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Artist-Figure, Society, and Sexuality in Virginia Woolf's Novels
Häftad, 2011
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This book explores the relationship between aesthetic productivity and artists' degree of involvement in social and sexual life as depicted in Virginia Woolf's novels. Ann Ronchetti locates the sources of Woolf's lifelong preoccupation with the artist's relationship to society in her family …
Queer Impressions
Henry James' Art of Fiction
Häftad, 2011
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Beginning with The Portrait of a Lady , this book shows how, in developing his unique form of realism, James highlights the tragic consequences of his American heroine's Romantic imagination, in particular, her Emersonian idealism. In order to expose Emerson's blind spot, a lacuna at the very …
American Flaneur
The Cosmic Physiognomy of Edgar Allan Poe
Av James Werner
Häftad, 2011
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American Flaneur investigates the connections between Edgar A. Poe and the nineteenth-century flaneur - or strolling urban observer - suggested in Walter Benjamin's discussion of Baudelaire. This study illustrates the centrality of the flaneur to Poe's literary aims, and uses the flaneur to …
Dorothy Wordsworth's Ecology
Häftad, 2012
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Dorothy Wordsworth has a unique place in literary studies. Notoriously self-effacing, she assiduously eschewed publication, yet in her lifetime, her journals inspired William to write some of his best-known poems. Memorably depicting daily life in a particular environment (most famously, Grasmere), …
Editing Emily Dickinson
The Production of an Author
Häftad, 2013
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Editing Emily Dickinson considers the processes through which Dickinson's work has been edited in the twentieth century and how such editorial processes contribute specifically to the production of Emily Dickinson as author. The posthumous editing of her handwritten manuscripts into the conventions …
Politics and Aesthetics in The Diary of Virginia Woolf
Häftad, 2012
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In this critical study, Tidwell examines the conflict of aesthetics and politics in The Diary of Virginia Woolf. As a modernist writer concerned with contemporary aesthetic theories, Woolf experimented with limiting the representative nature of writing. At the same time, as a feminist, Woolf wanted …
Shakespeare and the Economic Imperative
“What’s aught but as ‘tis valued?”
Häftad, 2012
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Despite the volume of work Shakespeare produced, surprisingly few of his plays directly concern money and the economic mindset. Shakespeare and the Economic Imperative examines the five plays that do address monetary issues (The Comedy of Errors, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Merchant of Venice, …
Yeats and Theosophy
Av Ken Monteith
Häftad, 2012
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When H. P. Blavatsky, the controversial head of the turn of the century movement Theosophy, defined "a true Theosophist" in her book The Key to Theosophy, she could have just as easily have been describing W. B. Yeats. Blavatsky writes, "A true Theosophist must put in practice the loftiest moral …
Poetic Language and Political Engagement in the Poetry of Keats
Häftad, 2012
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In this incisive volume Siler traces the uneasy relationship between the content of Keats' poems and social history. In the process, he discovers that the early poems are linked with the mission statement of the radical journal Annals of the Fine Arts, whilst the poems after Endymion reveal a poet …
Politics of Humiliation in the Novels of J.M. Coetzee
Häftad, 2012
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In this volume, Nashef looks at J.M. Coetzee's concern with universal suffering and the inevitable humiliation of the human being as manifest in his novels. Though several theorists have referred to the theme of human degradation in Coetzee’s work, no detailed study has been made of this area of …
Gertrude Stein and the Making of an American Celebrity
Av Karen Leick
Häftad, 2012
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This book is a cultural history of Stein’s rise to fame and the function of literary celebrity in America from 1910 to 1935. By examining not the ways that Stein portrayed the popular in her work, but the ways the popular portrayed her, this study shows that there was an intimate relationship …
Shelley's Intellectual System and its Epicurean Background
Häftad, 2014
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Scholars do not agree on how best to describe Shelley’s philosophical stance. His work has been variously taken to be that of a skeptic or a skeptical and subjective idealist. The study presents a new interpretation of Shelley’s thinking – an interpretation that places ‘intellectual system’ …
Henry Miller and Religion
Häftad, 2015
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This study argues that this previously banned author devoted his entire life to articulating a religion of self-liberation in his autobiographical books, examining his life and work within the context of fringe religious movements that were linked with the avant-garde in New York City and Paris at …
Naked Liberty and the World of Desire
Elements of Anarchism in the Work of D.H. Lawrence
Av Simon Casey
Häftad, 2014
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In this new and original study, Simon Casey explores the long-neglected link between D. H. Lawrence and philosophical anarchism. Focusing on the writings of some of the major anarchists-with particular emphasis on Stirner, Godwin, Bakunin and Thoreau-this book argues that the conceptual parallels …
T.S. Eliot's Civilized Savage
Religious Eroticism and Poetics
Häftad, 2014
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T. S. Eliot's Civilized Savage revisits this poet's drafts and canonical poetry in a sometimes dismissive critical arena . While contemporary readers emphasize Eliot's charged personal life, his anti-Semitism, his political conservatism, and his misogyny, Laurie MacDiarmid argues that although …
Conrad's Narratives of Difference
Not Exactly Tales for Boys
Häftad, 2014
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In Joseph Conrad’s tales, representations of women and of "feminine" generic forms like the romance are often present in fugitive ways. Conrad’s use of allegorical feminine imagery, fleet or deferred introductions of female characters, and hybrid generic structures that combine features of …
Gerard Manley Hopkins and Victorian Catholicism
A Heart in Hiding
Av Jill Muller
Häftad, 2014
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This book restores the poet to his full intellectual and literary context as a Victorian convert to Catholicism.
Artistry and Tradition of Tennyson's Battle Poetry
Häftad, 2014
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Many readers are aware of Alfred Tennyson's treatment of legendary battles in such poems as Boadicea, The Revenge, Battle of Brunanburh, and Achilles over the Trench. Yet among Tennyson's most neglected works are his first battle poems, pieces that reflect the poet's immersion in the literature of …
Frederick Douglass's Curious Audiences
Ethos in the Age of the Consumable Subject
Av Terry Baxter
Häftad, 2014
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This book attempts to answer a fundamental question: How did Douglass manage to persuade anyone about the evils of slavery, and even impress viewers with his personal qualities, when his speeches were commonly considered mere entertainment, in the same category as Barnum's circus acts? In answering …
Influential Ghosts
A Study of Auden's Sources
Häftad, 2014
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Influential Ghosts: A Study of Auden's Sources explores some of the most important literary and philosophical influences on W.H. Auden's poetry. The study attempts to show that Auden's poetry derives much of its interest from the vast range of authors on whom he drew for inspiration. But it also …
D.H. Lawrence's Border Crossing
Colonialism in His Travel Writing and Leadership Novels
Av Eunyoung Oh
Häftad, 2014
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D.H. Lawrence's Border Crossing builds upon developments within postcolonial theory to argue for a reconsideration of the concept of "spirit of place" in D. H. Lawrence’s travel books and "leadership" novels – works that record Lawrence’s various encounters with racial and geographical "others." …
Reading and Mapping Hardy's Roads
Av Scott Rode
Häftad, 2014
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This book examines Thomas Hardy's representations of the road and the ways the archaeological and historical record of roads inform his work. Through an analysis of the uneven and often competing road signs found within three of his major novels - The Return of the Native,Tess of the D'Urbervilles, …
End of Learning
Milton and Education
Av Thomas Festa
Häftad, 2014
293 kr
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This book shows that education constitutes the central metaphor of John Milton's political as well as his poetic writing. Demonstrating how Milton's theory of education emerged from his own practices as a reader and teacher, this book analyzes for the first time the relationship between Milton's …
Queer Times
Christopher Isherwood's Modernity
Häftad, 2014
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This book maps Christopher Isherwood's intellectual and aesthetic reflections from the late 1930s through the late 1970s. Drawing on the queer theory of Eve Sedgwick and the ethical theory of Michel Foucault, Carr illuminates Isherwood's post-war development of a queer ethos through his focus on …
Writing Out of All the Camps
J.M. Coetzee's Narratives of Displacement
Av Laura Wright
Häftad, 2009
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Writing "Out of all the Camps": J. M. Coetzee's Narratives of Displacement is an interdisciplinary examination--combining ethical, postcolonial, performance, gender-based, and environmental theory--of the ways that 2003 Nobel Prize-winning South African novelist J. M. Coetzee, primarily through his …
No Place for Home
Spatial Constraint and Character Flight in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy
Av Jay Ellis
Häftad, 2009
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This book was written to venture beyond interpretations of Cormac McCarthy's characters as simple, antinomian, and non-psychological; and of his landscapes as unrelated to the violent arcs of often orphaned and always emotionally isolated and socially detached characters. As McCarthy usually …
Creating Yoknapatawpha
Readers and Writers in Faulkner's Fiction
Häftad, 2009
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Creating Yoknapatawpha is a study of the crucial interplay of reading and writing processes involved in constructing the textual environment of William Faulkner’s work, and the nature and significance of the world created by these many forces. Yoknapatawpha County, the author contends, is the …
Milton's Uncertain Eden
Understanding Place in Paradise Lost
Häftad, 2009
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This study describes a variety of ways of thinking about place in the Renaissance and in Paradise Lost. Despite coming from different perspectives, they have in common the idea that the difficulty of the relationship of reciprocity that poetic subjects often expect from their environment …
Modernist Aesthetics and Consumer Culture in the Writings of Oscar Wilde
Häftad, 2009
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Oscar Wilde was a consumer modernist. His modernist aesthetics drove him into the heart of the mass culture industries of 1890s London, particularly the journalism and popular theatre industries. Wilde was extremely active in these industries: as a journalist at the Pall Mall Gazette; as magazine …
Sports, Narrative, and Nation in the Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Häftad, 2009
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This study examines the ways that F. Scott Fitzgerald portrayed organized spectator sports as working to help structure ideologies of class, community, and nationhood. Situating the study in the landscape of late nineteenth/early twentieth-century American sport culture, Chapter One shows how …
