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This study of the afterlife of Robinson Crusoe offers insights into the continued popularity and relevance of Crusoe's story and how modern conceptions of childhood are shaped by nostalgia and ideas of 'the popular'. Examining many adaptations in a variety of formats,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-07-30
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This volume focuses on the literary connotations of the 'Channel Packet' and sets forth lively dialogues between French and British culture at a key period of artistic innovation and exchange between 'high' and popular art forms.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-06-28
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With an essay by Daniel G. Hoffmann.'Life is a pic-nic en costume; one must take a part, assume a character, stand ready in a sensible way to play the fool'In The Confidence-Man, Melville's unnerving and hallucinatory satire on the American dream, a slippery trickster...
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Penguin
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2012-05-31
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Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) was once a household name, but is now largely forgotten. This book explores how Scott's work became an all-pervasive point of reference for cultural memory and collective identity in the nineteenth century, and why it no longer has this...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-03-08
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Necromanticism is a study of literary pilgrimage: readers' compulsion to visit literary homes, landscapes, and (especially) graves during the long Romantic period. The book draws on the histories of tourism and literary genres to highlight Romanticism's recourse to the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-02-21
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From the mid-eighteenth century to the twentieth, tourism became established as a leisure industry and travel writing as a popular genre. In this collection of essays, leading international historians and travel writing experts examine the role of home tourism in the UK...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-12-13
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Contextualizing the topos of the neglected child within a variety of discourses, this book challenges the assumption that the early nineteenth century witnessed a clear transition from a Puritan to a liberating approach to children and demonstrates that oppressive...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2011-11-22
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Describing Jewish representation by Jews and Gentiles in the British Romantic era from the Old Bailey courtroom and popular songs to novels, poetry, and political pamphlets, Scrivener integrates popular culture with belletristic writing to explore the wildly varying...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-09-26
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From the artistic practice of improvisation to the politics of nationalism, the essays in this volume break new ground and significantly extend our understanding of the relations between British and Italian culture in its analysis of the reception of Dante and Italian...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-09-26
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Reading is both a social process and a social formation, as this book illustrates across centuries and cultural contexts. Highlighting links evident in reading communities from literary salons to online environments, each essay reflects the rich repertoire of research...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-08-25
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This book is a collection of essays on ghostly fiction by Henry James. The contributors analyze James's use of the ghost story as a subgenre and the difficult theoretical issues that James's texts pose.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-07-14
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This book explores three crucial stages in Dickens' on-going voyage of discovery into what has been called the 'hidden springs' of his fiction; arguing that in three of Dickens best known novels, we witness Dickens responding to some identifiable force represented as...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-07-04
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The first full-length study of sensationalist and melodramatic elements in Hardy's novels uses six of his texts to demonstrate the ways in which Hardy uses the melodramatic mode to advance his critique of established Victorian cultural beliefs through the employment of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-04-25
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It is during the nineteenth-century, the age of machinery, that we begin to witness a sustained exploration of the literal and discursive entanglements of minds, bodies, machines. This book explores the impact of technology upon conceptions of language, consciousness,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-04-11
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Goethe und die Kunst. Zeit seines Lebens begriffGoethe die Auseinandersetzung mit der Bildenden Kunst als wesentliche Komponente seines Erkenntnisinteresses. Der Band stellt Goethes Verhältnis zu den Bildenden Künsten in seiner Bedeutung für sein Leben und Werk dar....
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2011-03-11
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This collection by leading scholars in the field provides a fascinating and ground-breaking introduction to current research in Irish Romantic studies. It proves the international scope and aesthetic appeal of Irish writing in this period, and shows the importance of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-01-28
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This text explores the reception of the royal family during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and its representation in fiction, poetry, and the popular press. Samuelian finds that popular response to the royal family has reflected the public's belief...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-12-12
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Now in paperback, this book considers crime fighting from the perspective of the civilian city-goer, from the mid-Victorian garotting panics to 1914. It charts the shift from the use of body armour to the adoption of exotic martial arts through the works of popular...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-12-03
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The essays in Teaching African American Women's Writing provide reflections on issues, problems and pleasures raised by studying the texts. They will be of use to those teaching and studying African American women's writing in colleges, universities and adult education...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-09-29
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Katherine Mansfield had a career-long engagement with the literary marketplace from the age of eighteen. This book examines how she developed as a writer within a range of book and periodical publishing contexts, reconsidering her writing's enactment of a commercially...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-08-04
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