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This book is about some of the ways in which the world got ready to be connected, long before the advent of the technologies and the concentrations of capital necessary to implement a global 'network society'. It investigates the prehistory not of the communications...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-06-10
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What did British people in the late eighteenth century think and feel about their relationship to nonhuman animals? This book shows how an appreciation of human-animal similarity and a literature of compassion for animals developed in the same years during which radical...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-06-10
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What did British people in the late eighteenth century think and feel about their relationship to nonhuman animals? This book shows how an appreciation of human-animal similarity and a literature of compassion for animals developed in the same years during which radical...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-06-10
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Comprising nine original essays by specialists in material culture, book history,literary criticism and curatorial and archival studies, this co-edited volumeaddresses a wide range of Brontë’s writing—from vignettes composed during herteenage years (“The Tea Party” and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-06-09
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Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Drawing on a Marxist concept of world literature, this book is a study of the manipulations of time in contemporary anglophone fiction from Africa and South Asia. Through critical work and literary reading, this research explores the times other than the present that...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-06-06
Collection :
New Comparisons in World Literature
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Dass Reisen nicht nur zu Prosa anregen, veranschaulicht in prägnanter Weise die Gattung der Reiselyrik. Neben der kultur- und literaturhistorischen Einordnung von Reisegedichten vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart steht im vorliegenden Band die poetologische Frage im...
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J.B. Metzler
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2020-06-06
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This book argues for the importance of blasphemy in shaping the literature and readership of Percy Bysshe Shelley and of the Romantic period more broadly. Not only are perceptions of blasphemy taken to be inextricable from politics, this book also argues for blasphemous...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-06-06
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This book is the first to examine life writing and disability in the context of Irish culture. It will be valuable to readers interested in Disability Studies, Irish Studies, autobiography and life writing, working-class literature, popular culture, and new media....
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-06-04
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Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815–1848 proposes an entirely new way of reading the transition into the modern. It is the first book in a series of three which will take the reader up to the end of the First World War, moving from a focus on London...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-06-04
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This book explores what it means to read the six major works of Jane Austen, inlight of the ten major works of fiction by Charlotte Smith. It proposes that Smithhad a deep and lasting impact on Austen, but this is not an influence study. Instead,it argues for the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-06-03
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Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815–1848 proposes an entirely new way of reading the transition into the modern. It is the first book in a series of three which will take the reader up to the end of the First World War, moving from a focus on London...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-06-03
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This volume is co-edited by the director of the Freiburg graduate school "Factual and Fictional Narration" (GRK 1767, Freiburg/Germany) and the director of the Aarhus Centre for Fictionality Studies (University of Aarhus, DK). The collection of essays re-examines the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-06-02
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Mr. Turbulent (1682) is an anonymous city comedy which starred popular comic actors and young actresses of great appeal. The play was produced in the immediate aftermath of the Exclusion Crisis. This first-ever critical edition offers a fully annotated modernized...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-06-02
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Macedonia and its Questions: Origins, Margins, Ruptures and Continuity is a multi-disciplinary book of 11 chapters, containing contributions that span the fields of linguistics, political science, sociology, history and law. The title of the book purposefully references...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-06-02
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Dieses Buch stellt ein unverzichtbares Rechercheinstrument für Geisteswissenschaftler nahezu jeder Fachrichtung dar, die sich mit deutschsprachigen jüdischen Autobiographien und den jüdischen Lebenswelten als Untersuchungsgegenstand befassen.
Die Bibliographie mit...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-06-01
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Neo-Victorian Madness: Rediagnosing Nineteenth-Century Mental Illness in Literature and Other Media investigates contemporary fiction, cinema and television shows set in the Victorian period that depict mad murderers, lunatic doctors, social dis/ease and madhouses as if...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-06-01
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In the decades after its publication, Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship served as a touchstone for such major philosophical and literary figures as Schopenhauer, Schleiermacher, and Schlegel, and was widely understood to be one of the greatest novels of the...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-06-01
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This book is notable for bringing together humanist schooling and familial instruction under the banner of emotions and for studying seminal works of early modern literature within this new analytical context. It thus furnishes unique ways to think about two closely...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-05-30
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The origins of present-day Ibero-American racialization can be traced to the period when Europe straddled the boundary between the Middle Ages and the era of New World exploration. Focusing on themes of race, caste, and indigeneity in travel narratives, Harney explores...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-05-29
Collection :
The New Middle Ages
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Der vorliegende Band vereint Forschungsbeiträge der 8. Konferenz der Internationalen Feuchtwanger-Gesellschaft, die im Herbst 2017 im Heinrich Heine Haus in Paris zum Thema «Frankreich als Gastland der deutschsprachigen, insbesondere der deutsch-jüdischen und...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-05-29
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