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Poetic innovation in wordsworth 1825–1833
"Poetic Innovation in Wordsworth 1825–1833" uses extensive manuscript study of Wordsworth’s poems to present, for the first time, an account of his poetics during the supposedly "fallow" years, 1825–1833. The poetry of this period appears in a "landscape" that includes manuscripts, streams and pa...
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Performing noncitizenship
This exacting study examines the role that theatre, film and activism responsive to asylum seekers has played in the emergence of ‘irregular’ noncitizenship as a cornerstone idea in contemporary Australian political and social life.
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Modernist afterlives in irish literature and culture
Modernist Afterlives in Irish Literature and Culture explores manifestations of the themes, forms and practices of high modernism in Irish literature and culture produced subsequent to this influential movement. The interdisciplinary collection reveals how Irish artists grapple with modernist leg...
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Margaret harkness
This collection places the life and work of Margaret Harkness at the heart of a broader consideration of the socially turbulent decades around the turn of the twentieth century in order to illuminate historical forms of women’s political activism.
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Universality and utopia
This book explores the intersection between philosophical and literary universalism in Latin America, tracing its configuration within the twentieth-century Peruvian socialist indigenista tradition, following from the work of José Carlos Mariátegui and elaborated in the literary works of César Va...
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Prizing scottish literature
This history of the Saltire Society Literary Awards demonstrates the significance the awards have had within Scottish literary and cultural life. The book explores how the prizes have influenced understandings of Scottish literature over eight decades and explores what they reveal about the wider...
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Touching god
The first book devoted to the study of love in the writings of Gerald Manley Hopkins, ‘Touching God’ offers fresh readings of Hopkins’ poetry by considering love in relation to mutual touch.
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Dickens and the sentimental tradition
‘Dickens and the Sentimental Tradition’ is a timely study of the ‘sentimental’ in Dickens’s novels, which re-evaluates his presentation of emotion as part of a complex literary tradition that enables him to critique nineteenth-century society.
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Affect and realism in contemporary brazilian fiction
This book is about contemporary Brazilian fiction from the past two decades and concerned with the possibilities of literary intervention in the reality of the historical moment.
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A critical edition of thomas tod stoddart's ‘the death-wake’ or 'lunacy'
Thomas Tod Stoddart’s innovative gothic epic poem The Death-Wake (1831), now little known, may have been lost to history if not for the interventions of Edgar Allan Poe in 1842 and Andrew Lang in 1895. This critical edition reprints and contextualises Stoddart’s morbid and distinctive masterpiece...
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Australian literature in the german democratic republic
Exploring the imaginative construction of the post-colonial South by the communist East, this collaborative study of the reception of Australian literature in the German Democratic Republic has resonance for all newly global reckonings of the cultural Cold War.
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Animal presence and human identity in modern literature
Animal Presence and Human Identity in Modern Literature is an exploration of literary representations of the human-animal encounter in modernity that press human “being” to its limits. Texts studied include Shakespeare’s King Lear, Eliot’s Middlemarch, Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau, Atwood’...
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Critical approaches to fen gothic literature
The book defines and discusses Fen Gothic, an example of regional Gothic inflected by geography, relationships of centre and margins, history, ecology and gender and the perspectives offered by related Gothic critical approaches.
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Dialogues on beckett
‘Dialogues on Beckett’ is a collection of 12 conversations about 12 plays by Samuel Beckett, discussions about the meaning of life and the universe between an agnostic and a Christian, based on a close reading of the text.
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Stephen wall, trollope and character and other essays on victorian literature
‘Stephen Wall, “Trollope and Character” (1988) and Other Essays on Victorian Literature’ is a collection of critical essays by the eminent literary critic Stephen Wall, including his exceptional writings on Anthony Trollope, as well as brilliant studies of Charles Dickens and other major Victoria...
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American literary naturalism
The book collects Pizer’s late career essays on various writers and subjects related to American naturalism.
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Post-multicultural writers as neo-cosmopolitan mediators
‘Post-Multicultural Writers as Neo-Cosmopolitan Mediators’ is the first book to bring together global debates in neo-cosmopolitanism over the last decade and Australian minority writers, linking them to globalisation and transnationalism in cultural studies.
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Four augustan science poets: abraham cowley, james thomson, henry brooke, erasmus darwin
“Four Augustan Science Poets: Abraham Cowley, James Thomson, Henry Brooke, Erasmus Darwin” is a concise study focusing on four poets who because of their distinctive profiles illustrate especially well the opportunities and pitfalls of writing science poetry during the long eighteenth century.
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On beckett
“On Beckett: Essays and Criticism” is the first collection of writings about the Nobel Prize–winning author that covers the entire spectrum of his work, and also affords a rare glimpse of the private Beckett.
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Christos tsiolkas and the fiction of critique
This is the first theoretically informed study of Tsiolkas’s work. It follows the arc of his controversial career, and explores the tensions between political radicality, transgressive sexuality and his more recent commercial success.
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Thomas keneally's career and the literary machine
Thomas Keneally: world success story or Australian writer who never fulfilled early potential? ‘Thomas Keneally’s Career and the Literary Machine’ explains the disparate opinions, charting his writing’s production and reception as shaping a literary career. It tracks tensions between literary and...
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Australian patriography
This study of modern Australian life writing by sons who focus on fathers is the first of its kind within Australian literature. It offers compelling readings of Raimond Gaita’s ‘Romulus, My Father’, Peter Rose’s ‘Rose Boys’ and many others.
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The voice of the people
‘The Voice of the People’ presents a series of essays on literary aspects of the pan-European folk revival from the late eighteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth.
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A theoretical approach to modern american history and literature
A reconfiguration of modern American history, showing how multiple movements at different times challenged a singularly defined modern America, and a re-representation of the modern American novel, accenting the different critical literary voices to effect a fundamental recasting of the modern Am...
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Colombian gothic in cinema and literature
The Colombian Gothic in Cinema and Literature postulates defining aesthetic features and political functions of the genre in Colombia—from the nineteenth century to the present, and from Bogotá to Cali.
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Reaganism in literary theory
Largely erased from disciplinary memory, Paul de Man’s replacement of canon with literariness as the object of literary studies preserved a discourse of devotion and disqualification homologous with Reaganism. This negative moralism shelters professional privilege and competition from scrutiny, s...
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Gothic appalachian literature
Gothic Appalachian Literature examines the ways contemporary Appalachian authors utilize gothic tropes to explore the complex history and contemporary problems of the region, particularly in terms of the representation of economic, environmental, and political concerns.
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Sexual violence and literary art
Sexual Violence and Literary Art addresses the complicity of representation in what is represented, and its creative transformations, by re-examining classic poetic, dramatic and fictional texts by men in light of women’s philosophical, theoretical and critical responses to them.
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Philosophical meta-reflections on literary studies
‘Philosophical Meta-Reflections on Literary Studies: Why Do Things with Texts, and What to Do with Them?’ takes up key meta-questions in the humanities, with focus on contemporary literary studies, philosophically examines the nature of knowledge therein as well as the implications of certain pop...
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The portrayal of breastfeeding in literature
Analyses the depiction of breastfeeding in literature, what it tells us about how women are perceived in our society and how it matters.
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W. h. davies
This book brings together, for the first time, a collection of articles from leading scholars on the writing, and literary and social contexts, of the ‘tramp-poet’ and memoirist W. H. Davies (1871–1940).
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Pastoral cosmopolitanism in edith wharton’s fiction
One of the goals of this book is to demonstrate that while the pastoral seems to portray troubling fractures between the social self and native soil, Wharton is more struck by how these ostensibly divergent cultural categories superimpose and interpenetrate to form an ecocritical palimpsest.
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Raymond federman and samuel beckett
This book is about Raymond Federman and his incredible textual obsession with Samuel Beckett. Federman was a scholar of Beckett, postmodern theorist, a self-translator and avant-garde novelist.
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Taxidermy and the gothic
Taxidermy and the Gothic: The Horror of Still Life is the first extended study of the Gothic’s collusion with taxidermy. It tells the story of the emergence in the long nineteenth century of the twin golden ages of the Gothic genre and the practice of taxidermy, and their shared rhetorical and na...
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Epic ambitions in modern times
Epic Ambitions in Modern Times examines how artists, in various forms and media, have reinvented the epic in the past three centuries.
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Notions of otherness
‘Notions of Otherness’ is a collection of literary essays that approaches the idea of alterity politically, aesthetically, ethically, culturally and sexually in a diachronic manner.
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Roland barthes writing the political
Roland Barthes Writing the Political: History, Dialectics, Self re-reads and re-purposes for the twenty-first century France’s most important writer of the twentieth century. It argues that Barthes’s wide-ranging analyses – from Voltaire to Nietzsche, Marx to myth, gay love to Japan – can be appl...
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End of empire and the english novel since 1945
First book-length critical work devoted to the impact of the end of empire and traces of imperial memory in mainstream English Literature since the Second World War. Authors studied include Josephine Tey, William Golding, Penelope Lively, David Peace and Ian McEwan. Represents the best of current...
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Sleep and its spaces in middle english literature
This book shows how sleep and the spaces in which it takes place animate ethical codes and emotive scripts, shaping a range of medieval English genres. In particular, it demonstrates the significance of sleep-related motifs to Middle English romance and offers a more embodied understanding of dre...
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Transporting chaucer
Argues for new relationships between Chaucer’s poetry and works by others
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Paul auster
This study explores all of Auster's artistic output - both published and unpublished - for the first time, and considers, in considerable depth, his major themes of New York life, identity, community, writing and storytelling.
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El castigo sin venganza
An authoritative new critical edition of Lope de Vega’s best and best-known play that includes an introduction, commentary, selected vocabulary and footnotes for the English-speaking student.
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James baldwin review
The James Baldwin Review (JBR) is an annual journal that brings together a wide array of peer-reviewed critical and creative work on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin. This edition brings together all of the articles published in this year's volume.
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Sidney’s arcadia and the conflicts of virtue
Wood reads Philip Sidney's New Arcadia in the light of the ethos known as Philippism after the followers of the Protestant theologian, Philip Melanchthon. He uses a critical paradigm previously used to discuss Sidney's Defence of Poesy and narrows the gap often found between Sidney's theory and l...
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Music, words and voice
A new and exciting interdisciplinary resource which integrates the worlds of music and literature. The first primary and secondary source collection of its kind to focus on the relationship between words and music and between musical and literary forms.
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Sanctity as literature in late medieval britain
Explores how sanctity and questions of literariness are intertwined across a range of medieval genres.
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Shakespeare, italy and intertextuality
Newly available in paperback, this collection of essays, written by distinguished international scholars, focuses on the structural influence of Italian literature, culture and society at large on Shakespeare's dramatic canon. Exploring recent methodological trends coming from Anglo-American new ...
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Reading robin hood
Explores and explains stories about the mythic outlaw, who from the middle ages to the present stands up for the values of natural law and true justice.
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We all die at the end
As the ravages of climate change throw our future into question, many of our stories are turning to the subject of extinction. This book is about what they are saying and why it demands our attention.
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Algernon charles swinburne
Students and academics in Victorian literature and in English poetry.
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The italian resistance
Anthology of key extracts, in Italian - both literary and non-literary.. Introduction and notes in English.. Contains material which would mesh well with various standard set texts, such as Pavese, Bittorini, Calvino, Viganò.. A unique selection - no competing Italian edition.
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Narration in nineteenth-century french short fiction
Focuses on some key stories by major authors of contes and nouvelles from the late 1820s to the 1890s.
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The new aestheticism
The interest in aesthetics in Philosophy, Literary and Cultural Studies is growing rapidly. 'The new aestheticism' contains exemplary essays by key practitioners in these fields which demonstrate the importance of this area of enquiry.
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Beginning shakespeare
Introduces students to the study of Shakespeare and grounds their understandings of his work in theoretical discourses. By addressing what is primarily at stake in the major theoretical approaches to Shakespeare's works, the book breaks down both fears and preconceptions to offer students a map ...
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French origins of english tragedy
Richard Hillman applies to tragic patterns and practices in early modern England his long-standing critical preoccupation with English-French cultural connections in the period.
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A supplement of the faery queene
Ralph Knevet's Supplement of the Faery Queene (1635) is a narrative and allegorical work, which weaves together a complex collection of tales and episodes, featuring knights, ladies, sorcerers, monsters, vertiginous fortresses and deadly battles.
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Literature in contexts
This book seeks to problematise the very notion of context, and it seeks out – in a series of contextualising experiments – contexts which are text-specific, or author-specific, or literary rather than historical, putting forward a distinction between ‘deep’ and ‘broad’ contexts.
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British asian fiction
This is the first text to focus solely on the writing of British writers of South Asian descent born or raised in Britain. Written in accessible prose, it offers original new readings of works, among others by Salman Rushie, V. S. Naipaul, Hanif Kureishi, Ravinder Randhawa, Atima Srivastava, Moni...
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The wounds of nations
Explores the ways in which the unashamedly disturbing conventions of international horror cinema allow audiences to engage with the traumatic legacy of the recent past in a manner that has serious implications for the ways in which we conceive of ourselves both as gendered individuals and as memb...
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Literary culture in cuba
Available in paperback for the first time, this book brings an original and innovative approach to a much-misunderstood aspect of the Cuban Revolution: the place of literature and the creation of a literary culture.
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The théâtre des variétés in 1852
This book gives a picture of a year's activities at the Théâtre des Variétés. It includes an account of the financial side of the Theatre, impressions of the principal actors and actresses, as well as a month by month overview of what was actually performed.
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Riddles at work in the early medieval tradition
The first collection devoted solely to early medieval riddles, Riddles at work showcases recent research in this popular, new field. It brings together studies of Old English and Latin riddles, authors at various stages of their careers and a range of approaches, aiming to map out both the state ...
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The ends of ireland
Provides a critical introduction to the key theoretical developments in contemporary Irish cultural criticism since the mid-1980s. Draws on aspects of the work of all the critics considered to advance a new theory of the representation of subjectivity in Irish writing.
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Five elizabethan progress entertainments
A fully annotated, modern-spelling edition of entertainments performed for the monarch during her summer progress, the collection affords an insight into a neglected area of Elizabethan cultural activity.
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The senses in early modern england, 1558–1660
Considering a wide range of early modern texts, performances and artworks, the essays in this collection demonstrate how attention to the senses illuminates the literature, art and culture of early modern England.
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Beckett and nothing
The volume explores the paradoxes at the core of Beckett’s poetics through the notion of ‘nothing’, analysed in its many incarnations in Beckett’s prose works, plays, TV plays and adaptations.
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Beyond ambiguity
A literary critical book which is a toolkit for (peaceful) concerted activism on behalf of environment and issues of human rights and justice.
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Writing british muslims
Examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent, including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam
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A trick to catch the old one
First single edition of one of Thomas Middleton's most popular plays; for all students and academics of early modern drama and Renaissance literature
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Painful pleasures
The chapters of Painful pleasures offer new and worthwhile pathways of examination into medieval culture and invite further analyses into the kinkier side of human sexualities, a side that in fact could not be more central to a study of our culture.
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Masculinities, modernist fiction and the urban public sphere
Focusing on the cultural politics of eating and drinking and the importance of cafes and teashops to the literary culture of the time, Masculinities, modernist fiction and the urban public sphere charts the changing representations of masculinity in modernist fiction in the context of London, Dub...
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The gothic novel in ireland, c. 1760–1829
A compelling account of the development of gothic literature in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century Ireland.
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A critical reader of the romantic grand tour
A collection of writings about the Grand Tour that is original and innovative, straying from the usual path of aristocrats and churches.
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Doris lessing
This book examines the writing career of the respected and prolific novelist Doris Lessing, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007 and has recently published what she has announced will be her final novel. This is the first significant book-length critical evaluation in ten years.
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Anywhere out of the world
Incorporating original and extensive archival research, as well as new interviews with his family and friends, Anywhere Out of the World provides the definitive critical perspective upon the literary life and work of this enigmatic and influential author.
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Over her dead body
The argument that this book presents is that narrative and visual representations of death can be read as symptoms of our culture and because the feminine body is culturally constructed as the superlative site of "other" and "not me", culture uses art to dream the deaths of beautiful women.
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The changeling
Competitive price and format. Compacted and up-to-date version of the earlier Revels Plays edition by the same editor, taking account of more recent critical works. A key Renaissance text.
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Dwelling places
Explores some of the key venues of black British literary and cultural production across the postwar period: bedsits and basements; streets and cafes; train stations and tourist landscapes; the suburbs and the city; the north and south. Pursues a 'devolving' landscape in order to consider what a...
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Edmund spenser's shepheardes calender (1579)
Recontextualizing Edmund Spenser’s Shepheardes Calender in relation to book history, this study analyses the first edition of 1579 as a material text, and provides the first clearly detailed facsimile available as a book. By illuminating the 1579 Calender’s development, this volume much advances ...
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Reading shakespeare's mind
An accessible, enjoyable, occasionally speculative study based on a vast amount of research into some of Shakespeare's more uninterpretable moments.
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Jack the ripper
Jack the Ripper: Media, culture, history re-assesses the most important and sensational murder case of the nineteenth century. Leading scholars in the fields of history, media and cultural studies debate the influence of 'Jack' on race, gender, the press, fiction, film and the city of London.
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Worlding the south
Prioritising south-south networks and relations, this collection brings together for the first time literary studies of British colonies in nineteenth-century Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, South America, Southeast Asia, and the South Pacific Islands. It argues for the importance of a new ...
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Amitav ghosh
Amitav Ghosh is the first full-length critical monograph on this important post-colonial contemporary writer to be published outside India. It offers in-depth analysis of all Ghosh's major fictional and non-fictional works and is an authoritative introduction to the themes, ideas and contexts tha...
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Positive emotions in early modern literature and culture
Exploring representations of happiness and other positive emotions in early modern Europe, this volume brings together interdisciplinary approaches informed by affect theory, history of emotions research, and the contemporary cognitive sciences to highlight the meanings and valuations of good fee...
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Essays and interviews on contemporary american poets, poetry, and pedagogy
In sixteen chapters devoted to avant-garde contemporary American poets, including Kenneth Goldsmith, Adeena Karasick, Tyrone Williams, Hannah Weiner, and Barrett Watten, prolific scholar and Purdue University professor Daniel Morris engages in a form of cultural repurposing by “learning twice” ab...
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Subaltern narratives in fiji hindi literature
Subaltern Narratives in Fiji Hindi Literature is the first serious study of fiction written in Fiji Hindi. The book makes a case for a subaltern voice speaking and argues that subaltern writing constitutes the silent underside of world literature whose canon it silently challenges and subverts.
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The poetry of anna akhmatova
Outlines a fresh and coherent framework, reviewing Akhmatova's oeuvre in its totality for the first time.
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Neo-gothic narratives
‘Neo-Gothic Narratives’ defines and theorises what mobilises the employment of the Gothic to speak to our own times.
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Penny dreadfuls
This study participates in the ongoing scholarly effort to re-appraise the penny dreadful phenomenon as a cornerstone of literary history and of popular culture, both within the nineteenth century and the development of Victorian popular fiction and beyond its specific context. The growing presen...
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The constitution of shelley's poetry
‘The Constitution of Shelley’s Poetry’ is a close philosophical reading of ‘Prometheus Unbound’ from the perspective of the argument or drama of language played out in its pages.
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