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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....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-06-18
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The Black Middle Ages examines the influence of medieval studies on African-American thought. Matthew X. Vernon focuses on nineteenth century uses of medieval texts to structure racial identity, but also considers the flexibility of medieval narratives more broadly in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-13
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This volume presents key contributions to the study of ecocriticism in Nordic children’s and YA literary and cultural texts, in dialogue with international classics. It investigates the extent to which texts for children and young adults reflect current environmental...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-11
Collection :
Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
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This book argues that there are deep connections between ‘poetic’ thinking and the sensitive recognition of creaturely others. It explores this proposition in relation to four poets: Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, Ted Hughes, and Les Murray. Through a series of close...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-05
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This innovative volume establishes autofiction as a new and dynamic area of theoretical research in English. Since the term was coined by Serge Doubrovsky, autofiction has become established as a recognizable genre within the French literary pantheon. Yet unlike other...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-04
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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Modern Marriage and the Lyric Sequence investigates the ways in which some of our best poets writing in English have used poetic sequences to capture the lived experience of marriage. Beginning in 1862 with George Meredith’sModern Love, Jane Hedley’s study utilizes the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-04
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This book traces the roots of Arabic science fiction through classical and medieval Arabic literature, undertaking close readings of formative texts of Arabic science fiction via a critical framework developed from the work of Western critics of Western science fiction,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-25
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British Romantic Literature and the Emerging Modern Greek Nation makes an original contribution to the field ofBritish Romantic Hellenism (and Romanticism more broadly) by emphasizing the diversity of Romantic-era writers’ attitudes towards, and portrayals of, Modern...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-24
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Inventing the Gothic Corpse shows how a series of bold experiments in eighteenth-century British realist and Gothic fiction transform the dead body from an instructive icon into a thrill device. For centuries, vivid images of the corpse were used to deliver a spiritual...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-22
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This book explores women writers’ involvement with the Gothic. The author sheds new light on women’s experience, a viewpoint that remains largely absent from male-authored Colonial Gothic works. The book investigates how women writers appropriated the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-19
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Die Beitragsautoren dieses Sammelbandes gehen der Frage nach, welche Rolle das Erinnern in der deutschsprachigen Literatur nach 1945 und sodann nach dem Umbruch des Jahres 1989 spielt. Dabei werden unterschiedlich Formen der literarischen Konfiguration von Erinnerung...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-05-17
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This collection establishes the term ‘medical paratexts’ as a useful addition to medical humanities, book history, and literary studies research. As a relatively new field of study, little critical attention has been paid to medical paratexts. We understand paratext as...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-15
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This volume analyzes early modern cultural representations of children and childhood through the literature and drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Contributors include leading international scholars of the English Renaissance whose essays consider asexuals and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-14
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Have industrial-age technologies and visual discourses transformed us into spectators of the real, and can realist fiction make that transformation visible to us? This book brings Situationist Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle and an array of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-10
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Where Is All My Relation? presents the first sustained academic discussion of the poetry, pottery, and culture of David Drake, an antebellum slave who distinguished himself by composing verse on the ceramics he produced in the years leading up to the Civil War. During...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-05-09
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The Caribbean has traditionally been understood as a region that did not develop a significant ‘native’ literary culture until the postcolonial period. Indeed, most literary histories of the Caribbean begin with the texts associated with the independence movements of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-04
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This book explores how writers responded to the rise of the newspaper over the course of the nineteenth century. Taking as its subject the ceaseless intertwining of fiction and journalism at this time, it tracks the representation of newspapers and journalists in works...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-04
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Produced on the fringes of philosophy and literary criticism, this book is a pioneering study which aims to explicitly address and thematize what may be called a “critical philosophy in the condition of modernism”. Its most important and original contribution to both...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-03
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This book argues that nineteenth-century editors created the modern idea of English Renaissance literature. The book analyses the theories and practices of editors who worked on Shakespeare, but also on complete editions of a remarkable range of early modern writers,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-03
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Die Stimme Marcel Beyers zählt zu den wichtigsten in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur. Der Band unternimmt erstmals eine systematische Auseinandersetzung mit diesem ebenso ergiebigen wie qualitativ herausragenden Œuvre. Ausgewiesene Expertinnen und Experten...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-04-26
Collection :
Kontemporär. Schriften zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur
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