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Hunger is one of the governing metaphors for literature in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, writers and critics repeatedly describe writing as a process of starvation, as in the familiar type of the starving artist,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-11-10
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Telegraphies explores literatures envisioning the literary, societal, even the perceived metaphysical effects of various cultures' telecommunications technologies, to argue that nineteenth-century Americans tested in the virtual realm new theories of self, place,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-11-09
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This study explores the role of fiction in the social production of the West Central district of London in the nineteenth century. It tells a new history of the novel from a local geographical perspective, tracing developments in the form as it engaged with Bloomsbury...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-11-05
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This book traces the global circulation of cultures and ideologies from the technological and democratic revolutions of the long nineteenth century to liberal and neoliberal modernity. Focussing on moments of coerced (colonial and postcolonial) and voluntary contact...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-11-03
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Music and the Environment in Dystopian Narrative: Sounding the Disaster investigates the active role of music in film and fiction portraying climate crisis. From contemporary science fiction and environmental film to “Anthropocene opera,” the most arresting...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-10-31
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This book offers a radical new theory of the role of poetry in the rise of cultural nationalism. With equal attention to England, Scotland, and Wales, the book takes an Archipelagic approach to the study of poetics, print media, and medievalism in the rise of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-26
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Cosmopolitanism and Transatlantic Circles in Music and Literature traces the transatlantic networks that were constructed between a select group of composers, including Edvard Grieg, Edward MacDowell, and Percy Grainger, and the writers with whom they shared...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-26
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Art, History, and Postwar Fiction explores the ways in which novelists responded to the visual arts from the aftermath of the Second World War to the present day. If art had long served as a foil to enable novelists to reflect on their craft, this book argues that in...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-10-24
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Haunted Selves, Haunting Places in English Literature and Culture offers a series of readings of poetry, the novel and other forms of art and cultural expression, to explore the relationship between subject and landscape, self and place. Utilizing an interdisciplinary...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-24
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Why do readers claim that fictional worlds feel real? How can certain literary characters seem capable of leading lives of their own, outside the stories in which they appear? What makes the experience of reading a novel uniquely pleasurable and what do readers lose...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-10-24
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Art, History, and Postwar Fiction explores the ways in which novelists responded to the visual arts from the aftermath of the Second World War to the present day. If art had long served as a foil to enable novelists to reflect on their craft, this book argues that in...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-10-18
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Hunger is one of the governing metaphors for literature in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, writers and critics repeatedly describe writing as a process of starvation, as in the familiar type of the starving artist,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-10-17
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Queer Milton is the first book-length study dedicated to anti-heteronormative approaches to the poetry and prose of John Milton. Organized into sections on “Eroticism and Form” and “Temporality and Affect,” essays in this volume read Milton’s works through radical queer...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-15
Collection :
Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700
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This book focuses on the fiction of four postcolonial authors: V.S. Naipaul, Anita Desai, Timothy Mo and Salman Rushdie. It argues that meals in their novels act as sites where the relationships between the individual subject and the social identities of race, class and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-11
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This book examines the central significance of sexualized female corpses in modern and contemporary Hispanic and Anglophone crime fiction. Beginning with the foundational detective fictions of the nineteenth century, it draws from diverse subgenres to describe a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-10
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This book analyzes the four novels and fifty-six stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle describing the adventures and discoveries of Sherlock Holmes. Michael J. Crowe suggests that nearly all the Holmes stories exhibit the pattern known as a Gestalt shift, in which...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-10
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This book argues that ‘deviance’ represents a central issue in neo-Victorian culture, and that the very concept of neo-Victorianism is based upon the idea of ‘diverging’ from accepted notions regarding the nineteenth-century frame of mind. However, the study of the ways...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-03
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This book offers the first account of the dead as an imagined community in the early nineteenth-century. It examines why Romantic and Victorian writers (including Wordsworth, Dickens, De Quincey, Godwin, and D’Israeli) believed that influencing the imaginative...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-29
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This is a unique essay collection on Jim Crace, locating his writing within contemporary philosophical, cultural and political debates.This timely first critical collection of essays on Crace’s work provides a retrospective on his work to date, locating his work...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-28
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The Oxford Handbook of British Romanticism offers a comprehensive guide to the literature and thought of the Romantic period, and an overview of the latest research on this topic. Written by a team of international experts, the Handbook analyses all aspects of the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-09-26
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