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  • 1
    ISBN: 9781137495853
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VII, 194 p. 10 illus. in color)
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature History and criticism ; European literature ; British literature ; British literature. ; European literature. ; Literature—History and criticism. ; Conrad, Joseph 1857-1924 The secret agent ; Zeithintergrund ; Terrorismus ; Textgeschichte
    Abstract: This book looks at the inception, composition, and 1907 publication of The Secret Agent, one of Joseph Conrad’s most highly regarded political novels and a core text of literary modernism. David Mulry examines the development and revisions of the novel through the stages of the holograph manuscript, first as a short story, then as a serialized sensation fiction in Ridgway’s Militant Weekly for the American market, before it was extensively revised and published in novel form. Presciently anticipating the climate of modern terror, Conrad’s text responds to the failed Greenwich Bombing, the first anarchist atrocity to occur on English soil. This book charts its historical and cultural milieu via press and anarchist accounts of the bombing, to place Conrad foremost among the dynamite fiction of revolutionary anarchism and terrorism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
    Abstract: Introduction- Chapter 1: Conrad and the Imaginative Shades -- Popular Accounts of the Greenwich Bombing Bomb Sensation -- The Dynamite Novel and The Secret Agent -- The Anarchists in the House. - “Verloc”: The Origins of the Text -- Patterns of Revision in The Secret Agent -- The Perfect Detonator -- Notes. - Bibliography
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    ISBN: 9783319335339
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VII, 304 p)
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    Keywords: Literature ; Ethnology Europe ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Sociology ; Gender identity ; Fiction ; British literature ; Sex (Psychology) ; Gender expression ; Fiction. ; British literature. ; Sex (Psychology). ; Gender expression. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Ethnology—Europe. ; Christie, Agatha 1890-1976 ; Geschlechterforschung
    Abstract: This book is the first fully theorized queer reading of a Golden Age British crime writer. Agatha Christie was the most commercially successful novelist of the twentieth century, and her fiction remains popular. She created such memorable characters as Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple, and has become synonymous with a nostalgic, conservative tradition of crime fiction. J.C. Bernthal reads Christie through the lens of queer theory, uncovering a playful, alert, and subversive social commentary. After considering Christie’s emergence in a commercial market hostile to her sex, in Queering Agatha Christie Bernthal explores homophobic stereotypes, gender performativity, queer children, and masquerade in key texts published between 1920 and 1952. Christie engaged with debates around human identity in a unique historical period affected by two world wars. The final chapter considers twenty-first century Poirot and Marple adaptations, with visible LGBT characters, and poses the question: might the books be queerer?
    Abstract: Introduction -- Chapter 1. Constructing Agatha Christie -- Chapter 2. English Masculinity and its Others -- Chapter 3. Femininity and Masquerade -- Chapter 4. Queer Children, Crooked Houses -- Chapter 5. Queering Christie on Television -- Conclusion
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    ISBN: 9783319406794
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VII, 194 p)
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    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature, Modern 19th century ; Fine arts ; British literature ; British literature. ; Fine arts. ; Literature, Modern—19th century.
    Abstract: Representing Realists in Victorian Literature and Criticism is a valuable contribution to scholarship on the emergence of realism as a coherent method and genre-both in Victorian literature and visual art. By attending to the ways in which realism was the subject of debate throughout the nineteenth-century, Representing Realists asks us to rethink the way “realism” was deployed as a tool for negotiating between genres and classes, for framing national and colonial identities, and for theorizing the relationship between art and the social. Simply put, Representing Realists is essential reading for scholars and students alike. - Daniel A. Novak, The University of Mississippi, Oxford, USA This book is about the historical moment when writers and critics first used the term “realism” to describe representation in literature and painting. While scholarship on realism tends to proceed from an assumption that the term has a long-established meaning and history, this book reveals that mid-nineteenth-century critics and writers first used the term reluctantly, with much confusion over what it might actually mean. It did not acquire the ready meaning we now take for granted until the end of the nineteenth century. In fact, its first definitions came primarily by way of example and analogy, through descriptions of current practitioners, or through fictionalized representations of artists. By investigating original debates over the term “realism,” this book shows how writers simultaneously engaged with broader concerns about the changing meanings of what was real and who had the authority to decide this
    Abstract: Introduction -- 1. Pre-Raphaelitism as Realism -- 2. Realistic Poetry -- 3. Realist Propaganda -- 4. The Realism of Doubt -- 5. The Realist Con Artist -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index --
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    ISBN: 9781137580160
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (IX, 195 p)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Raspa, Anthony, 1934 - Shakespeare the renaissance humanist
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    Keywords: Literature ; Comparative literature ; Literature History and criticism ; Literature, Modern ; British literature. ; Ethics. ; Poetry. ; Literature—Philosophy. ; Culture—Study and teaching. ; Literature ; Comparative literature ; Literature History and criticism ; Literature, Modern ; Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 ; Drama ; Humanismus ; Ethik
    Abstract: During the Renaissance, moral philosophy came to permeate the minds of many, including the spectators that poured into Shakespeare's Globe theatre. Examining these strains of thought that formed the basis for humanism, Raspa delves into King Lear , Hamlet , among others to unlock what influence this had on both Shakespeare and his interpreters
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    ISBN: 9781349949076
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 267 p)
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    Series Statement: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature, Modern 19th century ; Poetry ; British literature ; British literature. ; Poetry. ; Literature, Modern—19th century. ; Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 1772-1834 The rime of the ancient mariner
    Abstract: This is the first book-length study to read the "Ancient Mariner" as "poetry," in Coleridge's own particular sense of the word. Coleridge's complicated relationship with the "Mariner" as an experimental poem lies in its origin as a joint project with Wordsworth. J. C. C. Mays traces the changes in the several versions published in Coleridge's lifetime and shows how Wordsworth's troubled reaction to the poem influenced its subsequent interpretation. This is also the first book to situate the "Mariner" in the context of the entirety of Coleridge's prose and verse, now available in the Bollingen Collected edition and Notebooks; that is, not only in relation to other poems like "The Ballad of the Dark Ladiè" and "Alice du Clós," but also to ideas in his literary criticism (especially Biographia Literaria), philosophy, and theology. Using a combination of close reading and broad historical considerations, reception theory, and book history, Mays surveys the poem's continuing life in illustrated editions and educational textbooks; its passage through the vicissitudes of New Criticism and critical theory; and, in a final chapter, its surprising affinities with some experimental poems of the present time
    Abstract: Preface -- Taking Bearings, Setting a Course -- What Does the Poem Do? -- As a Poem of the Imagination -- Wordsworth as Collaborator and Contributor -- The Shadow Cast by Wordsworth -- Revision, Gloss, Choice -- A Reputation by Default -- Today and To Do -- Appendix 1: "Ancient Mariner "1798 Version -- Appendix 2: Reading "Alice du Clós", and for the Birds -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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    ISBN: 9783319409283
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XV, 266 p. 27 illus., 18 illus. in color)
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    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture
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    Keywords: Culture Study and teaching ; Ethnology Europe ; Motion pictures. ; Motion pictures Great Britain ; Motion picture authorship ; British literature ; Motion pictures ; British literature. ; Motion picture authorship. ; Ethnology—Europe. ; Motion pictures—Great Britain. ; Cultural policy. ; Electronic books ; Friel, Brian 1929-2015 Dancing at Lughnasa ; Verfilmung ; Dancing at Lughnasa ; O'Flaherty, Liam 1896-1984 The informer ; O'Casey, Sean 1880-1964 The plough and the stars ; Shaw, Bernard 1856-1950 ; Verfilmung ; Wilde, Oscar 1854-1900 The importance of being earnest ; Verfilmung ; Huston, John 1906-1987 ; The dead ; Joyce, James 1882-1941 The dead ; Tuberkulose ; Liebe ; Jugendliebe ; Wilde, Oscar 1854-1900 The picture of Dorian Gray ; Verfilmung ; The picture of Dorian Gray 1945 ; Irland ; Irisch ; Drama ; Prosa ; Verfilmung ; Brown, Christy 1932-1981 ; Cerebralsklerose ; Sheridan, Jim 1949- ; Verfilmung
    Abstract: This book offers the first comprehensive discussion of the relationship between Modern Irish Literature and the Irish cinema, with twelve chapters written by experts in the field that deal with principal films, authors, and directors. This survey outlines the influence of screen adaptation of important texts from the national literature on the construction of an Irish cinema, many of whose films because of cultural constraints were produced and exhibited outside the country until very recently. Authors discussed include George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Liam O’Flaherty, Christy Brown, Edna O’Brien, James Joyce, and Brian Friel. The films analysed in this volume include THE QUIET MAN, THE INFORMER, MAJOR BARBARA, THE GIRL WITH GREEN EYES, MY LEFT FOOT, THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, THE SNAPPER, and DANCING AT LUGHNASA. The introduction features a detailed discussion of the cultural and political questions raised by the promotion of forms of national identity by Ireland’s literary and cinematic establishments
    Abstract: Introduction: Modern Irish Drama and Fiction on Screen. Barton Palmer and Marc Conner -- 1. Liam O’Flaherty’s The Informer and the aesthetics of terror. Homer Pettey -- 2. Deconstructing Political Adaptations: Sean O’Casey’s The Plough and the Stars. Laurence Raw -- 3. Genre and Charisma in Shaw’s Major Barbara. Doug McFarland -- 4. Lewin’s Wilde: Aestheticism, Moralism, and Hollywood. Edward Adams -- 5. ‘Wonderful and Incomparable Beauty’: Adapting Period Aesthetic for The Importance of Being Earnest. Jennifer Jenkins -- 6. The Quiet Man: From Story to Film. Michael Patrick Gillespie -- 7. The Girl with Green Eyes. R. Barton Palmer -- 8. John Huston’s ‘The Dead’. Coilin Owens -- 9. Sheridan’s Supercrip: Daniel Day-Lewis and the Wonder of My Left Foot. Tiffany Gilbert -- 10. Roddy Doyle’s The Barrytown Trilogy and Filming Ireland’s ‘New Picture’. Julieann Ulin -- 11. 1960s Popular Culture in 1960s Provincial Ireland: Neil Jordan’s The Butcher Boy. Michael Kissane -- 12. The Ritual of Memory in Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa. Marc Conner
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    ISBN: 9783319340456
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 248 p. 2 illus)
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    Series Statement: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature Philosophy ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Literature, Modern 21st century ; America Literatures ; Poetry ; British literature ; Poetry. ; British literature. ; Literature—Philosophy. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; America—Literatures.
    Abstract: This study engages the life of form in contemporary innovative poetries through both an introduction to the latest theories and close readings of leading North American and British innovative poets. The critical approach derives from Robert Sheppard’s axiomatic contention that poetry is the investigation of complex contemporary realities through the means (meanings) of form. Analyzing the poetry of Rosmarie Waldrop, Caroline Bergval, Sean Bonney, Barry MacSweeney, Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Kenneth Goldsmith, Allen Fisher, and Geraldine Monk, Sheppard argues that their forms are a matter of authorial design and readerly engagement
    Abstract: Preface -- Introduction: Form, Forms and Forming -- 1. Veronica Forrest-Thomson: Poetic Artifice and Naturalization in Theory and Practice -- 2. Convention and Constraint: Form in the Innovative Sonnet Sequence -- 3. Translation as Transformation: Tim Atkins’ and Peter Hughes’ Petrarch -- 4. Meddling the Medieval: Caroline Bergvall and Erín Moure -- 5. Translation as Occupation: Simon Perril and Sean Bonney -- 6. Rosmarie Waldrop: Poetics, Wild Forms and Palimpsest Prose -- 7. The Trace of Poetry and the Non-Poetic: Conceptual Writing and Appropriation in Kenneth Goldsmith, Vanessa Place and John Seed -- 8. Stefan Themerson: Iconopoeia and Thought-Experiments in the Theater of Semantic Poetry -- 9. The Making of the Book: Bill Griffiths and Allen Fisher -- 10. Geraldine Monk’s Poetics and Performance: Catching Form in the Act -- 11. Form and the Antagonisms of Reality: Barry MacSweeney’s Sin Signs -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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    ISBN: 9783319326610
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 218 p)
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature History and criticism ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; British literature ; British literature. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature—History and criticism. ; Englisch ; Gothic novel ; Moderne
    Abstract: This book explores the complex relationship between British modernism and the Gothic tradition over several centuries of modern literary and cultural history. Illuminating the blind spots of Gothic criticism and expanding the range of cultural material that falls under the banner of this tradition, Daniel Darvay focuses on how late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British writers transform the artifice of Gothic ruins into building blocks for a distinctively modernist architecture of questions, concerns, images, and arguments. To make this argument, Darvay takes readers back to early exemplars of the genre thematically rooted in the English Reformation, tracing it through significant Victorian transformations to finally the modernist period. Through writers such as Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, and D. H. Lawrence, this book ultimately expands the boundaries of the Gothic genre and provides a fresh, new approach to better understanding the modernist movement
    Abstract: Preface -- Introduction: Catholicism, Sacrilege and the Modern Gothic -- Labyrinths of Reason from Augustine to Wilde -- Specters of Conrad: Espionage and the Modern West -- The Haunted Museum: E. M. Forster, Italy, and the Grand Tour -- Detectives of the Mind: Virginia Woolf and the Gothic Sublime -- Dark Vibes: D. H. Lawrence and Occult Electricity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography
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    ISBN: 9781137503206
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VII, 206 p)
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature History and criticism ; Literature, Modern 19th century ; Fiction ; British literature ; British literature. ; Fiction. ; Literature, Modern—19th century. ; Literature—History and criticism. ; Hardy, Thomas 1840-1928 ; England ; Ländlicher Raum ; Regionalkultur
    Abstract: This book reassesses Hardy’s fiction in the light of his prolonged engagement with the folklore and traditions of rural England. Drawing on wide research, it demonstrates the pivotal role played in the novels by such customs and beliefs as ‘overlooking’, hag-riding, skimmington-riding, sympathetic magic, mumming, bonfire nights, May Day celebrations, Midsummer divination, and the ‘Portland Custom.’ This study shows how such traditions were lived out in practice in village life, and how they were represented in written texts - in literature, newspapers, county histories, folklore books, the work of the Folklore Society, archival documents, and letters. It explores tensions between Hardy’s repeated insistence on the authenticity of his accounts and his engagement with contemporary anthropologists and folklorists, and reveals how his efforts to resist their ‘excellently neat’ categories of culture open up wider questions about the nature of belief, progress, and social change
    Abstract: Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Belief: Overlooking, Sympathetic Magic, Hag-riding, and South’s Tree -- 3. Acts of Disapproval: Skimmington Riding -- 4. Acts of Approval: The Portland Custom -- 5. Winter Customs: Bonfire Night and Mumming -- 6. Summer Customs: May Day and Midsummer Divination -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Appendix: Illustrations -- Index.-
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    ISBN: 9781137548795
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (IX, 123 p)
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    Keywords: Literature ; Culture Study and teaching ; Literature Philosophy ; Literature, Medieval ; Poetry ; European literature ; British literature ; Literature, Medieval. ; British literature. ; Poetry. ; European literature. ; Literature—Philosophy. ; Culture—Study and teaching. ; Chaucer, Geoffrey 1343-1400 ; Politik ; Ethik
    Abstract: Drawing on the work of Holocaust writer Primo Levi and political philosopher Giorgio Agamben McClellan introduces a critical turn in our reading of Chaucer. He argues that the unprecedented event of the Holocaust, which witnessed the total degradation and extermination of human beings, irrevocably changes how we read literature from the past. McClellan gives a thoroughgoing reading of the Man of Law’s Tale, widely regarded as one of Chaucer’s most difficult tales, interpreting it as a meditation on the horrors of sovereign power. He shows how Chaucer, through the figuration of Custance, dramatically depicts the destructive effects of power on the human subject. McClellan’s intervention, which he calls “reading-history-as-ethical-meditation,” places reception history in the context of a reception ethics and holds the promise of changing the way we read traditional texts
    Abstract: Chapter 1 Political Chaucer -- Chapter 2 The Man of Law’s Tale: Sovereign Abandonment of the Subject -- Chapter 3 First Movement: Marriage and Exile -- Chapter 4 Second Movement: Destitution of the Subject -- Chapter 5 Third Movement: Return and Restitution -- Chapter 6 Interpretation: Critique of Sovereign and the Exemplarity of the Suffering Subject -- Works Cited -- Index -- Notes
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    ISBN: 9781137566140
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXVII, 229 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. History
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    Keywords: Science ; British literature. ; Literature—History and criticism. ; Literature, Modern—19th century. ; Sociology.
    Abstract: Focusing on British women writers' knowledge of ancient Egypt, Youngkin shows the oftentimes limited but pervasive representations of ancient Egyptian women in their written and visual works. Images of Hathor, Isis, and Cleopatra influenced how British writers such as George Eliot and Edith Cooper came to represent female emancipation.
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    ISBN: 9781137597069
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XV, 243 p. 1 illus)
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature History and criticism ; Literature, Modern 19th century ; Fiction ; British literature ; British literature. ; Fiction. ; Literature, Modern—19th century. ; Literature—History and criticism.
    Abstract: This book takes a fresh look at the progressive interventions of writers in the nineteenth century. From Cobbett to Dickens and George Eliot, and including a host of lesser known figures - popular novelists, poets, journalists, political activists - writers shared a commitment to exploring the potential of literature as a medium in which to imagine new and better worlds. The essays in this volume ask how we should understand these interventions and what are their legacies in the twentieth and twenty first centuries? Inspired by the work of the radical literary scholar, the late Sally Ledger, this volume provides a commentary on the political traditions that underpin the literature of this complex period, and examines the interpretive methods that are needed to understand them. This timely book contributes to our appreciation of the radical traditions that underpin our literary past
    Abstract: List of Figures -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction; Joseph Bristow and Josephine McDonagh -- 1. No Laughing Matter: Chartism and the Limits of Satire; Mike Sanders -- 2. ‘Their Deadly Longing’: Paternalism, the Past, and Perversion in Barnaby Rudge; Ben Winyard -- 3. Frederick William Robinson, Charles Dickens, and the Literary Tradition of ‘Low Life’; Anne Schwan -- 4. Remembering Radicalism on the Midlands Turnpike: George Eliot, Felix Holt, and William Cobbett; Ruth Livesey -- 5. The Commune in Exile: Urban Insurrection and the Production of International Space; Scott McCracken -- 6. Divorce and the New Woman; Anne Humphreys -- 7. Revolutions in Journalism: W. T. Stead, Indexing, and ‘Searching’; Laurel Brake -- 8. Towards a Perlocutionary Poetics?; Isobel Armstrong -- Sally Ledger: A Chronological Bibliography -- Bibliography -- Index.-
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    ISBN: 9781137523402
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVIII, 282 p)
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Fiction ; British literature ; British literature. ; Fiction. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Wells, H. G. 1866-1946 ; Morris, William 1834-1896 ; Utopie ; Anti-Utopie ; Landschaft ; Zeit
    Abstract: This book is about the fiercely contrasting visions of two of the nineteenth century’s greatest utopian writers. A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study, it emphasizes that space is a key factor in utopian fiction, often a barometer of mankind’s successful relationship with nature, or an indicator of danger. Emerging and critically acclaimed scholars consider the legacy of two great utopian writers, exploring their use of space and time in the creation of sites in which contemporary social concerns are investigated and reordered. A variety of locations is featured, including Morris’s quasi-fourteenth century London, the lush and corrupted island, a routed and massacred English countryside, the high-rises of the future and the vertiginous landscape of another Earth beyond the stars
    Abstract: Introduction; Emelyne Godfrey -- SETTING THE SCENE -- Kelmscott House: Threshold to Utopia; Michael Sherborne -- PART I. TIME AS A KIND OF SPACE -- 1. Imaginary Hindsight: Contemporary History in William Morris and H. G. Wells; Helen Kingstone -- 2. ‘Quivers of Idiosyncrasy’: Modern Statistics in A Modern Utopia; Genie Babb -- 3. ‘All Good Earthly Things Are In Utopia Also’: Familiarity and Irony in the Better Worlds of Morris and Wells; Ben Carver -- PART II. MATTERS OUT OF PLACE: DANGER AND DISRUPTION IN UTOPIA -- 4. Problems in Utopia from the Thames Valley to the Pacific Edge; Tony Pinkney -- 5. Utopia’s the Thing: An Analysis of Utopian Program and Impulse in H.G. Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau; Rhys Williams -- 6. ‘Great Safe Places Down Deep’: Subterranean Spaces in the Early Novels of H.G. Wells; Catherine Redford -- PART III. DISTORTED REALITIES, SHATTERED PERSPECTIVES -- 7. The Urban Wasteland in H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds; Vera Benczik -- 8. An Epistemological Journey: the Uncertainty of Construed Realities in The Time Machine; Károly Pintér -- PART IV. UNNATURAL THEOLOGIES IN THE ISLAND -- 9. Dark Artistry in The Island of Doctor Moreau; Sarah Faulkner -- 10. Punishment, Purgatory, and Paradise; Hating the Sin and Sometimes the Sinner in H.G. Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau and The Invisible Man; Gianluca Guerriero -- 11. Mr Blettsworthy on Rampole Island: The Novel as Fable; John Hammond -- PART V. BUILDING THE FUTURE -- 12. ‘Flowers and a Landscape Were the Only Attractions Here’: The England of Wells and Morris in Aldous Huxley’s Interpretation; Maxim Shadurski -- 13. Modernist Ideals: The Utopian Designs of William Morris, Peter Behrens, and the Social Housing Schemes in Mid-Twentieth Century Sheffield; Clare Holdstock -- Bibliography -- Index.-
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    ISBN: 9781137558688
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 209 p. 15 illus., 4 illus. in color)
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Literature, Modern 21st century ; America Literatures ; Fiction ; British literature ; British literature. ; Fiction. ; America—Literatures. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Großbritannien ; USA ; Schriftsteller ; Selbstdarstellung ; Personenkult
    Abstract: This book maps the history of literary celebrity from the early nineteenth century to the present, paying special attention to the authors’ crafting of their writerly self as well as the afterlife of their public image. Case studies are John Keats, Edgar Allan Poe, Eliza Cook, Herman Melville, Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, J.D. Salinger and Zadie Smith. Literary celebrity is part and parcel of modern literary culture, yet it continues to raise intriguing questions about the nature of authorship, writerly fame and the tension between authorial self-fashioning and public appropriation. This volume provides unique insights into the phenomenon
    Abstract: Introduction; Gaston Franssen and Rick Honings -- 1. A Friendly Return of the Author: John Keats (1795-1821); Eric Eisner -- 2. Hero of Horror: Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849); Evert Jan van Leeuwen -- 3. Victorian Iconoclast: Eliza Cook (1818-1889); Alexis Easley -- 4. The Daguerreotype Devil: Herman Melville (1819-1891); Kevin J. Hayes -- 5. The Art of Creating a Great Sensation: Oscar Wilde (1854-1900); Sandra Mayer -- 6. Production and Reproduction: Gertrude Stein (1874-1946); Rod Rosenquist -- 7. The Silence of the Celebrity: J.D. Salinger (1919-2010); Gaston Franssen -- 8. Public and Private Posture: Zadie Smith (1975); Odile Heynders -- Bibliography -- Index.-
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    ISBN: 9781137545534
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 241 p. 5 illus. in color)
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature History and criticism ; British literature ; British literature. ; Literature—History and criticism.
    Abstract: This book is about the literary and friendship networks that were active in Britain for a 250- year period. Patterns in the nature of literary social circles emerge: they may centre upon a location, like Christ Church, or a person, like Aaron Hill; they may suffer stress when private relationships become public knowledge, as Caroline Lamb’s Glenarvon shows; and they may model themselves on a preceding age, as the relationship between the Sidney circle and Lady Mary Wroth exemplifies. Despite these similarities, no two coteries are the same. The circles this volume examines even differ in their acceptance of their own status as a coterie: someone like Constance Fowler was certainly part of a strict familial coterie; the Scriberlians were a more informal set who were also members of other groups; and although Byron’s years of fame are regularly associated with Holland House, he often denied being of their party
    Abstract: Introduction; Will Bowers and Hannah Leah Crummé -- 1. Literary Coteries of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke and William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke; Mary Ellen Lamb -- 2. The Circulation of Verse at the Inns of Court and in London in Early Stuart England; Arthur Marotti -- 3. Maecenas and Oxford-Witts:Pedagogy and Flattery in Seventeenth-Century Oxford; Christopher Burlinson -- 4. ‘If I had known him, I would have loved him.’ Bloomsbury appropriations of the Scriblerian coterie; Abigail Williams and Peter Huhne -- 5. The Hillarian Circle: Scorpions, sexual politics and heterosocial coteries; Christine Gerrard -- 6. Edmund Spenser and Coterie Culture, 1774-1790; Hazel Wilkinson -- 7. Charles Lamb, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the forging of the Romantic literary coterie; Felicity James -- 8. The Many Rooms of Holland House; Will Bowers -- 9. Aggressive Intimacy: Mass Markets and the Blackwood’s Magazine Coterie; Robert Morrison -- Afterword; Helen Hackett -- Bibliography -- Index.-
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    ISBN: 9781137504494
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (IX, 207 p)
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    Series Statement: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters
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    Abstract: The Regency Revisited reconfigures Romantic Studies through a neglected timeframe. It demonstrates how politics and culture of the Regency years transformed literature. By co-opting authors, the Regency provoked opposition, and brought new genres and modes of writing to the fore. Key figures are Robert Southey and Leigh Hunt: The Regency Revisited shows their pivotal roles in transforming Romanticism. Austen and Byron also feature as authors who honed their satire in response to Regency culture. Other topics include Blake and popular art, Regency science (Humphry Davy), Moore and parlour songs, Cockney writing and Pierce Egan, and Anna Barbauld and the collecting and exhibiting that was so popular an aspect of Regency London
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    ISBN: 9781137580122
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 317 p. 9 illus)
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    Series Statement: Early Modern Cultural Studies Series
    Series Statement: Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Harlan, Susan Memories of war in early modern England
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    Abstract: This book examines literary depictions of the construction and destruction of the armored male body in combat in relation to early modern English understandings of the past. Bringing together the fields of material culture and militarism, Susan Harlan argues that the notion of “spoiling” - or the sanctioned theft of the arms and armor of the vanquished in battle - provides a way of thinking about England’s relationship to its violent cultural inheritance. She demonstrates how writers reconstituted the spoils of antiquity and the Middle Ages in an imagined military struggle between male bodies. An analysis of scenes of arming and disarming across texts by Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare and tributes to Sir Philip Sidney reveals a pervasive militant nostalgia: a cultural fascination with moribund models and technologies of war. Readers will not only gain a better understanding of humanism but also a new way of thinking about violence and cultural production in Renaissance England
    Abstract: CHAPTER 1 - “Objects fit for Tamburlaine”: Self-Arming in Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great, Robert Vaughan’s Portraits, and The Almain Armourer’s Album -- INTERLUDE - Epic Pastness: War Stories, Nostalgic Objects, and Sexual and Textual Spoils in Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage -- CHAPTER 2 - Spoiling Sir Philip Sidney: Mourning and Military Violence in the Elegies, Lant’s Roll, and Greville’s Life of the Renowned Sir Philip Sidney -- INTERLUDE - “Scatter’d Men”: Mutilated Male Bodies and Conflicting Narratives of Militant Nostalgia in Shakespeare’s Henry V -- CHAPTER 3 - The Armored Body as Trophy: The Problem of the Roman Subject in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, and Coriolanus -- CODA - “Let’s Do’t After the High Roman Fashion”: Funeral and Triumph -- BIBLIOGRAPHY
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    ISBN: 9783319328386
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 236 p)
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature, Modern 19th century ; Poetry ; Fiction ; British literature ; British literature. ; Fiction. ; Poetry. ; Literature, Modern—19th century.
    Abstract: This book is about the resonance and implications of the idea of ‘eternal recurrence’, as expounded notably by Nietzsche, in relation to a range of nineteenth-century literature. It opens up the issue of repetition and cyclical time as a key feature of both poetic and prose texts in the Victorian/Edwardian period. The emphasis is upon the resonance of landscape as a vehicle of meaning, and upon the philosophical and aesthetic implications of the doctrine of ‘recurrence’ for the authors whose work is examined here, ranging from Tennyson and Hallam to Swinburne and Hardy. The book offers radically new light on a range of central nineteenth-century texts
    Abstract: Introduction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Romantic Fragments: The Poetry of Arthur Hallam -- 3. Young Tennyson and the Orient -- 4. Morte’d’Arthur: The Landscape of Eternal Return -- 5. Friendship and Melancholia: In Memoriam LXXXV -- 6. Richard Jefferies: Seeking the Beyond -- 7. ‘Time’s Mindless Rote’: Evolution and Recurrence in Hardy -- 8. Tess’s Boots: Hardy and Van Gogh -- 9. The Isle of Slingers: Hardy and Portland Bill -- 10. ‘Before the Mirror’: Swinburne, Hardy, Kristeva -- Bibliography -- Index
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    ISBN: 9781137436931
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XV, 239 p. 2 illus)
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    Series Statement: Early Modern Literature in History
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    Keywords: Literature ; Theater History ; Literature History and criticism ; Literature, Modern ; British literature ; Literature, Modern. ; British literature. ; Literature—History and criticism. ; Theater—History.
    Abstract: This book explores the secret relations between theatre and diplomacy from the Tudors to the Treaty of Westphalia. It offers an original insight into the art of diplomacy in the 1580-1655 period through the prism of literature, theatre and material history. Contributors investigate English, Italian and German plays of Renaissance theoretical texts on diplomacy, lifting the veil on the intimate relations between ambassadors and the artistic world and on theatre as an unexpected instrument of 'soft power'. The volume offers new approaches to understanding Early Modern diplomacy, which was a source of inspiration for Renaissance drama for Shakespeare and his European contemporaries, and contributed to fashion the aesthetic and the political ideas and practice of the Renaissance
    Abstract: 1. The Poetics of Diplomatic Appeasement in the Early Modern Era; Nathalie Rivère de Carles -- PART I. FROM TRUCE TO NEGOTIATED PEACE: THE TEMPORAL DIPLOMACIES OF A LITERATURE OF APPEASEMENT -- 2. The Slumber of War Diplomacy, Tragedy, and the Aesthetics of the Truce in Early Modern Europe; Timothy Hampton -- 3. ‘Ces petits livres en françois de Messieurs les Hotmans’: Peace in a/the European Family; Dominique Goy-Blanquet -- 4. ‘Mediating Amicably’? The Birth of the Trauerspiel out of the Letter of Westphalia; Jane O. Newman -- PART II. A VERY POLITICAL PEACEMAKER: THE STAGE AMBASSADOR BETWEEN DIPLOMATIC TACTICS AND POLITICAL STRATEGIES -- 5. The Performative Power of Diplomatic Discourse in the Italian Tragedies Inspired by the Wars against the Turks; Valeria Cimmieri -- 6. The Ambassador as Proteus: Indirect Characterisation and Diplomatic Appeasement in Catiline and Measure for Measure; Nathalie Rivère de Carles -- 7. Galleries and Soft Power: The Gallery in The Winter’s Tale; Patricia Akhimie -- PART III. CONCILIATORY NETOWRKS AS SOFT POWER: A DYNAMIC DIPLOMACY OF CROSS-CONFESSIONAL APPEASEMENT -- 8. Marginal Diplomatic Spaces during the Jacobean Era, 1603-25; Roberta Anderson -- 9. Venetian Merchants as Diplomatic Agents: Family Networks and Cross-Confessional Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe; Diego Pirillo -- 10. The Fabric of Silk Power in the Sherley Portraits; Ladan Niayesh -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.-
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    ISBN: 9783319342047
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 203 p)
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    Series Statement: Arthurian and Courtly Cultures
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    Abstract: Offering a new reading of Malory’s famed text, Le Morte Darthur, this book provides the first full-length survey of the alterations Malory made to female characters in his source texts. Through detailed comparisons with both Old French and Middle English material, Siobhán M. Wyatt discusses how Malory radically altered his French and English source texts to create a gendered pattern in the reliability of speech, depicting female discourse as valuable and truthful. Malory’s authorial crafting indicates his preference for a certain “type” of female character: self-governing, opinionated, and strong. Simultaneously, the portrayal of this very readable “type” yields characterization. While late medieval court records indicate an increasingly negative attitude towards female speech and a tendency to punish vociferous women as “scolds,” Malory makes the words of chiding damsels constructive. While his contemporary writers suppress the powers of magical women, Malory empowers his enchantress characters; while the authors of his French source texts accentuate Guinevere’s flaws, Malory portrays her with sympathy
    Abstract: Introduction -- Chapter One: The Ill-speaking Woman and the Marriageable Lady -- Chapter Two: Magical and Miraculous Women -- Chapter Three: ‘Whyle She Might Be Suffirde’: Ladies In (Unrequited) Love -- Chapter Four: True Lovers and Adulterous Queens -- Conclusion
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    ISBN: 9781137393807
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXII, 315 p. 6 illus)
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    Series Statement: History of British Women's Writing
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature History and criticism ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Comparative literature ; Fiction ; British literature ; British literature. ; Comparative literature. ; Fiction. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature—History and criticism.
    Abstract: The ranks of English women writers rose steeply in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, contributing to the era’s revolutionary social movements as well as to transforming literary genres in prose and poetry. The phenomena of ‘the new’ - ‘New Women’, ‘New Unionism’, ‘New Imperialism’, ‘New Ethics’, ‘New Critics’, ‘New Journalism’, ‘New Man’ - are this moment’s touchstones. This book tracks the period's new social phenomena and unfolds its distinctively modern modes of writing. It provides expert introductions amid new insights into women’s writing throughout the United Kingdom and around the globe
    Abstract: List of Figures -- Series Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Contributors -- Chronology -- Introduction: a revolutionary moment; Holly A. Laird -- PART I: MODERN WOMEN -- From the New Woman to the Suffragette: -- 1. The (Irish) New Woman: political, literary, and sexual experiments; Tina O’Toole -- 2. Fin-de-Siècle Ouida: A New Woman writing against the New Woman?; Lyn Pykett -- 3. The New Woman in Wales: Welsh women’s writing, 1880-1920; Jane Aaron -- 4. British Women Writers, Technology, and the Sciences, 1880-1920; Lisa Hager -- 5. Mediating Women: Evelyn Sharp and the modern media fictions of suffrage; Barbara Green -- From the Decadent to the Queer: -- 6. Female Decadence; Joseph Bristow -- 7. Re-writing Myths of Creativity: Pygmalionism, Galatea figures, and the revenge of the Muse in Late Victorian literature by women; Catherine Delyfer -- 8. Venus in the Museum: Women’s representations and the rise of public art institutions; Ruth Hoberman -- 9. Women’s Nature and the Neo-Pagan Movement; Dennis Denisoff -- From the Nation to the Globe: -- 10. This Nation Which Is Not One: Olive Schreiner’s The Story of an African Farm; Holly A. Laird -- 11. Geographies of Self: Scottish women writing Scotland; Glenda Norquay -- 12. Modern Travel on the Fringes of Empire; Judy Suh -- 13. Women Writing Japan; Edward Marx -- PART II: MODERN GENRES -- From the Story to the Lyric: -- 14. New Women Writing Beyond the Novel: Short Stories; Margaret Stetz -- 15. Material Negotiations: Women writing the short story; Kate Krueger -- 16. Women’s Lyric, 1880-1920; Emily Harrington -- 17. Vigo Street Sapphos: The Bodley Head Press and women poets of the 1890s; Linda Peterson -- From Journalism to the War Memoir: -- 18. Women’s Slum Journalism, 1885-1910; S. Brooke Cameron -- 19. Turn-of-the-Century Women Writing about Art, 1880-1920; Meaghan Clarke -- 20. The British Female Detective Written by Women, 1890-1920; Joseph Kestner -- 21. Writing Modern Deaths: Women, war, and the view from the home front; Bette London -- Select Bibliography -- Index.-
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (X, 256 p)
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature Philosophy ; Literature, Modern 19th century ; British literature ; British literature. ; Literature, Modern—19th century. ; Literature—Philosophy.
    Abstract: This book examines the construction of adolescent girlhood across a range of genres in the closing decades of the nineteenth century. It argues that there was a preoccupation with defining, characterising and naming adolescent girlhood at the fin de siècle. These ‘daughters of today’, ‘juvenile spinsters’ and ‘modern girls’, as the press variously termed them, occupying a borderland between childhood and womanhood, were seen to be inextricably connected to late nineteenth-century modernity: they were the products of changes taking place in education and employment and of the challenge to traditional conceptions of femininity presented by the Woman Question. The author argues that the shifting nature of the modern adolescent girl made her a malleable cultural figure, and a meeting point for many of the prevalent debates associated with fin-de-siècle society. By juxtaposing diverse material, from children’s books and girls’ magazines to New Woman novels and psychological studies, the author contextualises adolescent girlhood as a distinct but complex cultural category at the end of the nineteenth century
    Abstract: Introduction: Debating and Defining Adolescent Girlhood at the Fin de Siècle -- 1. Classifying Girlhood, Creating Heroines: Aspiration, Community and Competition in the Girl’s Own Paper and the Girl’s Realm -- 2. Making Transitions in fin-de-siècle Girls’ School Stories, 1886-1906 -- 3. ‘Flowering into womanhood’? The New Woman and the New Girl -- 4. ‘Development and Arrest of Development’: Sarah Grand’s ‘Girls of Today’ -- 5. Professionalizing the Modern Girl: Ella Hepworth Dixon, W.T. Stead and Journalism for Girls -- Coda: Voyaging Out -- Bibliography -- Index.-
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    ISBN: 9781137398963
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXXII, 290 p)
    Series Statement: The New Middle Ages
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    Keywords: Literature ; Culture Study and teaching ; Literature Philosophy ; Literature History and criticism ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Fiction ; British literature ; British literature. ; Fiction. ; Literature—Philosophy. ; Culture—Study and teaching. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature—History and criticism. ; Tolkien, J. R. R. 1892-1973 ; Das Andere
    Abstract: This book examines key points of J. R. R. Tolkien’s life and writing career in relation to his views on humanism and feminism, particularly his sympathy for and toleration of those who are different, deemed unimportant, or marginalized-namely, the Other. Jane Chance argues such empathy derived from a variety of causes ranging from the loss of his parents during his early life to a consciousness of the injustice and violence in both World Wars. As a result of his obligation to research and publish in his field and propelled by his sense of abjection and diminution of self, Tolkien concealed aspects of the personal in relatively consistent ways in his medieval adaptations, lectures, essays, and translations, many only recently published. These scholarly writings blend with and relate to his fictional writings in various ways depending on the moment at which he began teaching, translating, or editing a specific medieval work and, simultaneously, composing a specific poem, fantasy, or fairy-story. What Tolkien read and studied from the time before and during his college days at Exeter and continued researching until he died opens a door into understanding how he uniquely interpreted and repurposed the medieval in constructing fantasy
    Abstract: Introduction: “This Queer Creature” -- Chapter 1: Forlorn and Abject: Tolkien and His Earliest Writings (1914-1924) -- Chapter 2: Bilbo as Sigurd in the Fairy-Story Hobbit (1920-1927) -- Chapter 3: Tolkien's Fairy-Story Beowulfs (1926-1940s) -- Chapter 4: “Queer Endings” After Beowulf: The Fall of Arthur (1931-1934) -- Chapter 5: Apartheid in Tolkien: Chaucer and The Lord of the Rings, Books 1-3 -- Chapter 6: “Usually Slighted”: Gudrún, Other Medieval Women, and The Lord of the Rings, Book 3 (1925-1943) -- Chapter 7: The Failure of Masculinity: The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth (1920), Sir Gawain (1925), and The Lord of the Rings, Books 3-6 (1943-1948) -- Conclusion: The Ennoblement of the Humble: The History of Middle-earth
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    ISBN: 9781137407306
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XV, 199 p)
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    Series Statement: Crime Files
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Literature, Modern 21st century ; America Literatures ; Film genres ; Fiction ; British literature ; Fiction. ; British literature. ; Film genres. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; America—Literatures.
    Abstract: This book offers a critically informed yet relaxed historical overview of the legal thriller, a unique contribution to crime fiction where most of the titles have been written by professionals such as lawyers and judges. The legal thriller typically uses court trials as the suspense-creating background for presenting legal issues reflecting a wide range of concerns, from corporate conflicts to private concerns, all in a dramatic but highly informed manner. With authors primarily from the USA and the UK, the genre is one which nonetheless enjoys a global reading audience. As well as providing a survey of the legal thriller, this book takes a gender-focused approach to analyzing recently published titles within the field. It also argues for the fascination of the legal thriller both in the way its narrative pattern parallels that of an actual court trial, and by the way it reflects, frequently quite critically, the concerns of contemporary society
    Abstract: Introduction -- Chapter 1. Law and literature -- Chapter 2. The Beginnings of a Success Story -- Chapter 3. American Post-World-War-Two Thrill-and-Ethics Trials -- Chapter 4. Genteel Jurisprudence -- Chapter 5. See You In Court (1) -- Chapter 6. See You In Court (2) -- See You In Court (3) -- Conclusion -- Bibliography
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    ISBN: 9783319313887
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVI, 283 p. 1 illus)
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    Series Statement: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
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    Keywords: Literature ; Ethnology Europe ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Literature, Modern 21st century ; Fiction ; British literature ; British literature. ; Fiction. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Ethnology—Europe.
    Abstract: This book elucidates the ways the pained and suffering body has been registered and mobilized in specifically Irish contexts across more than four hundred years of literature and culture. There is no singular approach to what pain means: the material addressed in this collection covers diverse cultural forms, from reports of battles and executions to stage and screen representations of sexual violence, produced in response to different historical circumstances in terms that confirm our understanding of how pain - whether endured or inflicted, witnessed or remediated - is culturally coded. Pain is as open to ongoing redefinition as the Ireland that features in all of the essays gathered here. This collection offers new paradigms for understanding Ireland’s literary and cultural history
    Abstract: Introduction -- Introduction: The Body in Pain in Irish Literature and Culture; Fionnuala Dillane, Naomi McAreavey and Emilie Pine -- 1. Where Does It Hurt? How Pain Makes History in Early Modern Ireland; Patricia Palmer -- 2. 'Most barbarously and inhumaine maner butchered’: Masculinity, Trauma and Memory in Early Modern Ireland; Dianne Hall -- 3. ‘Those Savage Days of Memory’: John Temple and his Narrative of the 1641 Uprising; Sarah Covington -- 4. Severed Heads and Floggings: The Undermining of Oblivion in Ulster in the Aftermath of 1798; Guy Beiner -- 5. ‘Tá mé ag imeacht’: The Execution of Myles Joyce and its Afterlives; Margaret Kelleher -- 6. Pain, Trauma and Memory in the Irish War of Independence: Remembering and Contextualizing Irish Suffering; Ian Miller -- 7. Pain, Pleasure and Revolution: The Body in Roger Casement’s Writings; Michael G. Cronin -- 8. ‘Targets of Shame’: Negotiating the Irish Female Migrant Experience in Kathleen Nevin’s You’ll Never Go Back (1946) and Kate O’Brien’s Mary Lavelle (1936); Sinéad Wall -- 9. ‘Intertextual quotation’: Troubled Irish Bodies and Jewish Intertextual Memory in Colum McCann’s ‘Cathal’s Lake’ and ‘Hunger Strike’; Alison Garden -- 10. The Vulnerable Body on Stage: Reading Interpersonal Violence in Rape as Metaphor; Lisa Fitzpatrick -- 11. Recovery and Forgetting: Haunting Remains in Northern Irish Culture; Shane Alcobia Murphy -- 12. ‘That’s not so comfortable for you, is it?’: The Spectre of Misogyny in The Fall; Caroline Magennis -- 13. ‘The Art of Grief’: Irish Women’s Poetry of Loss and Healing; Catriona Clutterbuck -- Bibliography -- Index
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    ISBN: 9781137581716
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (IX, 302 p. 5 illus., 2 illus. in color)
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    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
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    Keywords: Literature, Modern 20th century ; America Literatures ; Literature ; Fiction ; African literature ; British literature ; African literature. ; British literature. ; Fiction. ; Literature   . ; America—Literatures. ; Literature, Modern—20th century.
    Abstract: This book offers a new approach to reading the cultural memory of Africa in African American fiction from the post-Civil Rights era and in Black British fiction emerging in the wake of Thatcherism. The critical period between the decline of the Civil Rights Movement and the dawn of the twenty-first century saw a deep contrast in the distinctive narrative approaches displayed by diverse African diaspora literatures in negotiating the crisis of representing the past. Through a series of close readings of literary fiction, this work examines how the cultural memory of Africa is employed in diverse and specific negotiations of narrative time, in order to engage and shape contemporary identity and citizenship. By addressing the practice of “remembering” Africa, the book argues for the signal importance of the African diaspora’s literary interventions, and locates new paradigms for cultural identity in contemporary times
    Abstract: 1 Introduction -- 2 ‘Drumbeats From The Aeons’: Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo -- 3 ‘Solomon’s Leap’: Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon -- 4 ‘Worse Than Unwelcome’: Alice Walker’s The Color Purple -- 5 ‘Something About The Silence’: John Edgar Wideman’s Philadelphia Fire -- 6 ‘Words Without Sound’: Caryl Phillips’s Crossing the River -- 7 Circular Talk’: S.I. Martin’s Incomparable World -- 8 ‘Awakening to the Singing’: Bernardine Evaristo’s Lara -- 9 ‘I Can Change Memory’: David Dabydeen’s A Harlot’s Progress -- 10 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
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    ISBN: 9781137518231
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 273 p. 2 illus., 1 illus. in color)
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    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Victorian fiction beyond the canon
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature, Modern 19th century ; British literature ; British literature. ; Literature, Modern—19th century. ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Großbritannien ; Englisch ; Roman ; Kanon ; Geschichte 1837-1901
    Abstract: This book is about selected Victorian texts and authors that in many cases have never before been subject to sustained scholarly attention. Taking inspiration from the pioneeringly capacious approach to the hidden hinterland of Victorian fiction adopted by scholars like John Sutherland and Franco Moretti, this energetically revisionist volume takes advantage of recent large-scale digitisation projects that allow unprecedented access to hitherto neglected literary texts and archives. Blending lively critical engagement with individual texts and close attention to often surprising trends in the production and reception of prose fiction across the Victorian era, this book will be of use to anyone interested in re-evaluating the received meta-narratives of Victorian literary history
    Abstract: Introduction: Exploring the Hinterland of Victorian Fiction; Daragh Downes and Trish Ferguson -- Chapter 2. Prize Novelists and Condensed Novels: Thackeray and Bret Harte; Michael Slater -- Chapter 3. Before New Grub Street: Thomas Miller and the Contingencies of Authorship; Adam Abraham -- Chapter 4. Emboldening the Weak: the Early Fiction of James Anthony Froude; Ciaran Brady -- Chapter 5. George Borrow: The Scholar, The Gipsy, The Priest; Monika Mazurek -- Chapter 6. Sensation Fiction as Social Activism: Charles Reade’s It Is Never Too Late to Mend and Felicia Skene’s Hidden Depths; Elizabeth Andrews -- Chapter 7. Sheer Luck, Holmes? Clues towards Canon Formation in Victorian Detective Fiction; Daragh Downes -- Chapter 8. Politics of the Strange and Unusual: Mesmerism and the Medical Professional in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s ‘Dr Carrick’ (1878); Samantha J. M. Aliu -- Chapter 9. Silas K. Hocking, Her Benny, and the Poetics of the Prolific; Christopher Pittard -- Chapter 10. Henry Hawley Smart's The Great Tontine and the Art of Book-making; Trish Ferguson -- Chapter 11. Performative Politics and Gendered Geography in 〈the prophet’s="" mantle; The Prophet’s Mantle; Matthew Ingleby -- Chapter 12. Richard Marsh and the Realist Gothic: Pursuing Traces of an Evasive Author in his Fin-de-Siècle Popular Fiction; Ailise Bulfin -- Chapter 13. Dat Cura Commodum or A Portrait of a Deviant Mind: Arthur Griffiths’s The Rome Express, John Milne’s ‘The Express Series’ and Late Victorian Detective Fiction; Paul Raphael Rooney -- Bibliography --
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (X, 246 p)
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    Abstract: This book is about food, eating, and appetite in the nineteenth-century British novel. While much novel criticism has focused on the marriage plot, this book revises the history and theory of the novel, uncovering the “food plot” against which the marriage plot and modern subjectivity take shape. With the emergence of Malthusian population theory and its unsettling links between sexuality and the food supply, the British novel became animated by the tension between the marriage plot and the food plot. Charting the shifting relationship between these plots, from Jane Austen’s polite meals to Bram Stoker’s bloodthirsty vampires, this book sheds new light on some of the best-know works of nineteenth-century literature and pushes forward understandings of narrative, literary character, biopolitics, and the novel as a form. From Austen to Zombies, Michael Parrish Lee explores how the food plot conflicts with the marriage plot in nineteenth-century literature and beyond, and how appetite keeps rising up against taste and intellect. Lee’s book will be of interest to Victorianists, genre theorists, Food Studies, and theorists of bare life and biopolitics. - Regenia Gagnier, Professor of English, University of Exeter In The Food Plot Michael Lee engages recent and classic scholarship and brings fresh and provocative readings to well worked literary critical ground. Drawing upon narrative theory, character study, theories of sexuality, and political economy, Professor Lee develops a refreshing and satisfyingly deep new reading of canonical novels as he develops the concept of the food plot. The Food Plot should be of interest to specialists in the novel and food studies, as well as students and general readers. - Professor April Bullock, California State University, Fullerton, USA
    Abstract: 1. Introduction: Reading For The Food Plot -- 2. Novel Appetites: Jane Austen and the “Nothing” of Food -- 3. The Rise of the Food Plot in Victorian Fiction -- 4. Charles Dickens and the Hungry Marriage Plot -- 5. Food and the Art of Fiction in the Work of George Eliot -- 6. Narrative Underbellies: Food, Sex, Reading, and Writing in the Late Nineteenth Century -- 7. Eating Knowledge at the Fin de Siècle -- 8. Afterword: The Food Plot and its Afterlives -- Bibliography -- Index --
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    ISBN: 9783319327624
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 190 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
    Series Statement: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
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    Keywords: Children's literature. ; British literature. ; Literature, Modern—19th century. ; Literature ; Literature, Modern 19th century ; Children's literature ; British literature
    Abstract: Introduction: Emerging Identities and the Practice of Possibility -- Imagining the Abject in Kingsley, MacDonald, and Carroll: Disrupting Dominant Values and Cultural Identity in Children’s Literature -- Gender, Abjection, and Coming of Age: Games, Dolls, and Stories.-Constructing the Self: Connection and Separation -- Giving Voice to Abjection: Experience and Empathy -- Engendering Abjection’s Sublime: Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden -- Embodying Herethics: Rossetti’s Speaking Likenesses -- Conclusion—Abjection’s Sublime: Imagining Love -- Notes -- Bibliography. .
    Abstract: This book reveals how the period’s transforming identities affected by social, economic, religious, and national energies offers rich opportunities in which to analyze the relationship between identity and transformation. At the heart of this study is this question: what is the relationship between Victorian children’s literature, its readers, and their psychic development? Ruth Y. Jenkins uses Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection to uncover the presence of cultural anxieties and social tensions in works by Kingsley, MacDonald, Carroll, Stevenson, Burnett, Ballantyne, Nesbit, Tucker, Sewell, and Rossetti. .
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
    ISBN: 9781137572875
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (IX, 229 p)
    Series Statement: Early Modern Literature in History
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    Keywords: Science ; Literature, Modern. ; Poetry. ; Theater—History. ; British literature. ; Literature—History and criticism. ; Science ; Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 ; Rachetragödie ; Recht
    Abstract: Revenge tragedies are filled with trial scenes, miscarriages of justice and untrustworthy evidence, yet this is the first study to explore how the revenge plays of Kyd, Shakespeare and others critically engage with their legal system. Featuring groups of citizens taking the law into their own hands, revenge tragedies stage a participatory justice of their own, which problematises the progress of English common law during this crucial phase of English legal history. By connecting English revenge tragedies to major crises within the legal system including the erosion of trial by jury (Titus Andronicus), food riots in the 1590s (Antonio's Revenge), and debates over royal prerogative (The Revenger's Tragedy) a persistent legal critique is revealed to be at work. The book also offers a major new reading of Hamlet that argues against the play's engagement with law, in contrast to the radical socio-legal commentary identified in other revenge plays. Revenge tragedy can thus be understood as an index of early modern citizens' fractious relationship with their law
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    ISBN: 9781137556097
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 195 p)
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    Keywords: Science ; European literature. ; British literature. ; Literature—History and criticism. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Fiction. ; Science ; Joyce, James 1882-1941 ; Spracherwerb ; Pädagogik
    Abstract: Before Joyce became a famous writer, he supported himself through his other language work: English-language teaching. The importance of James Joyce's teaching, however, has been underestimated until now. Closely reading Joyce's famed works, Switaj shows the influence of Joyce's brief career as an English teacher on the development of his canon
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    ISBN: 9781137545848
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (IX, 208 p)
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    Keywords: Science ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; America—Literatures. ; British literature. ; European literature. ; Fiction. ; Literature—History and criticism. ; Science ; Literaturkritik ; Weltuntergang
    Abstract: Many contemporary novelists, such as Atwood, Mitchell, and McCarthy, have flocked to a literary form that was once considered lowbrow: the post-apocalyptic novel. Calling on her broad knowledge of the history of apocalyptic literature, Hicks argues these writers employ conventions of the post-apocalyptic to reengage with key features of modernity
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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