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Withan unconventional new perspective, Andersonidentifies Edgar Allan Poe's texts as ajourney and explores the ways Poe both encounters and transcends the realm of the material. Beginning with Poe s earliest short stories through his last fragment of imaginative prose,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2009-11-18
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This rich and varied collection of essays makes a timely contribution to critical debates about the Female Gothic, a popular but contested area of literary studies. The contributors revisit key Gothic themes - gender, race, the body, monstrosity, metaphor, motherhood...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-11-12
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Büchner wieder lesen, heißt die eigene Lage schärfer sehn. So umschreibt Christa Wolf die ungebrochene Aktualität Georg Büchners, dessen vielschichtiges uvre bis heute immer wieder zum Nachdenken auffordert. Neben Beiträgen zur Rezeption und Wirkung bietet das Handbuch...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2009-11-09
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Starting with a re-examination of the role of the colonial/racial Other in mainstream Gothic (colonial) fiction, this book goes on to engage with the problem of narrating the 'subaltern' in the post-colonial context. It engages with the problems of representing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-11-04
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Joseph Conrad and the Reader is the first book fully devoted to Conrad's relation to the reader, visual theory and authorship. This challenging study proposes new approaches to modern literary criticism and deftly examines the limits of deconstructionist theories,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-10-21
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Reading Jane Austenexplores Mansfield Park, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Persuasion against their historical and cultural backdrop to show precisely how Jane Austen sets out the core themes of British morality in her novels. Austen s period was arguably the most...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-09-28
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Wounds, Flesh and Metaphor in Seventeenth-Century England explores the theme of physical and symbolic woundedness in mid-seventeenth century English literature. This book demonstrates the ways in which writers attempted to represent the politically and religiously...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-08-31
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The late eighteenth century witnessed the emergence of the literary family: a collaborative kinship network of family and friends that, by the end of the century, displayed characteristics of a nascent corporation. This book examines different models of collaboration...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-07-20
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This book recovers the importance of a major figure in eighteenth-century British fiction: the Heroine of Disinterest. The disinterested heroine was no stereotype but a crucial figure in modernizing identity, bringing to life the ideal of character as the product of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-05-29
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Why were so many late-nineteenth-century homosexuals passionate about the Italian Renaissance? This book answers that question by showing how the Victorian coupling of criminality with self-fashioning under the sign of the Renaissance provided queer intellectuals with...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-05-07
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Kiberd - one of Ireland's leading critics and a central figure in the FIELD DAY group with Brian Friel, Seamus Deane and the actor Stephen Rea - argues that the Irish Literary Revival of the 1890-1922 period embodied a spirit and a revolutionary, generous vision of...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2009-05-04
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Poe, 'The House of Usher,' and the American Gothic discusses the interrelation between Poe's tale and the modern horror genre, demonstrating how Poe's work continues to serve as a model for exploring the deepest and most primitive corners of the human mind and heart.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-04-27
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This book explores the relationship between H.G. Wells's scientific romances and the discourses of science in the 1890s and early years of the twentieth century. It investigates how Wells utilizes his early fiction to participate in a range of topical scientific...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-04-17
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Malton examines the literary and cultural representation of the financial crime of forgery from the time of massive executions of forgers during the early nineteenth century to the forger's emergence as the ultimate criminal aesthete at the fin-de-siècle.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-03-16
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Privacy is not often thought of as a marker of modernity but a look at British women's writing of the early twentieth century suggests that it should be so. This book examines the female pursuit of privacy, particularly of the spatial kind, as women began to claim...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-01-15
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Conversion and Reform analyzes the work of those British reformists writing in the 1790s who reshaped the conventions of fiction to reposition the novel as a progressive political tool. Includes new readings of key figures such as Mary Wollstonecraft and Thomas...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-12-22
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This innovative and ground-breaking study explores the complex relationship between linguistic theory and literature during the Romantic period, focusing particularly on William Hazlitt's writings about linguistic theory and also considering figures such as Leigh Hunt,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-12-19
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An innovative study of the Renaissance practice of making epitaphic gestures within other English genres. A poetics of quotation uncovers the ways in which writers including Shakespeare, Marlowe, Holinshed, Sidney, Jonson, Donne, and Elizabeth I have recited...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-12-17
Collection :
Early Modern Literature in History
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This study traces the steady decline of classical authority in English literature from the mid-seventeenth century and the role of translation in shifting the emphasis away the classical learning. The author focuses on Virgil, once the most revered of poets but also...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-12-08
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Analyzing novels by women writers from the 1850s to the 1930s, this book argues that representations of mobility offer a fruitful way to explore the location of women within modernity and, specifically, the opportunities for (or limitations on) women's agency in this...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-11-27
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