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The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets uses Shakespeare's poetry as a case study for the mutually formative relationship between desire and recollection. Through a series of close readings that are both historically situated and informed by recent theory, it...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-09-19
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The house is perhaps the most recognizable emblem of the American ideals of self-making: prosperity, stability, domesticity, and upward mobility. Yet over the years from 1945-2021, the American house becomes more famous for the betrayal of those hopes than for their...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-09-19
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Concerns about Haiti suffused the early American print public sphere from the outbreak of the revolution in 1791 until well after its conclusion in 1804. The gothic, sentimental, and sensationalist undertones of openly speculative periodical accounts were accelerated...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-09-16
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This book explores Della Cruscan poetry in the late eighteenth-century literary scene. A sociable, ornate, and deeply theatrical type of poetry, Della Cruscanism was associated with writers like Robert Merry, Mary Robinson, and Hannah Cowley. While Merry is the poet...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-15
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This book traces the origin and evolvement of two Chinese characters “wenxue”(literature) by using the methods of conceptual history and historical and cultural semantics, and by taking the evolution and changes of the concept of the these two characters and their...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-15
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This volume is an in-depth and exquisitely illustrated guide to the Second Age of Middle-earth, one of the least-explored periods of Arda's history.The Illustrated World of Tolkien: The Second Age, is the follow up companion to the best-selling The Illustrated World of...
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Cassell
Parution :
2023-09-14
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Tolkien
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What if the American experiment is twofold, encompassing both democracy and tyranny? That is the question at the core of this book, which traces some of ways that Americans across the nineteenth century understood the perversions tyranny introduced into both their...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-09-14
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This book examines the difficult relationship between individual intellectual freedom and the legal structures which govern human societies in William Blake’s works, showing that this tension carries a political urgency that has not yet been recognised by scholars in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-13
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Writing Against Expulsion in the Post-War World: Making Space for the Human tells a pre-history of the Hostile Environment. The book's starting point is the rapidly escalating use of detention as a response to human movement and the global production of geopolitical...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-09-13
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This book provides a critical discussion of True Crime literature, arguing for the deconstruction of the genre into subgenres that better reflect a work’s contents. In analysing seminal and lesser-known works, the areas of authenticity, accuracy, and author proximity...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-11
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This book explores how humorous depictions of the Great War worked to familiarise, domesticate, and tame the conflict. While well-known examples of First World War literature often emphasize enormous emotional disruption and the war’s extremes, other writers used humour...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-11
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Die Rekonstruktion von Normen und Alltagspraktiken im Unterricht der romanischen Sprachen bildete bisher weitgehend ein Forschungsdesiderat. Der Band stellt die Ergebnisse eines von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft geförderten Projekts vor. Dieses greift...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-09-11
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Over the past decade cultural theory has seen a number of 'turns' - the materialist turn, the animal turn, the affective turn - that address the human as an affective, embodied, and ultimately vulnerable animal embedded in dense webs of more-than-human relations, in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-09-11
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The late-eighteenth century witnessed multiple Medeas take to the stages of Europe, in the Americas, and across the Russian empire. Performances took place in Moscow and São Paulo, in London and Lisbon, in Gotha, Stuttgart, and Venice. This lively collection of essays...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-09-10
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This study presents Moby-Dick as a novel with three distinct but interconnecting stories: Ishmael’s, which he shares ten years after it has taken place; Ahab’s, which is Ishmael's account of the memorable captain of a whaling ship; and a third which centres on whales...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-09
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Peace in the US Republic of Letters, 1840-1900 explores the early peace movement as it captured the imagination of leading writers. The book charts the rise of the peace cause from its sources in the works of William Penn and John Woolman, through the founding of the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-09-06
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This book interrogates the relationship between the material conditions of Woolf's writing practices and her work as a printer and publisher at the Hogarth Press. In bringing to light her embodied literary processes, from drafting and composition to hand-printing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-01
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This is a comprehensive critical guide to Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde.This new edition has been comprehensively revised in light of the latest scholarly and critical research and with a fully updated bibliography. It includes a full account of Chaucer's imaginative...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-09-01
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This book links world-literary studies with anthropology and ethnography. It shows how ethnographic narratives can represent a compelling point of departure for world-literary explorations. The volume compares the travel writing and fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-08-31
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Als literarischer Handlungsraum hat sich die Stadt, vor allem die Großstadt, sowohl mit Blick auf die Erzählformen als auch in den semantischen Zuschreibungen innerhalb von etwa 150 Jahren grundlegend gewandelt. Im kinder- und jugendliterarischen Umgang mit den urbanen...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-08-30
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