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Diesem Band geht es dezidiert nicht darum, eine teleologische Großerzählung zu schreiben, mit der die Erfolgsgeschichte von Kriminalroman und Detektivgeschichte unter Missachtung der jeweiligen historischen Besonderheiten nach vorne verlängert würde. Stattdessen ist das...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-03-30
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The Doctor-Patient Relationship and the Nineteenth-Century French Novel analyses the representation of the doctor-patient relationship in the nineteenth-century French novel, notably in the words of Balzac, Sand, Stendhal, and Zola. It argues that the doctor-patient...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-03-29
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The Dissolution of the Monasteries (1536-40) is widely held as the single most significant event in England's history of the destruction and loss of medieval manuscripts. Despite this consensus, the ultimate impact of the Dissolution - and of medieval manuscript...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-03-28
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'I never knew—I never imagined what mountains were before.'
History of a Six Weeks' Tour (1817) is a volume of travel-writing by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley, two of the best-known authors of the English Romantic period. Comprising...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-03-28
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The Waltzing Body in Victorian Literature: Narratives of Sexuality and Power traces the evolution of the waltz from a taboo dance in the early nineteenth century to a gracefully nostalgic practice that must be preserved by the century's end. While Sabrina Gilchrist...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-03-27
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What happened to cinema and literature when synchronized sound was introduced to the film industry in the late 1920s? Literature and Sound Film in Mid-Century Britain studies the paths of film and text following this event. It asks how British cinema responded to the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-03-27
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'I never knew—I never imagined what mountains were before.'
History of a Six Weeks' Tour (1817) is a volume of travel-writing by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley, two of the best-known authors of the English Romantic period. Comprising...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-03-27
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The study and teaching of English literature is generally regarded as one of the central disciplines in the modern university, yet for much of its history it struggled to gain academic legitimacy and was frequently derided as 'a soft option'. Its early professors...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-03-26
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Philip Pullman and the Historical Imagination takes the general reader on a fascinating tour of seventeenth-century thought, exploring how this time period shaped Pullman's extraordinary trilogies His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust.
In Part One, readers are taken...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-03-26
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This book explores representations of traditional medicine and healing practices in Irish Revival-era literature spanning from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. Specifically, the book focuses on the work of William Butler Yeats, Lady Augusta...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-21
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This book illustrates how Korean American novels and poetry use anger to enact change, foregrounding the various ways it can pinpoint injustice and suggest alternatives. Experiences of the "forgotten" Korean War, Korean military-mediated immigration to the US in the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-21
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The Death of the Author and Anticolonial Thought promises to transform a decades old debate in literary studies about the relation between structure and agency, form and intention by giving a detailed account—previously unstudied—of the way colonized writers have...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-20
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Die „Novellenschatz“-Reihe Paul Heyses prägt bis heute das deutsche Novellenverständnis: Begonnen mit dem populären „Deutschen Novellenschatz“ wurde ein Sammlungsvorhaben begründet, das eine dezidiert realistische Literaturgeschichte präsentiert. Zusammen mit seinen...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-03-17
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We are often told that the women’s movement of the 1960s and 1970s led to the rediscovery of forgotten women writers. Without feminist presses such as Virago, these women would have sunk into obscurity. Thanks to Carmen Callil and other trailblazing feminist publishers,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-17
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Philip Pullman and the Historical Imagination takes the general reader on a fascinating tour of seventeenth-century thought, exploring how this time period shaped Pullman's extraordinary trilogies His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust.
In Part One, readers are taken...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-03-15
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‘Still Writing offers up a cornucopia of wisdom, insights, and practical lessons gleaned from Dani Shapiro’s long experience as a celebrated writer and teacher of writing. The beneficiaries are beginning writers, veteran writers and everyone in between’ Jennifer...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2025-03-13
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This book traces the development of autofiction along with the other directions it has led to, such as autoethnography and autotheory, and explores their textual potentialities to reproduce underrepresented realities of multi-ethnicity. It presents how the hybridity and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-03-13
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By the mid-nineteenth century, geologists and palaeontologists had reconstructed an authoritative narrative of Earth's deep history, from the planet's molten origins to the rise of humanity. Many figures in transatlantic science across subsequent decades, however, had...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-03-12
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This book delivers a powerful argument for the centrality of sport in culture, exploring how fine sports writing bestows meaning upon the human world. Literary Sports Journalism: Beyond the Boundaries explores the multiple and fertile interconnections between sports...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-12
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This book explores the relationship between Anne Brontë’s work and the life and writings of Lord Byron. Byron’s influence on the other Brontë siblings is well-documented but absent in Anne’s history. Building on recent discourses of rich intertextuality in Anne’s work,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-11
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