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This book explores new critical ground by addressing the intersection of two contentious concepts, postfeminism and Gothic.This collection of original and exciting essays examines a number of Gothic texts, from Anne Radcliffe's romances to modern horror films, in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2007-01-31
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This book explores the three aspects of deviance that contemporary crime fiction manipulates: linguistic, social, and generic. Gregoriou conducts case studies into crime series by James Patterson, Michael Connelly and Patricia Cornwell, and investigates the way in which...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2007-01-30
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In his Bellum Catilinae, C. Sallustius Crispus or Sallust (86-35/34 B.C.) recounts the dramatic events of 63 B.C., when a disgruntled and impoverished nobleman, L. Sergius Catilina, turned to armed revolution after two electoral defeats. Among his followers were a group...
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Oxford University Press
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2007-01-27
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Many scholars have written about eighteenth-century English novels, but no one really knows who read them. This study provides historical data on the provincial reading publics for various forms of fiction - novels, plays, chapbooks, children's books, and magazines....
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OUP Oxford
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2007-01-25
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This book traces the evolution of the Faust myth from the Sixteenth century to modern times. The authors studied include Marlowe, Calderon, Milton, Goethe, Byron, Dostoevsky, Wilde, Thomas Mann, and Salman Rushdie.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2007-01-22
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This book is about the idea of space in the first half of the nineteenth century. It uses contemporary poetry, essays, and fiction as well as scientific papers, textbooks, and journalism to give a new account of nineteenth-century literature's relationship with science....
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OUP Oxford
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2007-01-18
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Why do the dead return? Do they remain part of the world of the living? This book examines these questions as they emerge in areas as diverse as film, Holocaust testimony, and the works of Jacques Derrida, Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok. The book suggests it may be as...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2007-01-11
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Beckett and Badiou offers a provocative new reading of Samuel Beckett's work on the basis of a full, critical account of the thought of Alain Badiou. Badiou is the most eminent of contemporary French philosophers. His devotion to Beckett's work has been lifelong. Yet...
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OUP Oxford
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2007-01-11
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This book charts the major events of Stoker's life, including friendships with many of the major figures of the age and as manager of Henry Irving's Lyceum, with his literary career. It offers critical evaluation of Dracula and of Stoker's lesser-known works, yielding...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2007-01-10
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This book explores landmark criticism on a writer who continues to command critical attention. In addition to mapping out the existing critical terrain, these essays offer a sense of future trajectories in James studies. Essays consider James' own criticism and theories...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2007-01-09
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This book explores the manifold connections between fundamentalism and literature in English. Carefully selected case studies and surveys document an unexpected richness and variety in this unlikely relationship
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2007-01-08
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This collection of essays offers a wide-ranging and provocative reassessment of the British novel's achievements after modernism. The book identifies continuities of preoccupation - with national identity, historiography and the challenge to literary form presented by...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2007-01-08
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Italien klassisches Ziel deutscher Bildungsreisen. So ist auch die italienische Literatur seit jeher ein Muss für alle Kulturinteressierten. Von Dante, Petrarca und Boccaccio über Manzoni und Leopardi bis Pirandello, Calvino, Fo, Eco und Tabucchi werden alle bedeutenden...
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J.B. Metzler
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2007-01-01
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N.B. this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title. Stock of this book requires shipment from overseas. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. Using literary and social analysis, this book examines a range of modern Arab American literary fiction and illustrates how...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2006-12-25
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This is the first book to study the work and influence of Elizabeth Cary, author of the first original play by a woman to be printed in English, The Tragedyie of Mariam (1613). Previous criticism focused concentrated on this and The History of Edward II , this volume...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2006-12-25
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No other ancient poet has had such a hold on the imagination of readers as Ovid. Through the centuries, artists, writers, and poets have found in his work inspiration for new creative endeavours.This anthology of twenty of the most influential papers published in the...
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OUP Oxford
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2006-12-22
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Fuseli's Milton Gallery challenges the antipictorial theories and canons of Romantic period culture. Between 1791 and 1799 Swiss painter Henry Fuseli turned Milton's Paradise Lost into a series of 40 pictures.Fuseli's project and other literary galleries developed...
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Clarendon Press
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2006-12-21
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This book is an anthology of thirteen of the most important articles published on Aeschylus in the last fifty years. It gives roughly equal coverage to the seven surviving plays, and there is also a chapter which places them in the context of Aeschylus' work as a whole....
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OUP Oxford
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2006-12-15
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Shakespeare's Entrails explores the connections between embodiment, knowledge and acknowledgement inShakespeare's plays. Hillman sets out a theory of the emergence of modern subjectivity in the context of a world that was increasingly coming to see the human body as a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2006-12-14
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What was the relationship between woman and politics in seventeenth-century England? Responding to this question, Conspiracy and Virtue argues that theoretical exclusion of women from the political sphere shaped their relation to it. Rather than producing silence, this...
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OUP Oxford
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2006-12-14
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