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Most of us have, at one time, been obsessed with something, but how did obsession become a mental illness? This book examines literary, medical, and philosophical texts to argue that what we call obsession became a disease in the Romantic era and reflects the era’s...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-29
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This collection brings together new articles by leading scholars who reappraise George Eliot in her bicentenary year as an interdisciplinary thinker and writer for our times. Here, researchers, students, teachers and the general public gain access to new perspectives on...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-09
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Invalid Modernism contributes to an intersectional moment in disability studies by looking at modernist aesthetics through a 'defamiliar body'. It also offers an intersectional understanding of modernism by studying the representation of physical and cognitive...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-02-14
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Early American libraries stood at the nexus of two transatlantic branches of commerce—the book trade and the slave trade. Slavery and the Making ofEarly American Libraries bridges the study of these trades by demonstrating how Americans' profits from slavery were...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-02-14
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Disaffected Parties reveals how alienation from politics effected crucial changes to the shape and status of literary form. Recovering the earliest expressions of grumbling, irritability, and cynicism towards politics, this study asks how unsettled partisan legacies...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-02-14
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Disaffected Parties reveals how alienation from politics effected crucial changes to the shape and status of literary form. Recovering the earliest expressions of grumbling, irritability, and cynicism towards politics, this study asks how unsettled partisan legacies...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-02-14
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This study explores the interrelationship between spatiality and subjecthood in the work of Stéphane Mallarmé, Guillaume Apollinaire, Maurice Maeterlinck, and Alfred Jarry. Concerned with various modes of poetry and drama, it also examines the cross-pollination that can...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-02-14
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Dieser Band enthält grundsätzliche Überlegungen und textbezogene Fallstudien zu poetologischen Potenzialen von Widersprüchen und Verwandtem in deutschen und europäischen Erzähltexten vom 12. bis zum 17. Jahrhundert. Untersucht werden Akte der Widerrede und Phänomene der...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-02-13
Collection :
Contradiction Studies
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Early American libraries stood at the nexus of two transatlantic branches of commerce—the book trade and the slave trade. Slavery and the Making ofEarly American Libraries bridges the study of these trades by demonstrating how Americans' profits from slavery were...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-02-07
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This study explores the interrelationship between spatiality and subjecthood in the work of Stéphane Mallarmé, Guillaume Apollinaire, Maurice Maeterlinck, and Alfred Jarry. Concerned with various modes of poetry and drama, it also examines the cross-pollination that can...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-02-07
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This Pivot examines a body of contemporary neo-Victorian novels whose uneasy relationship with the past can be theorised in terms of aggressive eating, including cannibalism. Not only is the imagery of eating repeatedly used by critics to comprehend neo-Victorian...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-02-04
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Laughter, Literature, Violence, 1840-1930 investigates the strange, complex, even paradoxical relationship between laughter, on the one hand, and violence, war, horror, death, on the other. It does so in relation to philosophy, politics, and key nineteenth- and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-02-04
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This volume bears potent testimony, not only to the dense complexity of Hamlet’s emotional dynamics, but also to the enduring fascination that audiences, adaptors, and academics have with what may well be Shakespeare’s moodiest play. Its chapters explore emotion in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-02-01
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This book explains neoliberalism as a phenomenon of the capitalist world-system. Many writers focus on the cultural or ideological symptoms of neoliberalism only when they are experienced in Europe and America.This collection seeks to restore globalized capitalism as...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-01-30
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This book investigates the relationship between the fascinating and misunderstood penny blood, early Victorian popular fiction for the working class, and Victorian anatomy. In 1832, the controversial Anatomy Act sanctioned the use of the body of the pauper for teaching...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-01-18
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At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the literary lecture arrived on London's cultural scene as an influential critical medium and popular social event. It flourished for two decades in the hands of the period's most prominent lecturers: Samuel Taylor Coleridge,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-17
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1966 bezeichnete Roland Barthes den Satz „Ich bin tot“ als unmögliche Aussage, denn sie behaupte das radikal Widersprüchliche: Leben und Tod. Der tote Ich-Erzähler in Prosa, der seit den 1950er Jahren Konjunktur hat, macht dieses Paradoxon zum Hauptgegenstand seiner...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-01-14
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Initially described by Dickens as a 'savage stenographic mystery', shorthand was to become an essential and influential part of his toolkit as a writer. In this ground-breaking interdisciplinary study, Hugo Bowles tells the story of Dickens's stenographic journey from...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-10
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Invalid Modernism contributes to an intersectional moment in disability studies by looking at modernist aesthetics through a 'defamiliar body'. It also offers an intersectional understanding of modernism by studying the representation of physical and cognitive...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-04
ePub
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At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the literary lecture arrived on London's cultural scene as an influential critical medium and popular social event. It flourished for two decades in the hands of the period's most prominent lecturers: Samuel Taylor Coleridge,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-04
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