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Berserk Violence, Racial Vengeance, and Settler Colonialism in American Writing from Franklin to Melville studies the literary and cultural tradition of the “Indian Hater” in American writing from the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War. In dozens of short...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-07-16
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The Egyptian Gothic consists of novels and short stories about ancient Egyptian mummies returning to life to seek retribution or romance as well as cursed object tales. Now mostly forgotten, from the 1880s through to the 1920s it was more popular than the vampire...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-07-13
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This book describes how Christian sacred geographies were represented in Victorian literature. It demonstrates first how those from the Hebrew Bible and the Old and New Testaments had become politically domesticated and psychologically internalised to sustain the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-07-02
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Berserk Violence, Racial Vengeance, and Settler Colonialism in American Writing from Franklin to Melville studies the literary and cultural tradition of the “Indian Hater” in American writing from the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War. In dozens of short...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-06-30
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Gedichte wandern häufig vom einzelnen Blatt oder Brief in unterschiedliche Lyriksammlungen oder Romane, in denen sie aufgrund der veränderten Umgebung neue Bedeutung erlangen. Ähnliches geschieht, wenn die Kanzone aus dem altokzitanischen Sprachraum oder das Sonett von...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-06-25
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How do books dazzle, disgust, or delight audiences? What entices readers to track characters’ trials and tribulations? Why do stories echo across the ages with their intensity? Books with vibrant, somatic elements prompt us to identify with protagonists who fall...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-05-15
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This edited volume offers new models for engaging with the work of John Ruskin, the Victorian art critic, architectural and educational theorist, amateur meteorologist and naturalist who gradually became an outspoken critic of capitalist economics and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-04-22
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The Doctor-Patient Relationship and the Nineteenth-Century French Novel analyses the representation of the doctor-patient relationship in the nineteenth-century French novel, notably in the words of Balzac, Sand, Stendhal, and Zola. It argues that the doctor-patient...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-04-09
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As Carol A. Senf has noted of some of Bram Stoker’s less prominent ?ctions in Science and Social Science in Bram Stoker’s Fiction (2002), they often occupy an elusive place, “a realm that is not precisely Gothic but that is somehow beyond the scienti?c...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-04-02
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Fiction classified as ‘neo-Victorian’ has steadily emerged as a crucial mode of British cultural production. It is no coincidence that this most recent Victorian renaissance is taking shape in a climate of widespread empire nostalgia, with imperial-colonial...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-04-02
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The Doctor-Patient Relationship and the Nineteenth-Century French Novel analyses the representation of the doctor-patient relationship in the nineteenth-century French novel, notably in the words of Balzac, Sand, Stendhal, and Zola. It argues that the doctor-patient...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-03-29
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Die These des Buches ist, dass in der frühen Neuzeit die Literatur den Vorrang vor der Naturbetrachtung beanspruchte. Verschiebungen gab es über Phasen zeitweiliger Parität, der Priorität der Naturwissenschaften im 19. Jahrhundert bis zu deren Kritik im 20. Jahrhundert...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-01-31
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“‘Who is … the Proust of the Paphuans?’, Saul Bellow infamously inquired, as if this vast expanse were too small, scattered and backward to deserve consideration. In response to this challenge, Pacific Gateways seeks to define a new (if provisional) canon. This diverse,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-28
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Eine „tägliche […] Buchführung mit sich selbst“ war für Goethe von großer Bedeutung, wie er 1827 gegenüber Kanzler Friedrich von Müller formulierte. Seine überlieferten Tagebücher machen rund zehn Prozent seines literarischen Nachlasses aus und erstrecken sich über...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-12-09
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Eine „tägliche […] Buchführung mit sich selbst“ war für Goethe von großer Bedeutung, wie er 1827 gegenüber Kanzler Friedrich von Müller formulierte. Seine überlieferten Tagebücher machen rund zehn Prozent seines literarischen Nachlasses aus und erstrecken sich über...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-12-06
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This book brings an original perspective to literary theory and criticism by using insights drawn from visual cognition and neuroscience. Employing recent findings in neuroscience to explain consistent patterns in the representation of space in literature, Finnigan...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-12-04
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This book fills a gap in existing scholarship on the history of the novel in relation to visual culture by discussing the visual fascination that novelists such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Honoré de Balzac and George Eliot show for several types of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-11-14
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This book tracks the rise of modern cultural regionalism across the turn of the nineteenth century. Attending specifically to literature and literary culture, it examines how a particular region—southwest Scotland—was reimagined between 1770 and 1830. Regionalisms were...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-22
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Master mariner and pioneer author of Modernist technique Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) achieved such eminence in his lifetime that his presence, explicit or implicit, could be found in the lives and works of several contemporaries of consequence. Through the century since...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-09-27
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Das Kleist-Jahrbuch 2024 enthält erstmals die Rubrik ›Kleist-Funde‹, in der fünf bislang unbekannte Briefe Heinrich von Kleists an Joseph von Buol-Berenberg aus den Jahren 1809 und 1810 als Faksimile und in Transkription ediert werden. Hermann F. Weiss berichtet über...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-09-17
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