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This study presents Moby-Dick as a novel with three distinct but interconnecting stories: Ishmael’s, which he shares ten years after it has taken place; Ahab’s, which is Ishmael's account of the memorable captain of a whaling ship; and a third which centres on whales...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-09
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Peace in the US Republic of Letters, 1840-1900 explores the early peace movement as it captured the imagination of leading writers. The book charts the rise of the peace cause from its sources in the works of William Penn and John Woolman, through the founding of the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-09-06
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What if the American experiment is twofold, encompassing both democracy and tyranny? That is the question at the core of this book, which traces some of ways that Americans across the nineteenth century understood the perversions tyranny introduced into both their...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-08-29
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This book examines the charged but mostly overlooked presence of the sensational Jew in antebellum literature.This stereotyped character appears primarily in the pulpy sensation fiction of popular writers like George Lippard, Ned Buntline, Emerson Bennett, and others....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-08-04
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Fictions of Finance at the End of an American Century explores how an economy determines the language of those who live among its imperatives--and how it makes available to them the stories that they can and cannot tell, and the manner of their telling. Read closely,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-06-26
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Fictions of Finance at the End of an American Century explores how an economy determines the language of those who live among its imperatives--and how it makes available to them the stories that they can and cannot tell, and the manner of their telling. Read closely,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-06-19
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This book examines the charged but mostly overlooked presence of the sensational Jew in antebellum literature.This stereotyped character appears primarily in the pulpy sensation fiction of popular writers like George Lippard, Ned Buntline, Emerson Bennett, and others....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-06-07
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The artist novel occupies a prominent place in literary history. Although research into this genre, which is usually perceived as especially rigid, may seem to be exhausted at a first glance, a closer look at the development of the artist novel reveals its sheer...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-03-31
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Das Buch untersucht E.T.A. Hoffmanns Roman Die Elixiere des Teufels. Nachgelassene Papiere des Bruders Medardus eines Capuziners mit dreifacher Zielsetzung: Zum Ersten präzisiert es anhand einer eingehenden textnahen Lektüre das gängige Verständnis des Texts in mehreren...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-11-03
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The book aims at interrogating the contemporary problematic of neoliberalism and its relationship to culture and ideology through the lens of a theoretical synthesis interweaving the emancipatory aesthetics of Herbert Marcuse, Fredric Jameson's pathbreaking analysis of...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-10-26
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Telling America's Story to the World argues that state and state-affiliated cultural diplomacy contributed to the making of postwar US literature. Highlighting the role of liberal internationalism in US cultural outreach, Harilaos Stecopoulos contends that the state...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-10-20
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Telling America's Story to the World argues that state and state-affiliated cultural diplomacy contributed to the making of postwar US literature. Highlighting the role of liberal internationalism in US cultural outreach, Harilaos Stecopoulos contends that the state...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-10-06
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An essential and field-defining resource, this volume brings fresh approaches to major US novels, poetry, and performance literature of the twentieth century. With sections on 'structures', 'movements', 'attachments', and 'imaginaries', this handbook brings a new set of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-09-19
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Discover a fascinating new set of perspectives on the life and work of Herman Melville A New Companion to Herman Melville delivers an insightful examination of Melville for the twenty-first century. Building on the success of the first Blackwell Companion to Herman...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2022-08-16
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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An essential and field-defining resource, this volume brings fresh approaches to major US novels, poetry, and performance literature of the twentieth century. With sections on 'structures', 'movements', 'attachments', and 'imaginaries', this handbook brings a new set of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-08-11
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A COMPANION TO AMERICAN POETRYA Companion to American Poetry brings together original essays by both established scholars and emerging critical voices to explore the latest topics and debates in American poetry and its study. Highlighting the diverse nature of poetic...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2022-04-11
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Writing, publishing, and marketing five politically engaged novels that appeared between 1899 and 1908, Sutton E. Griggs (1872-1933) was among the most prolific African American authors at the turn of the twentieth century. In contrast to his Northern contemporaries...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-03-24
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Writing, publishing, and marketing five politically engaged novels that appeared between 1899 and 1908, Sutton E. Griggs (1872-1933) was among the most prolific African American authors at the turn of the twentieth century. In contrast to his Northern contemporaries...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-03-24
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Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States examines how pain is represented in a range of literary texts and genres from the nineteenth-century US. It considers the aesthetic, philosophical, and ethical implications of pain across the works of Ralph Waldo...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-17
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Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States examines how pain is represented in a range of literary texts and genres from the nineteenth-century US. It considers the aesthetic, philosophical, and ethical implications of pain across the works of Ralph Waldo...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-17
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