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Critical Reappraisal of the Writings of Francis Sylvester Mahony
Av Fergus Dunne
Inbunden, 2018
2879 kr
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This book resituates Francis Sylvester Mahony in an early nineteenth-century literary-historical context, counteracting the efforts of twentieth-century literary historians to obscure his contribution to the emergence of a distinctive Irish Catholic fiction in English. This volume re-explores his …
Nineteenth Century Periodical Press and the Development of Detective Fiction
Inbunden, 2021
2879 kr
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This book re-imagines nineteenth-century detective fiction as a literary genre that was connected to, and nurtured by, contemporary periodical journalism. Whilst ‘detective fiction’ is almost universally-accepted to have originated in the nineteenth century, a variety of widely-accepted scholarly …
Women's Emancipation Writing at the Fin de Siecle
Av Elena V. Shabliy, Dmitry Kurochkin m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
2879 kr
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This work investigates women’s emancipation writing in the second half of the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. Many novelists in various national literatures touched upon the theme of an emancipated woman in the long nineteenth century and at the fin de siècle. Philosophers, poets, …
Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, and the Dance of Death
Inbunden, 2019
2879 kr
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This study of Nicholas Nickleby takes the Dickens novel which is perhaps the least critically discussed, though it is very popular, and examines its appeal and its significance, and finds it one of the most rewarding and powerful of Dickens’s texts.Nicholas Nickleby deals with the abduction and …
Dirt in Victorian Literature and Culture
Writing Materiality
Häftad, 2019
876 kr
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Addressing the Victorian obsession with the sordid materiality of modern life, this book studies dirt in nineteenth-century English literature and the Victorian cultural imagination. Dirt litters Victorian writing – industrial novels, literature about the city, slum fiction, bluebooks, and the …
Constructions of Agency in American Literature on the War of Independence
War as Action, 1775-1860
Av Martin Holtz
Inbunden, 2019
2879 kr
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This book argues that the negotiation of agency is central not only to the experience of war but also to its representation in cultural expressions, ranging from a notion of disablement, expressed in victimization, immobilization, traumatization, and death, to enablement, expressed in the …
Arthur Morrison and the East End
The Legacy of Slum Fictions
Av Eliza Cubitt
Inbunden, 2019
2879 kr
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This, the first critical biography of Arthur Morrison (1863-1945), presents his East End writing as the counter-myth to the cultural production of the East End in late-Victorian realism. Morrison’s works, particularly Tales of Mean Streets (1894) and A Child of the Jago (1896), are often discussed …
Neglected American Women Writers of the Long Nineteenth Century
Av Verena Laschinger, Sirpa Salenius
Inbunden, 2019
3146 kr
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Neglected American Women Writers of the Long Nineteenth Century, edited by Verena Laschinger and Sirpa Salenius, is a collection of essays that offer a fresh perspective and original analyses of texts by American women writers of the long nineteenth century. The essays, which are written both by …
Mark X
Who Killed Huck Finn’s Father?
Häftad, 2019
709 kr
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In the summer of 1876, Mark Twain started to write Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as a detective novel surrounding the murder of Huck’s father, Pap Finn. The case is unresolved in the novel as it exists today, but Twain had already planted the clue to the identity of the killer. It is not the …
Incorporation, Authorship, and Anglo-American Literature (1815–1918)
Inbunden, 2019
2879 kr
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Incorporation, Authorship, and Anglo-American Literature (1815–1918) is concerned with the new ways in which nineteenth-century authors came to imagine nationhood in response to the emergent global market. It investigates how authors negotiated a largely unregulated global economic space, both …
Nineteenth-Century French Short Story
Masterpieces in Miniature
Av Allan Pasco
Inbunden, 2019
2879 kr
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The 19th-Century French Short Story, by eminent scholar, Allan H. Pasco, seeks to offer a more comprehensive view of the definition, capabilities, and aims of short stories. The book examines general instances of the genre specifically in 19th-century France by recognizing their cultural context, …
Jane Austen and Altruism
Av Magdalen Ki
Inbunden, 2020
2879 kr
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Jane Austen and Altruism identifies a compelling theme, namely, the view that Jane Austen propounds a rigorous, boundary-sensitive model of altruism that counters the human propensity to selfishness and promotes the culture of cooperation. In her days, altruism was commonly known as "benevolence", …
Nineteenth-Century Southern Women Writers
Grace King and Modernism
Av Melissa Heidari, Brigitte Zaugg
Inbunden, 2019
3146 kr
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The essays in this book explore the role of Grace King’s fiction in the movement of American literature from local color and realism to modernism and show that her work exposes a postbellum New Orleans that is fragmented socially, politically, and linguistically. In her introduction, Melissa Walker …
Decadent Aesthetics and the Acrobat in French Fin de siècle
Inbunden, 2019
2879 kr
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In his discussion of clowns in nineteenth-century French painting from Jean-Léon Gérôme’s 1857 La Sortie du bal masqué to Georges Rouault, art historian Francis Haskell wondered why they are so sad. The myth of the sad clown as an allegory for the unappreciated artist found echoes in the work of …
Victorian Contagion
Risk and Social Control in the Victorian Literary Imagination
Inbunden, 2019
2879 kr
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Victorian Contagion: Risk and Social Control in the Victorian Literary Imagination examines the literary and cultural production of contagion in the Victorian era and the way that production participated in a moral economy of surveillance and control. In this book, I attempt to make sense of how …
Genres and Provenance in the Comedy of W.S. Gilbert
Pipes and Tabors
Inbunden, 2019
2879 kr
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In The Progress of Fun W.S. Gilbert was considered, not as a ‘classic Victorian’, but as part of an on-going comedic continuum stretching from Aristophanes to Joe Orton and beyond. Pipes and Tabors continues the story, covering the comedic experience differently by reference to genres. Here – …
Geography and the Literary Imagination in Victorian Fictions of Empire
The Poetics of Imperial Space
Inbunden, 2020
2879 kr
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In this pioneering study, Dr. Fernandez explores how the rise of institutional geography in Victorian England impacted imperial fiction’s emergence as a genre characterized by a preoccupation with space and place. This volume argues that the alliance between institutional geography and the British …
Dickensian Affects
Charles Dickens and Feelings of Precarity
Av Joshua Gooch
Inbunden, 2019
2879 kr
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In Dickensian Affects: Charles Dickens and Feelings of Precarity, Joshua Gooch argues that Dickens’s novels offer models of feeling that illuminate the dissensions that accompany life’s precariousness under capitalism. By examining the role of violence, anxiety, surprise, and suspense in Dickens’s …
“Music Makers” and World Creators
The Forms And Functions Of Embedded Poems In British Fantasy Narratives
Inbunden, 2020
2879 kr
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Many works of fantasy literature feature a considerable number of embedded poems, some written by the authors themselves, some borrowed and transformed from other authors. Exploring the mechanisms of this mix and the interaction between individual poems and the overall narrative, this monograph …
Bohemian Republic
Transnational Literary Networks in the Nineteenth Century
Inbunden, 2020
2879 kr
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In the mid-nineteenth century successive cultural Bohemias were proclaimed in Paris, London, New York, and Melbourne. Focusing on networks and borders as the central modes of analysis, this book charts for the first time Bohemia’s cross-Channel, transatlantic, and trans-Pacific migrations, locating …
Matrilineal Heritage of Louisa May Alcott and Christina Rossetti
Inbunden, 2021
2879 kr
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In an unprecedented comparison of two of the most important female authors of the nineteenth century, Azelina Flint foregrounds the influence of the religious communities that shaped Louisa May Alcott’s and Christina Rossetti’s visions of female creativity. In the early stages of the authors’ …
Matrilineal Heritage of Louisa May Alcott and Christina Rossetti
Häftad, 2023
742 kr
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In an unprecedented comparison of two of the most important female authors of the nineteenth century, Azelina Flint foregrounds the influence of the religious communities that shaped Louisa May Alcott’s and Christina Rossetti’s visions of female creativity. In the early stages of the authors’ …
Writing Place
Mimesis, Subjectivity and Imagination in the Works of George Gissing
Häftad, 2020
843 kr
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Exploring a hitherto neglected field, Writing Place: Mimesis, Subjectivity and Imagination in the Works of George Gissing is the first monograph to consider the works of George Gissing (1857-1903) in light of the ‘spatial turn’. By exploring how objectivity and subjectivity interact in his work, …
Inventing the Popular
Printing, Politics, and Poetics
Häftad, 2020
809 kr
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Inventing the Popular: Working-Class Literature and Culture in Nineteenth-Century France explores texts written, published and disseminated by a politically and socially active group of working-class writers during the first half of the nineteenth century. Through a network of exchanges featuring …
Melville and the Question of Meaning
Av David Faflik
Häftad, 2020
843 kr
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This rich volume of essays restores meaning itself as the focal point of one of our most thoughtful modern writers, Herman Melville. Melville and the Question of Meaning thinks about thinking in Melville. For if Melville’s concerns with interpretation (the contributors to one recent collection …
“Music Makers” and World Creators
The Forms And Functions Of Embedded Poems In British Fantasy Narratives
Häftad, 2022
809 kr
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Many works of fantasy literature feature a considerable number of embedded poems, some written by the authors themselves, some borrowed and transformed from other authors. Exploring the mechanisms of this mix and the interaction between individual poems and the overall narrative, this monograph …
Bohemian Republic
Transnational Literary Networks in the Nineteenth Century
Häftad, 2022
809 kr
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In the mid-nineteenth century successive cultural Bohemias were proclaimed in Paris, London, New York, and Melbourne. Focusing on networks and borders as the central modes of analysis, this book charts for the first time Bohemia’s cross-Channel, transatlantic, and trans-Pacific migrations, locating …
Nineteenth Century Revis(it)ed
The New Historical Fiction
Av Ina Bergmann
Inbunden, 2020
2879 kr
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The Nineteenth Century Revis(it)ed: The New Historical Fiction explores the renaissance of the American historical novel at the turn of the twenty-first century. The study examines the revision of nineteenth-century historical events in cultural products against the background of recent theoretical …
Nineteenth Century Revis(it)ed
The New Historical Fiction
Av Ina Bergmann
Häftad, 2022
809 kr
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The Nineteenth Century Revis(it)ed: The New Historical Fiction explores the renaissance of the American historical novel at the turn of the twenty-first century. The study examines the revision of nineteenth-century historical events in cultural products against the background of recent theoretical …
Arthur Morrison and the East End
The Legacy of Slum Fictions
Av Eliza Cubitt
Häftad, 2020
843 kr
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This, the first critical biography of Arthur Morrison (1863-1945), presents his East End writing as the counter-myth to the cultural production of the East End in late-Victorian realism. Morrison’s works, particularly Tales of Mean Streets (1894) and A Child of the Jago (1896), are often discussed …
