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Why do able-bodied characters fake disability in 40 early modern English plays? This book uncovers a previously unexamined theatrical tradition and explores the way counterfeit disability captivated the Renaissance stage. Through detailed case studies of both...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-08-07
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This book brings together theories of spatiality and mobility with a study of travel writing in the Victorian period to suggest that ‘idleness’ is an important but neglected condition of subjectivity in that era. Contrary to familiar stereotypes of ‘the Victorians’ as...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-08-02
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This is the first book on Irish literature to focus on the theme of loss, and how it is represented in Irish writing. It focuses on how literature is ideally suited to expressions and understanding of the nature of loss, given its ability to access and express emotions,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-30
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This volume revisits Genette’s definition of the printed book’s liminal devices, or paratexts, as ‘thresholds of interpretation’ by focussing specifically on translations produced in Britain in the early age of print (1473-1660). At a time when translation played a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-07-28
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In John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, the pilgrims cannot reach the Celestial City without passing through Vanity Fair, where everything is bought and sold.In recent years there has been much analysis of commerce and consumption in Britain during the long eighteenth...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-07-26
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In John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, the pilgrims cannot reach the Celestial City without passing through Vanity Fair, where everything is bought and sold.In recent years there has been much analysis of commerce and consumption in Britain during the long eighteenth...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-07-25
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Die Studie setzt an der Schnittstelle von wissenschaftlicher Sprachkritik und naturwüchsiger Sprachbewertung an und versucht das historisch schwierige Verhältnis zwischen Laienlinguistik und Linguistik zu regulieren.Die zentrale These, dass viele der Schwierigkeiten im...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-07-23
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This book provides a critical study of the relationship between Robert Burns and the United States of America, c.1786-1866. Though Burns is commonly referred to as Scotland’s “National Poet”, his works were frequently reprinted in New York and Philadelphia; his verse...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-23
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This book sets the grounds for a new approach exploring cultural mediators as key figures in literary and cultural history. It proposes an innovative conceptual and methodological understanding of the figure of the cultural mediator, defined as a cultural actor active...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-20
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Age is a missing category in Irish literary criticism and this book is the first to explore a range of familiar and not so familiar Irish texts through a gerontological lens. Drawing on the latest writing in humanistic, critical and cultural gerontology, this study...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-18
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Die Fabel vom Schwarzkünstler Faust gehört zu den großen Stoffen der Weltliteratur. Ihre Ursprünge liegen in der Umbruchszeit zwischen Mittelalter und Neuzeit, durch Goethes Bearbeitung erlangte sie Weltruhm. Daneben stehen zahlreiche Adaptionen in allen Kulturen, in...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-07-14
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White Male Nostalgia in Contemporary North American Literature charts the late twentieth-century development of reactionary emotions commonly felt by resentful, yet often goodhearted white men. Examining an eclectic array of literary case studies in light of recent work...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-13
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George Eliot for the Twenty-First Century reexamines Eliot two hundred years after her birth and offers an innovative critical reading that seeks to change perceptions of Eliot. Tracing Eliot’s literary reception from the nineteenth century to the late...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-13
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This book argues that there are recurrent spatiotemporal patterns and structures in six Jane Austen novels which constitute a source of enduring, if unconscious, pleasure. More precisely, the book contends that there are overlapping natural and cultural cycles which...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-05
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This book is a manifesto-like consideration of the potentialities of radical political thought and action in contemporary Puerto Rico. Framed within the context of the present economic crisis, of austerity measures, PROMESA and mass migration, this book engages recent...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-07-04
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Blake’s ‘Human Form Divine’ has long commanded the spotlight. Beastly Blake shifts focus to the non-human creatures who populateBlake’s poetry and designs. The author of ‘The Tyger’ and ‘The Lamb’ was equally struck by the ‘beastliness’ and the beauty of the animal...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-27
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Senior colonial officer from 1813 to 1859, Inspector General James Barry was a pioneering medical reformer who after his death in 1865 became the object of intense speculation when rumours arose about his sex. This cultural history of Barry’s afterlives in Victorian to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-27
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Das Kompendium verzeichnet alle nachweisbaren Schiller-Vertonungen, die von den 1780er Jahren bis zur Gegenwart entstanden sind. Dabei wurden sowohl Schillers Gedichte als auch seine Dramen berücksichtigt. Überwiegend handelt es sich um Lieder, Chöre, Kantaten,...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-06-20
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Musik in Baden-Württemberg | Quellen und Studien
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This book provides an expansive view of celebrity’s intimate dimensions. In the process, it offers a timely reassessment of how notions of private and public were negotiated by writers, readers, actors and audiences in the early to mid-eighteenth century. The essays...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-19
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There was a power of endurance about her, and a courage that was almost awful.
Did Lady Mason forge a codicil to her husband's will, allowing Orley Farm to pass to her son or not? Orley Farm centres on this case of forgery, and the anguish and guilt of Lady Mason....
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-06-18
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