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This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students and readers a comprehensive selection of the work of Robert Browning (1812-1889). Accompanied by full scholarly apparatus, this is the first one-volume fully annotated edition of Browning's poetry. It...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-03-01
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Die Studie von Jill Bühler untersucht ausgehend von Richard von Krafft-Ebings Psychopathia sexualis (1886) die literarische und wissenshistorische Vorgeschichte des Lustmords. Sie stellt fest, dass sich Krafft-Ebings Theorie maßgeblich aus literarischen und ...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-02-28
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This book examines women’s domestic occupations in the Romantic-period novel at the most intimately human level. By examining the momentary thought and feeling processes that informed the playing of a harp, the stitching of a dress, or the reading of a gothic novel, the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-20
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This book presents a selection of research papers dealing with the notions of travel and identity in Anglophone literature and culture. Collectively, the chapters ponder such notions as self and other, race, centre and periphery, thus shedding new light on a number of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-02-19
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This book considers indigenous-language translations of Romantic texts in the British colonies. It argues that these translations uncover a latent discourse around colonisation in the original English texts. Focusing on poems by William Wordsworth, John Keats, Felicia...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-15
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This book highlights the multi-dimensionality of the work of British fantasy writer and Discworld creator Terry Pratchett. Taking into account content, political commentary, and literary technique, it explores the impact of Pratchett's work on fantasy writing and genre...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-12
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This book presents a fundamental reassessment of Sara Coleridge. It examines her achievements as an author in the public sphere, and celebrates her interventions in what was a masculine genre of religious polemics. Sara Coleridge the religious author was the peer of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-12
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The theo-political idea of covenant—a sacred binding agreement—formalizes relationships and inaugurates politics in the Hebrew Bible, and it was the most significant revolutionary idea to come out of the Protestant Reformation. Central to sixteenth-century...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-09
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This book explores Romanticism as a force that exerts an insistent but critically neglected pressure on the postcolonial imagination. From the decolonizing poetics of the Caribbean to the white writing of South Africa, from the aesthetics of post-imperial disappointment...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-08
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Until the nineteenth century, consumptives were depicted as sensitive, angelic beings whose purpose was to die beautifully and set an example of pious suffering – while, in reality, many people with tuberculosis faced unemployment, destitution, and an unlovely death in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-05
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Was leistet die Literaturwissenschaft, wie liest man Texte, welche Leitlinien und Überzeugungen liegen Interpretationen zugrunde? Dieser Frage wird anhand der faszinierenden Rezeptionsgeschichte von Annette von Droste-Hülshoffs Die Judenbuche (1842) nachgegangen. Die...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-02-03
Collection :
Abhandlungen zur Literaturwissenschaft
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This book explores Henry James’s negotiations with nineteenth-century ideas about gender, sexuality, class, and literary style through the responses of three women who have never before been substantively examined in light of their relationships to his work. Writing in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-01-28
Collection :
American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
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This book examines conceptions of authority for and in Shakespeare, and the construction of Shakespeare as literary and cultural authority. The first section, Defining and Redefining Authority, begins by re-defining the concept of Shakespeare’s sources, suggesting that...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-01-19
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This book investigates how writers and readers of Renaissance literature deployed ‘kinesic intelligence’, a combination of pre-reflective bodily response and reflective interpretation. Through analyses of authors including Petrarch, Rabelais, and Shakespeare, the book...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-27
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This collection of thirteen specially commissioned essays by international scholars takes a fresh look at the profound impact of the Peninsular War on Romantic British literature and culture. The expertly authored chapters explore the valorization of Spain by...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-27
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This book examines the intersections between the ways that marriage was represented in eighteenth-century writing and art, experienced in society, and regulated by law. The interdisciplinary and comparative essays explore the marital experience beyond the ‘matrimonial...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-14
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This book offers new interpretations of Tennyson’s major poems along-side contemporary geology, and specifically Charles Lyell’s Principles of Geology (1830-3). Employing various approaches – from close readings of both the poetic and geological texts, historical...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-13
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This book is concerned with food autobiographies written by men from the 1980s to the present. It concentrates on how food has transformed autobiographical narratives and how these define the ways men eat and cook nowadays. After presenting a historical overview of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-12
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This book reveals the breadth and depth of women’s engagements with Arthurian romance in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Tracing the variety of women’s responses to the medieval revival through Gothic literature, travel writing, scholarship, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-11
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This collection represents a new range of critical awareness and marks the burgeoning of what is a twenty-first-century Marianne Moore renaissance. The essays explore Moore’s participation in modernist movements and communities, her impact on subsequent generations of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-07
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