburbia have...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-29
Collection :
New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
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The essays in this volume offer fresh and innovative considerations both of how children interacted with the world of print, and of how childhood circulated in the literary cultures of the eighteenth century. They engage with not only the texts produced for the period’s...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-29
Collection :
Literary Cultures and Childhoods
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This book explores the intersections of gender with class and race in the construction of national and imperial ideologies and their fluid transformation from the Romantic to the Victorian period and beyond, exposing how these cultural constructions are deeply entangled...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-29
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Initially described by Dickens as a 'savage stenographic mystery', shorthand was to become an essential and influential part of his toolkit as a writer. In this ground-breaking interdisciplinary study, Hugo Bowles tells the story of Dickens's stenographic journey from...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-12-20
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This book looks at the staging and performance of normality in early modern drama. Analysing conventions and rules, habitual practices, common things and objects, and mundane sights and experiences, this volume foregrounds a staged normality that has...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-11
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This volume offers a reappraisal of Wordsworth's and Coleridge's radical careers before their emergence as major poets. Updated, revised, and with new manuscript material, this expanded new edition responds to the most significant critical work on Wordsworth's and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-11-29
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This book compares the nineteenth-century settler literatures of Australia, Canada, South Africa, and the United States in order to examine how they enable readers to manage guilt accompanying European settlement. Reading canonical texts such as Last of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-11-28
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Mit seinen Romanen und Novellen gehört Gottfried Keller zu den bedeutendsten Autoren des Realismus. Walter Benjamin zählt ihn zu den »drei oder vier größten Prosaikern der deutschen Sprache« überhaupt. Doch nicht nur als Erzähler trat Keller hervor. Er wollte Maler und...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-11-26
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This collection takes as its starting point the ubiquitous representation of various forms of mental illness, breakdown and psychopathology in Caribbean writing, and the fact that this topic has been relatively neglected in criticism, especially in Anglophone texts,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-11-23
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During and after the Second World War, there was a concerted thinking about religion in Britain. Not only were leading international thinkers of the day theologians--Ronald Niebuhr, Paul Tillich, Jacques Maritain--but leading writers contributed to discussions about...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-11-22
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Before his masterpiece The Rise of the Novel made him one of the most influential post-war British literary critics, Ian Watt was a soldier, a prisoner of war of the Japanese, and a forced labourer on the notorious Burma-Thailand Railway.
Both an intellectual...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-11-22
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This volume offers a reappraisal of Wordsworth's and Coleridge's radical careers before their emergence as major poets. Updated, revised, and with new manuscript material, this expanded new edition responds to the most significant critical work on Wordsworth's and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-11-22
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Today interviews proliferate everywhere: in newspapers, on television, and in anthologies; as a method they are a major tool of medicine, the law, the social sciences, oral history projects, and journalism; and in the book trade interviews with authors are a major...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-11-21
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This book updates our understanding of working-class fiction by focusing on its continued relevance to the social and intellectual contexts of the age of Trump and Brexit. The volume draws together new and established scholars in the field, whose intersectional analyses...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-11-19
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During and after the Second World War, there was a concerted thinking about religion in Britain. Not only were leading international thinkers of the day theologians--Ronald Niebuhr, Paul Tillich, Jacques Maritain--but leading writers contributed to discussions about...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-11-15
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Before his masterpiece The Rise of the Novel made him one of the most influential post-war British literary critics, Ian Watt was a soldier, a prisoner of war of the Japanese, and a forced labourer on the notorious Burma-Thailand Railway.
Both an intellectual...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-11-15
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Today interviews proliferate everywhere: in newspapers, on television, and in anthologies; as a method they are a major tool of medicine, the law, the social sciences, oral history projects, and journalism; and in the book trade interviews with authors are a major...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-11-15
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This collection of twelve new essays examines some of what Jane Austen has become in the two hundred years since her death. Some of the chapters explore adaptations or repurposings of her work while others trace her influence on a surprising variety of different...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-11-11
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This book tackles photography’s role during Robert Louis Stevenson’s travels throughout the Pacific Island region and is the first study of his family’s previously unpublished photographs. Cutting across disciplinary boundaries, the book integrates photographs with...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-11-11
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