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This book brings together for the first time nine groundbreaking historical novels by women from the United States, Canada and Latin America, united by their focus on female adventurers. These novels introduce the neglected women of history, real and imagined, who...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-03-10
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Between 22 June and 18 August 1818, John Keats and his friend and collaborator Charles Armitage Brown embarked on an epic walking tour of the English Lake District, South West Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Ayrshire Burns Country, the Scottish Highlands and Western...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-03-10
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The Aesthetic Commonplace is a study of the everyday as a region of overlooked value in the work of William Wordsworth, George Eliot, and Ludwig Wittgenstein.The Romantic poet, the realist novelist, and the modern philosopher are each separately associated with a...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-03-10
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This book examines Charles Dickens's fiction alongside publications emanating from Parliament. It argues that Dickens and Parliament were engaged in competitive efforts to represent the People at a crucial moment in the history of representative democracy--when the...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-02-10
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1848 was a pivotal moment not only in Europe but in much of the rest of the world too. Marx's scornful dismissal of the revolutions created a historiography for1848 that has persisted for more than 150 years. Serial Revolutions1848 shows how, far from being the failure...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-10
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1848 was a pivotal moment not only in Europe but in much of the rest of the world too. Marx's scornful dismissal of the revolutions created a historiography for1848 that has persisted for more than 150 years. Serial Revolutions1848 shows how, far from being the failure...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-10
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This book examines Charles Dickens's fiction alongside publications emanating from Parliament. It argues that Dickens and Parliament were engaged in competitive efforts to represent the People at a crucial moment in the history of representative democracy--when the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-10
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Victorian Women's Travel Writing on Meiji Japan: Hospitable Friendship examines forgotten stories of cross-cultural friendship and intimacy betweenVictorian female travel writers and Meiji Japanese. Drawing on unpublished primary sources and contemporary Japanese...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-01-13
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Victorian Women's Travel Writing on Meiji Japan: Hospitable Friendship examines forgotten stories of cross-cultural friendship and intimacy betweenVictorian female travel writers and Meiji Japanese. Drawing on unpublished primary sources and contemporary Japanese...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-01-13
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This book explores how phenomenological ideas about embodiment, perception, and lived experience are discussed within disability studies, critical race theory, and queer studies. Building on these disciplines, it offers readings of memoirs and novels that address the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-08
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Narratives of Addiction: Savage Usury is the first book to argue, in the face of more than a century’s received wisdom, that drug addiction and alcoholism are undoubtedly evidence of individual moral flaws. However, the sense of morality that underlies this book is...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-03
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This book charts the publishing industry and bestselling fiction from 1900, featuring a comprehensive list of all bestselling fiction titles in the UK.This third edition includes a new introduction which features additional information on current trends in reading...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-03
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This book addresses the distinct representations of emotions in non-fictional texts from the seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century (1600-1850). Focusing on memoirs, autobiographies, correspondences and conduct manuals, it argues that...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
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Shortlisted for the Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize 2022, The Tramp in British Literature, 1850-1950 offers a unique account of the emergence of a new conception of homelessness in the mid-nineteenth century. After arguing that the emergence of the figure of the tramp...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
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Keats and Shelley: Winds of Light combines unrivalled textual knowledge, biographical and contextual expertise, and profoundly insightful close readings of the poetry in a selection of outstanding essays from a leading critic of English Romantic Poetry.
Some of the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-16
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Keats and Shelley: Winds of Light combines unrivalled textual knowledge, biographical and contextual expertise, and profoundly insightful close readings of the poetry in a selection of outstanding essays from a leading critic of English Romantic Poetry.
Some of the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-16
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A Vindication of the Redhead investigates red hair in literature, art, television, and film throughout Eastern and Western cultures. This study examines red hair as a signifier, perpetuated through stereotypes, myths, legends, and literary and visual...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-12-14
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This open access book investigates imaginaries of artificial limbs, eyes, hair, and teeth in British and American literary and cultural sources from the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture shows how...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-12-03
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This open access book considers science and empire, and the stories we tell ourselves about them. Using British Nobel laureate Ronald Ross (1857-1932) and his colleagues as access points to a wider professional culture, Empire Under the Microscope explores the cultural...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-26
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British Literature and the Life of Institutions charts a literary prehistory of the welfare state in Britain around 1900, but it also marks a major intervention in current theoretical debates about critique and the dialectical imagination. By placing literary studies in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-25
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