Shifting the Compass
Pluricontinental Connections in Dutch Colonial and Postcolonial Literature
The study of Dutch colonial literature has traditionally focused on the motherland, ignoring the global network. This collection of articles shifts the compass of analysis to present new perspectives on the pluricontinental contacts within this vast network.
The study of Dutch colonial literature has traditionally focused on the motherland, ignoring the global network. This collection of articles shifts the compass of analysis to present new perspectives on the pluricontinental contacts within this vast network.
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The Everyday
Experiences, Concepts, and Narratives
This inter-disciplinary book explores the slippery notion of ‘Everyday Life’. With contributions from fields like art history, cultural studies, and anthropology, it provides a unique space for exploring how everyday life intersects with key debates.
This inter-disciplinary book explores the slippery notion of ‘Everyday Life’. With contributions from fields like art history, cultural studies, and anthropology, it provides a unique space for exploring how everyday life intersects with key debates.
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Narratives of Community
Womens Short Story Sequences
This collection of essays examines short story sequences by women from around the world. Using diverse theoretical models, contributors consider how female identity is negotiated in community, making a major contribution to feminist and genre theory.
This collection of essays examines short story sequences by women from around the world. Using diverse theoretical models, contributors consider how female identity is negotiated in community, making a major contribution to feminist and genre theory.
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Social Jane
The Small, Secret Sociology of Jane Austen
Christopher Wilkes reveals the sociologist in Jane Austen. Exploring landscape, economics, and fashion, he argues that Austen was a brilliant analyst of the complex social hierarchies of her time.
Christopher Wilkes reveals the sociologist in Jane Austen. Exploring landscape, economics, and fashion, he argues that Austen was a brilliant analyst of the complex social hierarchies of her time.
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Challenging the idea that realism promotes sameness, this volume argues that realist narratives actively create otherness. Essays examine how collisions of class, gender, and nationality reveal the strategies of constructing difference in realist and postmodern texts.
Challenging the idea that realism promotes sameness, this volume argues that realist narratives actively create otherness. Essays examine how collisions of class, gender, and nationality reveal the strategies of constructing difference in realist and postmodern texts.
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Re-reading / La relecture
Essays in honour of Graham Falconer
What happens when we re-read a familiar book? This volume of essays by eminent scholars explores how re-reading can affirm our identity or reveal our changing selves, and how this core literary practice shapes and reshapes the canon.
What happens when we re-read a familiar book? This volume of essays by eminent scholars explores how re-reading can affirm our identity or reveal our changing selves, and how this core literary practice shapes and reshapes the canon.
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This comprehensive study of Byron’s eclectic attitude to religion concludes he was never the atheist of cliché, but a man whose profound need for a faith always clashed with an equally profound scepticism.
This comprehensive study of Byron’s eclectic attitude to religion concludes he was never the atheist of cliché, but a man whose profound need for a faith always clashed with an equally profound scepticism.
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Rethinking Mimesis
Concepts and Practices of Literary Representation
Literary mimesis, an age-old and contested concept, has been brought back to the forefront of scholarly interest. This volume explores how literature produces its reality effects, challenging our understanding of representation through textual analyses.
Literary mimesis, an age-old and contested concept, has been brought back to the forefront of scholarly interest. This volume explores how literature produces its reality effects, challenging our understanding of representation through textual analyses.
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For writers and artists, the shadows of precursors can be a welcome influence or a haunting presence. This book explores conscious and unconscious influences, from imitation to intertextuality, and asks how such references shape how we read.
For writers and artists, the shadows of precursors can be a welcome influence or a haunting presence. This book explores conscious and unconscious influences, from imitation to intertextuality, and asks how such references shape how we read.
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Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain
A Reader’s Guide
Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain explores the philosophical dilemmas of the modern age. This comprehensive commentary explains all references and allusions in the seminal novel, enabling readers to understand and extract the maximum pleasure from it.
Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain explores the philosophical dilemmas of the modern age. This comprehensive commentary explains all references and allusions in the seminal novel, enabling readers to understand and extract the maximum pleasure from it.
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Critical Essays on Barack Obama
Re-affirming the Hope, Re-vitalizing the Dream
In this collection of critical essays, diverse scholars move beyond personal opinion to examine Barack Obama’s life, writings, and presidency. They explore his impact on race and public policy, his potential to re-shape America, and to re-vitalize the American Dream.
In this collection of critical essays, diverse scholars move beyond personal opinion to examine Barack Obama’s life, writings, and presidency. They explore his impact on race and public policy, his potential to re-shape America, and to re-vitalize the American Dream.
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Documenting Eighteenth Century Satire
Pope, Swift, Gay, and Arbuthnot in Historical Context
This historicized view of Augustan satire shows how works by Pope, Swift, and Gay can be “documented” to reveal richer meanings. Drawing on unpublished sources, it uncovers a literary hoax, new links, and interprets a virtually unknown poem.
This historicized view of Augustan satire shows how works by Pope, Swift, and Gay can be “documented” to reveal richer meanings. Drawing on unpublished sources, it uncovers a literary hoax, new links, and interprets a virtually unknown poem.
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Idioms of Ontology
A Phenomenological Study of Whitman
Walt Whitman is a philosophical poet, but this aspect of his work is often neglected. This book throws the Whitmanesque self into a phenomenological context, examining the notion of selfhood against the views of Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Levinas.
Walt Whitman is a philosophical poet, but this aspect of his work is often neglected. This book throws the Whitmanesque self into a phenomenological context, examining the notion of selfhood against the views of Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Levinas.
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This volume investigates cultural representations of American minorities and women. Through analysis of film and literature, it explores the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, and class, and the complex relationship between the dominant and the marginalized.
This volume investigates cultural representations of American minorities and women. Through analysis of film and literature, it explores the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, and class, and the complex relationship between the dominant and the marginalized.
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This volume presents new explorations of Tudor literature. The papers cover the mid-Tudor period, from Skelton to the young Shakespeare, with topics ranging from philosophy and social commentary to lyric and tragedy.
This volume presents new explorations of Tudor literature. The papers cover the mid-Tudor period, from Skelton to the young Shakespeare, with topics ranging from philosophy and social commentary to lyric and tragedy.
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Diversity and Homogeneity
The Politics of Nation, Ethnicity and Gender
This edited volume explores issues related to the nation, ethnicity and gender in literature, film, media and theatrical performance in both the UK and the USA, investigating the problematics of migration, citizenship, terrorism, and equality in modern multicultural societies.
This edited volume explores issues related to the nation, ethnicity and gender in literature, film, media and theatrical performance in both the UK and the USA, investigating the problematics of migration, citizenship, terrorism, and equality in modern multicultural societies.
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Reading the novels of George Eliot, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Barry Unsworth, and others, as a Methodist, David Dickinson offers a colourful picture of Methodists in British fiction since the close of the nineteenth century.
Reading the novels of George Eliot, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Barry Unsworth, and others, as a Methodist, David Dickinson offers a colourful picture of Methodists in British fiction since the close of the nineteenth century.
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(Re)writing and Remembering
Memory as Artefact and Artifice
The contributions to this volume discuss the extent to which fictional acts of remembering are also acts of rewriting the past to suit the needs of the present. They focus on a range of narratives, from poetry to biopics—from the ostensibly fictional to the implicitly real.
The contributions to this volume discuss the extent to which fictional acts of remembering are also acts of rewriting the past to suit the needs of the present. They focus on a range of narratives, from poetry to biopics—from the ostensibly fictional to the implicitly real.
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The Industrial Novels
Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley, Charles Dickens’ Hard Times and Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South
Providing an historical and theoretical framework for reading three important novels by Charlotte Brontë, Dickens and Gaskell, Balkaya analyses these authors’ strategies for radical reform through improvements in the living and working conditions of the working class.
Providing an historical and theoretical framework for reading three important novels by Charlotte Brontë, Dickens and Gaskell, Balkaya analyses these authors’ strategies for radical reform through improvements in the living and working conditions of the working class.
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The Haunted Muse
Gothic and Sentiment in American Literature
Magee proposes a link between the fears of usurped procreation elicited by the trials and fears of misdirected or usurped creativity, through an analysis of Gothic stories in which authors imagine their literary creations as children who have been transformed by malignant forces.
Magee proposes a link between the fears of usurped procreation elicited by the trials and fears of misdirected or usurped creativity, through an analysis of Gothic stories in which authors imagine their literary creations as children who have been transformed by malignant forces.
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