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    Queering Agatha Christie : Revisiting the Golden Age of Detective Fiction (2016)
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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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    HM 2155
    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
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-33533-9
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    The Meaning of Form in Contemporary Innovative Poetry (2016)
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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
    Parallel Title: Printed edition
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    HG 550
    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
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-34045-6
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    Landscapes of Eternal Return : Tennyson to Hardy (2016)
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    ISBN: 9783319328386
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 236 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
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    HL 1101
    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
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-32838-6
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    Adolescent Girlhood and Literary Culture at the Fin de Siècle : Daughters of Today (2016)
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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
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    HL 1361
    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.-
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-32624-5
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    Women of Words in Le Morte Darthur : The Autonomy of Speech in Malory’s Female Characters (2016)
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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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    HH 7445
    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
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-34204-7
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    Representing Realists in Victorian Literature and Criticism (2016)
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    ISBN: 9783319406794
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VII, 194 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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    HL 1132
    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 --
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-40679-4
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    The Body in Pain in Irish Literature and Culture (2016)
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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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    HG 290
    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
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-31388-7
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    Haunting Modernity and the Gothic Presence in British Modernist Literature (2016)
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    ISBN: 9783319326610
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 218 p)
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    HM 1314
    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
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-32661-0
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    Victorian Children’s Literature : Experiencing Abjection, Empathy, and the Power of Love (2016)
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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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    HL 1401
    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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    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-32762-4
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