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As the essays in this volume reveal, Keats’s places could be comforting, familiar, grounding sites, but they were also shifting, uncanny, paradoxical spaces where the geographical comes into tension with the familial, the touristic with the medical, the metropolitan...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-03
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This two-volume co-authored study explores the history of the concept ‘barbarism’ from the 18th century to the present and illuminates its foundational role in modern European and Western identity. It constitutes an original comparative, interdisciplinary...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-08-31
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Women, Literature and Finance in Victorian Britain: Cultures of Investment defines the cultures that emerged in response to the democratization of the stock market in nineteenth-century Britain when investing provided access to financial independence for women....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-30
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics
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Bodies abound in Rimbaud's poetry in a way that is nearly unprecedented in the nineteenth-century poetic canon: lazy, creative, rule-breaking bodies, queer bodies, marginalized and impoverished bodies, revolting and revolutionary, historical bodies.
The question that...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-08-30
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This book explores the relationship between Dickens and canonical Romantic authors: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Percy and Mary Shelley, and Keats. Addressing a significant gap in Dickens studies, four topics are identified: Childhood, Time, Progress, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-29
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Performing Intimacies with Hawthorne, Austen, Wharton, and George Eliot analyzes literary reproductions of everyday intimacies through a microsociological lens to demonstrate the value of reading microsocially. The text investigates the interplay between author,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-27
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Das Kleist-Jahrbuch 2018 dokumentiert die Verleihung des Kleist-Preises 2017 mit den Reden des Preisträgers Ralf Rothmann, der Vertrauensperson der Jury Hanns Zischler und des Präsidenten der Heinrich-von-Kleist-Gesellschaft Günter Blamberger. Es beinhaltet weiterhin...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-08-27
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This book offers a timely examination of the relationship between Shakespeare and contemporary digital media. By focusing upon a variety of ‘Shakespearean’ individuals, groups and communities and their ‘online’ presence, the book explores the role of popular internet...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-25
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture
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Diese komparatistische Monographie stellt zentrale Kategorien und Theorien der Literaturwissenschaft dar. Sie synthetisiert und bewertet den Stand der Forschung und unterwirft viele Dogmen der neueren Forschung einer kritischen Analyse. Resultat ist eine Reformulierung...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-08-25
Collection :
Abhandlungen zur Literaturwissenschaft
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Samson and Delilah in Medieval Insular French investigates several different adaptations of the story ofSamson that enabled it to move from a strictly religious sphere into vernacular and secular artworks. Catherine Léglu explores the narrative’s translation into French...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-08-24
Collection :
The New Middle Ages
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Digital Milton is the first volume to investigate John Milton in terms of our digital present. It explores the digital environments Milton now inhabits as well as the diverse digital methods that inform how we read, teach, edit, and analyze his works. Some chapters use...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-23
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The Rational Shakespeare: Peter Ramus, Edward de Vere, and the Question of Authorship examines William Shakespeare’s rationality from a Ramist perspective, linking that examination to the leading intellectuals of late humanism, and extending those links to the life of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-22
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Bodies abound in Rimbaud's poetry in a way that is nearly unprecedented in the nineteenth-century poetic canon: lazy, creative, rule-breaking bodies, queer bodies, marginalized and impoverished bodies, revolting and revolutionary, historical bodies.
The question that...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-08-22
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In the early twentieth century, British imperialism in India was at its peak and anti-colonial sentiments were on the rise. The nationalist desire for cultural self-identification was gaining ground and an important articulation of this was the demand for a national...
Editeur :
OUP India
Parution :
2018-08-22
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How are the pleasures and thrills of the automobile linked to France’s history of conquest, colonialism, and exploitation in Southeast Asia? Cultural and Literary Representations of the Automobile in French Indochina addresses the contradictions of the “progress” of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-21
Collection :
Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture
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This book examines the various ways in which the German philosopher Friedrich Schelling was read and responded to by British readers and writers during the nineteenth century. Challenging the idea that Schelling’s reception was limited to the Romantics, this book shows...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-18
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Narratives of Community in the Black British Short Story offers the first systematic study of black British short story writing, tracing its development from the 1950s to the present with a particular focus on contemporary short stories by Hanif Kureishi, Jackie Kay,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-16
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In der vorliegenden Studie wird untersucht, wie geografische Räume in den primär mündlich geprägten Lebenswelten des Mittelalters wahrgenommen und das Wissen darüber kommuniziert werden konnten. Am Beispiel eines überschaubaren Raumausschnitts werden die...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-08-16
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This book establishes the genealogy of a subgenre of crime fiction that Antoine Dechêne calls the metacognitive mystery tale. It delineates a corpus of texts presenting 'unreadable' mysteries which, under the deceptively monolithic appearance of subverting...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-16
Collection :
Crime Files
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In a highly original and interdisciplinary work bridging French and Francophone studies, cultural studies, media studies, and gender and sexuality studies, Luis Navarro-Ayala examines the transnational queer body as a physical and symbolic entity intrinsically connected...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-10
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