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Nordic Literature of Decadence
Av Pirjo Lyytikäinen, Riikka Rossi m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2894 kr
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Nordic Literature of Decadence fills a gap on the map of world literature and participates in a thriving area of research by extending the investigation of broadly understood fin de siècle decadence to unexplored areas of Nordic literature, which remain practically unknown to Anglophone audiences. …
Art, Race, and Fantastic Color Change in the Victorian Novel
Inbunden, 2018
3163 kr
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As a study of color in the Victorian novel, this volume notices and analyzes a peculiar literary phenomenon in which Victorian authors who were also trained as artists dream up fantastically colored characters for their fiction. These strange and eccentric characters include the purple madwoman …
Arthur O'Shaughnessy, A Pre-Raphaelite Poet in the British Museum
Häftad, 2019
880 kr
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Arthur O'Shaughnessy's career as a natural historian in the British Museum, and his consequent preoccupation with the role of work in his life, provides the context with which to reexamine his contributions to Victorian poetry. O'Shaughnessy's engagement with aestheticism, socialism, and Darwinian …
Lucas Malet, Dissident Pilgrim
Critical Essays
Inbunden, 2019
2894 kr
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Popular novelist, female aesthete, Victorian radical and proto-modernist, Lucas Malet (Mary St. Leger Harrison, 1852-1931) was one of the most successful writers of her day, yet few of her remarkable novels remain in print. Malet was a daughter of the ‘broad church’ priest and well-known Victorian …
Modernism, Self-Creation, and the Maternal
The Mother’s Son
Inbunden, 2019
2894 kr
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Focusing on their conception and use of the notion of the mother, Modernism, Self-Creation, and the Maternal proposes a new interpretation of literature by modernist authors like Rousseau, Baudelaire, Poe, Rimbaud, Rilke, Joyce, and Beckett. Seen through this maternal relation, their writing …
Poetry and Uselessness
From Coleridge to Ashbery
Inbunden, 2020
3163 kr
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W.H. Auden famously claimed "poetry makes nothing happen." That may or may not be the case, but the idea that poetry makes nothing happen has, itself, been extremely influential, and has made a great deal happen in the world. This book examines several of the main currents in literary history as …
Fieldwork of Empire, 1840-1900
Intercultural Dynamics in the Production of British Expeditionary Literature
Inbunden, 2019
2397 kr
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Fieldwork of Empire, 1840-1900: Intercultural Dynamics in the Production of British Expeditionary Literature examines the impact of non-western cultural, political, and social forces and agencies on the production of British expeditionary literature; it is a project of recovery. The book argues …
Threatened Masculinity from British Fiction to Cold War German Cinema
Inbunden, 2019
2894 kr
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The impact of the Cold War on German male identities can be seen in the nation’s cinematic search for a masculine paradigm that rejected the fate-centered value system of its National- Socialist past while also recognizing that German males once again had become victims of fate and fatalism, but …
Contemporary Rewritings of Liminal Women
Echoes of the Past
Inbunden, 2020
2894 kr
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This book explores the concept of liminality in the representation of women in eighteenth and nineteenth century literature, as well as in contemporary rewritings, such as novels, films, television shows, videogames, and graphic novels. In particular, the volume focuses on vampires, prostitutes, …
Secrecy and Disclosure in Victorian Fiction
Häftad, 2019
880 kr
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Why were the Victorians more fascinated with secrecy than people of other periods? What is the function of secrets in Victorian fiction and in the society depicted, how does it differ from that of other periods, and how did readers of Victorian fiction respond to the secrecy they encountered? These …
Victorian Writers and the Environment
Ecocritical Perspectives
Av Laurence W. Mazzeno, Ronald D. Morrison
Häftad, 2019
880 kr
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Applying ecocritical theory to the work of Victorian writers, this collection explores what a diversity of ecocritical approaches can offer students and scholars of Victorian literature, at the same time that it critiques the general effectiveness of ecocritical theory. Interdisciplinary in their …
Testing New Opinions and Courting New Impressions
New Perspectives on Walter Pater
Av Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada, Martine Lambert-Charbonnier m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
880 kr
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Reflecting Walter Pater’s diverse engagements with literature, the visual arts, history, and philosophy, this collection of essays explores new interdisciplinary perspectives engaging readers and scholars alike to revisit methodologies, intertextualities, metaphysical positions, and stylistic …
Gender and the Intersubjective Sublime in Faulkner, Forster, Lawrence, and Woolf
Av Erin Speese
Häftad, 2019
880 kr
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Exploring how the modern novel's complex depictions of parenthood restructure traditional conceptions of the Romantic sublime, Erin K. Johns Speese shows how William Faulkner, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf use related strategies to rewrite the traditional sublime as an …
Virginia Woolf’s Unwritten Histories
Conversations with the Nineteenth Century
Inbunden, 2021
2894 kr
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Virginia Woolf’s Unwritten Histories explores the interrelatedness of Woolf’s modernism, feminism and her understanding of history as a site of knowledge and a writing practice that enabled her to negotiate her heritage, to find her place among the moderns as a female artist and intellectual, and …
Ethical Vision of George Eliot
Inbunden, 2020
2894 kr
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The Ethical Vision of George Eliot is one of the first monographs devoted entirely to the ethical thought of George Eliot, a profoundly significant, influential figure not only in nineteenth-century English and European literature, nineteenth-century women’s writing, the history of the novel, and …
Socio-Literary Imaginary in 19th and 20th Century Britain
Victorian and Edwardian Inflections
Av Maria Bachman, Albert Pionke
Inbunden, 2019
2894 kr
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At once an invitation and a provocation, The Socio-Literary Imaginary represents the first collection of essays to illuminate the historically and intellectually complex relationship between literary studies and sociology in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. During the ongoing …
Illegitimate Freedom
Informality in Modernist Literature, 1900–1940
Inbunden, 2021
2894 kr
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Illegitimate Freedom: Informality in Modernist Literature, 1900 - 1940 is the first study of informality in modernist literature. Differentiating informality from intimacy in its introduction, the book discusses the informal in relation with sensory experience, aesthetic presentation, ethical …
Maternal Image of God in Victorian Literature
Inbunden, 2023
2894 kr
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This book is the study of a religious metaphor: the idea of God as a mother, in British and US literature 1850–1915. It uncovers a tradition of writers for whom divine motherhood embodied ideals felt to be missing from the orthodox masculine deity. Elizabeth Gaskell, Josephine Butler, George …
Desire and Time in Modern English Fiction: 1919-2017
Inbunden, 2020
2894 kr
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Beginning with Somerset Maugham’s innovative, sexually dissident South Seas novel and tales and Alfred Hitchcock’s gay-inflected revisiting of the Jack the Ripper sensation in silent film, this book considers the continuing presence of the past in future-oriented work of the 1930s and the Second …
Desire and Time in Modern English Fiction: 1919-2017
Häftad, 2022
813 kr
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Beginning with Somerset Maugham’s innovative, sexually dissident South Seas novel and tales and Alfred Hitchcock’s gay-inflected revisiting of the Jack the Ripper sensation in silent film, this book considers the continuing presence of the past in future-oriented work of the 1930s and the Second …
Peril and Protection in British Courtship Novels
A Study in Continuity and Change
Av Geri Chavis
Inbunden, 2020
2894 kr
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Peril and Protection in British Courtship Novels: A Study in Continuity and Change explores the use and context of danger/safety language in British courtship novels published between 1719 and 1920. The term "courtship novel" encompasses works focusing on both female and male protagonists’ journeys …
Peril and Protection in British Courtship Novels
A Study in Continuity and Change
Av Geri Chavis
Häftad, 2022
813 kr
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Peril and Protection in British Courtship Novels: A Study in Continuity and Change explores the use and context of danger/safety language in British courtship novels published between 1719 and 1920. The term "courtship novel" encompasses works focusing on both female and male protagonists’ journeys …
Strange Gods
Love and Idolatry in the Victorian Novel
Inbunden, 2021
2894 kr
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Despite frequent declarations of the sanctity of love and marriage, British Protestant culture nurtured the fear that human affection might easily slip into idolatry. Throughout the nineteenth-century, theological essays, sermons, hymns, and didactic fiction and poetry urged the faithful to …
Strange Gods
Love and Idolatry in the Victorian Novel
Häftad, 2023
746 kr
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Despite frequent declarations of the sanctity of love and marriage, British Protestant culture nurtured the fear that human affection might easily slip into idolatry. Throughout the nineteenth-century, theological essays, sermons, hymns, and didactic fiction and poetry urged the faithful to …
Catherine Crowe: Gender, Genre, and Radical Politics
Av Ruth Heholt
Inbunden, 2020
2458 kr
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This is the first full-length study of the popular Victorian writer Catherine Crowe (1790-1872). Crowe is increasingly being recognised as an important and influential figure in the literary and Spiritualist circles of the nineteenth century. This monograph offers a reassessment of her major works, …
Catherine Crowe: Gender, Genre, and Radical Politics
Av Ruth Heholt
Häftad, 2022
813 kr
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This is the first full-length study of the popular Victorian writer Catherine Crowe (1790-1872). Crowe is increasingly being recognised as an important and influential figure in the literary and Spiritualist circles of the nineteenth century. This monograph offers a reassessment of her major works, …
Music and Myth in Modern Literature
Av Josh Torabi
Inbunden, 2020
2894 kr
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This book is the first major study that explores the intrinsic connection between music and myth, as Nietzsche conceived of it in The Birth of Tragedy (1872), in three great works of modern literature: Romain Rolland’s Nobel Prize winning novel Jean-Christophe (1904-12), James Joyce’s modernist …
Music and Myth in Modern Literature
Av Josh Torabi
Häftad, 2022
813 kr
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This book is the first major study that explores the intrinsic connection between music and myth, as Nietzsche conceived of it in The Birth of Tragedy (1872), in three great works of modern literature: Romain Rolland’s Nobel Prize winning novel Jean-Christophe (1904-12), James Joyce’s modernist …
Intelligent Unconscious in Modernist Literature and Science
Inbunden, 2020
2894 kr
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This book reassesses the philosophical, psychological and, above all, the literary representations of the unconscious in the early twentieth century. This period is distinctive in the history of responses to the unconscious because it gave rise to a line of thought according to which the …
Intelligent Unconscious in Modernist Literature and Science
Häftad, 2022
813 kr
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This book reassesses the philosophical, psychological and, above all, the literary representations of the unconscious in the early twentieth century. This period is distinctive in the history of responses to the unconscious because it gave rise to a line of thought according to which the …
