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Women’s writing in contemporary france
An up-to-date introduction to an analysis of new women’s writing in contemporary France, including both new writers of the 1990s and their more established counter-parts
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Borrowed objects and the art of poetry
This study uses examinations of Exeter riddles, Old English religious verse and Beowulf to formulate the poetics of spolia – creative transformations of martial and architectural plunder serving to signal metatextual reflection.
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Neo-victorian lesbians on screen
Neo-Victorian Lesbians on Screen, by Maier and Friars, argues that the on-screen portrayal of lesbians situated in the long nineteenth century across various countries is at the very least a dual task; the imperative project of revoicing lesbian silence and female companionship is complicated by ...
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Engine of modernity
Engine of modernity examines the connection between public transportation and popular culture in nineteenth-century Paris through a focus on the omnibus - a horse-drawn urban conveyance. The book introduces the omnibus as a key vector for understanding the intersection of urban and literary moder...
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Les murray
Les Murray is amongst the most gifted poets writing today, his multi-faceted talents have received high praise both in his native Australia and beyond. But he has also proved a controversial figure, whose poetry strays across the boundaries of political and cultural debate. The only full critical...
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A.s. byatt
This stimulating and comprehensive study of A. S. Byatt’s work spans virtually her entire career and offers insightful readings of all of Byatt’s fictions up to and including The Children’s Book (2009). The authors also consider her role as a critic, cultural commentator and public intellectual.
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The road to brexit
This timely collection of essays explores British attitudes to Continental Europe that explain the Brexit decision. Addressing British-European entanglements and the impact of British Euroscepticism, the book argues that Britain is in denial about the strength of its ties to Europe, and that it n...
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The ghost story 1840–1920
The Ghost Story 1840-1920: A Cultural History is the first book length analysis of the British ghost story in over thirty years. It includes readings of the economic, national, colonial, and gender contexts of the ghost story and provides a new and important critical re-evaluation of writers inc...
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Beyond the spanish tragedy
Brilliantly fusing the drama of the academic and popular traditions, Erne shows how Thomas Kyd's plays are of central importance for understanding how the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries was formed
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Conversions
A timely and coherent collection on conversion studies of the Early Modern period, considering themes of conversion, materiality, embodiment and early modern spaces across and beyond Europe.
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Precarious spectatorship
This book is about the ways in which western spectators are bombarded with ‘emergencies’ by our press and political institutions. It examines the effect that this has on us and how theatre and performance can try to counteract that effect.
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Show me the money
What does money really stand for? How can the abstractions of high finance be made visible? Show me the money documents how the financial world has been imagined in art, illustration, photography and other visual media over the last three centuries in Britain and the United States. It tells the s...
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John ashbery and american poetry
starting point. David Herd sets out to provide readers with a new critical language through which they can appreciate the beauty and complexity of Ashbery’s writing.Presenting the poet in all his forms –avant-garde, nostalgic, sublime and camp – the book argues that the perpetual inventiveness of...
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An humorous day's mirth
George Chapman's An Humorous Day's Mirth is one of the Elizabethan theatre's most successful comedies. In his new Revels edition, Charles Edelman presents a play that will delight today's readers and audiences as much as it did those of 1597.
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Germaine dulac
This book examines the career of Germaine Dulac, a pioneering French filmmaker and feminist whose perspective, innovations and ardent promotion of cinema are documented in her theoretical writings.
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Pasts at play
Pasts at play showcases a range of approaches to children's literature and culture, from disciplines including Classics, English Literature, and History. The ten essays integrate visual and material culture into historical practice to analyse how nineteenth-century children interacted playfully w...
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Toni morrison
An illuminating study of one of the best-selling, most widely studied black authors today. Explains Morrison's relation to the American civil rights and Black Consciousness movements. Places Morrison in a political and historical context .
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Angela carter
This full scale study discusses Angela Carter’s fiction in chronological order, and notes that although her themes are fairly consistent throughout her work, consistency of theme is not the same as repetition. The new angles and emphases that develop are partly from Carter’s immersion in the chan...
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Beckett's afterlives
Beckett’s afterlives is the first book-length study dedicated to posthumous adaptations of Beckett’s oeuvre. This collection analyses the remarkable diversity of creative engagements across different media and cultural contexts that have ensured the survival and continuing relevance of Beckett’s ...
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John mcgahern
This volume brings together contributions from a variety of disciplines to address the writer’s legacy and literary achievements. Essays on previously unexplored topics and reflective pieces on McGahern as a writer illuminate his body of work in new and challenging ways, expanding the boundaries ...
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Literature and agency in english fiction reading
This book represents the first anthropological study of fiction reading and the first ethnography of British literary culture. It is the outcome of long-term engagement with a set of solitary readers who belong to a single literary society.
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The tempest
‘The Tempest’: Shakespeare in Performance situates the play’s 400-year performance history within ever-changing cultural contexts, and supplements historical analysis of particular productions with information about contemporary appropriations and adaptations.
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Orphan texts
In one of the first studies of its kind, Orphan texts seeks to insert the orphan into the larger critical areas of the family and childhood in Victorian culture. Laura Peters considers canonical texts alongside lesser known works from popular culture in order to establish the context in which dis...
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The question of literature
Brings together essays by a number of distinguished theorists and academics on the changing cultural significance of literature.
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Dublin: renaissance city of literature
The volume's broad focus and extended timeline offer an unprecedented and comprehensive consideration of the features of renaissance that may be traced to the city from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century.
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The wounds of nations
A book which looks at how trauma is replayed in horror cinema, allowing different audiences in different nation states to engage with recent trauma
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The narrative of carlos fuentes
Examines the full range of Carlos Fuentes’ work.
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Kate atkinson
From Behind the Scenes at the Museum to Big Sky, this book explores the major themes and formal concerns in Kate Atkinson’s fiction (history, memory, feminism, metafiction, genre revision). It situates Atkinson's œuvre in terms of an aesthetics of hydridity that runs through her eleven novels, on...
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Molière et son premier tartuffe
A study of one of the most enduring mysteries in world theatre: the nature, structure and purpose of the first and no longer extant version of his most controversial play, Le Tartuffe.
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Eccentricities: writing in the margins of modernism
This book critically considers how geo-historically distant and disparate urban sites give rise to peculiarly parallel polyphonic fictional forms. It redefines new constellations (eccentric, concentric, ex-centric) for understanding geo-cultural and generic dimensions of modernist and post-modern...
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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. In addition to these cutting-edge contributions, each issue contains a review of recent Baldwin scholarship and...
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Readers and mistresses
Part recovery and part new reading method, this work locates the few kept mistresses in Victorian literature, while offering a queer way to read for their existences when less legible. This book offers a way to read old material with new eyes and a social justice ethic.
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Dating beowulf
Dating Beowulf explores the difficulties and pleasures of intimacy with Beowulf –philological and speculative, playful and serious – and how they organise themselves in an array of interrelated critical practices. Opening avenues for future work, it complicates urgent questions in the discourses ...
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Spain in the nineteenth century
Confronted by a complex new society, nineteenth-century Spaniards wrestled with how to envisage their lives. From trying to be universal through to acting as a cultural entrepreneur, this volume explores the possibilities and uncertainties that unfolded in their reconfigured world
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John galsworthy and disabled soldiers of the great war
The most comprehensive study published to date about John Galsworthy’s philanthropic support for, and his compositions about soldiers disabled in the Great War. It makes available for the first time in a single edition the most significant of his compositions about the war disabled and examining ...
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‘who the devil taught thee so much italian?’
This book offers a comprehensive account of the methods and practice of learning modern languages, especially Italian, in late sixteenth and early seventeenth century England.
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Gothic renaissance
Collection of essays by experts in Renaissance and Gothic studies tracks the lines of connection between Gothic sensibilities and the discursive network of the Renaissance
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Amy tan
This is the first study to cover Tan's entire oeuvre, and offers students and general readers an accessible, probing analysis of Tan's highly successful novels within broader debates about the representation of identity, history and reality.
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Tales of magic, tales in print
Since the beginning of the nineteenth century folklorists, and the general public in their wake, have assumed the orality of fairy tales. Only lately have more and more specialists been arguing in favour of at least an interdependence between oral and printed distribution of stories. This book ta...
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Australia as the antipodal utopia
Australia has a fascinating history of visions. As the antipode to Europe, Australia provided a radically different and uniquely fertile ground for envisioning places, spaces and societies. ‘The Antipodal Utopia’ evaluates this complex intellectual history by mapping out how Western visions of Au...
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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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Louise erdrich
The first comprehensive treatment of Louise Erdrich’s writing in all its diversity. This book offers searching analysis of the common themes and contexts across Erdrich’s poetry, prose, memoirs, and children’s fiction.
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Translating petrarch in early modern britain
This collection of essays explores the translation of Petrarch’s vernacular verse (Canzoniere and Triumphi) in early modern Britain, from the first Tudor translations to its many literary transformations and cultural re-appropriations in the Elizabethan and Stuart periods.
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The sense of early modern writing
Offers a new and challenging account of the relationships between rhetoric and aesthetics, informed by literature, critical theory and philosophy. Offers readings of familiar and unfamiliar early modern texts by Shakespeare, Sidney, Jonson and others that will be of interest to researchers and st...
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Hamlet
Links acting traditions with cultural milieu.. No other book on Hamlet on the stage covers as much theoretical ground.. Covers a number of foreign productions and pays much attention to the role of scenography .
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The absurd in literature
This is the first book to offer a comprehensive survey of the phenomenon of the absurd in a full literary context (that is to say, primarily in fiction, as well as in theatre).
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The gift of narrative in medieval england
This critical study of medieval English romances uses ideas from anthropology and critical theories of the gift to shed light on narratives ranging from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries. Written in a style accessible for students as well as scholars, it engages with questions about storytel...
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A familiar compound ghost
A Familiar Compound Ghost explores the relationship between allusion and the uncanny in literature. An unexpected echo or quotation in a new text can be compared to the sudden appearance of a ghost or mysterious double, the reanimation of a corpse, or the discovery of an ancient ruin hidden in a...
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The winter's tale
An excellent study of the performance of one of Shakespeare's perceived 'problem plays', complete with interview material with actors and directors, an awareness of global productions and an insight to theatrical art.
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Same old
This book provides a new way of understanding queer culture. The frameworks offered by queer theory—steeped in philosophical, theoretical and political commitments to 'difference'—have obscured the important investments in 'sameness' that have been central to queer history. Same old dwells on the...
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Dangerous bodies
A detailed examination of how certain Gothic bodies have taken on mythical status within western culture.
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Interweaving myths in shakespeare and his contemporaries
This volume considers classical mythology in the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The eleven essays approach tropes and figures from multiple perspectives: genre, gender, translation, classical reception and history.
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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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Writing for art
Ekphrasis is the technical term for the relationship between literary texts and the visual or the plastic arts, whereby writers write about paintings, photograpy or works of art. This is a concise introduction
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Medieval afterlives
This book shows how early drama traditions were transformed, re-used and reformed across time to form new relationships with their audiences. Medieval Afterlives offers insight into how sixteenth-century people understood and adapted performance spaces, stage technologies, characterisation, and p...
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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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Extending ecocriticism
Takes ecocriticism into new areas that include collaboration across the environmental humanities and into the cultural studies of the human response to the environment.
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Shakespeare: the 'lost years'
Throws light on the problem of what Shakespeare was doing between leaving school and appearing as an actor and playwright in London.
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David and bathsheba
Martin’s new critical edition of George Peele’s David and Bathsheba opens up this explosive drama about the turbulent and bloody Davidic period of Ancient Israel’s history to student and scholar alike with its modernized text, full scholarly apparatus, comprehensive introduction, and commentary n...
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The classic novel
This book critically examines the long established tradition of adapting classic novels to film or TV screen. An emerging area of interest - the relationship between film and literature and the way cinema and television have translated classic novels into moving pictures from the 30s to the 90s.
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Collections xviii
Collections XVIII brings together the earliest texts of the first and last pre-Civil War plays to deal with Boccaccio’s tragic story of the lovers, Gismond and Guiscardo: the Hargrave MS of Inner Temple tragedy, Gismond of Salern (1568), and the first ever printed edition of the 1620s manuscript ...
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Sisters and the english household
‘Sisters and the English Household’ revalues unmarried adult sisters in nineteenth-century English literature as positive figures of legal and economic autonomy representing productive labour in the domestic space. As a crucial site of contested values, the adult unmarried sister carries the disc...
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V. s. naipaul of trinidad
The book collects material from local critics, newspapers and interviews to present V. S. Naipaul in new light as a “true blue” Trinidadian writer. The book foregrounds Naipaul’s deep connections not only with the land of his birth but with its literary and historical heritage and its peoples.
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Visuality in the novels of austen, radcliffe, edgeworth and burney
‘Visuality in the Novels of Austen, Radcliffe, Edgeworth and Burney’ examines the forms and functions of visuality in the novels of Austen, Radcliffe, Edgeworth and Burney. It offers new insights into vision, fiction and depiction by exploring how the visual details in women’s novels published be...
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The poems of elizabeth siddal in context
Every Siddal poem is close read alongside works by Rossetti, Swinburne, Ruskin, Tennyson and Keats and with reference to prevailing cultural, political and religious contexts to give the most comprehensive analysis yet of this enigmatic, previously undervalued poetic voice.
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Cormac mccarthy
Cormac McCarthy: A complexity theory of literature offers the first sustained analysis of complexity science in McCarthy's literary works. McCarthy's fiction makes a significant case study demonstrating how literature can help us imagine and grapple with complex systems and crises, from global ec...
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Reading as a philosophical practice
This book asks why reading matters so much to so many people. Its answer is that reading is a philosophical activity: a way of working through, and taking a stand on, fundamental questions about who and what we are, how we should live, and how we relate to other things.
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Shakespeare and spenser
Innovative approach and study of Spenser's literature. Original ideas and perspectives methodolodgy when studying Spenser. Will appeal to wide market of Renaissance students.
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Outsiders looking in
A fascinating and comprehensive review of the position of the Rossettis within the social and cultural maelstrom of Victorian London.
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Reimagining north african immigration
An interdisciplinary collection of essays examining the depiction of immigration from North Africa in contemporary French culture.
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Marie duval
Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist offers the first critical appraisal of the work of Marie Duval 1847–1890), one of the most unusual, pioneering and visionary cartoonists of the later nineteenth century, focusing on new types of cultural work by women and establishing Duval as a unique b...
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Reading poetry
This book is about reading and studying poetry. Using fully-worked examples and complete poems wherever possible, it shows all the key elements of poetry ‘at work’ in poems
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Moliere: l'imposteur de 1667
A scholarly reconstruction of one of Molière’s masterpieces.
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Jeanette winterson
This is the first full-length study of Jeanette Winterson's work as a whole. The study establishes the formal, thematic and ideological characteristics of the novels and situates the writer within the general panorama of contemporary British fiction.
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Transnational connections in early modern theatre
Pushing the complexities of theatrical connections beyond questions of national boundaries, Transnational connections in early modern theatre studies performance as a connective medium, to engage with the complex encounters, exchanges and interactions among texts, performers and communities, in a...
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Texts and readers in the age of marvell
Texts and Readers in the Age of Marvell offers fresh perspectives from leading and emerging scholars on seventeenth-century British literature, with a focus on the surprising ways that texts interacted with writers and readers at specific cultural moments.
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Robert louis stevenson and theories of reading
This book, an innovative combination of literary history and reception theory, draws upon Robert Louis Stevenson’s fiction and literary essays to argue that Stevenson both exemplified tensions within the literary market of his time and anticipated later developments in reading theory.
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Peter carey
This is a revised and expanded edition of Woodcock's accessible study, now including detailed readings of Carey's latest novels, 'Jack Maggs' and 'True History of the Kelly Gang'.
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Thomas more's utopia in early modern europe
Thomas More's Utopia in Early Modern Europe provides the first complete account of all the editions of Utopia, whether vernacular or Latin, printed before 1650, together with a transcription of all the prefatory materials they contain. The reception of the idea of Utopia in early modern Europe h...
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California gothic: the dark side of the dream
California Gothic explores the California dream and its dark inversion as a nightmare, as illustrated in fiction, poetry, and film. California began as a literary invention, a magic island, in a Spanish romance before conquistadors first visited the land. From early days to the present, the Calif...
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Hybrid healing
This book works from the premise that the tremendous diversity of Old English medical texts requires an equally diverse range of interpretative methodologies. Taking a case study approach, it offers close readings tailored to individual remedies, drawing from biology, rhetoric, archaeology, folkl...
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Beckett's dantes
The first study in English of the literary relationship between Beckett and Dante. It is a clear and innovative reading of Samuel Beckett and Dante's works and a critical engagement with contemporary theories of intertextuality
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Julian barnes
A detailed study of the fiction of Julian Barnes from Metroland to Arthur & George. Approachable, student friendly and comprehensive analysis of all Barnes’s novels
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Sara paretsky
This is the first book-length study of Sara Paretsky’s detective fiction. Paretsky is known for her influential V.I. Warshawski series, which transformed the masculine hard-boiled detective formula into a vehicle for feminist values.
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Counterfactual romanticism
Extends counterfactual thought experiments from history and the social sciences to literary historiography, criticism and theory
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Frantz fanon’s 'black skin, white masks'
The first collection of essays on Frantz Fanon's classic anti-colonial text, 'Black Skin, White Masks'. It offers a range of interpretations of the text by leading scholars across various disciplines.
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The early spenser, 1554–80
Brink shows that Spenser began as the protégé of churchmen, who expected him to take holy orders and that the Shepheardes Calender signaled his transition from shepherd-priest to shepherd-poet. A
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Love's sacrifice
A. T. Moore's thorough commentary on "Love's Sacrifice" is designed to be of use to all kinds of readers, from students of Early Modern drama to specialists in the field. The notes provide full explanations of obscure words and phrases, and offer analyzes of many aspects of staging and interpreta...
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Spenser's ethics
A novel account of Edmund Spenser as a moral theorist, Spenser’s ethics situaties his ethics in the contexts of early modern moral philosophy and the English colonization of Ireland.
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