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  • Godfrey, Emelyne  (1)
  • Hopkins, Lisa  (1)
  • London : Palgrave Macmillan UK  (2)
  • Literature, Modern 20th century  (2)
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    ISBN: 9781137523402
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVIII, 282 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
    Parallel Title: Printed edition
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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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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
    ISBN: 9781137538758
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VII, 204 p)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies
    Series Statement: Springer eBook Collection
    Series Statement: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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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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