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Reading Veganism
The Monstrous Vegan, 1818 to Present
Av Emelia Quinn
Inbunden, 2021
1385 kr
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Reading Veganism: The Monstrous Vegan, 1818 to Present focuses on the iteration of the trope 'the monstrous vegan' across two hundred years of Anglophone literature. Explicating, through such monsters, veganism's relation to utopian longing and challenge to the conceptual category of the 'human,' …
The Victorian Novel and the Problems of Marine Language
All at Sea
Inbunden, 2022
1517 kr
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To write about the sea in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was to do so against a vast accretion of past deeds, patterns of thought, and particularly patterns of expression, many of which had begun to feel not just settled but exhausted. The Victorian Novel and the Problems of Marine …
Modernist Parody
Imitation, Origination, and Experimentation in Early Twentieth-Century Literature
Inbunden, 2023
1435 kr
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Parody often stands accused of producing derivative art deficient in taste and skill. But in the hands of writers such as Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, and Virginia Woolf, the mode engendered revolutionary self-reflexive, critical, and creative practices that …
Middle English Medical Recipes and Literary Play, 1375-1500
Av Hannah Bower
Inbunden, 2022
1517 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.Middle English Medical Recipes and Literary Play, 1375-1500 is the first …
Lyric and Liberalism in the Age of American Empire
Av Hugh Foley
Inbunden, 2022
1282 kr
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What is the difference between the ‘I’ of a poem--the lyric subject-- and the liberal subject of rights? Lyric and Liberalism in the Age of American Empire uses this question to re-examine the work of five major American poets, changing our understanding of their writing and the field of post-war …
The Graphics of Verse
Experimental Typography in Twentieth-Century Poetry
Inbunden, 2023
1205 kr
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Is poetry a visual art? Why do the pages of nineteenth-century poetry look so different to those of twentieth-century verse? Exploiting the expressive possibilities of print--from spacing and indentation to alignment and typeface--is one of the defining ways in which poetry was modernized in the …
British Modernism and the Anthropocene
Experiments with Time
Inbunden, 2023
1205 kr
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British Modernism and the Anthropocene: Experiments with Time assesses the environmental politics of modernism in relation to the idea of the Anthropocene—a proposed geological epoch in which humans have fundamentally changed the Earth System. The early twentieth century was marked by environmental …
Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness
Pain in Post-War Francophone Drama
Inbunden, 2022
1385 kr
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Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness explores Beckett's representation of physical pain in his theatre plays in the long aftermath of World War II, emphasising how the issues raised by this staging of pain speak directly to matters lying at the heart of his work: the affective power of the …
English Humanism and the Reception of Virgil c. 1400-1550
Av Matthew Day
Inbunden, 2022
1385 kr
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English Humanism and the Reception of Virgil c. 1400-1550 reassesses how the spread of Renaissance humanism in England impacted the reception of Virgil. It begins with the first signs of humanist influence in the fifteenth century, and ends at the height of the English Renaissance during the …
Irish Modernism and the Politics of Sexual Health
Inbunden, 2023
1615 kr
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Irish Modernism and the Politics of Sexual Health explores the politicized role of sexual health as a concept, discourse, and subject of debate within Irish literary culture from 1880 to 1960. Combining perspectives from Irish Studies, Modernist Studies, and the Social History of Medicine, it …
Complicating Articulation in Art Cinema
Inbunden, 2021
1320 kr
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Complicating Articulation in Art Cinema argues that art cinema draws attention to its disjointed, multi-parted form, but that criticism has too frequently sought to explain this complexity away by stitching the parts together in totalizing readings. This stitching together has often relied on the …
Stevie Smith and the Aphorism
Hard Language
Av Noreen Masud
Inbunden, 2022
1385 kr
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This volume argues that aphorism represents a tool for the social management of emotion. Rhetorically corralled into a slick, collectable shape, the aphorism promises arresting and instantaneous epiphany. However, the accomplished elegance which positions the aphorism's message as self-evidently …
Refugee Writing, Refugee Reading
Agency, Embodiment, and Intimate Archiving in Refugee Literature
Inbunden, 2027
1566 kr
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This book advances the study of refugee writing by reconfiguring its core analytical frameworks and foregrounding the literary, temporal, and archival practices generated within varied contexts of forced migration and displacement. Moving beyond readings that position refugees primarily as objects …
Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Thought
Häftad, 1990
369 kr
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Although there are many books on Johnson's moral and religious thought, none has provided a detailed analysis of his relationship with the ethics and theology of the eighteenth century. This study fills the gap, examining the background to Johnson's views on a wide range of issues debated by the …
The Godwinian Novel
The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley
Inbunden, 1993
1213 kr
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The Godwinian Novel is a pioneering analysis of the school of fiction inaugurated by William Godwin, and developed in the works of his principal followers, Charles Brockden Brown and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.In the first study of these authors as a historically specific group, Pamela Clemit …
The Joycean Labyrinth
Repetition, Time, and Tradition in Ulysses
Av Udaya Kumar
Inbunden, 1991
3074 kr
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This powerful and unusual study examines the relations between the textual organization of Ulysses and the notions of time, language, and poetics implicit in the novel. Making use of recent developments in philosophy and literary theory, Udaya Kumar takes issue with those who, like Richard Ellmann, …
Legitimate Histories
Scott, Gothic, and the Authorities of Fiction
Inbunden, 1994
4037 kr
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Legitimate Histories is an innovative reading of Walter Scott's Waverley Novels in the context of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gothic.Most critics have treated these two forms of historical narrative as though they were completely unrelated, but Fiona Robertson's detailed study places Scott's …
Radical Satire and Print Culture 1790-1822
Av Marcus Wood
Inbunden, 1994
1324 kr
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Radical Satire and Print Culture 1790-1822 focuses on the work produced collaboratively between 1816 and 1822 by the poet and radical journalist William Hone and the brilliant young graphic satirist George Cruikshank.Dr Wood provides a much needed analytical framework for Regency radical satire …
The Cave of Making
The Poetry of Louis MacNeice
Häftad, 1985
797 kr
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The Cave of Making The Poetry of Louis MacNeice
The Tremulous Hand of Worcester
A Study of Old English in the Thirteenth Century
Inbunden, 1991
4022 kr
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The shaky handwriting of the thirteenth-century scribe known as `the tremulous hand of Worcester' appears in at least twenty manuscripts dating from the late ninth to the twelfth century, glossing perhaps 50,000 Old English words, sometimes into Middle English, but much more often into Latin. This …
The Dragon and the Dove
The Plays of Thomas Dekker
Av Julia Gasper
Inbunden, 1990
2491 kr
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The Dragon and the Dove makes the original and controversial claim that Thomas Dekker, the author of plays blending satire, hagiography, and propaganda, was a militant Protestant. This study, whilst carefully analysing seven of his plays, takes The Whore of Babylon to be his central work and the …
Shakespeare and the Constant Romans
Inbunden, 1996
2801 kr
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Shakespeare's Romans are intensely concerned with being `constant'. But, as Geoffrey Miles shows, that virtue is far more ambiguous than is often recognized.Miles begins by showing how the Stoic principle of being `always the same' was shaped by two Roman writers into very different ideals: …
The Genesis of a Saga Narrative
Verse and Prose in Kormaks Saga
Inbunden, 1991
3111 kr
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The origins of many of the Icelandic sagas have long been the subject of critical speculation and controversy. This book demonstrates that an investigation of the relationship between verse and prose in saga narrative can be used to reconstruct how Icelandic sagas were composed; to this end it …
Joseph Conrad and the Modern Temper
Inbunden, 1991
3074 kr
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A study which relates Conrad's work to the crisis of modernity in the late nineteenth century, this book discusses 'faultlines' - ambiguities and apparent aesthetic ruptures - in nine of the major novels and novellas. These faultlines are diagnosed as the symptoms of an unresolved tension between …
Ungoverned Imaginings
James Mill's The History of British India and Orientalism
Av Javed Majeed
Inbunden, 1992
3970 kr
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Drawing on contemporary critical work on colonialism and the cross-cultural encounter, this is a study of the emergence of Utilitarianism as a new political language in Britain in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, and focuses on the relationship between this language and the …
Melodious Tears
The English Funeral Elegy from Spenser to Milton
Av Dennis Kay
Inbunden, 1990
944 kr
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The funeral elegy is in some important ways the quintessential English Renaissance genre. This book demonstrates how it developed into a kind of laboratory in which writers could put theories of composition into practice. The hospitality of elegy to different styles and modes together with its …
A Store of Common Sense
Gnomic Theme and Wisdom in Old Icelandic and Old English Wisdom Poetry
Inbunden, 1993
3074 kr
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A Store of Common Sense is the first comparative study in English of Old Icelandic and Old English wisdom poetry. It examines problems of form, unity, and coherence, and how the genre responds to social change, both reflecting and shaping the thinking of the communities which originate it. Carolyne …
Henry James
History, Narrative, Fiction
Av Roslyn Jolly
Inbunden, 1993
2652 kr
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This is a study of Henry James's changing attitudes to history as a narrative model, tracing the development from his early interest in `scientific' historiography to the radically anti-historical character of his late works.James's use of the term `history' was influenced by developments in …
Mary Leapor
A Study in Eighteenth Century Women's Poetry
Inbunden, 1993
3812 kr
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Mary Leapor (1722-1746), a Northamptonshire kitchen maid, produced a substantial body of exceptional poetry which was only published after her early death at the age of twenty-four. This is a timely examination of the work of a poet who has remained almost forgotten for 200 years.Leapor is one of …
Elizabethan Fictions
Espionage, Counter-espionage, and the Duplicity of Fiction in Early Elizabethan Prose Narratives
Av R. W. Maslen
Inbunden, 1997
1493 kr
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In Elizabethan Fictions, Robert Maslen argues that English writers of prose fiction from the 1550s to the 15570s produced some of the most daringly innovative publications of the sixteenth century. Through close examination of a number of key texts, from William Baldwin's satircal fable Beware the …
