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Novel Approaches to Lesbian History tells a tale about history and community in our allegedly post-identity era, examining contemporary novels that depict lesbian characters in recognizable historical situations. These imaginative stories provide a politically vital,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Contemporary Women’s Writing
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The essays collected within this volume ask how literary practices are shaped by the experience of being at sea—and also how they forge that experience. Individual chapters explore the literary worlds of naval ships, whalers, commercial vessels, emigrant ships, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
Collection :
Maritime Literature and Culture
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This book offers an innovative new framework for reading British and settler representations of Indigenous peoples in the nineteenth century. Taking the representation of the Southern African San as its case study, it uses methodologies drawn from critical anthropology,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
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The comic novel, The Adventures of Ma Suzhen, was written during a highpoint in the popularity of xia “knight-errant” fiction. It is an action-packed tale of a young woman who takes revenge for her brother, Ma Yongzhen, a gangster and performing...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
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This book addresses the distinct representations of emotions in non-fictional texts from the seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century (1600-1850). Focusing on memoirs, autobiographies, correspondences and conduct manuals, it argues that...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
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Shortlisted for the Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize 2022, The Tramp in British Literature, 1850-1950 offers a unique account of the emergence of a new conception of homelessness in the mid-nineteenth century. After arguing that the emergence of the figure of the tramp...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
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This volume offers a new account of the relationship between literary and secularist scenes of writing in interwar Britain. Organized secularism has sometimes been seen as a phenomenon that lived and died with the nineteenth century. But associations such as the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-31
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This volume offers a new account of the relationship between literary and secularist scenes of writing in interwar Britain. Organized secularism has sometimes been seen as a phenomenon that lived and died with the nineteenth century. But associations such as the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-31
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Education in Late Antiquity offers the first comprehensive account of the Graeco-Roman debate on education between c. 300 and 550 CE. Jan Stenger traces changing attitudes towards the aims and methods of teaching, learning, and formation through the explicit and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-30
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Arthur Koestler ging 1940 weitgehend unbekannt und fast mittellos ins britische Exil. Wie konnte ihm der rasche Aufstieg zu einem der bedeutendsten politischen Schriftsteller des 20. Jahrhunderts gelingen? Das Buch geht dieser Frage nach und berücksichtigt dabei...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-12-30
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This work is Volume 2 of an extensive two-volume monograph on the interplay of science and literature in Europe from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. It comprises a series of some twenty biographies raisonnées of literary figures known to have had...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-12-29
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Weshalb unterlässt Parzival bei seinem ersten Besuch auf Munsalvaesche die Mitleidsfrage? Um dies zu beantworten, folgt das hier vorgenommene close reading der Figur Parzival durch die Diegese von Wolframs von Eschenbach ›Parzival‹. Damit die eingangs aufgeworfene...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-12-29
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Voices from the Margins explores the particular emphasis that women writers of Troubles short fiction have placed on gender and the everyday, two areas which have often been relegated to the margins of the «official story» about the Northern Irish conflict and peace...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-12-29
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Das österreichische Gegenwartstheater – modern, originell und im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes lebendig; kritisch, engagiert und zum Engagement zwingend. Ein Phänomen, das nach wie vor fasziniert und zu umfassender Reflexion anregt. Die Autorinnen und Autoren des Bandes...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-12-27
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This work is Volume 1 of an extensive two-volume monograph on the interplay of science and literature in Europe from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. It comprises a series of some twenty biographies raisonnées of literary figures known to have had...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-12-27
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Die Publikation analysiert die Konstruktivität von verführerischer Weiblichkeit in Texten aus der Romantik, dem Fin de Siècle sowie der Literatur und dem Kino des 20. Jahrhunderts als Projektion eines Betrachters, der, ähnlich der ovidischen Sagengestalt Narziss, die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-12-27
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This book offers new close readings of contemporary Irish drama in the context of postcolonial Biblical studies. Developing Christopher Morash’s historiographical metaphor of Babel, it combines appropriations of this and other selected Biblical themes of building found...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-12-23
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With the growing urgency of questions about how to claim identity and achieve authenticity, life-writing started to acquire an unprecedented cultural importance. A range of social and economic developments, from the publishing boom in memoir writing to the rise of the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-23
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The early Middle Ages provided twentieth-century poets with the material to re-imagine and rework local, religious, and national identities in their writing. Poet of the Medieval Modern focuses on a key figure within this tradition, the Anglo-Welsh poet and artist David...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-23
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Education in Late Antiquity offers the first comprehensive account of the Graeco-Roman debate on education between c. 300 and 550 CE. Jan Stenger traces changing attitudes towards the aims and methods of teaching, learning, and formation through the explicit and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-23
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