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Rose Elizabeth Cleveland was the First Lady of the United States when she assisted her brother, Grover Cleveland. She was also a literary scholar, novelist, and a poet who published work that empowered women. This book positions Cleveland in the historical context of...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2014-05-25
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The Cold of May Day Monday offers an indvidual view of the history of Irish literature from its very earliest phases up to the present day, more or less, with discussions of major writers such as Friel, Heaney, Derek Mahon, McGahern, and John Banville. Robert Welch...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-05-22
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The Cold of May Day Monday offers an indvidual view of the history of Irish literature from its very earliest phases up to the present day, more or less, with discussions of major writers such as Friel, Heaney, Derek Mahon, McGahern, and John Banville. Robert Welch...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-05-22
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While the end of the nineteenth century is often associated with the rise of objectivity and its ideal of a restrained observer, scientific experiments continued to create emotional, even theatrical, relationships between scientist and his subject. On Flinching focuses...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-05-22
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This study treats the Victorian Antipodes as a compelling site of romance and satire for middle-class writers who went to New Zealand between 1840 and 1872. Blythe's research fits with the rising study of settler colonialism and highlights the intersection of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-05-21
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Through the prism of intimacy, Burleigh sheds light on eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century American texts. This insightful study shows how the trope of the family recurred to produce contradictory images - both intimately familiar and frighteningly alienating -...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-05-21
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In Defence of Christianity examines the early Christian apologists in their context in thirteen articles divided in four parts. Part I provides an introduction to apology and apologetics in antiquity, an overview of the early Christian apologists, and an outline of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-05-20
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Rachel de Queiroz (1910-2003) gilt als eine der bedeutendsten AutorInnen Brasiliens im 20. Jahrhundert. Die Frage nach der Konstitution des Subjekts ist Ausgangspunkt für die Untersuchung ihrer sieben Romane. Sie ermöglicht gleichzeitig einen Blick auf das...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-05-20
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This book analyzes the iconographic traditions of Jeremiah and of melancholy to show how Donne, Herbert, and Milton each fashions himself after the icons presented in Rembrandt's Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem , Sluter's sculpture of Jeremiah in the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-05-14
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While Doris Lessing was composing The Golden Notebook , she was intimately involved with Clancy Sigal and their relationship influenced the literary methods of both writers. Focusing on literary transformations, Rubenstein offers compelling insights into the ethical...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-05-14
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Thanks to the accurate and detailed Ultimate study guide Collection, you have now the possibility to know everything about Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World.
We entrust university specialists with the writing of each study guides.
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Editeur :
Les Editions de l'Ebook malin
Parution :
2014-05-13
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The Postcolonial Cultural Industry makes a timely intervention into the field of postcolonial studies by unpacking its relation to the cultural industry. It unearths the role of literary prizes, the adaptation industry and the marketing of ethnic bestsellers as new...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-05-13
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Hospitality and the Transatlantic Imagination, 1815-1835 argues that a select group of late-Romantic English and American writers disrupted national tropes by reclaiming their countries' shared historical identification with hospitality. In doing so, they reimagined the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-05-13
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Mit dieser Monographie werden erstmals fnhd. handschriftliche Zeugnisse von Frauen in Schlesien aus dem Staatsarchiv in Liegnitz ediert. Der besondere Wert der Quellen aus den Jahren 1546 bis 1678 liegt darin, dass damit eine Teilhabe adeliger Frauen am lokalen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-05-13
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The present volume comprises a collection of wonderful and insightful essays exploring the theme of sanctuaries in Washington Irving’sThe Sketch Book. These are sanctuaries of natural beauty, peacefulness, architectural splendor, and mythical vitality. In addition, the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-05-13
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Dieses Buch fußt, abgesehen einmal von den langjährigen Arbeiten des Verfassers zur Geschichte des Kinderbuchs, auf der Auswertung des Siegfried Unseld-Archivs im Deutschen Literaturarchiv in Marbach. Geboten wird ein Überblick über die Entstehungsgeschichte, die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-05-13
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This volume offers a survey of analyses of Gothic texts, including literary works, feature films, a TV serial, and video games, with a view to showing the evolution and expansion of the Gothic convention across the ages and the media. The temporal scope of the book is...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-05-13
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This study makes Romania’s largely unknown Joycean heritage visible to an international readership. Reviewing Joyce’s critical reception and translations, as well as the writer’s influence on Romanian prose, it brings Derrida’s notion of «hostipitality» to comparative...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-05-13
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The volume is a collection of essays representative of the wide focus of research encouraged and coordinated by the Polish Association for the Study of English (member of ESSE). Articles selected for the volume deal with works of poetry, drama and prose written in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-05-13
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Finding a precious object – a gem, a ring or a coin – inside the belly of a fish is a favorite motif in western literatures that can be traced back to the Greek historian Herodotus. In Herodotus’ account of the rise and fall of the tyrant Polycrates of Samos, the hero...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-05-13
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