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    Woodbridge [u.a.] : Currey | London [u.a.] : Heinemann | London : Currey | Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press | Ibadan : Heinemann Educational Books(Nigeria)PLC | Oxford : Currey ; 1.1968 - 14.1984; 15.1987 -
    ISSN: 0065-4000
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: 1.1968 - 14.1984; 15.1987 -
    Former Title: a journal of explanatory criticism
    DDC: 890
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    Keywords: Monografische Reihe ; Afrika ; Literatur ; Englisch ; Französisch
    Note: Index 1/12.1968/82 in: 12.1982
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    Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press | London : Milford | London : Cumberlege | London : Oxford Univ. Press ; 1.1903/04 -
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    ISSN: 0068-1202
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: 1.1903/04 -
    Additional Information: 71=1985 von The Raleigh lecture on history London : Cumberlege [u.a.], 1923
    Additional Information: 76=1990; 80=1991; 82=1992; 84=1993; 87=1994; 90=1995; 94=1996; 97=1997; 101=1998; 105=1999; 111=2000 von British Academy Lectures and memoirs / British Academy Oxford : Univ. Press, 1991 0068-1202
    Additional Information: 79=3 von Royal Irish Academy Joint meeting of the Royal Irish Academy and the British Academy Oxford [u.a.] : Univ. Press, 1992
    Additional Information: 115=1; 120=2; 124=3; 130=4; 138=5; 150=6; 153=7; 161=8; 166=9; 172=10 von British Academy Biographical memoirs of fellows of the British Academy Oxford : Univ. Press, 2002 0068-1202
    Additional Information: 117=2001; 121=2002; 125=2003; 131=2004; 139=2005; 151=2006; 154=2007; 162=2008; 167=2009; 181=2010/11 von British Academy Lectures Oxford : Univ. Press, 2002 0068-1202
    Additional Information: Gekürzt als British Academy Annual Shakespeare lecture of the British Academy London : Oxford Univ. Press, 1911 0267-1042
    Additional Information: Gekürzt als Sir John Rhŷs memorial lecture London : Oxford Univ. Press, 1925
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als British Academy Proceedings of the British Academy
    DDC: 080
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    Keywords: British Academy ; British Academy ; Monografische Reihe ; Bibliografie ; British Academy ; Schrifttum ; British Academy ; Veröffentlichung ; British Academy ; Schrifttum
    Note: Repr.: Nendeln : Kraus , Ab 76.1990 als Serie
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  • 3
    Language: German , English
    Edition: Völlige Neubearb.
    DDC: 433.21
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    Keywords: Englisch (Sprache) ; Deutsch ; German language Dictionaries ; English ; English language Dictionaries ; German ; English language Dictionaries German ; German language Dictionaries English ; Dictionaries ; English language - Dictionaries - German ; German language - Dictionaries - English ; Wörterbuch ; Wörterbuch ; Englisch ; Deutsch
    Note: Teilw. mit Nebent.: Der grosse Muret-Sanders
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  • 4
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    Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press | London : Milford | London : Cumberlege | London : Oxford Univ. Press ; 1.1903/04 -
    ISSN: 0068-1202
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: 1.1903/04 -
    Additional Information: 71=1985 von The Raleigh lecture on history London : Cumberlege [u.a.], 1923
    Additional Information: 76=1990; 80=1991; 82=1992; 84=1993; 87=1994; 90=1995; 94=1996; 97=1997; 101=1998; 105=1999; 111=2000 von British Academy Lectures and memoirs / British Academy Oxford : Univ. Press, 1991 0068-1202
    Additional Information: 79=3 von Royal Irish Academy Joint meeting of the Royal Irish Academy and the British Academy Oxford [u.a.] : Univ. Press, 1992
    Additional Information: 115=1; 120=2; 124=3; 130=4; 138=5; 150=6; 153=7; 161=8; 166=9; 172=10 von British Academy Biographical memoirs of fellows of the British Academy Oxford : Univ. Press, 2002 0068-1202
    Additional Information: 117=2001; 121=2002; 125=2003; 131=2004; 139=2005; 151=2006; 154=2007; 162=2008; 167=2009; 181=2010/11 von British Academy Lectures Oxford : Univ. Press, 2002 0068-1202
    Additional Information: Gekürzt als British Academy Annual Shakespeare lecture of the British Academy London : Oxford Univ. Press, 1911 0267-1042
    Additional Information: Gekürzt als Sir John Rhŷs memorial lecture London : Oxford Univ. Press, 1925
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als British Academy Proceedings of the British Academy
    DDC: 080
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    Keywords: British Academy ; British Academy ; Monografische Reihe ; Bibliografie ; British Academy ; Schrifttum ; British Academy ; Veröffentlichung ; British Academy ; Schrifttum
    Note: Repr.: Nendeln : Kraus , Ab 76.1990 als Serie
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  • 5
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    Woodbridge [u.a.] : Currey | London [u.a.] : Heinemann | London : Currey | Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press | Ibadan : Heinemann Educational Books(Nigeria)PLC | Oxford : Currey ; 1.1968 - 14.1984; 15.1987 -
    ISSN: 0065-4000
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: 1.1968 - 14.1984; 15.1987 -
    Former Title: a journal of explanatory criticism
    DDC: 890
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    Keywords: Monografische Reihe ; Afrika ; Literatur ; Englisch ; Französisch
    Note: Index 1/12.1968/82 in: 12.1982
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    ISBN: 9780821445471
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 230 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Series in Victorian studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Nineteenth Century Studies Association (32. : 2011 : Albuquerque, NM) Culture & money in the nineteenth century
    DDC: 306/.009034
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    Keywords: 1800-1900 ; Geld ; Kulturgeschichte ; Wirtschaftsgeschichte ; Großbritannien ; Amerika ; Indien ; Konferenzschrift 2011 ; Konferenzschrift 2011 ; Konferenzschrift 2011 ; Geld ; Kultur ; Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Amerika ; Indien ; England ; Schottland ; Wirtschaft ; Kultur ; Geschichte 1800-1900
    Abstract: Since the 1980s, scholars have made the case for examining nineteenth-century culture - particularly literary output - through the lens of economics
    Abstract: Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Abstracting Economics -- Part one: Broad Abstractions -- 1: Born to the Business: Heredity, Ability, and Commercial Character in Late Victorian Britain -- 2: Shifting the Ground of Monetary Politics: The Case of the 1870s -- 3: The Comparative Advantages of Survival: Darwin's Origin, Competition, and the Economy of Nature -- Part two: Particular Abstractions -- 4: Art Unions and the Changing Face of Victorian Gambling
    Abstract: 5: El Metálico Lord: Money and Mythmaking in Thomas Cochrane's 1859 Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru, and Brazil from Spanish and Portuguese Domination -- 6: From Cooperation to Concentration: Socialism, Salvationism, and the "Indian Beggar" -- 7: Walter Scott's Two Nations and the State of the Textile Industry in Britain -- 8: Antidomestic: The Afterlife of Wills and the Politics of Foreign Investment, 1850-85 -- Contributors
    Note: "Grew out of the Thirty-Second Annual Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Conference in 2011" (Acknowledgments)
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    New York : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9780199983162
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 644 Seiten) , Karten
    Edition: First edition
    Series Statement: Oxford handbooks online
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Oxford handbook of American Indian history
    DDC: 970.004/97
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    Keywords: Indians of North America History ; Indians of North America Civilization ; Indianer ; Nordamerika ; Indians of North America ; History ; Indians of North America ; Civilization ; Nordamerika ; Indianer
    Abstract: The Oxford Handbook of American Indian History presents the story of the indigenous peoples who lived-and live-in the territory that became the United States. It describes the major aspects of the historical change that occurred over the past 500 years with essays by leading experts, both Native and non-Native, that focus on significant moments of upheaval and change.
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  • 8
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    Chicago : Northwestern University Press
    ISBN: 9780810134058 , 0810134047 , 0810134055 , 0810134039 , 0810134047 , 9780810134058 , 9780810134034 , 9780810134041
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (340 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Stroh, Silke, 1974 - Gaelic Scotland in the colonial imagination
    Parallel Title: Print version Stroh, Silke Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination : Anglophone Writing from 1600 to 1900
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    Keywords: Postcolonialism in literature ; Scottish literature History and criticism 18th century ; Scottish literature History and criticism 19th century ; Celts in literature ; Postcolonialism in literature ; Scottish literature ; Scottish literature ; Celts in literature ; Postcolonialism in literature ; Scottish literature ; LITERARY CRITICISM ; European ; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Celts in literature ; Electronic books ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Kelten ; Geschichte 1600-1900 ; Schottland ; Postkoloniale Literatur ; Literaturwissenschaft
    Abstract: Can Scotland be considered an English colony? Is its experience and literature comparable to that of overseas postcolonial countries? Or are such comparisons no more than victimology to mask Scottish complicity in the British Empire and justify nationalism? These questions have been heatedly debated in the aftermath of the 2014 referendum on independence and amid a continuing campaign for more autonomy. Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination offers an introduction to the emerging field of postcolonial Scottish studies, assessing both its potential and limitations to promote further interdisciplinary dialogue. Accessible to readers from various backgrounds, the book combines overviews of theoretical, social, and cultural contexts with detailed case studies of literary and nonliterary texts. Silke Stroh shows how the image of Scotland's Gaelic margins changed under the influence of the emergence of the modern nation-state and the rise of overseas colonialism
    Abstract: Can Scotland be considered an English colony? Is its experience and literature comparable to that of overseas postcolonial countries? Or are such comparisons no more than victimology to mask Scottish complicity in the British Empire and justify nationalism? These questions have been heatedly debated in the aftermath of the 2014 referendum on independence and amid a continuing campaign for more autonomy. Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination offers an introduction to the emerging field of postcolonial Scottish studies, assessing both its potential and limitations to promote further interdisciplinary dialogue. Accessible to readers from various backgrounds, the book combines overviews of theoretical, social, and cultural contexts with detailed case studies of literary and nonliterary texts. Silke Stroh shows how the image of Scotland's Gaelic margins changed under the influence of the emergence of the modern nation-state and the rise of overseas colonialism
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  • 9
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    New York : Fordham University Press
    ISBN: 9780823267859 , 0823267857
    Language: English
    Edition: First edition.
    Series Statement: Open Access e-Books
    Series Statement: Knowledge Unlatched
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Rizzuto, Nicole M. Insurgent testimonies
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    Keywords: English literature, 20th century History and criticism. ; Commonwealth literature (English) History and criticism. ; Nationalism and literature English-speaking countries. ; Literature and society English-speaking countries. ; Imperialism in literature. ; War in literature. ; Psychic trauma in literature. ; Justice, Administration of, in literature. ; Justice, Administration of, in literature ; Psychic trauma in literature ; War in literature ; Imperialism in literature ; Nationalism and literature ; Literature and society ; English literature ; Commonwealth literature (English) ; Imperialism in literature ; Justice, Administration of, in literature ; Literature and society ; Nationalism and literature ; Psychic trauma in literature ; War in literature ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Human Rights ; English-speaking countries ; Commonwealth literature (English) ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; English literature ; Electronic books ; Englisch ; Postkoloniale Literatur ; Trauma
    Abstract: Introduction. Challenging ruptures: testimonial insurgencies, spectral witnesses -- Compelled confessions and forced attachments in Joseph Conrad's Under Western eyes and "Poland revisited" -- Traumas of nation and narrative: legal and literary witnessing in Rebecca West's wartime writings -- Vindicating the law: H.G. de Llisser, V.S. Reid, and the Morant Bay Rebellion -- Testimony and the crisis of the juridical order in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's A grain of wheat
    Abstract: During the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, insurgencies erupted in imperial states and colonies around the world, including Britain's. As Nicole Rizzuto shows, the writings of Ukrainian-born Joseph Conrad, Anglo-Irish Rebecca West, Jamaicans H.G. de Lisser and V.S. Reid, and Kenyan Ng gi wa Thiong'o testify to contested events in colonial modernity in ways that question premises underlying approaches in trauma and memory studies and invite us to reassess divisions and classifications in literary studies that generate such categories as modernist, colonial, postcolonial, national, and world literatures. Departing from tenets of modernist studies and from methods in the field of trauma and memory studies, Rizzuto contends that acute as well as chronic disruptions to imperial and national power and the legal and extra-legal responses they inspired shape the formal practices of literatures from the modernist, colonial, and postcolonial periods
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  • 10
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    Cham : Springer International Publishing
    ISBN: 9783319409979
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 229 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
    Series Statement: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
    Parallel Title: Printed edition
    DDC: 301
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    Keywords: Culture Study and teaching ; Ethnology Europe ; Theater History ; Theater—History. ; Ethnology—Europe. ; Electronic books ; Rattigan, Terence 1911-1977 ; Drama
    Abstract: ‘Terence Rattigan was among the most successful British playwrights of the modern era - a master of comedy as well as tragedy. He is so incredibly good it should come as no surprise that a significant revival has been underway for some time. In fact, Rattigan has been slowly achieving a permanent place of esteem in the essential repertoire of twentieth century dramatists. And that place will be bolstered by this brilliant comprehensive study of the playwright’s art by John A. Bertolini. His book is a pleasure to read: elegantly written, persistently intelligent, and lucid, and it does exactly what it promises: makes a case for Rattigan.’ - Jay Parini, D.E.Axinn Professor of English, Middlebury College, USA This book asserts the extraordinary quality of mid-twentieth century playwright Terence Rattigan’s dramatic art and its basis in his use of subtext, implication, and understatement. By discussing every play in chronological order, the book also articulates the trajectory of Rattigan’s darkening vision of the human potential for happiness from his earlier comedies through his final plays in which death appears as a longed for peace. New here is the exploration through close analysis of Rattigan’s style of writing dialogue and speeches, and how that style expresses Rattigan’s sense of life. Likewise, the book newly examines how Rattigan draws on sources in Greek and Roman history, literature, and myth, as well as how he invites comparison with the work of other playwrights, especially Bernard Shaw and Shakespeare. It will appeal broadly to college and university students studying dramatic literature, but also and especially to actors and directors, and the play-going, play-reading public
    Abstract: Preface -- Introduction. Terence Rattigan’s Art of Understatement and Implication -- Chapter 1. French Without Tears -- Chapter 2. After the Dance -- Chapter 3. Flare Path -- Chapter 4. The Winslow Boy -- Chapter 5. The Comedies -- Chapter 6. The Browning Version -- Chapter 7. Adventure Story -- Chapter 8. The Deep Blue Sea -- Chapter 9. Separate Tables -- Chapter 10. Ross and Man and Boy -- Chapter 11. Bequest to the Nation -- Chapter 12. In Praise of Love -- Chapter 13. Cause Célèbre
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  • 11
    ISBN: 9789811021619
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online Ressource
    Series Statement: Rhetoric, Politics and Society
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.23
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    Keywords: Obama, Barack ; Assange, Julian ; Culture / Study and teaching ; Communication ; Humanities / Digital libraries ; Political communication ; Cultural and Media Studies ; Media and Communication ; Political Communication ; Digital Humanities ; Populismus ; Politische Rede ; Neue Medien ; Electronic books ; Obama, Barack 1961- ; Assange, Julian 1971- ; Neue Medien ; Politische Rede ; Populismus
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  • 12
    ISBN: 9781137303493
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 269 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
    Series Statement: Palgrave Gothic
    Series Statement: Springer eBook Collection
    Parallel Title: Printed edition
    DDC: 301
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    Keywords: Culture Study and teaching ; Sex (Psychology) ; Gender expression ; Gender identity ; Motion pictures ; Film genres ; Creative writing ; Literature ; Feminist theory ; Sociology ; Film genres. ; Motion pictures. ; Literature   . ; Creative writing. ; Sociology. ; Feminist theory. ; Electronic books
    Abstract: ‘At last we have a definitive guide to the marriage between contemporary women’s fiction and the Gothic, which gleefully plunges the romance plot into darkness and prises heroines away from constraining narratives in an endless series of reinventions from the Cartesque through to the post-colonial.’ - Marie Mulvey-Roberts, University of the West of England, UK This book revives and revitalises the literary Gothic in the hands of contemporary women writers. It makes a scholarly, lively and convincing case that the Gothic makes horror respectable, and establishes contemporary women’s Gothic fictions in and against traditional Gothic. The book provides new, engaging perspectives on established contemporary women Gothic writers, with a particular focus on Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison. It explores how the Gothic is malleable in their hands and is used to demythologise oppressions based on difference in gender and ethnicity. The study presents new Gothic work and new nuances, critiques of dangerous complacency and radical questionings of what is safe and conformist in works as diverse as Twilight (Stephenie Meyer) and A Girl Walks Home Alone (Ana Lily Amirpur), as well as by Anne Rice and Poppy Brite. It also introduces and critically explores postcolonial, vampire and neohistorical Gothic and women’s ghost stories
    Abstract: 1.Introduction -- 2.Angela Carter: Living in Gothic Times -- 3.Margaret Atwood and Canadian Women's Gothic: Spite, Lies, Split Selves and Self Deception -- 4.Cultural Haunting: Toni Morrison and Tananarive Due -- 5.Postcolonial and Cultural Haunting Revenants: Letting the 'Right' Ones In -- 6.Testing the Fabric of Bluebeard's Castle: Postcolonial Reconfigurations, Demythologizing, Re-Mythologizing and Shape-shifting -- 7.Vampire Bites -- 8.Vampire Kisses -- 9.Ghostings and Hauntings: Splintering the Fabric of Domestic Gothic with Horror Houses, Stately Homes, Ghosts Behind Walls, Playroom Deaths, Women in Black, Little Strangers -- 10.Reviving, Revisiting and Mainstreaming Gothic
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK | Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9781137453518
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XX, 239 p. 11 illus., 7 illus. in color)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.44
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Communication ; Sociolinguistics ; Discourse analysis ; Electronic books
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    Cham : Springer International Publishing
    ISBN: 9783319409283
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XV, 266 p. 27 illus., 18 illus. in color)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture
    Parallel Title: Printed edition
    DDC: 301
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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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    Liverpool : Liverpool University Press
    ISBN: 9781781384541
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (X, 250 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies 55
    DDC: 809.38762
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    Keywords: Environmentalism in literature. ; Planets; Environmental engineering. ; Science and state. ; Science fiction; History and criticism. ; Space colonies in literature. ; Science-Fiction-Literatur ; Kolonisation ; Terraforming ; Planet ; Umweltbewusstsein
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9781137453846
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 226 p, online resource)
    Series Statement: Rhetoric, Politics and Society
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    Series Statement: Bücher
    Series Statement: Springer eBook Collection
    Series Statement: Political Science and International Studies
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Roe-Crines, Andrew S. The political rhetoric and oratory of Margaret Thatcher
    Parallel Title: Printed edition
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    Keywords: Political science ; Political Science and International Relations ; Political communication ; World politics ; Great Britain Politics and government ; Thatcher, Margaret 1925-2013 ; Politische Rede ; Politische Kommunikation
    Abstract: This book examines the political oratory, rhetoric and persona of Margaret Thatcher as a means of understanding her justifications for ‘Thatcherism’. The main arenas for consideration are set piece speeches to conference, media engagements, and Parliamentary orations. Thatcher’s rhetorical style is analysed through the lens of the Aristotelian modes of persuasion (ethos, pathos, logos). Furthermore, the classical methods of oratorical engagement (deliberative, epidictic, judicial) are employed to consider her style of delivery. The authors place her styles of communication into their respective political contexts over a series of noteworthy issues, such as industrial relations, foreign policy, economic reform, and party management. By doing so, this distinctive book shines new light on Thatcher and her political career
    Abstract: Notes on the Authors -- Abbreviations -- Foreword.-1. Introduction -- 2. Parliamentary Debate -- 3. Conference and Other Set Piece Speeches -- 4. Interviews and Press Conferences -- 5. A Rhetorical and Oratorical Assessment -- 6. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
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    New York, NY : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9780199941865 , 9780199941872 , 9780190274542
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 966 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Oxford handbooks online
    Series Statement: Literature
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Oxford handbook of Canadian literature
    DDC: 810.9971
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    Keywords: Canadian literature ; Authors, Canadian ; Canadian literature History and criticism ; National characteristics, Canadian ; Canadian literature ; Authors, Canadian ; Canadian literature ; History and criticism ; National characteristics, Canadian ; Canada ; In literature ; Canada In literature ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Kanada ; Literatur ; Kanada ; Literatur
    Abstract: 'The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature' provides a broad-ranging introduction to some of the key critical fields, genres, and periods in Canadian literary studies. The essays in this volume, written by prominent theorists in the field, reflect the plurality of critical perspectives, regional and historical specializations, and theoretical positions that constitute the field of Canadian literary criticism across a range of genres and historical periods.
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    Manchester : Manchester University Press | Berlin : Knowledge Unlatched
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxvi, 557 Seiten)
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    Abstract: Renaissance pastoral poetry is gaining new interest for its distinctive imaginative vein, its varied allusive content, and the theoretical implications of the genre. This is by far the biggest ever anthology of English Renaissance pastoral poetry, with 277 pieces spanning two centuries. Spenser, Sidney, Jonson and Drayton are amply represented alongside their many contemporaries. There is a wide range of pastoral lyrics, weightier allusive pieces, and translations from classical and vernacular pastoral poetry; also, more unusually, pastoral ballads and poems set in all kinds of prose works. Each piece has been freshly edited from the original sources, with full apparatus and commentary. This book will be complemented by a second volume, to be published in 2017, which includes a book-length introduction, textual notes and analytic indices.
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    Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9780191792168
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 955 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Oxford handbooks online
    Series Statement: Literature
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Oxford handbook of Shakespearean tragedy
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    DDC: 822.33
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    Keywords: Shakespeare, William Tragedies ; Shakespeare, William Criticism and interpretation ; Shakespeare, William ; Tragödie ; Shakespeare, William ; 1564-1616 ; Tragedies ; Shakespeare, William ; 1564-1616 ; Criticism and interpretation ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 ; Tragödie ; Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 ; Tragödie
    Abstract: This handbook brings together 54 essays by scholars from all parts of the world. It offers a fresh and comprehensive understanding of Shakespeare tragedies as both works of literature and as performance texts, written by a playwright who was himself an experienced actor.
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    Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9780199660841 , 9780191819933
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressourcen (xxiii, 814 pages) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Oxford handbooks online
    Series Statement: Literature
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Oxford handbook of the age of Shakespeare
    DDC: 900
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    Keywords: Literature and society History 16th century ; Literature and society History 17th century ; English literature History and criticism Early modern, 1500-1700 ; Literature and society ; Great Britain ; History ; 16th century ; Literature and society ; Great Britain ; History ; 17th century ; English literature ; Early modern, 1500-1700 ; History and criticism ; Aufsatzsammlung ; England ; Kultur ; Politik ; Literatur ; Geschichte 1550-1620 ; England ; Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 ; Politik ; Kultur ; Literatur ; Geschichte 1550-1620
    Abstract: This handbook presents a broad sampling of current historical scholarship on Shakespeare's period that it is hoped will prove useful to scholars of his poems and plays. Rather than attempting to summarize the historical `background' to Shakespeare, individual chapters explore numerous topics and methodologies at the forefront of current historical research.
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    Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9780198706137 , 9780191819926
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxix, 764 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Oxford handbooks online
    Series Statement: Literature
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Oxford handbook of modern Irish theatre
    DDC: 792.09
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    Keywords: Irish drama History and criticism ; English drama Irish authors ; History and criticism ; Theater History ; Irish drama ; History and criticism ; English drama ; Irish authors ; History and criticism ; Theater ; Ireland ; History ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Irland ; Theater ; Drama ; Geschichte 1890-2015
    Abstract: Drawing on more than 40 contributors from around the world, this volume addresses a full range of topics relating to modern Irish theatre from the late 19th-century theatre to the most recent works of postdramatic devised theatre.
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    Oxford : Liverpool University Press
    ISBN: 9781786944115 , 1781383324 , 1781383766 , 1786944111 , 9781781383766 , 9781781383322
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 272 pages)
    Series Statement: Liverpool science fiction texts and studies [56]
    Parallel Title: Schmeink, Lars, 1975 - Biopunk dystopias
    Parallel Title: Print version Schmeink, Lars Biopunk dystopias : genetic engineering, society and science fiction
    DDC: 809.38762
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    Keywords: Science fiction History and criticism 21st century ; Biotechnology in literature ; Dystopias in literature ; Genetic engineering in literature ; Science fiction ; Biotechnology in literature ; Dystopias in literature ; Genetic engineering in literature ; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY ; Literary ; LITERARY CRITICISM ; Science Fiction & Fantasy ; Biotechnology in literature ; Dystopias in literature ; Genetic engineering in literature ; Science fiction ; Fiction and related items ; Science fiction ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Electronic books ; Science-Fiction
    Abstract: 'Biopunk Dystopias' contends that we find ourselves at a historical nexus, defined by the rise of biology as the driving force of scientific progress, a strongly grown mainstream attention given to genetic engineering in the wake of the Human Genome Project (1990-2003), the changing sociological view of a liquid modern society, and shifting discourses on the posthuman, including a critical posthumanism that decenters the privileged subject of humanism. The book argues that this historical nexus produces a specific cultural formation in the form of "biopunk", a subgenre evolved from the cyberpunk of the 1980s. Biopunk makes use of current posthumanist conceptions in order to criticize contemporary reality as already dystopian, warning that a future will only get worse, and that society needs to reverse its path, or else destroy all life on this planet
    Abstract: 'Biopunk Dystopias' contends that we find ourselves at a historical nexus, defined by the rise of biology as the driving force of scientific progress, a strongly grown mainstream attention given to genetic engineering in the wake of the Human Genome Project (1990-2003), the changing sociological view of a liquid modern society, and shifting discourses on the posthuman, including a critical posthumanism that decenters the privileged subject of humanism. The book argues that this historical nexus produces a specific cultural formation in the form of "biopunk", a subgenre evolved from the cyberpunk of the 1980s. Biopunk makes use of current posthumanist conceptions in order to criticize contemporary reality as already dystopian, warning that a future will only get worse, and that society needs to reverse its path, or else destroy all life on this planet
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-265) and index
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  • 23
    ISBN: 9781137484031
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 348 p)
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    Series Statement: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
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    DDC: 792.0905
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    Keywords: Culture Study and teaching ; Theater History ; Performing arts ; Culture Study and teaching ; Theater History ; Performing arts ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: What makes twenty-first century drama distinctive? Which events, themes, shifts, and paradigms are marking its stages? Within this landmark collection, original voices from the field of drama provide rich analysis of a selection of the most exciting and remarkable plays and productions of the new millennium. Kaleidoscopic in scope, Twenty-First Century Drama: What Happens Now creates a broad, rigorously critical framework for approaching the drama of this period, including its forms, playwrights, companies, institutions, collaborative projects, and directors. The collection has a deliberately British bent, examining established playwrights - such as Churchill, Brenton, and Hare - alongside a new generation of writers - including Stephens, Prebble, Kirkwood, Bartlett, and Kelly. Simultaneously international in scope, it engages with significant new work from the US, Japan, India, Australia, and the Netherlands, to reflect a twenty-first century context that is fundamentally globalized. The volume’s central themes - the financial crisis, austerity, climate change, new forms of human being, migration, class, race and gender, cultural politics and issues of nationhood - are mediated through fresh, cutting-edge perspectives
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Chicago : The University of Chicago Press
    ISBN: 9780226188850 , 022618885X
    Language: English
    Pages: xxvii, 583 Seiten , Diagramme , 25 cm
    Series Statement: Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Garner, Bryan A. The Chicago guide to grammar, usage, and punctuation
    DDC: 428.2
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    Keywords: English language Handbooks, manuals, etc Grammar ; English language Grammar ; Study and teaching (Higher) ; English language Handbooks, manuals, etc ; Grammar ; English language Grammar ; Study and teaching (Higher) ; English language Grammar ; English language Grammar ; Study and teaching (Higher) ; Handbooks and manuals ; Englisch ; Grammatik ; Zeichensetzung
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 497-505) and indexes
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 0190491485 , 9780190491482
    Language: English
    Pages: lvi, 1056 Seiten
    Edition: Fourth edition
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Garner, Bryan Garner's modern english usage
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Garner, Bryan A., 1958 - Garner's modern English usage
    Former Title: Garner's modern American usage
    Former Title: Modern English usage
    DDC: 423/.1
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    Keywords: English language / Usage / Dictionaries ; English language / United States / Usage / Dictionaries Wörterbuch ; English language Dictionaries Usage ; English language Dictionaries Usage ; Wörterbuch ; Englisch ; Stilistik
    Abstract: Preface to the Fourth edition -- Preface to the third edition -- Acknowledgments -- List of essay entries -- List of abbreviations -- Pronunciation guide -- Key to the language-change index -- Essay: Making peace in the language wars -- Essay: The ongoing tumult in English usage -- Garner's Modern English usage -- Glossary of grammatical, rhetorical, and other language-related terms -- A timeline of books on usage -- Select bibliography -- Select index of writers quoted or mentioned
    Abstract: Bryan Garner is the most trusted living usage expert of our day, and Garner's Modern English Usage is the preeminent guide to the effective use of the English language. With well over 6,000 entries on English grammar, syntax, word choice, punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and style, this book is adored by professional writers and general readers alike. In this major update to a timeless classic, Bryan Garner has dramatically expanded coverage of international English usage, making the volume for the first time a guide not only to American English usage, but to English usage around the globe. Interest in the English language is greater than ever; English is the lingua franca not only of higher education and academia, but of science, business, computing, aviation, and even - arguably - entertainment. An awareness of global English matters today as never before. To ensure that Bryan Garner's clear, unambiguous advice resonates with English-speakers worldwide, more than 2,000 entries have been revised to account for the nuances of English not only in the United States, but in Australia and New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Canada, and South Africa. Not everything has changed: readers will still find the popular "Garner's Language-Change Index" which registers where each disputed usage in modern English falls on a five-stage continuum from non-acceptability (to the language community as a whole) to acceptability, giving the book a consistent standard throughout. Bryan Garner's tools for scientific accuracy are, however, fully updated: this fourth edition benefits from usage data generated by Google Ngrams, which charts frequencies of any word or short sentence in sources printed after 1800. With thousands of concise entries, longer essays on problematic areas such as subject-verb agreement and danglers, and meticulous citations of the New York Times, Newsweek, and other leading journalistic sources, this fourth edition of Garner's Modern English Usage provides priceless reference information to anyone hoping to improve as a writer - worldwide.
    Note: "This book is a successor to three editions (1998, 2003, 2009) of Garner's Modern American Usage" - Rückseite der Titelseite , Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke , "This book is a successor to three editions (1998, 2003, 2009) of Garner's Modern American Usage" -- Title page verso. - Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9781137566140
    Language: English
    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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  • 27
    ISBN: 9780226378565
    Language: English
    Pages: 335 Seiten
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    Keywords: Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 ; Drama ; Recht
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  • 28
    ISBN: 9781137558688
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 209 p. 15 illus., 4 illus. in color)
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    Parallel Title: Printed edition
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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: 9781137594785
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVIII, 249 p. 9 illus., 1 illus. in color)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in British Musical Theatre
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    Keywords: Culture Study and teaching ; Theater History ; Theater—History.
    Abstract: This innovative account of the Gilbert and Sullivan partnership provides a unique insight into the experience of both attending and performing in the original productions of the most influential and enduring pieces of English-language musical theatre. In the 1870s, Savoy impresario Richard D’Oyly Carte astutely realized that a conscious move to respectability in a West End which, until then, had favored the racy delights of burlesque and French operetta, would attract a new, lucrative morally ‘decent’ audience. This book examines the commercial, material and human factors underlying the Victorian productions of the Savoy operas. Unusually for a book on ‘G&S’, it focuses on people and things rather than author biography or literary criticism. Examining theatre architecture, interior design, marketing, and typical audiences, as well as the working conditions and personal lives of the members of a Victorian theatre-company, ‘Respectable Capers’ explains how the Gilbert and Sullivan operas helped to transform the West End into the family-friendly ‘theatre land’ which still exists today
    Abstract: Chapter 1. The Gilbert and Sullivan Operas and ‘Middle-Class’ Ideals -- Chapter 2. The West End: Respectability and Commercialisation -- Chapter 3. Patience at the Savoy -- Chapter 4. Savoy Audiences 1881 - 1909 -- Chapter 5. The ‘D’Oyly Carte Boarding School’ -- Chapter 6. ‘The Placid English Style’
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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: 9783319340456
    Language: English
    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: 9783319342047
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 203 p)
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    Series Statement: Arthurian and Courtly Cultures
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature, Medieval ; European literature ; British literature ; Literature, Medieval. ; British literature. ; European literature. ; Malory, Thomas 1410-1471 Le morte Darthur ; Frau
    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: 9781137385703
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 223 p. 4 illus., 2 illus. in color)
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    Keywords: Culture Study and teaching ; Ethnology Europe ; Great Britain History ; Russia History ; Europe, Eastern History ; Theater ; Performing arts ; Theater. ; Performing arts. ; Ethnology—Europe. ; Russia—History. ; Europe, Eastern—History. ; Great Britain—History.
    Abstract: “This book promises to extend significantly the history of British and Russian cultural exchange, spanning theatre, film and dance and extending the parameters of modernist studies and performance studies. Primary sources, archival sources and secondary, critical sources are woven together expertly and with vibrancy. Recommended reading for all Russophiles working in theatre, performance and modernism.” - Jonathan Pitches, Chair in Theatre and Performance, University of Leeds, UK Exploring the experiences of early to mid-twentieth century British theatre-makers in Russia, this book imagines how these travellers interpreted Russian realism, symbolism, constructivism, agitprop, pageantry, dance or cinema. With some searching for an alternative to the corporate West End, some for experimental techniques and others still for methods that might politically inspire their audiences, did these journeys make any differences to their practice? And how did distinctly Russian techniques affect British theatre history? Migrating Modernist Performance seeks to answer these questions, reimagining the experiences and creative output of a range of, often under-researched, practitioners. What emerges is a dynamic collection of performances that bridge geographical, aesthetic, chronological and political divides
    Abstract: Introduction -- Chapter 1. Migratory Bafflement -- Chapter 2. Agitprop and Pageantry -- Chapter 3. Realism and Constructivism -- Chapter 4. Images and Montage -- Conclusion
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    ISBN: 9781137504494
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (IX, 207 p)
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    Series Statement: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature Philosophy ; Literature History and criticism ; Literature, Modern 19th century ; Fiction ; European literature ; British literature ; European literature. ; British literature. ; Fiction. ; Literature—Philosophy. ; Literature, Modern—19th century. ; Literature—History and criticism.
    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: 9781349949076
    Language: English
    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: 9783319331652
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XV, 315 p. 3 illus)
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    Abstract: This book is about the ways that Gothic literature has been transformed since the 18th century across cultures and across genres. In a series of essays written by scholars in the field, the book focuses on landscape in the Gothic and the ways landscape both reflects and reveals the dark elements of culture and humanity. It goes beyond traditional approaches to the Gothic by pushing the limits of the definition of the genre. From landscape painting to movies and video games, from memoir to fiction, and from works of different cultural origins and perspectives, this volume traverses the geography of the Gothic revealing the anxieties that still haunt humanity into the twenty-first century
    Abstract: Introduction. Haunted Landscapes and Fearful Spaces: Expanding Views on the Geography of the Gothic; Sharon Rose Yang and Kathleen Healey -- PART I: CROSS-GENRE: HIDEOUS HYBRIDS/HYBRIDS OF HORROR -- 1. Dark Shadows in the Promised Land: Landscapes of Terror and the Visual Arts in Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly; Kathleen Healey -- 2. Haunting Landscapes in “Female Gothic” Thriller Films: From Alfred Hitchcock to Orson Welles; Sheri Chinen Biesen -- 3. “Beauty Sleeping in the Lap of Horror”: Landscape Aesthetics and Gothic Pleasures, from The Castle of Otranto to Video Games; Alice Davenport -- PART II: DARKNESS IN UNEXPECTED PLACES: NOT YOUR GRANDMOTHER’S HAUNTED CASTLE -- 4. What the Green Grass Hides: Denial and Deception in Suburban Detroit; Amber Vayo -- 5. “Go steady, Undine!”: The Horror of Ambition in Edith Wharton’s The Custom of the Country; Myrto Drizou -- 6. The Convent as Coven: Gothic Implications of Women-Centered Illness and Healing Narratives in Toni Morrison’s Paradise; Belinda M. Waller-Peterson -- 7. Haunting Memories: Gothic and Memoir; Erica Moore -- PART III: GOTHIC SOCIAL LANDSCAPES -- 8. The Indian Gothic; Nalini Pai -- 9. St. Bernard’s: Terrors of the Light in the Gothic Hospital; Christy Rieger -- 10. Nature Selects the Horla: How the Concept of Natural Selection Influences Guy de Maupassant’s Horror Tale; Sharon Rose Yang -- 11. Ruins of Empire: Refashioning the Gothic in J. G. Ballard’s Empire of the Sun (1984); Alex Watson -- 12. Gothic Landscapes in Mary Butts’s Ashe of Rings; Roslyn Reso Foy -- Index --
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (IX, 302 p. 5 illus., 2 illus. in color)
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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: 9781137553911
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XX, 195 p. 3 illus. in color)
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    Abstract: This book is the first ever collection about twenty-first century genre fiction. It offers accessible yet rigorous critical interventions in a growing field of popular culture and academic study, presenting new genres as a fascinating and powerful means of reading contemporary culture. The collection explores the history and uses of genre to date, analyses key examples of innovations and developments in the field and reflects on how these texts have been mobilised in teaching since the year 2000. It explores a range of new twenty-first century genres through a close reading of key examples, along with a broader critical overview at the beginning of each chapter capturing wider developments, contexts and themes. As a result of this contextual, text-orientated approach, the book promotes a broad appeal beyond the specifics of new genres and authors, and will contribute to a wider understanding of developments in post-millennial fictions
    Abstract: Introduction; Katy Shaw -- PART I: CONTEMPORARY GOTHIC -- 1. Genre Trouble: The Challenges of Designing Modern and Contemporary Gothic Modules; Xavier Aldana Reyes -- 2. Dark Chocolate from the Literary Crypt: Teaching Contemporary Gothic Horror; Gina Wisker -- PART II: WRITING RACE -- 3. Teaching Crime Fiction and the African American Literary Canon; Nicole King -- 4. Genre and its ‘Diss’contents’: Teaching Twenty-First Century Black British Writing on Page and Stage; Deidre Osborne -- PART III: UTOPIAS AND DYSTOPIAS -- 5. Teaching Utopia: from More to Piercy and Atwood; Kate Aughterson -- 6. Other Mothers and Fathers: Teaching Contemporary Dystopian Fiction; Oliver Tearle -- 7. Pathways to Terror: Teaching 9/11 Fiction; Mark Eaton -- PART IV: WORLD LITERATURE -- 8. Teaching Translit: An Unsettled and Unsettling Genre; Bianca Leggett -- 9. Teaching Contemporary Cosmopolitanism; Kristian Shaw -- Index
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    ISBN: 9783319321189
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 230 p)
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    Keywords: United States Study and teaching ; Ethnology Europe ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Literature ; Comparative literature ; Comparative literature. ; Literature   . ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Ethnology—Europe. ; United States—Study and teaching.
    Abstract: This book is the first to analyse how BBC radio presented Anglophone Caribbean literature and in turn aided and influenced the shape of imaginative writing in the region. Glyne A. Griffith examines Caribbean Voices broadcasts to the region over a fifteen-year period and reveals that though the program’s funding was colonial in orientation, the content and form were antithetical to the very colonial enterprise that had brought the program into existence. Part literary history and part literary biography, this study fills a gap in the narrative of the region’s literary history
    Abstract: Introduction -- The Genesis of Caribbean Voices: People and Policies -- The Critics’ Circle -- Caribbean Voices and Competing Visions of Post-Colonial Community -- A Sustaining Epistolarly Community -- The Naipaul / Mittelholzer Years: 1954-58 -- Afterword
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    ISBN: 9781137518231
    Language: English
    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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    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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    ISBN: 9781137555168
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 209 p)
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    Keywords: Literature ; Spirituality ; Literature History and criticism ; Literature, Modern 19th century ; European literature ; British literature ; Literature ; Spirituality ; Literature History and criticism ; Literature, Modern 19th century ; European literature ; British literature
    Abstract: As seen in fiction, newspaper accounts, and magic shows, the presence of ghosts pervaded the Victorian period. This book examines supernatural encounters in a wide range of Victorian writers including Dickens and Kipling. Cadwallader argues that these fictional spirits reflect how Victorians were adapting to rapid scientific and religious changes
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    ISBN: 9781137597069
    Language: English
    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: 9783319326610
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    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: 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: 9783319334431
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 246 p)
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    Keywords: Culture Study and teaching ; Performing arts ; Aesthetics ; Performing arts. ; Aesthetics. ; Complicite ; Ästhetik
    Abstract: “In this book Tomasz Wiśniewski explores the roots, techniques, methodologies and influences of Complicite’s performances without attempting to codify either its international spirit or the plurality of its styles. Granted unprecedented access to the Complicite archives, Dr. Wiśniewski has crafted a sensitive, deeply penetrating, yet accessible analysis of one of the most dynamic, intelligent, and regenerative theatre companies of our time. I would certainly recommend it to theatre historians and practitioners as at least one model of how theatre remains a vital force in 21st century culture.” - S. E. Gontarski, Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English, Florida State University, USA “Wisniewski presents us with a careful and comprehensive discussion of one of the most innovative theater companies working anywhere in the world today. His is a landmark study that is both assertive and accessible. Like Complicite itself, he helps us recognize and celebrate nothing less than the endless potential of the theatrical imagination itself.” - Enoch Brater, Kenneth T. Rowe Collegiate Professor of Dramatic Literature, University of Michigan, USA “Through a combination of impeccable theatre research and perceptive critical analysis, this book opens a window onto one of Britain’s most consistently creative theatre companies.” - Kenneth Pickering, Honorary Professor of Drama, University of Kent, UK This book presents a pioneering critical study of Complicite’s work throughout the years. Drawing on an extensive overview of the available research material - including interviews, manuscripts and the company’s own archive - the book is framed within a clearly defined research perspective and explores the singularity of theatre communication. The book results from an encounter between the London-based - but cosmopolitan in scope - company, and a fresh application of the form-oriented scholarship of Eastern Europe, Yuri Lotman’s semiosphere in particular. Focused on the aesthetics of Complicite, this study achieves a critical distance and undertakes multidimensional scrutiny of the available research material. By identifying the principles of Complicite’s aesthetics, the book attempts to grasp the company’s artistic paradigm. It focuses on ways of creating, preserving, and decoding meanings, rather than on the nuances of performance or contextual issues
    Abstract: Introduction -- Chapter 1. The artistic signature of Simon McBurney -- Chapter 2. The logic of the plot in Théâtre de Complicité -- Chapter 3. The world of the stage -- Chapter 4. The textual tissue of Theatre de Complicite -- Chapter 5. The aesthetics of Complicite -- Chapter 6. Kaleidoscopic fragmentariness -- Chapter 7. The Ongoing Narrative
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    ISBN: 9781137595881
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 211 p)
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Fiction ; Fiction. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Joyce, James 1882-1941 ; Vertrauensbruch ; Literatur
    Abstract: 'The book is a pleasure to read: straightforward, clear, in every way well-written. Containing admirably detailed discussions of Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom, and Molly Bloom from the perspective of a topic so important to Joyce, Fraser brilliantly analyzes their motivations, actions, thoughts, and feelings as exemplifications of the theme of betrayal.' - J. Hillis Miller, UCI Distinguished Research Professor of Comparative Literature and English Emeritus, University of California, Irvine, USA 'The centrality of the idea of betrayal in Joyce’s works is one of the truisms of modernist criticism, but, as James Fraser demonstrates in this invigorating study, the issue has never been examined in the depth and with the subtlety it deserves. Fraser, in drawing out the complexity of the repeated drama of dedication and betrayal in Joyce’s writing, brings to the topic an attentiveness to the literary texts (including the often-neglected Exiles) and an alertness to their historical and political contexts that enable him to do it full justice.' - Derek Attridge, Professor of English, University of York, UK 'Joyce scholarship has assumed that the notion of ‘betrayal’ is so well-known it barely needs mentioning, when in fact there has been little specific explication of the theme. But here is a thorough, incisive analysis of the complexities of betrayal that shows Joyce’s literary and narrative attachment to that idea.' - John Nash, Reader in the Department of English, University of Durham, UK This book offers a fundamental and comprehensive re-evaluation of one of Joyce’s most pervasive themes. By showing that betrayal was central to how Joyce understood and depicted the difficulties and terrors at the heart of all relationships, this book re-conceives Joyce’s approach to history, politics, and the other. Leaving behind the pathologising discourses by which Joyce’s interest in betrayal has been treated as an ‘obsession,’ this book offers a vision of Joyce as both dramatist and theorist of betrayal. It demonstrates that, rather than being compelled by some unconscious urge to produce and reproduce textual betrayals, Joyce had a deep and hard-won conception of the specific dramatic energies wrapped up in the language and structures of betrayal and repeatedly found ways to make use of this understanding in his work
    Abstract: Introduction -- Chapter 1. Writing Drama, Writing Betrayal -- Chapter 2. “Boyhood” as “Death” -- Chapter 3. “A nation exacts a penance” -- Chapter 4. “Like thieves in the night” -- Chapter 5. Betrayal, Stagnation, and the Family Romantic in Ulysses -- Chapter 6. Betraying Bloom -- Chapter 7. Sexual Betrayal in “Penelope” -- Coda -- Bibliography
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    ISBN: 9781137398963
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXXII, 290 p)
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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: 9783319410036
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVII, 215 p. 11 illus. in color)
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    Keywords: Culture Study and teaching ; Ethnology Asia ; Ethnology Europe ; Theater History ; Comparative literature ; Comparative literature. ; Theater—History. ; Ethnology—Europe. ; Ethnology—Asia. ; Shaw, Bernard 1856-1950 ; Rezeption ; China ; Shaw, Bernard 1856-1950 ; Chinabild
    Abstract: 'Kay Li's study of Bernard Shaw's relationship with a number of leading Chinese figures and the assimilation of his plays into Chinese culture is a significant addition to her important previous work on Shaw and China. This new book expertly situates Shaw in wide-ranging spheres of Chinese culture, while also demonstrating the complexities of cross-cultural literary relations. It is a major contribution not just to Shaw studies but to interdisciplinary approaches to cultural dialogue.' - L.W. Conolly, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Emeritus Professor of English, Trent University, Ontario, Canada and Honorary Fellow, Robinson College, University of Cambridge, UK This book explores the cultural bridges connecting George Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries, such as Charles Dickens and Arthur Miller, to China. Analyzing readings, adaptations, and connections of Shaw in China through the lens of Chinese culture, Li details the negotiations between the focused and culturally specific standpoints of eastern and western culture while also investigating the simultaneously diffused, multi-focal, and comprehensive perspectives that create strategic moments that favor cross-cultural readings. With sources ranging from Shaw's connections with his contemporaries in China to contemporary Chinese films and interpretations of Shaw in the digital space, Li relates the global impact of not only what Chinese lenses can reveal about Shaw's world, but how intercultural and interdisciplinary readings can shed new light on familiar and obscure works alike
    Abstract: Introduction. The Chinese Angles -- Chapter. 1 Introduction -- Part I. Shaw and his Contemporaries -- Chapter 2. Seeing China -- Chapter 3. Shaw and the Last Chinese Emperor, Henry Pu-Yi Aisin-Gioro -- Chapter 4. Mrs. Warren's Profession and Transnational Chinese Feminism -- Chapter 5. Sir Robert Ho Tung and Idlewild in Buoyant Billions -- Part II. The Contemporaries of Shaw’s Works -- Chapter 6. John Woo’s My Fair Gentleman and the Evolution of Pygmalion in Contemporary China -- Chapter 7. Chinese Film Adaptations of Shaw’s Plays -- Chapter 8. Nobel Laureates Shaw and Gao Xingjian -- Chapter 9. Major Barbara on Chinese Wikipedia and Microblogs -- Chapter 10. Bernard Shaw’s Bridges to Chinese Culture -- Bibliography
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVI, 247 p)
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    Keywords: Culture Study and teaching ; Ethnology Europe ; Theater ; Performing arts ; Theater. ; Performing arts. ; Ethnology—Europe.
    Abstract: "Focusing on the theatrical use of historical figures, narratives and myths, History as Theatrical Metaphor considers the malleability of history and how this relates to different times, changing perceptions of the nation and shifting political agendas in Scotland. The major strength of this important and lively new book is Ian Brown’s encyclopaedic knowledge of the rich and diverse theatrical culture of Scotland, combined with his understanding of wider European traditions and his experience as a playwright. This combination enables him to trace genealogies, offer comparative commentary and it facilitates a deep understanding of the ideological consequences of themes, myths, language, dramaturgy and theatrical strategies. Focusing on leading Scottish playwrights including David Greig, Liz Lochhead, John McGrath, Robert McLellan and Rona Munro, Brown explores how they have created plays that draw attention to competing versions of history, marginalised histories and the potential to revision history as a way of engaging in debates around such themes as power, independence, gender and the past and future of the Scottish nation." - Nadine Holdsworth, Professor of Theatre and Performance, Warwick University, UK "Ian Brown has written an excellent book about the infinite adaptability of history. He opened my eyes to a world of pre-20th century Scottish drama of which I was only dimly aware. He also writes about more familiar figures, from Barrie and Bridie to Lochhead and Munro with a scholarly brio that demonstrates their ability to find a metaphor for the present in the past. I learned a massive amount from Ian Brown's informed intelligence." - Michael Billington, the Guardian theatre critic This revelatory study explores how Scottish history plays, especially since the 1930s, raise issues of ideology, national identity, historiography, mythology, gender and especially Scottish language. Covering topics up to the end of World War Two, the book addresses the work of many key figures from the last century of Scottish theatre, including Robert McLellan and his contemporaries, and also Hector MacMillan, Stewart Conn, John McGrath, Donald Campbell, Bill Bryden, Sue Glover, Liz Lochhead, Jo Clifford, Peter Arnott, David Greig, Rona Munro and others often neglected or misunderstood. Setting these writers’ achievements in the context of their Scottish and European predecessors, Ian Brown offers fresh insights into key aspects of Scottish theatre. As such, this r ...
    Abstract: Introduction -- Chapter one. Playwrights and History -- Chapter two. History, Mythology and “Re-presentation” of events -- Chapter three. Language, Ideology and Identity -- Chapter four. The creation of a “missing” tradition -- Chapter five. Revealing hidden histories -- Chapter six. The re-visioning of history -- Chapter seven. Alternative visions -- Chapter eight. Re-constructing the deconstructed -- Chapter nine. Conclusion
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    ISBN: 9781137562135
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 123 p)
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature Philosophy ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Literature, Modern 21st century ; Fiction ; Fiction. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Literature—Philosophy.
    Abstract: In this book, Irmtraud Huber considers a wide range of contemporary novels to explore the variety of possibilities and effects of the use of the present tense, as well as investigating the reasons for its popularity. By illustrating the complexity and sophistication of four different types of contemporary usage, Huber’s discussion goes some way towards refuting those critical voices which consider present-tense narration a passing fad and stylistic affectation. As a tense of narration, the present can serve to tell different stories than the past tense, or can tell them differently. By no means a passing fad, it is an important characteristic of contemporary literature. Irmtraud Huber is a lecturer in English literature at the Universität Bern, Switzerland. Her PhD on the role of fantastical elements in recent literary attempts to go beyond postmodernism received the Helene-Richter Prize from the Deutscher Anglistenverband. Her monograph Literature after Postmodernism: Reconstructive Fantasies was published by Palgrave in 2014
    Abstract: Introduction -- Chapter 1. Past and Present of Present-tense Narration -- Chapter 2. Narrative Deictic Narration -- Chapter 3. Retrospective Narration -- Chapter 4. Interior Monologue -- Chapter 5. Simultaneous Narration -- Chapter 6. Mixed Cases -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Works Cited -- Notes
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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: 9781137445414
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXIII, 254 p. 3 illus., 1 illus. in color)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Brave new world
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Literature, Modern 21st century ; Comparative literature ; Comparative literature. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Huxley, Aldous 1894-1963 Brave new world ; Wirklichkeit ; Moderne ; Gesellschaft
    Abstract: This collection of essays provides new readings of Huxley’s classic dystopian satire, Brave New World (1932). Leading international scholars consider from new angles the historical contexts in which the book was written and the cultural legacies in which it looms large. The volume affirms Huxley’s prescient critiques of modernity and his continuing relevance to debates about political power, art, and the vexed relationship between nature and humankind. Individual chapters explore connections between Brave New World and the nature of utopia, the 1930s American Technocracy movement, education and social control, pleasure, reproduction, futurology, inter-war periodical networks, motherhood, ethics and the Anthropocene, islands, and the moral life. The volume also includes a ‘Foreword’ written by David Bradshaw, one of the world’s top Huxley scholars. Timely and consistently illuminating, this collection is essential reading for students, critics, and Huxley enthusiasts alike
    Abstract: Introduction -- 1. Brave New World as a Modern Utopia -- 2. Signs of the T -- 3. ‘That Learning Were Such a Filthy Thing' -- 4. The Pleasures of Dystopia -- 5. Huxley and Reproduction -- 6. What Huxley Got Wrong -- 7. Brave New World and Vanity Fair; Carey Snyder -- 8. The Brave New World of Mothering -- 9. Ethics in the Late Anthropocene -- 10. ‘My Hypothetical Islanders’ -- 11. ‘Words Without Reason’
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    ISBN: 9781137587619
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 241 p. 4 illus. in color)
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    Series Statement: New Directions in Book History
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    Keywords: Literature ; Great Britain History ; Civilization History ; Books History ; Printing ; Publishers and publishing ; Printing. ; Publishers and publishing. ; Books—History. ; Civilization—History. ; Great Britain—History.
    Abstract: This book explores Victorian readers’ consumption of a wide array of reading matter. Established scholars and emerging researchers examine nineteenth-century audience encounters with print culture material such as periodicals, books in series, cheap serials, and broadside ballads. Two key strands of enquiry run through the volume. First, these studies of historical readership during the Victorian period look to recover the motivations or desired returns that underpinned these audiences’ engagement with this reading matter. Second, contributors investigate how nineteenth-century reading and consumption of print was framed and/or shaped by contemporaneous engagement with content disseminated in other media like advertising, the stage, exhibitions, and oral culture
    Abstract: Introduction; Paul Raphael Rooney and Anna Gasperini -- 1. “Reader-Help: How to Read Samuel Smiles’s Self-Help”; Barbara Leckie -- 2. “More than a ‘book for boys’? Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur and the Victorian Girl Reader”; Katie Garner -- 3. “‘The Manuscript Magazines of the Wellpark Free Church Young Men’s Literary Society"; Lauren Weiss -- 4. “Black Victorians and Anti-Caste: Mapping the Geographies of ‘Missing’ Readers”; Caroline Bressey -- 5. “John Dicks’ Cheap Reprints Series, 1850s-1890s: Reading Advertisements”; Anne Humpherys -- 6. “Serialization and Story-Telling Illustrations: R. L. Stevenson Window-Shopping for Penny Dreadfuls”; Marie Léger-St-Jean -- 7. “Sensation and Song: Street Ballad Consumption in Nineteenth-Century England”; Isabel Corfe -- 8. “Reading Reynolds: The Mysteries of London as ‘microscopic survey’”; Ruth Doherty -- 9. Cross-media Cultural Consumption and Oscillating Reader Experiences of Late-Victorian Dramatizations of the Novel: The Case of Fergus Hume’s Madame Midas (1888)”; Paul Raphael Rooney -- 10. “Reading Theatre Writing: T.H. Lacy and the Sensation Drama”; Kate Mattacks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.-
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    ISBN: 9781137393807
    Language: English
    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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    ISBN: 9781137581655
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 253 p. 15 illus)
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature. ; Verbrauch ; Abfall ; Literatur
    Abstract: This book examines manufactured waste and remaindered humans in literary critiques of capitalism by twentieth-century writers associated with the historical avant-garde and their descendants. Building on recent work in new materialism and waste studies, Rachele Dini reads waste as a process or phase amenable to interruption. From an initial exploration of waste and re-use in three Surrealist texts by Giorgio de Chirico, André Breton, and Mina Loy, Dini traces the conceptualization of waste in the writing of Samuel Beckett, Donald Barthelme, J.G. Ballard, William Gaddis, and Don DeLillo. In exploring the relationship between waste, capitalism, and literary experimentation, this book shows that the legacy of the historical avant-garde is bound up with an enduring faith in the radical potential of waste. The first study to focus specifically on waste in the twentieth-century imagination, this is a valuable contribution to the expanding field of waste studies
    Abstract: Introduction -- Chapter One: In search of an epiphany: Redeeming waste and irrupting into the everyday -- Chapter Two: Samuel Beckett’s personnes perdues: Human waste in The Trilogy, Texts for Nothing, and How it I -- Chapter Three: Waste in Donald Barthelme, J.G Ballard, and William Gaddis -- Chapter Four: “Most of our longings go unfulfilled”: DeLillo’s historiographical readings of landfills and nuclear fallout -- Conclusion -- Bibliography
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    ISBN: 9781137372925
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 363 p)
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    Keywords: Literature ; Motion pictures History ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Comparative literature ; Fiction ; Technology in literature ; Fiction. ; Technology in literature. ; Comparative literature. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Motion pictures—History. ; Christie, Agatha 1890-1976 ; Adaption ; Film
    Abstract: ‘Mark Aldridge's book uncovers many hitherto unknown facts about screen adaptations of Agatha Christie. It is an important addition to Christie scholarship and required reading for all admirers of the Queen of Crime.’ - Dr. John Curran, author of Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks ‘The book is a mine of information. As well as a fascinating insight into the history of Agatha Christie adaptations, the book also throws much light on the whole area of adaptation and its participants on every side of the fence.’ - Mathew Prichard, grandson of Agatha Christie Agatha Christie on Screen is a comprehensive exploration of 90 years of film and television adaptations of the world’s best-selling novelist’s work. Drawing on extensive archival material, it offers new information regarding both the well-known and forgotten screen adaptations of Agatha Christie’s stories, including unmade and rare adaptations, some of which have been unseen for more than half a century. This history offers intriguing insights into the discussions and debates that surrounded many of these screen projects - something that is brought to life through previously unpublished correspondence from Christie herself and a new wide-ranging interview with her grandson, Mathew Prichard. Agatha Christie on Screen takes the reader on a journey from little known silent film adaptations, through to famous screen productions including 1974’s Murder on the Orient Express, as well as the television series of the Poirot and Miss Marple stories and, most recently, the BBC’s acclaimed version of And Then There Were None
    Abstract: Introduction -- PART I. Destination Unknown -- Chapter 1. The Silent Adventures -- Chapter 2. Poirot Comes to the Silver Screen -- PART II. Appointment with Death -- Chapter 3. The Early Television Adaptations -- Chapter 4. New Prospects and Problems in Television -- PART III. Wasps’ Nest -- Chapter 5. Christie Films Make an Impact -- Chapter 6. Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple -- PART IV. Evil Under the Sun -- Chapter 7. A New Era for Agatha Christie Films -- Chapter 8. Peter Ustinov as Hercule Poirot -- PART V. Partners in Crime -- Chapter 9. Christie Comes Back to Television -- Chapter 10. New Approaches -- PART VI. In a Glass Darkly -- Chapter 11. Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple -- Chapter 12. Agatha Christie’s Poirot -- PART VII. Hidden Horizon -- Chapter 13. European Adaptations -- Chapter 14. Adaptations in the Rest of the World -- PART VIII. While the Light Lasts -- Chapter 15. Christie with a Twist -- Chapter 16. Looking to the Future
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    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: 9781137548795
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (IX, 123 p)
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    Series Statement: The New Middle Ages
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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: 9781137407306
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XV, 199 p)
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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: 9783319406794
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    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: 9783319441443
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 96 p)
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature History and criticism ; Literature, Modern 19th century ; Poetry ; Poetry. ; Literature, Modern—19th century. ; Literature—History and criticism. ; Keats, John 1795-1821
    Abstract: This accessible, informed, and engaging book offers fresh, new avenues into Keats’s poems and letters, including a valuable introduction to “the responsible poet.” Focusing on Keats’s sense of responsibility to truth, poetry, and the reader, G. Douglas Atkins, a noted T.S. Eliot critic, writes as an ama-teur. He reads the letters as literary texts, essayistic and dramatic; the Odes in comparison with Eliot’s treatment of similar subjects; “The Eve of St. Agnes” by adding to his respected earlier article on the poem an addendum outlining a bold new reading; “Lamia” by focusing on its complex and perplexing treatment of philosophy and imagination and revealing how Keats literally represents philosophy as functioning within poetry. Comparing Keats with Eliot, poet-philosopher, this book generates valuable insight into Keats’s successful and often sophisticated poetic treatment of ideas, accentuating the image of him as “the responsible poet.”
    Abstract: Preface -- One: On Putting Keats in Other Words: Essaying toward Reader-Responsibility -- Two: Reading the Letters: “The Vale of Soul-Making” -- Three: Some of the Dangers in “Unperplex[ing] bliss from its neighbour pain”: Reading the Odes Intra- and Inter-textually -- Four: Fleeing into the Storm: Beauty and Truth in “The Eve of St. Agnes” -- Five: “For Truth’s Sake”: “Lamia” and the Reweaving of the Rainbow -- Bibliography -- Index
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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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    Keywords: Literature ; Culture Study and teaching ; Literature Philosophy ; Literature History and criticism ; Literature, Modern ; Poetry ; British literature ; Poetry. ; Literature, Modern. ; British literature. ; Literature—Philosophy. ; Culture—Study and teaching. ; Literature—History and criticism. ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Krieg ; Geschichte 1580-1616
    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: 9781137449900
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 236 p)
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    Series Statement: The New Middle Ages
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    Keywords: Literature ; Religion History ; Europe History-476-1492 ; Religion and sociology ; Social history ; Classical literature ; Literature, Medieval ; Literature, Medieval. ; Religion and sociology. ; Social history. ; Classical literature. ; Europe—History—476-1492. ; Religion—History.
    Abstract: This book considers how scientists, theologians, priests, and poets approached the relationship of the human body and ethics in the later Middle Ages. Is medicine merely a metaphor for sin? Or can certain kinds of bodies physiologically dispose people to be angry, sad, or greedy? If so, then is it their fault? Virginia Langum offers an account of the medical imagery used to describe feelings and actions in religious and literary contexts, referencing a variety of behavioral discussions within medical contexts. The study draws upon medical and theological writing for its philosophical basis, and upon more popular works of religion, as well as poetry, to show how these themes were articulated, explored, and questioned more widely in medieval culture
    Abstract: INTRODUCTION -- MEDICINE, SIN AND LANGUAGE -- PRIDE -- ENVY -- WRATH -- AVARICE -- SLOTH -- GLUTTONY -- LECHERY -- CONCLUSION
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
    ISBN: 9781137503206
    Language: English
    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: 9783319326245
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (X, 256 p)
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    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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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: 9781137569028
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIX, 220 p. 2 illus., 1 illus. in color)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
    Series Statement: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
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    Keywords: Culture Study and teaching ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; America Literatures ; Literature   . ; Literature ; European literature ; Literature Philosophy ; European literature. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature—Philosophy. ; Culture—Study and teaching. ; America—Literatures. ; Raum ; Geografie ; Unterhaltungsroman
    Abstract: This volume moves the debate about literature and geography in a new direction by showing the significance of spatial settings in the enormous and complex field of popular fiction. Approaching popular genres as complicated systems of meaning, the collected essays model key theoretical and critical approaches for interrogating the meaning of space and place across diverse genres, including crime, thrillers, fantasy, science fiction, and romance. Including topics such as classic English ghost stories, blockbuster Antarctic thrillers, prize-winning Montreal crime fiction, J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, and China Miéville’s Bas-Lag, among others, this book brings together analyses of the real-and-imagined settings of some of the most widely read authors and texts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to show how they have an immeasurable impact on our spatial awareness and imagination
    Abstract: Introduction: Space, Place and Popular Fiction, Lisa Fletcher -- Cave Genres/Genre Caves: Reading the Subterranean Thriller, Ralph Crane and Lisa Fletcher -- Unstable Places and Generic Spaces: Thrillers Set in Antarctica, Elizabeth Leane -- Chronotopic Reading of Crime Fiction: Montréal in La Trace de l’Escargot, Marc Brosseau and Pierre-Mathieu Le Bel -- Romance in the Backblocks in New Zealand Popular Fiction, 1930-1950: Mary Scott’s Barbara Stories, Jane Stafford -- The Inside Story: Jennifer Crusie and the Architecture of Love, William Gleason -- Ghost-Al Erosion: Beaches and the Supernatural in Two Stories by M. R. James, Lucie Armitt -- Pagan Places: Contemporary Paganism, British Fantasy Fiction, and the Case of Ryhope Wood, Kim Wilkins -- Tolkien’s Geopolitical Fantasy: Spatial Narrative in The Lord of the Rings, Robert T. Tally Jr. -- Commuting to Another World: Spaces of Transport and Transport Maps in Urban Fantasy, David Pike -- Mapping Monstrosity: Metaphorical Geographies in China Miéville’s Bas-Lag Trilogy, Robert A. Saunders -- Air Force One: Popular (Non)Fiction in Flight, Christopher Schaberg -- States of Nostalgia in the Genre of the Future: Panem, Globalization, and Utopia in The Hunger Games Trilogy, Eric D. Smith and Kylie Korsnack -- Bibliography -- Index
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    ISBN: 9781137545534
    Language: English
    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: 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: 9783319409221
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 230 p)
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    Series Statement: Comparative Feminist Studies
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; African literature ; Ethics ; Feminist theory ; African literature. ; Feminist theory. ; Ethics. ; Literature, Modern—20th century.
    Abstract: ‘A remarkable work, both for its compassion and critical insights, Chielozona Eze’s Ethics and Human Rights in Anglophone African Women’s Literature: Feminist Empathy ‘liberates’ empathy from ideology and offers a focused way of reading literature within and across borders that also transcends limiting contexts.’ -Maik Nwosu, University of Denver, USA ‘In a thus far unsurpassed “sharing of affect,” Professor Eze artfully deploys what he calls “feminist empathy” for third-generation Anglophone African women writers. In the wake of their foremothers’ rejection of the double yoke of colonialism and patriarchy, this millennial generation of women writers reclaims “a body of their own” and its unaccountable pain. Eze’s bold yet gentle gesturing towards these new female subjectivities makes him a male feminist, definitely a rare commodity on the Nigerian scene. His book is a high risk/high gain venture opening wide the portal of “human flourishing” for other African empathizers in the post-nation-state.’ -Chantal Zabus, author of Between Rites and Rights: Excision in Women’s Experiential Texts and Human Contexts, Université Paris 13 - Sorbonne Paris Cité, France ‘Eze deftly demonstrates how contemporary African writing by women deploys feminist empathy to link ethics and human rights in a fresh interpretation of ubuntu - the African philosophy of individual and community interdependence. With nuance and a rare attention to not only fiction but also poetry, essays and new media, Eze shows how recent works extending longstanding African feminist theories into new territory, proving Adichie and her sister-authors right: we should all be feminists.’ -Tsitsi Jaji, author of Africa in Stereo: Modernism, Music and Pan-African Solidarity and Associate Professor of English, Duke University, USA This book proposes feminist empathy as a model of interpretation in the works of contemporary Anglophone African women writers. The African woman’s body is often portrayed as having been disabled by the patriarchal and sexist structures of society. Returning to their bodies as a point of reference, rather than the postcolonial ideology of empire, contemporary African women writers demand fairness and equality. By showing how this literature deploys imaginative shifts in perspective with women experiencing unfairness, injustice, or oppression because of their gender, Chielozona Eze argues that by considering feminist empathy, discussion ...
    Abstract: Introduction: The Ethical Turn in African Literature -- Chapter 1: Feminism as Fairness -- Chapter 2: Diary of Intense Pain: Postcolonial Trap and Women’s Rights -- Chapter 3: The Body in Pain and the Politics of Culture -- Chapter 4: Abstractions as Disablers of Women’s Rights -- Chapter 5: The Enslaved Body as a Symbol of Universal Human Rights Abuse -- Chapter 6: Human Rights as Liberatory Social Thought -- Chapter 7: The Obligation to Bear Testimony to Human Rights Abuses -- Bibliography --
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    Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company | Berlin : Knowledge Unlatched
    ISBN: 9789027267191
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVIII, 244 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Processability approaches to language acquisition research & teaching volume 5
    Series Statement: Processability approaches to language acquisition research & teaching
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    Keywords: Second language acquisition Study and teaching ; Interlanguage (Language learning) ; Bilingualism ; Language acquisition ; Cross-language information retrieval ; Language and languages Study and teaching ; Psycholinguistics ; Fremdsprachenlernen ; Psycholinguistik
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    Liverpool : Liverpool University Press | Berlin : Knowledge Unlatched
    ISBN: 9781781384398
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 334 Seiten)
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    Keywords: Science fiction History and criticism
    Abstract: An exploration of politics and the role of the 'soft sciences' in Science Fiction.
    Abstract: The fifteen essays collected in Hard Reading argue, first, that science fiction has its own internal rhetoric, relying on devices such as neologism, dialogism, semantic shifts, the use of unreliable narrators. It is a "high-information" genre which does not follow the Flaubertian ideal of le mot juste, "the right word", preferring le mot imprevisible, "the unpredictable word". Both ideals shun the facilior lectio, the "easy reading", but for different reasons and with different effects. The essays argue further that science fiction derives much of its energy from engagement with vital intellectual issues in the "soft sciences", especially history, anthropology, the study of different cultures, with a strong bearing on politics. Both the rhetoric and the issues deserve to be taken much more seriously than they have been in academia, and in the wider world. Each essay is further prefaced by an autobiographical introduction. These explain how the essays came to be written and in what ways they (often) proved controversial. They, and the autobiographical introduction to the whole book, create between them a memoir of what it was like to be a committed fan, from teenage years, and also an academic struggling to find a place, at a time when a declared interest in science fiction and fantasy was the kiss of death for a career in the humanities.
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    ISBN: 9783110399844 , 9783110400069
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VII, 256 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Linguae & litterae volume 59
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Birke, Dorothee, 1975 - Writing the reader
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    Keywords: English fiction History and criticism ; Books and reading in literature ; Englisch ; Roman ; Leser
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis Seite 234-253 (Seite 234 ungezählt) , Mit Register
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    ISBN: 9783837634396
    Language: English
    Pages: 191 Seiten , 23 cm, 363 g
    Series Statement: Aging studies Volume 9
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Traces of Aging
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    DDC: 823.91409354
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    Keywords: Old age in literature ; Aging in literature ; Memory in literature ; Comparative literature Themes, motives ; Old age in literature Aging in literature ; Memory in literature ; Comparative literature / Themes, motives ; Aging in literature ; Comparative literature / Themes, motives ; Memory in literature ; Old age in literature ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Englisch ; Roman ; Alter ; Gedächtnis ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Alter
    Abstract: Introduction: Literature that returns to life and the mystique of age / Marta Cerezo Moreno and Nieves Pascual Soter -- Keeping appointments with the past : time, place, and narrative identity in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz / Anna MacDonald -- Haunted by a traumatic past : age, memory, and narrative identitiy in Margaret Atwood's The blind assassin / Teresa Gilbert -- "The whole aspect of age is full of possibilities!" : traces of aging, memory, and sexuality in Daphne Du Maurier's "Don't look now" / Marta Míquel-Baldellou -- Ageing, agency, and autobiography : challenging Ricoeur's concept of narrative identitiy / Rahel Rivera Godoy-Benesch -- An appetite for life : narrative, time, and identity in Still mine / Pamela Gravagne -- Memory, dementia, and narrative identity in Alice Munro's "The bear came over the mountain" / Sara Strauss -- Horror mortis, structural trauma, and postmodern parody in Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King / Francisco Collado-Rodríguez -- Rewriting the story, restorying the self : Doris Lessing's experiments in life-writing / Ángeles de la Concha
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    ISBN: 9781474402972 , 9781474412896
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (241 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Price, Fiona L. Reinventing liberty
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    Keywords: English literature, 18th century; History and criticism. ; English literature, 19th century; History and criticism. ; Historical fiction. ; Electronic books ; Englisch ; Historischer Roman ; Nation ; Freiheit ; Handel ; Geschichte 1775-1840
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    ISBN: 9781137499387
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (X, 246 p)
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    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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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: 9781137523402
    Language: English
    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: 9781137595690
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXI, 301 p. 65 illus. in color)
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Humanities Digital libraries ; Comparative literature ; Technology in literature ; Postmodernism (Literature) ; Technology in literature. ; Postmodernism (Literature). ; Comparative literature. ; Humanities—Digital libraries. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literatur ; Moderne ; Digital Humanities
    Abstract: This book uses the discipline-specific, computational methods of the digital humanities to explore a constellation of rigorous case studies of modernist literature. From data mining and visualization to mapping and tool building and beyond, the digital humanities offer new ways for scholars to questions of literature and culture. With the publication of a variety of volumes that define and debate the digital humanities, we now have the opportunity to focus attention on specific periods and movements in literary history. Each of the case studies in this book emphasizes literary interpretation and engages with histories of textuality and new media, rather than dwelling on technical minutiae. Reading Modernism with Machines thereby intervenes critically in ongoing debates within modernist studies, while also exploring exciting new directions for the digital humanities-ultimately reflecting on the conjunctions and disjunctions between the technological cultures of the modernist era and our own digital present
    Abstract: Introduction; Shawna Ross -- Chapter 1. ModLabs; Dean Irvine -- Chapter 2. Modeling Modernist Dialogism; Adam Hammond, Julian Brooke and Graeme Hirst -- 3. Mapping Modernism’s Z-Axis; Alex Christie and Katie Tanigawa -- Chapter 4. Textbase as Machine; Kathryn Holland and Jana Smith Elford -- Chapter 5. Remediation and Development of Modernist Forms in The Western Home Monthly; Hannah McGregor and Nicholas van Orden -- Chapter 6. Stylistic Perspective Across Kenneth Fearing’s Poetry; Wayne Arnold -- Chapter 7. In the End Was the Word; Adam James Bradley -- Chapter 8. A Macro-Etymological Analysis of James Joyce’s The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Jonathan Reeve -- Chapter 9. Body Language; Kurt Cavender, Jamey E. Graham, Robert P. Fox, Jr., Richard Flynn and Kenyon Cavender -- Chapter 10. “We twiddle…and turn into machines”; Andrew Pilsch -- Chapter 11. CGI Monstrosities; Eunsong Kim
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    Bonn : Deutscher Hochschulverband
    ISBN: 3944941020 , 9783944941028
    Language: German , English
    Pages: 475 Seiten , 19 cm
    Edition: Zweite unveränderte Auflage
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    Keywords: Education, higher Dictionaries ; German - English ; Education, higher Dictionaries ; English - German ; Hochschule ; Deutsch ; Englisch ; Education, higher Dictionaries ; English - German ; Education, higher Dictionaries ; German - English ; Wörterbuch ; Wörterbuch ; Englisch ; Deutsch ; Hochschule ; Deutsch ; Englisch
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    West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press
    ISBN: 161249417X , 155753750X , 1557537313 , 9781612494173 , 9781557537508 , 9781557537317 , 9781612494210
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
    Series Statement: Comparative cultures and literatures
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Wilper, James Patrick Reconsidering the emergence of the gay novel in English and German
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    Keywords: Gays' writings History and criticism ; English fiction History and criticism ; German fiction History and criticism ; Homosexuality and literature ; Gay men in literature ; Lesbians in literature ; Electronic books ; LITERARY CRITICISM ; LGBT ; HISTORY ; Europe ; General ; English fiction ; Gay men in literature ; Gays' writings ; German fiction ; Homosexuality and literature ; Lesbians in literature ; English-speaking countries ; German-speaking Europe ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Electonic books
    Abstract: In Reconsidering the Emergence of the Gay Novel in English and German, James P. Wilper examines a key moment in the development of the modern gay novel by analyzing four novels by German, British, and American writers. Wilper studies how the texts are influenced by and respond and react to four schools of thought regarding male homosexuality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The first is legal codes criminalizing sex acts between men and the religious doctrine that informs them. The second is the ancient Greek erotic philosophy, in which a revival of interest took place in the late nineteenth century. The third is sexual science (or sexology), which offered various medical and psychological explanations for same-sex desire and was employed variously to defend, as well as to attempt to cure, this "perversion." And fourth, in the wake of the scandal caused by his trials and conviction for "gross indecency," Oscar Wilde became associated with a homosexual stereotype based on "unmanly" behavior. Wilper analyzes the four novels: Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, E.M. Forster's Maurice, Edward Prime-Stevenson's Imre: A Memorandum, and John Henry Mackay's The Hustler, in relation to these schools of thought, and focuses on the exchange and cross-cultural influence between linguistic and cultural contexts on the subject of love and desire between men. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched
    Abstract: Religion and law. Sin and crime -- Greek love. Transcending Greek love -- The "manly love of comrades" -- Science and sex. The highest being drawn down into decadence -- Health, masculinity, and the third sex -- Wild about Oscar Wilde? A tough act to follow : homosexuality in fiction after Oscar Wilde -- Das bildnis des Oskar Wilde.
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9780191749674
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 595 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Oxford handbook of the eighteenth-century novel
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    Keywords: English fiction History and criticism 18th century ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Englisch ; Roman ; Geschichte 1700-1800 ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Although the emergence of the English novel is generally regarded as an eighteenth-century phenomenon, this is the first book to be published professing to cover the 'eighteenth-century English novel' in its entirety. This Handbook surveys the development of the English novel during the 'long' eighteenth century. With the publication of the novels of Jane Austen and Walter Scott, 'the novel' finally gained critical acceptance and assumed the position of cultural hegemony it enjoyed for over a century. By situating the novels of the period which are still read today against the background of the hundreds published between 1660 and 1830, this Handbook covers not only those 'masters and mistresses' of early prose fiction, but also the significant number of recently rediscovered novelists who were popular in their own day.
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    New York, NY : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9780199340491
    Language: English
    Pages: 116 Seiten , Illustrationen
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    Keywords: Decolonization History ; Einführung ; Entkolonialisierung ; Geschichte
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  • 82
    ISBN: 9780191837005
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Oxford handbooks online
    Series Statement: Literature
    Series Statement: Oxford twenty-first century approaches to literature
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Late Victorian into modern
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    Keywords: Moderne ; Literatur ; Kulturwandel ; Englisch ; Großbritannien ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Großbritannien ; Kulturwandel ; Moderne ; Geschichte 1900 ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Geschichte 1880-1920
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  • 83
    ISBN: 9781137403056
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 275 p)
    Series Statement: Springer eBook Collection
    Series Statement: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Literature, Modern 21st century ; Fiction ; Oriental literature ; Literature ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Literature, Modern 21st century ; Fiction ; Oriental literature
    Abstract: This book is the first comparative analysis of a new generation of diasporic Anglophone South Asian women novelists including Kiran Desai, Tahmima Anam, Monica Ali, Kamila Shamsie and Jhumpa Lahiri from a feminist perspective. It charts the significant changes these writers have produced in postcolonial and contemporary women’s fiction since the late 1990s. Paying careful attention to the authors’ distinct subcontinental backgrounds of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka - as well as India - this study destabilises the central place given to fiction focused on India. It broadens the customary focus on diasporic writers’ metropolitan contexts, illuminates how these transnational, female-authored literary texts challenge national assumptions and considers the ways in which this new configuration of transnational, feminist writers produces a postcolonial feminist discourse, which differs from Anglo-American feminism
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  • 84
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
    ISBN: 9781137403544
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 279 p)
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    Keywords: Literature ; Comparative literature ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Literature, Modern 21st century ; Fiction ; Oriental literature ; Literature ; Comparative literature ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Literature, Modern 21st century ; Fiction ; Oriental literature ; Südasien ; Literatur ; Englisch
    Abstract: This collection offers an essential, structured survey of contemporary fictions of South Asia in English, and includes specially commissioned chapters on each of the national traditions of the region. It covers less well known writings from Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh as well as the more firmly established canon of contemporary Indian literature, and features chapters on important new and emergent forms such as the graphic novel, genre fiction and the short story. It also contextualizes some key ‘transformative’ aspects of recent fiction such as border and diaspora identities; new middle-class narratives and popular genres; and literary response to terror and conflict. Edited and designed with researchers and students in mind, the book updates existing criticism and represents a readable guide to a dynamic, rapidly changing area of global literature
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  • 85
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
    ISBN: 9781137538758
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VII, 204 p)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies
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    Series Statement: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Literature, Modern 21st century ; Literature, Modern ; Fiction ; British literature ; America Literatures ; Literature ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Literature, Modern 21st century ; Literature, Modern ; Fiction ; British literature ; America Literatures ; Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 ; Rezeption ; Englisch ; Kriminalliteratur ; Englisch ; Kriminalliteratur ; Anspielung ; Shakespeare, William 1564-1616
    Abstract: This book explores why crime fiction so often alludes to Shakespeare. It ranges widely over a variety of authors including classic golden age crime writers such as the four ‘queens of crime’ (Allingham, Christie, Marsh, Sayers), Nicholas Blake and Edmund Crispin, as well as more recent authors such as Reginald Hill, Kate Atkinson and Val McDermid. It also looks at the fondness for Shakespearean allusion in a number of television crime series, most notably Midsomer Murders, Inspector Morse and Lewis, and considers the special sub-genre of detective stories in which a lost Shakespeare play is found. It shows how Shakespeare facilitates discussions about what constitutes justice, what authorises the detective to track down the villain, who owns the countryside, national and social identities, and the question of how we measure cultural value
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  • 86
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
    ISBN: 9781137593122
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (IX, 231 p)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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    Series Statement: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature History and criticism ; Literature, Modern 18th century ; Fiction ; British literature ; Literature ; Literature History and criticism ; Literature, Modern 18th century ; Fiction ; British literature
    Abstract: This book is a survey of personal illness as described in various forms of early modern manuscript life-writing. How did people in the seventeenth century rationalise and record illness? Observing that medical explanations for illness were fewer than may be imagined, the author explores the social and religious frameworks by which illness was more commonly recorded and understood. The story that emerges is of illness written into personal manuscripts in prescriptive rather than original terms. This study uncovers the ways in which illness, so described, contributed to the self-patterning these texts were set up to perform
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  • 87
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    Cham : Springer International Publishing
    ISBN: 9783319264356
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVI, 238 p. 2 illus, online resource)
    Edition: 2nd ed. 2016
    Series Statement: English for Academic Research
    Series Statement: SpringerLink
    Series Statement: Bücher
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
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    Keywords: Grammar ; English language ; Language and education ; Linguistics ; Linguistics ; Grammar ; English language ; Language and education ; Hochschule ; Englisch
    Abstract: 1. Subject Lines -- 2. Salutations -- 3. Structuring the content of an email -- 4. Building a Relationship and Deciding the Level of Formality -- 5. Language, Translating and Spelling -- 6. Requests and Replies -- 7. Cover letters for summer schools, internships, placements, Erasmus, PhD / MA / Postdoc programs -- 8. Reference letters -- 9. Brief notes on writing research proposals and research statements -- 10. How to criticize constructively -- 11. Writing a Peer Review -- 12. Writing a Reply to the Reviewers’ Reports -- 13. Communicating with the Editor -- 14. Useful phrases -- 15. Tense Usage. .
    Abstract: Written specifically for researchers of all disciplines whose first language is not English, this guide presents easy-to-follow rules and tips, along with authentic examples taken from real emails, referees' reports and cover letters, will show you how to: write effective emails (subject lines, structure, requests, level of formality) review other people's manuscripts reply effectively and constructively to referees' reports correspond with editors write letters regarding summer schools, internships, and PhD and postdoc programs write reference letters This new edition contains over 40% new material, including stimulating factoids and discussion points both for self-study and in-class use, as well as suggestions for drafting proposals for research projects and writing research statements. EAP teachers will find this book to be a great source of tips for training students, and for providing both instructive and entertaining lessons. Other books in the series cover: writing research papers; presentations at international conferences; English grammar, usage and style; and interacting on campus; plus exercise books and a teacher's guide to the whole series. Please visit http://www.springer.com/series/13913 for a full list of titles in the series. Adrian Wallwork is the author of more than 30 ELT and EAP textbooks. He has trained several thousand PhD students and academics from 35 countries to write research papers, prepare presentations, and communicate with editors, referees and fellow researchers.
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  • 88
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
    ISBN: 9781137536662
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (X, 206 p)
    Series Statement: Crime Files
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    Series Statement: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature History and criticism ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Literature, Modern 21st century ; Fiction ; British literature ; Literature ; Literature History and criticism ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Literature, Modern 21st century ; Fiction ; British literature
    Abstract: This book provides an original and compelling analysis of the ways in which British women’s golden age crime narratives negotiate the conflicting social and cultural forces that influenced depictions of gender in popular culture in the 1920s until the late 1940s. The book explores a wide variety of texts produced both by writers who have been the focus of a relatively large amount of critical attention, such as Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Margery Allingham, but also those who have received comparatively little, such as Christianna Brand, Ngaio Marsh, Gladys Mitchell, Josephine Tey and Patricia Wentworth. Through its original readings, this book explores the ambivalent nature of modes of femininity depicted in golden age crime fiction, and shows that seemingly conservative resolutions are often attempts to provide a ‘modern-yet-safe’ solution to the conflicts raised in the texts
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  • 89
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan US
    ISBN: 9781137595416
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 307 p. 1 illus. in color)
    Series Statement: Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
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    Series Statement: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature Philosophy ; Literature, Modern ; European literature ; Cognitive psychology ; Literature ; Literature Philosophy ; Literature, Modern ; European literature ; Cognitive psychology ; Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 ; Drama ; Bewusstsein
    Abstract: This book examines how early modern and recently emerging theories of consciousness and cognitive science help us to re-imagine our engagements with Shakespeare in text and performance. Papers investigate the connections between states of mind, emotion, and sensation that constitute consciousness and the conditions of reception in our past and present encounters with Shakespeare’s works. Acknowledging previous work on inwardness, self, self-consciousness, embodied self, emotions, character, and the mind-body problem, contributors consider consciousness from multiple new perspectives-as a phenomenological process, a materially determined product, a neurologically mediated reaction, or an internally synthesized identity-approaching Shakespeare’s plays and associated cultural practices in surprising and innovative ways
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  • 90
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    Cham : Springer International Publishing
    ISBN: 9783319291024
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 246 p)
    Series Statement: Springer eBook Collection
    Series Statement: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature History and criticism ; Literature, Modern 19th century ; Fiction ; Technology in literature ; British literature ; Literature ; Literature History and criticism ; Literature, Modern 19th century ; Fiction ; Technology in literature ; British literature ; Hardy, Thomas 1840-1928 ; Kommunikation ; Post ; Telegramm
    Abstract: This book explores the relationship between Thomas Hardy’s works and Victorian media and technologies of communication - especially the penny post and the telegraph. Through its close analysis of letters, telegrams, and hand-delivered notes in Hardy’s novels, short stories, and poems, it ties together a wide range of subjects: technological and infrastructural developments; material culture; individual subjectivity and the construction of identity; the relationship between private experience and social conventions; and the new narrative possibilities suggested by modern modes of communication
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  • 91
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan US
    ISBN: 9781137568038
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (IX, 224 p)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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    Series Statement: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
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    Keywords: Literature ; Culture Study and teaching ; Literature Philosophy ; Literature History and criticism ; Literature, Modern ; European literature ; British literature ; Literature ; Culture Study and teaching ; Literature Philosophy ; Literature History and criticism ; Literature, Modern ; European literature ; British literature
    Abstract: Advances in astronomy such as the theories of Copernicus and the development of the telescope sparked a strong response within Early Modern literature. The essays in this collection show this discourse went on to develop a political context to discuss topics like New World exploration and even kingship and regicide, well into the 18th century
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  • 92
    ISBN: 9781137554383
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (X, 196 p)
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    Series Statement: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
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    Keywords: Literature ; Culture Study and teaching ; Literature Philosophy ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Oriental literature ; British literature ; Literature ; Culture Study and teaching ; Literature Philosophy ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Oriental literature ; British literature ; Südasien ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Islam ; Religiöse Identität
    Abstract: This book explores whether the post-9/11 novels of Rushdie, Hamid, Aslam and Shamsie can be read as part of an attempt to revise modern ‘knowledge’ of the Islamic world, using globally-distributed English-language literature to reframe Muslims’ potential to connect with others. Focussing on novels including Shalimar the Clown, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, The Wasted Vigil, and Burnt Shadows, the author combines aesthetic, historical, political and spiritual considerations with analyses of the popular discourses and critical discussions surrounding the novels; and scrutinises how the writers have been appropriated as authentic spokespeople by dominant political and cultural forces. Finally, she explores how, as writers of Indian and Pakistani origin, Rushdie, Hamid, Aslam and Shamsie negotiate their identities, and the tensions of being seen to act as Muslim representatives, in relation to the complex international and geopolitical context in which they write
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
    ISBN: 9781137542885
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VII, 192 p)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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    Series Statement: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature History and criticism ; Literature, Modern 19th century ; Fiction ; British literature ; Literature ; Literature History and criticism ; Literature, Modern 19th century ; Fiction ; British literature
    Abstract: Time, Domesticity and Print Culture combines literary criticism with innovative readings of texts' material form. The author argues that the way writing was transmitted as monthly instalments or periodical articles contributed to its representative power. The study's focus is domestic time; it shows that writers in the nineteenth century were anxious to describe the middle-class home as a temporal entity and not just a spatial one. In order to describe temporal practices such as repetitive housework, interruption and everyday processes, writers had to negotiate not just narrative, but also the printed page and the serial instalment. This book traces a spectrum from literary fiction Bleak House by Dickens and North and South by Gaskell to less linear forms like periodical writing, Isabella Beeton's cookery book and the private album, in order to argue that print culture was saturated with domestic temporality
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  • 94
    ISBN: 9783662479599
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XX, 208 p, online resource)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2015
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Chen, John Z. Ming Canadian-daoist poetics, ethics, and aesthetics
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Religion and culture ; Social Sciences ; Aesthetics ; Culture. ; Social sciences ; Aesthetics ; Religion and culture ; Kanada ; Englisch ; Lyrik ; Tao ; Poetik
    Abstract: Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Malcolm Lowry and the Dao Chapter 3 Fred Cogswell’s Paradoxical Poetics of Suggestive Silence, Elaboration and the Dao’s Nature and Rhythms -- Chapter 4 Lo Fu: Fusing Daoist, Confucian and Western Poetics -- Chapter 5 Paul Yee’s Daoist and Confucian Ethics -- Chapter 6 “The Voyage that Never Ends:” Malcolm Lowry’s Taoist Aesthetics of Return/Renewal -- Chapter 7 Harmony, Beautiful Balance and “Fearful Symmetry: "Aspects of Fred Cogswell’s Yin/yang Aesthetics -- Chapter 8 Jacques Derrida and Chuang Tze: Some Analogies.
    Abstract: This monograph takes an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approach to 20th and 21st -century Canadian Daoist poetry, fiction and criticism in comparative, innovative and engaging ways. Of particular interest are the authors’ refreshing insights into such holistic and topical issues as the globalization of concepts of the Dao, the Yin/Yang, the Heaven-Earth-Humanity triad, the Four Greats, Five Phases, Non-action, and so on, as expressed in Canadian literature and criticism – which produces Canadian-constructed Daoist poetics, ethics and aesthetics. Readers will come to understand and appreciate the social and ecological significance of, formal innovations, moral sensitivity, aesthetic principles, and ideological complexity in Canadian-Daoist works. .
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Malcolm Lowry and the Dao Chapter 3 Fred Cogswell’s Paradoxical Poetics of Suggestive Silence, Elaboration and the Dao’s Nature and Rhythms -- Chapter 4 Lo Fu: Fusing Daoist, Confucian and Western Poetics -- Chapter 5 Paul Yee’s Daoist and Confucian Ethics -- Chapter 6 “The Voyage that Never Ends:” Malcolm Lowry’s Taoist Aesthetics of Return/Renewal -- Chapter 7 Harmony, Beautiful Balance and “Fearful Symmetry: "Aspects of Fred Cogswell’s Yin/yang Aesthetics -- Chapter 8 Jacques Derrida and Chuang Tze: Some Analogies.
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  • 95
    ISBN: 9781137543127
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 244 p, online resource)
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    Keywords: Science ; English language. ; Higher education. ; Language and education. ; Sociolinguistics. ; Language policy. ; Language and languages—Study and teaching. ; Science ; Englisch ; Fremdsprachenlernen ; Hochschulbildung ; Interkulturalität
    Abstract: In non-English-speaking countries, teaching degree programmes through the medium of English provides opportunities and challenges. This book explores issues of interculturality, language policy regarding English and national languages, and the economic, educational and political agendas in modern-day higher education in Europe
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan US
    ISBN: 9781137491701
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 231 p. 4 illus., 2 illus. in color)
    Series Statement: Reproducing Shakespeare
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    Keywords: Literature ; Ethnology Europe ; Theater History ; Literature, Modern ; European literature ; Literature ; Ethnology Europe ; Theater History ; Literature, Modern ; European literature ; Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 ; Rezeption ; Italien
    Abstract: Shakespeare’s Italy and Italy’s Shakespeare revisits a classical topic from a new perspective, focusing on Shakespeare’s afterlife in Italy through the lens of place, “race,” and politics. From discussions of a Victorian racialist interpretation of Shakespeare that casts Iago as the archetypal Italian specimen to Fascist appropriations of Shakespeare to Paolo and Vittorio Taviani’s film Caesar Must Die, Shaul Bassi interrogates how Italy explains Shakespeare and how Shakespeare explains Italy. These peripheral events both illuminate singular potentialities of the plays and turn Shakespeare into a special guide to Italy’s ethos and political unconscious
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    ISBN: 9781137597182
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 290 p, online resource)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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    Series Statement: Springer eBook Collection
    Series Statement: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Disease and death in eighteenth-century literature and culture
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature, Modern 18th century ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Krankheit ; Psychische Störung ; Tod ; Geschichte 1700-1800
    Abstract: This collection examines different aspects of attitudes towards disease and death in writing of the long eighteenth century. Taking three conditions as examples - ennui, sexual diseases and infectious diseases - as well as death itself, contributors explore the ways in which writing of the period placed them within a borderland between fashionability and unfashionability, relating them to current social fashions and trends. These essays also look at ways in which diseases were fashioned into bearing cultural, moral, religious and even political meaning. Works of literature are used as evidence, but also medical writings, personal correspondence and diaries. Diseases or conditions subject to scrutiny include syphilis, male impotence, plague, smallpox and consumption. Death, finally, is looked at both in terms of writers constructing meanings within death and of the fashioning of posthumous reputation
    Abstract: Introduction: Fashioning the Unfashionable; Allan Ingram and Leigh Wetherall Dickson -- PART I: ENNUI -- 1. ‘[F]ictitious [D]istress’ or Veritable Woe?: The Problem of Eighteenth-Century Ennui; Heather Meek -- 2. ‘What is fashionably termed ennui’: Maria Edgeworth Represents the Clinically Bored; Jane Taylor -- PART II: DISEASE OF SEXUALITY -- 3. Dean Swift on the Great Pox: or, The Satirist as Physician; Hermann J. Real -- 4. The à la Mode Disease: Syphilis and Temporality; Emily Cock -- 5. Of Fribblers and Fumblers: Fashioning Male Impotence in the Long Eighteenth Century; Kirsten Juhas -- PART III: INFECTIOUS DISEASES -- 6. Fashioning Unfashionable Plague: Daniel Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year (1722); Hélène Dachez -- 7. How Small is Small? Small Pox, Large Presence; Allan Ingram -- 8. ‘Halfe Dead: and rotten at the Coare: my Lord!’: Fashionable and Unfashionable Consumption, from Early Modern to Enlightenment; Clark Lawlor -- PART IV: FASHIONING DEATH -- 9. Death by Inoculation: The Fashioning of Mortality in Eighteenth-Century Smallpox Pamphlets; Kelly McGuire -- 10. Fashion Victim: Suicide, Sociability and High Society in Georgiana Cavendish’s The Sylph; Leigh Wetherall Dickson -- 11. ‘Alas, poor Yorick!’: Jonathan Swift, Madness, and Fashionable Science; Helen Deutsch -- Bibliography -- Index.-
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  • 98
    ISBN: 9783319334400
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 257 p. 5 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als McNee, Alan The new mountaineer in late Victorian Britain
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    Keywords: Literature ; Great Britain History ; Literature, Modern 19th century ; British literature ; British literature ; Great Britain History ; Literature ; Literature, Modern 19th century ; Großbritannien ; Fachliteratur ; Autobiografische Literatur ; Bergsteigen ; Geschichte 1870-1901
    Abstract: This book is about the rise of a new ethos in British mountaineering during the late nineteenth century. It traces how British attitudes to mountains were transformed by developments both within the new sport of mountaineering and in the wider fin-de-siècle culture. The emergence of the new genre of mountaineering literature, which helped to create a self-conscious community of climbers with broadly shared values, coincided with a range of cultural and scientific trends that also influenced the direction of mountaineering. The author discusses the growing preoccupation with the physical basis of aesthetic sensations, and with physicality and materiality in general; the new interest in the physiology of effort and fatigue; and the characteristically Victorian drive to enumerate, codify, and classify. Examining a wide range of texts, from memoirs and climbing club journals to hotel visitors’ books, he argues that the figure known as the ‘New Mountaineer’ was seen to embody a distinctly modern approach to mountain climbing and mountain aesthetics
    Abstract: Introduction -- 1. The Rise of the New Mountaineer -- 2. Resisting the New Mountaineer -- 3. The Climbing Body -- 4. The Haptic Sublime -- 5. ‘Trippers’ and the New Mountain Landscape -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
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  • 99
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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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  • 100
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan US | Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9781137565808 , 9781137567932
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXV, 253 p. 3 illus., 1 illus. in color)
    Series Statement: Semiotics and Popular Culture
    DDC: 306.01
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    Keywords: Culture Study and teaching ; Literature, Modern 19th century ; Criminology
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