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This collection of essays illustrates various pressures and concerns—both practical and theoretical—related to the study of print culture. Procedural difficulties range from doubts about the reliability of digitized resources to concerns with the limiting parameters of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-09-09
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This rich and varied collection of essays by scholars and interviews with artists approaches the fraught topic of book destruction from a new angle, setting out an alternative history of the cutting, burning, pulping, defacing and tearing of books from the medieval...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-09-09
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Love... it means too much to me, far more than you can understand.
At its simplest, Anna Karenina is a love story. It is a portrait of a beautiful and intelligent woman whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties - to her marriage and to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-08-28
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Love... it means too much to me, far more than you can understand.
At its simplest, Anna Karenina is a love story. It is a portrait of a beautiful and intelligent woman whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties - to her marriage and to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-08-28
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William Cobbett, the Press and Rural England offers a thorough re-appraisal ofWilliam Cobbett (1763-1835), situating his journalism and rural radicalism in relation to contemporary political debates....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-08-12
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Irish writing in the modernist era is often regarded as a largely rural affair, engaging with the city in fleeting, often disparaging ways, with Joyce cast as a defiant exception. This book shows how an urban modernist tradition, responsive to the particular political,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-08-08
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How is Hardy's development of thematics and characters matched by that of narrative techniques and his handling of time? This book uses narratological methods to stress the interdependence of content and expression in a key transitional writer between the Victorian and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-07-29
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Women Writers and the Hero of Romance studies the nature of the hero and his meaning for the female seeker, or quester, in romance fiction from Wuthering Heights to Fifty Shades of Grey. The book includes chapters on Wuthering Heights, Middlemarch, The Scarlet...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-06-25
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In this engaging new study, Claire White reveals how representations of work and leisure became the vehicle for anxieties and fantasies about class and alienation, affecting, in turn, the ways in which writers and artists understood their own cultural work.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-06-25
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Scholarly interest in 'the Irish Gothic' has grown at a rapid pace in recent years, but the debate over exactly what constitutes this body of literature remains far from settled. This collection of essays explores the rich complexities of the literary gothic in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-05-30
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Fin-de-Siècle Fictions, 1890s- 1990s focuses on fin-de-siècle British and postmodern American fictions of apocalypse and investigates the ways in which these narratives demonstrate shifts in the relations among modern discourses of power and knowledge.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-05-27
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This book addresses a critically neglected genre used by women writers from Gaskell to Woolf to complicate Victorian and modernist notions of gender and social space. Their innovative short stories ask Britons to reconsider where women could live, how they could be...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-03-30
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Poverty and inequality have gained a new public presence in the United Kingdom. Literature, and particularly narrative literature, (re-)configures how people think, feel and behave in relation to poverty. This makes the analysis of poverty-themed fiction an important...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-02-28
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Urban Enlightenment offers the first literary history of the British periodical essay spanning the entire eighteenth century, and the first to study the genre's development and cultural impact in a transatlantic context.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-01-20
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Drawing on previously unseen archival material, The Beginnings of University English explores the innovative and scholarly ways in which English literature was taught to extramural students in England during the fin de siècle, and sheds new light on the modern roots of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-01-02
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Raymond Williams begins his brilliantly perceptive study of the English novel in the 1840s, a period of rapid social change brought on by the Industrial Revolution, the struggle for democratic reform, and the growth of cities and towns. Unsettling, indeed critical, for...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-11-30
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Analysing texts by Sterne, Smollett, Brooke, and Mackenzie, this book offers a new perspective on a question that literary criticism has struggled with for years: why are many sentimental novels of the 1700s so pervasively and playfully self-conscious, and why is this...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-19
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Why does interrogation silence its object and not make it speak? Silence vs speech is a central issue in classical and modern literary works. This book studies literary representations of the power relations in which we are forced to speak using a range...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-10-10
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These essays explore the impartial critical outlook American writers acquired through their experiences in Europe since 1850. Collectively, contributors reveal how the American writer's intuitive sense of freedom, coupled with their feeling of liberation from European...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-10-03
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The proper organisation of rural communities was central to political and social debates at the turn of the eighteenth century, and featured strongly in the 1790s political polemic that influenced so many Romantic poets and novelists. This book investigates the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-08-08
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