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This book presents ten new chapters on John Keats's medical imagination, beginning with his practical engagement with dissection and surgery, and the extraordinary poems he wrote during his 'busy time' at Guy's Hospital 1815-17. The Physical Society at Guy's and the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-06
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Ralph Waldo Emerson's dementia, an ordeal that marked his final two decades, has never been a secret among those who study Emerson's life. Still, few have focused on the period of Emerson's decline. Thus, his later thinking has succumbed to a process of critical...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-12-05
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This volume is the first to identify a significant body of life narratives by working-class women and to demonstrate their inherent literary significance. Placing each memoir within its generic, historical, and biographical context, this book traces the shifts in such...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-02
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This volume looks at the representation of 9/11 and the resulting wars in European literature. In the face of inner-European divisions the texts under consideration take the terror attacks as a starting point to negotiate European as well as national identity. While...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-28
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What explains the enduring popularity of white-authored protest fiction about racism in America? How have such books spoken to the racial crises of their time, and why do they remain important in our own era? White Writers, Race Matters explores these questions and the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-11-22
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This book is the first major ecocritical study of the relationship between British Romanticism and climate change. It analyses a wide range of texts – by authors including Lord Byron, William Cobbett, Sir Stamford Raffles, Mary Shelley, and Percy Shelley – in relation...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-20
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This book argues that the female philosopher, a literary figure brought into existence by Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, embodied the transformations of feminist thought during the transition from the Enlightenment to the Romantic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-17
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This book explores the relationship between psychoanalysis, literary criticism and contemporary literature. Focusing on Latin America, and using examples from Brazilian, Colombian, Chilean, Puerto Rican, and Mexican literature, it provides an important account of why...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-16
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Eighteenth-century fiction is full of mechanical devices and contrivances: Robinson Crusoe uses his gun and compass to master his island and its inhabitants; Tristram Shandy's conception is interrupted by a question about a clock and he has his nose damaged at birth by...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-11-10
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This book seeks to frame the “the idea of India” in the American imaginary within a transnational lens that is attentive to global flows of goods, people, and ideas within the circuits of imperial and maritime economies in nineteenth century America (roughly...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-09
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This book reveals the economic motivations underpinning colonial, neocolonial and neoliberal eras of global capitalism that are represented in critiques of inequality in postcolonial fiction. Today’s economic inequality, suffered disproportionately by indigenous and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-08
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Die unterschiedlichen Erzählformen der Idylle in der Literatur des deutschsprachigen Realismus stehen im Mittelpunkt dieses Bandes. Spätestens seit Jean Paul hat sich die Idylle aus ihren arkadischen Szenerien herausgelöst und ist in alle Winkel der erzählten Welt...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2017-11-08
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This book attempts to understand what ‘contemporary’ has meant, and should mean, for literary studies. The essays in this volume suggest that an attentive reading of recent global literatures challenges the idea that our contemporary moment is best characterized as a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-03
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The demise of the monarchy and the bodily absence of a King caused a representational crisis in the early republic, forcing the American people to reconstruct the social symbolic order in a new and unfamiliar way. Social historians have routinely understood the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-11-01
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This volume considers Joseph Conrad’s use of multiple genres, including allusions to sensation fiction, pornography, anthropology, and Darwinian science, to respond to Victorian representations of gender in layered and contradictory representations of his own. In his...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-25
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This volume examines innovative intersections of life-writing and experimental fiction in the 20th and 21st centuries, bringing together scholars and practicing biographers from several disciplines (Modern Languages, English and Comparative Literature, Creative...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-24
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In J. R. R Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and The Silmarillion, Middle-earth endured cataclysmic wars and critical battles, causing great men, women and mystical creatures to arise, influence and shape the course of its history. Here in this book, Tolkien...
Editeur :
Pyramid
Parution :
2017-10-20
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Tolkien
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This book rethinks the notion of nineteenth-century capital(s) from geographical, economic and symbolic perspectives, proposing an alternative mapping of the field by focusing on different loci and sources of capital. Walter Benjamin’s essay ‘Paris, the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-17
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This book views Romantic literature’s discourses of childhood, education, and reproduction through the eyes of four early nineteenth-century British authors who were uniquely implicated in those discourses. Hartley and Sara Coleridge, children of Samuel Taylor...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-17
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This book provides the first thematic survey and analysis of nineteenth-century writing that imagined outcomes that history might have produced. Narratives of possible worlds and scenarios—referred to here as “alternate histories”—proliferated during the nineteenth...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-17
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