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This book provides an expansive view of celebrity’s intimate dimensions. In the process, it offers a timely reassessment of how notions of private and public were negotiated by writers, readers, actors and audiences in the early to mid-eighteenth century. The essays...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-19
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Whereas traditional scholarship assumed that William Shakespeare used the medieval past as a negative foil to legitimate the present, Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages offers a revisionist perspective, arguing that the playwright valorizes the Middle Ages in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-18
Collection :
The New Middle Ages
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There was a power of endurance about her, and a courage that was almost awful.
Did Lady Mason forge a codicil to her husband's will, allowing Orley Farm to pass to her son or not? Orley Farm centres on this case of forgery, and the anguish and guilt of Lady Mason....
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-06-18
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There was a power of endurance about her, and a courage that was almost awful.
Did Lady Mason forge a codicil to her husband's will, allowing Orley Farm to pass to her son or not? Orley Farm centres on this case of forgery, and the anguish and guilt of Lady Mason....
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-06-18
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Sacrifice and Modern War Literature is the first book to explore how writers from the early nineteenth century to the present have addressed the intimacy of sacrifice and war. It has been common for critics to argue that after the First World War many of the cultural...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-06-17
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This edited book considers the need for the continued dismantling of conceptual and cultural hegemonies of ‘East’ and ‘West’ in the humanities and social sciences. Cutting across a wide range of literature, film and art from different contexts and ages, this collection...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-14
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'Neither spoke another word, they were gripped by a shared, unthinking madness as they plunged headlong together into vertiginous rapture.'
Orphaned with a substantial inheritance at the age of ten, Pauline Quenu is taken from Paris to live with her relatives, Monsieur...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-06-14
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In recent years, the discipline of Classics has been experiencing a profound transformation affecting not only its methodologies and hermeneutic practices - how classicists read and interpret ancient literature - but also, and more importantly, the objects of classical...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-06-14
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Sacrifice and Modern War Literature is the first book to explore how writers from the early nineteenth century to the present have addressed the intimacy of sacrifice and war. It has been common for critics to argue that after the First World War many of the cultural...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-06-14
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Feminism, Women’s Agency, and Communication in Early Twentieth-Century China focuses on a sensational elopement in the Yangzi Delta in the late 1920s to explore how middle- and lower-class members of society gained access to and appropriated otherwise alien and abstract...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-14
Collection :
Chinese Literature and Culture in the World
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This book charts how promotional campaigns in which Bernard Shaw participated were key crucibles within which agency and personality could re-negotiate their relationship to one another and to the consuming public. Concurrent with the rise of modern advertising, the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-13
Collection :
Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
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In 1966, John Ashbery wrote: 'The English language is constantly trying to stave off invasion by the American language; it lives in a state of alert which is reflected to some degree in English poetry.' This book shows how the work of a major post-war American poet has...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-06-13
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The Black Middle Ages examines the influence of medieval studies on African-American thought. Matthew X. Vernon focuses on nineteenth century uses of medieval texts to structure racial identity, but also considers the flexibility of medieval narratives more broadly in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-13
Collection :
The New Middle Ages
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Chaucerian Ecopoetics performs ecocritical close readings of Geoffrey Chaucer's poetry. Shawn Normandin explains how Chaucer's language demystifies the aesthetic charm of his narratives and calls into question the anthropocentrism they often depict. This text...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-12
Collection :
The New Middle Ages
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Rejection and Disaffiliation in Twenty-First Century American Immigration Narratives examines changing attitudes about national sovereignty and affiliation. Katie Daily delinks twenty-first century American immigration narratives from 9/11, examining genre alterations...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-06-11
Collection :
Pivotal Studies in the Global American Literary Imagination
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This volume presents key contributions to the study of ecocriticism in Nordic children’s and YA literary and cultural texts, in dialogue with international classics. It investigates the extent to which texts for children and young adults reflect current environmental...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-11
Collection :
Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
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Fantasy Fictions from the Bengal Renaissance presents two masterpieces of Bengali literature by Rabindranath Tagore’s nephews, Abanindranath Tagore and Gaganendranath Tagore. The Make-Believe Prince is the delightful story of a king, his two wives, a trickster monkey, a...
Editeur :
OUP India
Parution :
2018-06-09
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God and Self in the Confessional Novel explores the question: what happened to the theological practice of confession when it entered the modern novel? Beginning with the premise that guilt remains a universal human concern, this book considers confession via the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-08
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This book traces a genealogy of political dandyism in literature. Dandies abstain from worldly affairs, and politics in particular. As an enigmatic figure, or a being of great eccentricity, it was the dandy that haunted the literary and cultural imagination of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-07
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature
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In 1966, John Ashbery wrote: 'The English language is constantly trying to stave off invasion by the American language; it lives in a state of alert which is reflected to some degree in English poetry.' This book shows how the work of a major post-war American poet has...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-06-07
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