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This is a book about readers on the move in the age of Victorian empire. It examines the libraries and reading habits of five reading constituencies from the long nineteenth century: shipboard emigrants, Australian convicts, Scottish settlers, polar explorers, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-10-21
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This is a book about readers on the move in the age of Victorian empire. It examines the libraries and reading habits of five reading constituencies from the long nineteenth century: shipboard emigrants, Australian convicts, Scottish settlers, polar explorers, and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-10-21
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This book takes a postcritical perspective on Joseph Conrad’s central texts, including Heart of Darkness, The Secret Agent, Under Western Eyes, and Lord Jim. Whereas critique is a form of reading that prioritizes suspicion, unmasking, and demystifying, postcritique...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-09-17
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Das Kleist-Jahrbuch 2021 enthält neben Beiträgen zur ›Politik des Rechts im Werk Heinrich von Kleists‹ von Bernd Fischer, Antonia Eder, David Pan, Bernhard Greiner, Johannes F. Lehmann, Tim Mehigan und Christian Moser weitere Abhandlungen von Rüdiger Görner, Andreas...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2021-09-13
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"A sign we are, uninterpreted. Painless we are and have almost / lost the language in a foreign country." Thus begins the second version of Friedrich Hölderlin's hymn dedicated to goddess of memory, Mnemosyne. "Hölderlin and the Consequences" wants to remember this...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-09-08
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This book re-locates Elizabeth Gaskell’s ‘smaller stories’ in the literary and cultural context of the nineteenth century. While Gaskell is recognised as one of the major novelists of her time, the short stories that make up a large proportion of her published work have...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-26
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This book frames British Romanticism as the artistic counterpart to a revolution in subjectivity occasioned by the rise of "The Rule of Law" and as a traumatic response to the challenges mounted against that ideal after the French Revolution. The bulk of this study...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-06
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This book aims to establish the position of the sidekick character in the crime and detective fiction literary genres. It re-evaluates the traditional view that the sidekick character in these genres is often overlooked as having a small, generic or singular role—either...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-07-24
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Crime Files
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„Es ist ein neuer Schauder, aber keine alte Furcht.“ Jean Pauls Sentenz birgt eine Ästhetik des Phantastischen in nuce. Sie gründet nicht zuletzt auf der Philosophie Friedrich Heinrich Jacobis und zielt auf den Wesenskern der Romantik. Neben Werken von Mozart,...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2021-07-16
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This monograph reorients discussion of Blake’s prophetic mode, revealing it to be not a system in any formal sense, but a dynamic, human response to an era of momentous historical change when the future Blake had foreseen and the reality he was faced with could not be...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-05-24
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"Socialism" names a form of collective life that has never been fully realized; consequently, it is best understood as a goal to be imagined. So this study argues, and thereby uncovers an aesthetic impulse that animates some of the most consequential socialist writing,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-04-15
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"Socialism" names a form of collective life that has never been fully realized; consequently, it is best understood as a goal to be imagined. So this study argues, and thereby uncovers an aesthetic impulse that animates some of the most consequential socialist writing,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-04-15
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This collection showcases work on William Godwin (1756-1836) foregrounding new critical approaches and uncovering new texts. Godwin is a familiar presence in scholarship on the Shelley-Godwin circle and on Dissenting intellectual circles, but the present collection...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-03-29
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This is a book about two empires—America and Rome—and the forms of time we create when we think about them together. Ranging from the eighteenth century to the present day, through novels, journalism, film, and photography, Time and Antiquity in American Empire...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-03-18
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This is a book about two empires—America and Rome—and the forms of time we create when we think about them together. Ranging from the eighteenth century to the present day, through novels, journalism, film, and photography, Time and Antiquity in American Empire...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-03-18
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Der Band berichtet über reale Reisen, Ansichten und Anekdoten von Alexander von Humboldt und Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, denen der Erzähler eine literarische Form gibt, die zugleich informiert und unterhält. In fiktiven Dialogen, inneren Monologen, Briefen oder...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-02-08
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This book explores how authors profited from their writings in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, contending that the most tangible benefits were social, rather than financial or aesthetic. It examines authors’ interactions with...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-27
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This book explores the history of women’s engagement with writing experimentally. Women writers have long used different narratives and modes of writing as a way of critiquing worlds and stories that they find themselves at odds with, but at the same...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-23
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Whilst religion and the secular have been continually debated contexts for literature of the Romantic era, the dominant scholarly focus has been on doctrines and denominations. In analysing the motif of devotion, Romantic Prayer shifts attention to the quintessential...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-01-21
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Whilst religion and the secular have been continually debated contexts for literature of the Romantic era, the dominant scholarly focus has been on doctrines and denominations. In analysing the motif of devotion, Romantic Prayer shifts attention to the quintessential...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-01-21
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