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  • 1
    ISBN: 9783031062018
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 233 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
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    Keywords: Literature, Modern—19th century. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Motion pictures. ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Englisch ; Roman ; Sachkultur ; Geschichte 1837-1901 ; Rezeption ; Fernsehspiel ; Großbritannien ; Neuseeland ; Film ; USA ; Geschichte 1980-2022
    Abstract: 1. Introduction: Stuff and Things: Introducing Neo-Victorian Materialities -- 2. Objects and Memorabilia in Deborah Lutz’s The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects -- 3. “Around the Mizzenpole”: Charles Johnson’s Middle Passage and African Americanizing the Neo-Victorian-at-sea -- 4. Touching, Writing, Collecting: Opium Paraphernalia and Neo-Victorian Material Culture -- 5. An Instrumental Thing: Pianos Extending and Becoming Postcolonial Bodies in Jane Campion’s The Piano and Daniel Mason’s The Piano Tuner -- 6. “Wilful Phantoms”: Haunted Dress, Memory, and Agentic Materiality in Colm Tóibín’s The Master -- 7. The Thing About Haunted Houses: In The Turn of the Screw, The Innocents and The Haunting of Hill House -- 8. There’s Something in the Tea: Murder and Materiality in Dark Angel -- 9. Criminal Things: Sherlock Holmes’ Details of Detection and Their Neo-Victorian Revisions -- 10. The Sleight of Hand: Appearance and Disappearance of Things in Neo-Victorian Magic.
    Abstract: Neo-Victorian Things: Re-Imagining Nineteenth-Century Material Cultures in Literature and Film is the first volume to focus solely on the replication, reconstruction, and re-presentation of Victorian things. It investigates the role of materiality in contemporary returns to the past as a means of assessing the function of things in remembering, revisioning, and/or reimagining the nineteenth century. Examining iterations of material culture in literature, film and popular television series, this volume offers a reconsideration of nineteenth-century things and the neo-Victorian cultural forms that they have inspired, animated, and even haunted. By turning to new and relatively underexplored strands of neo-Victorian materiality—including opium paraphernalia, slave ships, clothing, and biographical objects—and interrogating the critical role such objects play in reconstructing the past, this volume offers ways of thinking about how mis/apprehensions of material culture in the nineteenth century continue to shape our present understanding of things.
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    ISBN: 9783030965112
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 310 p. 11 illus., 9 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    Series Statement: Literary Lives
    Series Statement: Springer eBook Collection
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    Keywords: Literature—History and criticism. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Children's literature. ; European literature. ; Biografie ; Crompton, Richmal 1890-1969
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Edward Lamburn and a Classical Education -- 3. William and Mr Brown -- 4. Clara Crompton and her Family in Bury -- 5. William, Mrs Brown and Mothers in Crompton -- 6. Royal Holloway College, the First World War and Women’s Suffrage -- 7. Birth of Auntie and the Story of a Marriage -- 8. Birth of Richmal Crompton and William Brown -- 9. More than Auntie Richmal, the Spinster -- 10. Polio in Summer 1923 -- 11. Birth of Violet Elizabeth and Introducing William-Lite Characters -- 12. Growing Up -- 13. On Stage and in Literary London -- 14. Richmal Crompton, the Wanderer -- 15. On the Home Front with William and Richmal -- 16. William, Flawed Hero -- 17. William Becomes a Postwar Hero on TV and Radio -- 18. Richmal Crompton in Her Own Words -- 19. William, At Home and Abroad -- 20. Writers' Homage to Crompton and William.
    Abstract: Richmal Crompton, Author of Just William: A Literary Life celebrates the first two William books, Just William (1922) and More William (1922). As well as a study of her famous character William Brown, this book is an introduction to Richmal Crompton’s less well-known fiction and a story about her writing life. Her multifaceted identity—her deep knowledge of Classical Greek and Latin literature and languages, her life as a disabled writer, and her writing about domestic violence and disability—played a role in her literary persona. Jane McVeigh moves beyond Richmal Crompton’s impact on children’s literature and offers an appraisal of all her writing including her novels and short fiction, her media profile on radio and TV, her impact on her readers—both adults and children—and her international success. Particularly, McVeigh considers Crompton in the context of twentieth century woman writers and the development of crossover fiction for dual audiences. The book argues that as a woman writer pigeon-holed as a writer for children, Crompton’s other novels and short stories have been side-lined and overlooked. More than a century after the first book collection of Crompton’s William stories was published, this biography places Richmal Crompton among other twentieth century women writers. Jane McVeigh is Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Roehampton, UK where the Richmal Crompton Collection is located. .
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  • 3
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    ISBN: 9783031078897
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 247 p. 3 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    Series Statement: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
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    Keywords: Poetry. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Language and languages—Style. ; Rhetoric. ; Literature—History and criticism. ; Historical linguistics. ; Englisch ; Mundart ; Lyrik ; Geschichte 1950-2000 ; Heaney, Seamus 1939-2013 ; Brooks, Gwendolyn 1917-2000 ; Harrison, Tony 1937- ; Clifton, Lucille 1936-2010
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction: Local Tongues -- Chapter 2: Troubled Tongues: Seamus Heaney and the Political Poetics of Speech -- Chapter 3: The Gwendolynian Tongue: Gwendolyn Brooks’s Noncolloquial Local Speech -- Chapter 4: Tongue-Tied Fighting: Tony Harrison’s Linguistic Divisions -- Chapter 5: Mortal Tongues: Lucille Clifton’s Local-Speech Admonitions -- Chapter 6: Coda: The Twenty-First Century Local-Speech Poem.
    Abstract: The Politics of Speech in Later Twentieth-Century Poetry: Local Tongues in Heaney, Brooks, Harrison, and Clifton argues that local speech became a central facet of English-language poetry in the second half of the twentieth century. It is based on a key observation about four major poets from both sides of the Atlantic: Seamus Heaney, Gwendolyn Brooks, Tony Harrison, and Lucille Clifton all respond to societal crises by arranging, reproducing, and reconceiving their particular versions of local speech in poetic form. The book’s overarching claim is that “local tongues” in poetry have the capacity to bridge aesthetic and sociopolitical realms because nonstandard local speech declares its distinction from the status quo and binds people who have been subordinated by hierarchical social conditions, while harnessing those versions of speech into poetic structures can actively counter the very hierarchies that would degrade those languages. The diverse local tongues of these four poets marshaled into the forms of poetry situate them at once in literary tradition, in local contexts, and in prevailing social constructs.
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  • 4
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    ISBN: 9783031086717
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 241 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Contemporary Women’s Writing
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    Keywords: Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Literature—Philosophy. ; Feminism and literature. ; Intellectual life—History. ; Prose literature. ; Byatt, A. S. 1936-2023 ; Frauenliteratur ; Byatt, A. S. 1936-2023 ; Frau ; Intellektueller
    Abstract: 1 Introduction -- 2 Cultural Histories of the Intellectual: From Patriarchal Myth to Feminist Mythopoeia -- 3 A. S. Byatt: Creating the Intellectual Woman -- 4 Minds and Bodies -- 5 Intellectuals and Sexual Specificity -- 6 Women Intellectuals, Private Intellectuals? -- 7 Future Histories of Intellectual Women -- 8 Afterword: Mythopoeia: Beyond Torment.
    Abstract: This monograph is a study of the work of British author A. S. Byatt, exploring the cultural representation of the woman intellectual in her fiction. It argues that Byatt’s representations of this figure show narratives of intellectual women to be inherently mythopoeic, or capable of restructuring the myth of the intellectual as male by default. This mythopoeia is, furthermore, intrinsically feminist in function, thus potentially broadening the conventional, limited view of women in intellectual history. The book will be the first study of Byatt’s work to examine this figure in detail, and the first study of women intellectuals in historical and literary discourse to apply concepts of mythopoeia and sexual difference in ways that allow new readings of women’s status and work in public spheres. Leanne Bibby is Senior Lecturer in English Studies at Teesside University, UK.
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    ISBN: 9783031071591
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 241 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    Series Statement: Crime Files
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    Keywords: Fiction. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature—History and criticism. ; Mass media and crime. ; Ethnology—Great Britain. ; Culture. ; Europe—History. ; Englisch ; Kriminalliteratur ; Geschichte 1880-1965
    Abstract: C hapter 1: Introduction and overview -- Chapter 2: Policing in the Shadow of Jack the Ripper: Myths, Monsters, and the Real Limits of the Late-Victorian Detective -- Chapter 3: Pot-stirring or Pot-boiling? Crises, crime, and other contexts for Mary Agnes Hamilton's Murder in the House of Commons (1932) -- Chapter 4: Domesticating the Horrors of Modern War: How Interwar Sensation and Detective Fiction Faced the War to Come -- Chapter: 5 Agatha Christie in Southern Africa -- Chapter 6: Time is always guilty’: Narratives of Progress and Decline in Interwar Detective Fiction -- Chapter 7: Death Haunts the British Hotel, 1918-1965 -- Chapter 8:Semi-Colonial Horsewifery as Detective Fiction: ‘Trinket’s Colt’ and the Mysteries of the Irish R.M -- Chapter 9: Magic is My Business’: Raymond Chandler and Detective Fiction as Fairy Tale -- Chapter 10: Indecently Preposterous’: The Interwar Press and Golden Age Detective Fiction.
    Abstract: British Murder Mysteries, 1880-1965: Facts and Fictions conceptualizes detective fiction as an archive, i.e., a trove of documents and sources to be used for historical interpretation. By framing the genre as a shifting set of values, definitions, and practices, the book historicizes the contested meanings of analytical categories like class, race, gender, nation, and empire that have been applied to the forms and functions of detection. Three organizing themes structure this investigation: fictive facticity, genre fluidity, and conservative modernity. This volume thus shows how British detective fiction from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century both shaped and was shaped by its social, cultural, and political contexts and the lived experience of its authors and readers at critical moments in time.
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    ISBN: 9783319340456
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 248 p. 2 illus)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
    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: 9783319409221
    Language: English
    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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    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: 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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    ISBN: 9783319331652
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XV, 315 p. 3 illus)
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature, Modern 18th century ; Literature, Modern 19th century ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Literature, Modern—19th century. ; Literature, Modern—18th century. ; Literature, Modern—20th century.
    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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    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: 9783319406794
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VII, 194 p)
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    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature, Modern 19th century ; Fine arts ; British literature ; British literature. ; Fine arts. ; Literature, Modern—19th century.
    Abstract: Representing Realists in Victorian Literature and Criticism is a valuable contribution to scholarship on the emergence of realism as a coherent method and genre-both in Victorian literature and visual art. By attending to the ways in which realism was the subject of debate throughout the nineteenth-century, Representing Realists asks us to rethink the way “realism” was deployed as a tool for negotiating between genres and classes, for framing national and colonial identities, and for theorizing the relationship between art and the social. Simply put, Representing Realists is essential reading for scholars and students alike. - Daniel A. Novak, The University of Mississippi, Oxford, USA This book is about the historical moment when writers and critics first used the term “realism” to describe representation in literature and painting. While scholarship on realism tends to proceed from an assumption that the term has a long-established meaning and history, this book reveals that mid-nineteenth-century critics and writers first used the term reluctantly, with much confusion over what it might actually mean. It did not acquire the ready meaning we now take for granted until the end of the nineteenth century. In fact, its first definitions came primarily by way of example and analogy, through descriptions of current practitioners, or through fictionalized representations of artists. By investigating original debates over the term “realism,” this book shows how writers simultaneously engaged with broader concerns about the changing meanings of what was real and who had the authority to decide this
    Abstract: Introduction -- 1. Pre-Raphaelitism as Realism -- 2. Realistic Poetry -- 3. Realist Propaganda -- 4. The Realism of Doubt -- 5. The Realist Con Artist -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index --
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    ISBN: 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: 9783319326245
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (X, 256 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
    Parallel Title: Printed edition
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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: 9783319321189
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 230 p)
    Series Statement: New Caribbean Studies
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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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: 9783319335339
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VII, 304 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
    Series Statement: Crime Files
    Parallel Title: Printed edition
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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: 9783319328386
    Language: English
    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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