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This book offers a major reassessment of John Clare’s poetry and his position in the Romantic canon. Alert to Clare’s knowledge of the work of his Romantic contemporaries and near contemporaries, it puts forward the first extended series of comparisons of Clare’s poetry...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-19
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This book brings the study of nineteenth-century illustrations into the digital age. The key issues discussed include the difficulties of making illustrations visible online, the mechanisms for searching the content of illustrations, and the politics of crowdsourced...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-19
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Die Arbeit analysiert zentrale deutschsprachige Romane der Gegenwart im Hinblick auf ihr Verhältnis zur Vernunft. Autorinnen und Autoren wie Daniel Kehlmann und Sibylle Lewitscharoff, Thomas Glavinic und Thomas Lehr, Terézia Mora und Ernst-Wilhelm Händler, Christoph...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2017-07-17
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This comprehensive chronological introduction offers a detailed analysis of Rose Tremain’s novels and examines the critical reception of her work. It situates Tremain – listed by Granta magazine as one of the twenty most promising young British novelists in 1983 – in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-15
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This book brings to the foreground the largely forgotten “Fancy” of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and follows its traces as they extend into the nineteenth and twentieth. Trivialized for its flightiness and femininity, Fancy nonetheless provided seventeenth-...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-11
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This study contends that American writer Cormac McCarthy not only is philosophical, or a “writer of ideas,” but rather that he has a philosophy. Devoting one main chapter to each facet of McCarthy’s thought – his metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics, respectively – the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-10
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This book explores various forms of cultural influence and exchange between Britain and the Nordic countries in the late eighteenth century and romantic period. Broadly new-historicist in approach, but drawing also on influential descriptions of genre, discipline,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-27
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This engrossing volume studies the poetics of evil in early modern English culture, reconciling the Renaissance belief that literature should uphold morality with the compelling and attractive representations of evil throughout the period’s literature. The chapters...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-22
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This book is about Victorian women’s representations of colonial life in India. These accounts contributed to imperial rule by exemplifying an idealized middle-class femininity and attesting to the Anglicisation of the subcontinent. Writers described familiarly feminine...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-09
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Why should one half be free to live, while the other is doomed to watch silently from the sidelines? In this visionary collection, Virginia Woolf leads us on a transformative journey through the liberating powers of the mind. From an exploration of why women were barred...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2017-06-08
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This book explores the phenomenon of second sight in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Second sight is a form of prophetic vision associated with the folklore of the Scottish Highlands and Islands. Described in Gaelic as the An-da-shealladh or ‘the two sights’,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-02
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This book explores the decades between the Reform Acts of 1832 and 1884 when British poets such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Arthur Hugh Clough, Robert Browning, and Algernon Charles Swinburne, along with their transatlantic contemporary Walt Whitman, defended the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-05-19
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This book is the first full critical history of incognito social investigation texts – in other words, works detailing their authors’ experiences whilst pretending to be poor. The most famous example is Down and Out in Paris and London, but there has been a vast...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-05-08
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This book considers Keats’s major poems as exercises in Romantic historicism. The poetry’s rich allusiveness represents Keats’s effort to reclaim the British canon for Cockney revisionism, and reveals Keats characteristically invoking the past to define his contemporary...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-04-15
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In the early nineteenth century, the public lecture emerged as one of the Anglo-American world's most important cultural forms. On both sides of the Atlantic, audiences and performers transformed a cultural practice with origins in the medieval cloister into an...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-04-06
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Der Band entwirft Umrisse einer neuen Literaturgeschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Die Aktualität des 19. Jahrhunderts geht weit über die geteilten Erfahrungen radikaler Modernisierungsschübe, sozialer Unsicherheiten und globaler Erschließungsbewegungen hinaus. Sie...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2017-04-05
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Friedrich Schlegels Lebenslauf - von der revolutionsbegeisterten Jugend über die Jenaer Jahre bis zur Konversion zum Katholizismus - spiegelt die ganze Romantik. Seine theoretischen Schriften lieferten die Grundlagen für etliche romantische Autoren („progressive...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2017-04-04
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In this book, Catharina Löffler traces the psycho-physical experiences of London walkers in eighteenth-century literature. For this purpose, readings of fascinating, exciting, comical and sometimes disturbing texts grant insights into a culturally, historically and...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2017-03-30
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“Cosmopolitanism contains some of the most polished and enviably well-written chapters of literary criticism that have ever come my way. Shaw’s readings are critically informed and theoretically sophisticated, yet at the same time remarkably lucid and clear. This...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-27
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This timely volume explores the signal contribution George Saunders has made to the development of the short story form in books ranging from CivilWarLand in Bad Decline (1996) to Tenth of December (2013). The book brings together a team of scholars from around the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-25
Collection :
American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
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