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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...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
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...
Editeur :
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...
Editeur :
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...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-27
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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...
Editeur :
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....
Editeur :
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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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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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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This book explores the representation of the first generations of women who studied at Oxford and Cambridge in popular fiction of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Familiarly termed "Girton Girls", these women were depicted as intent on overthrowing the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-30
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This pioneering collection delves into Jane Austen's enduring legacy in the East, exploring her significance to East-West relations, Westernization, and Asian identities. It enriches Austen studies by integrating Asian viewpoints on feminism, queer theory,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-26
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This literary dictionary provides a concise reference guide to Robert Browning. Alphabetical entries cover his revolutionary poetics, drama, long narrative poems, writing on relations between the sexes, and translation and adaptation from classical works. Browning was...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-26
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Das Kleist-Jahrbuch 2025 dokumentiert die Verleihung des Kleist-Preises 2024 mit den Reden der*des Preisträger*in Sasha Marianna Salzmann, der Vertrauensperson der Jury Samira El Ouassil und der Präsidentin der Heinrich-von-Kleist-Gesellschaft Anne Fleig. Den...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-09-26
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Realism is an artistic practice that aims to faithfully represent reality. Historically, it has been practiced across different media, from early pictorial art and epic oral narratives, through literature and visual arts, to film, music, and digital media. However, an...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-09-08
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This book offers a pioneering study of the national, transnational, and international dimensions of working-class literature. It explores both the historically and geographically varied nature of the relationship between working-class literatures and national...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-26
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The thesis of the book is that in the early modern period, literature claimed precedence over the observation of nature. There were shifts through phases of temporary parity, the priority of natural sciences in the 19th century, and their critique by literature in the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-14
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