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'In short, I write just what I think.'
After a successful career in the service of an aristocratic family, Charles Ignatius Sancho (c. 1729–1780) established a successful grocery business in Westminster and had eight children, four of whom survived to adulthood....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-03-31
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'In short, I write just what I think.'
After a successful career in the service of an aristocratic family, Charles Ignatius Sancho (c. 1729–1780) established a successful grocery business in Westminster and had eight children, four of whom survived to adulthood....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-03-25
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This work is a study of current migration narratives within the disciplines of Anglophone Postcolonial Literature and Digital Humanities. Global culture, the proliferation and pervasiveness of telecommunications technologies and new media, particularly the Internet,...
Editeur :
Mimesis International
Parution :
2026-02-25
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'Some verses flow on out of men
like headstreams course through a canal.
The same holds true for mine, old pal-
though I can't say they're worth a lick,
they still pour out of me real quick,
like sheep escapin' a corral.'
José Hernández's long narrative poems The...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-02-25
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This book is a phenomenological study of the crime fiction of Benjamin Black and John Banville, including novels published between 2006 and 2024. The analysis seeks to situate this author’s crime works in relation to the genre more broadly. Additionally, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-23
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'Some verses flow on out of men
like headstreams course through a canal.
The same holds true for mine, old pal-
though I can't say they're worth a lick,
they still pour out of me real quick,
like sheep escapin' a corral.'
José Hernández's long narrative poems The...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-02-20
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This book approaches the nature of Emily Dickinson from a multi-dimensional perspective. It studies nature in Dickinson’s works from five aspects including historical, pictorial, ecocritical, philosophical and nonhuman perspectives, providing a tentative...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-31
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Metaphor is of vital concern to the discipline of literary studies as well as the field of animal studies. Drawing on Jacques Derrida’s philosophy and Paul Ricœur’s tropology, this book studies the spectrality of metaphor in relation to animal figures...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-27
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This book examines the works of American writers in Paris and explores the evolving interactions between these writers and French society from the 1800s to the present. It reveals a deepened understanding and an increased acceptance of different traditions and values,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book explores the popular writing of the New Humourists and their vital engagement with late Victorian conceptions of manliness. Accused by their critics of lowness and inconsequentiality, these works act as literary mediations of a lower middle-class urban...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book examines William Blake as a ‘mystic’ and the movements and authors that contributed to this definition during and after his lifetime, with a particular focus on his influence on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Celtic Modernist writers....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book examines murrain, or mass mortalities of cattle, in ways that bridge the gap between animal studies and the health humanities. Beginning with early modern European disease ecologies but informed by contemporary epidemiological and ecological concerns, The...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-18
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the US and UK experienced an occult revival, a flourishing "occulture" that signalled the increasing presence of the occult in the popular imagination. This period also witnessed another major cultural development--a...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-11-17
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Robert Menasse und Juli Zeh sind politische Autor:innen – aber wie politisch sind ihre Texte? Die Studie versteht die Artikulation des Politischen im Text als Streit um Teilhabe, Ordnung und Repräsentation. Politische Literatur wird nicht über ihre...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-11-15
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This broad-ranging book draws on Freudian and post-Freudian theory to offer a new and original perspective on courtly love from its origins in eleventh-century Occitania to its transformation into conflicting chivalric and courtly discourses in the later Middle Ages....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-07
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How does modern poetry from Donne to Ashbery provide occasions for rethinking the scope and limits of the literary canon? This question is not simply concerned with literature in English but addresses the problem of how texts transform the reader’s experience of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-10-31
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The Russian novel remains a subject of enduring interest for scholars, students, and general audiences. Russian novels were initially influenced by the parallel traditions of novel-writing in Britain, France, and Germany, but the Russian novel exists as its own...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-10-31
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In/Visible Subjects explores the cultural fascination with invisible characters in literature. While the concept of social invisibility is common in contemporary political discourse, there exists no comprehensive analysis of the history of the cultural metaphor of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-10-28
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This book presents an original and engaging study of the cultural history and literary significance of hairwork – the crafting of decorative objects, such as jewellery, from human hair – in Victorian Britain. Hairwork became increasingly fashionable and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-10-19
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Melville's Maritime Politics: Enlightenment at Sea offers a new account of the political thought of Herman Melville (1819-1891). Reading Melville in dialogue with Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and Kant, it shows how his works spoke back to the Founders' competing...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-10-10
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