Victorian Womens Travel Narratives and the Female-Capitalist Gaze argues that female travellers both informed and expanded upon Victorian debates surrounding the role of art, and art production, as a nexus of political-economic progress and cultura...Loe edasi...
This volume offers a philosophical and literary exploration of Dostoevskys humanism, with a particular focus on his ethical and aesthetic reflections on human nature....Loe edasi...
This monograph explores selected texts by four major American authors: Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sojourner Truth, and Kate Chopin. While they critique organized religion and challenge the premise of doctrine and the restrictiveness of relig...Loe edasi...
This book offers the first modern, critical edition of the diary of John William Polidori (1795-1821). Polidoris diary was first published in 1911 by his nephew William Michael Rossetti, based on the expurgated version of the diary created by Polido...Loe edasi...
Women Staging and Restaging the Nineteenth Century is the first book to explore overlooked histories of women who filled the theatrical stages of the nineteenth century, dialoguing with contemporary adaptations, reworkings and retellings of these hi...Loe edasi...
Auto/Biography and Reputation Politics brings together for the first time these two research fields to demonstrate that life writing is reputation politics....Loe edasi...
This examination of thirty-two ghost stories by twenty-one Victorian women writers defines a new genre, feminist Gothic, that utilizes the Gothic structure....Loe edasi...
Drumlin N.M. Crape and Brooke Camerons Disability and the Vampire is an edited collection of essays addressing a wide range of literary depictions of vampirism and disability....Loe edasi...
This study is a comprehensive overview of the literature produced in Canada during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901). This book draws together a rich corpus of notable works in order to illustrate the hybrid nature of the periods literature....Loe edasi...
The Myth of George Eliot shows how Marian Evans understood the power of collective stories to change society, and suggests that her turn to fiction, after ten years as a professional translator, editor and journalist, was motivated by the desire to...Loe edasi...
Robert Browning and the Gothic Imagination explores the centrality of familiar motifs associated with Gothic literature in Brownings literary development....Loe edasi...
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was one of the major Romantic poets, and wrote what is critically recognised as some of the finest lyric poetry in the English language. This is the fifth volume of the five-volume The Poems of Shelley, which present...Loe edasi...
Examining its intersections with science, philosophy, and the occult from the eighteenth century to the 1960s, it offers a fresh perspective on Italys role in shaping modern understandings of modernity, belief, and the supernatural....Loe edasi...
Introduction to the Attribution of Literature describes the first unbiased and accessible authorship attribution method, and uses it to present the first accurate re-attribution of 311 canonical texts from the 18th century to only 10 ghostwriters, a...Loe edasi...
This four-volume interdisciplinary collection explores loss, memory, and mourning in the long nineteenth century. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students and scholars of the History of Emo...Loe edasi...
This four-volume interdisciplinary collection explores loss, memory, and mourning in the long nineteenth century. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students and scholars of the History of Emo...Loe edasi...
This four-volume interdisciplinary collection explores loss, memory, and mourning in the long nineteenth century. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students and scholars of the History of Emo...Loe edasi...
This four-volume interdisciplinary collection explores loss, memory, and mourning in the long nineteenth century. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students and scholars of the History of Emo...Loe edasi...
This monograph offers a comprehensive exploration of Oliphants Gothic literature, in the light of her religious beliefs, cultural context and experiences of death and mourning, as she survived her husband and all six of her children....Loe edasi...
Victorians and Videogames will examine how games interact with 19th Century genres, aesthetics, and literary themes as a means of engaging, critiquing, or challenging their original contexts....Loe edasi...
This volume is the first extended investigation of the classicism of José Rizal (1861-1896), the de facto national hero of the Philippines, and explores how Greco-Roman antiquity was harnessed by Rizal and other Philippine artists and thinkers at th...Loe edasi...
Providing a collection of E.S. Dallass work, this volume explores the significance of the Scottish writers practical and theoretical contributions to both the criticism and journalism of the mid-nineteenth century, as well as offering an edited sel...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1969, Shaw The Chucker Out quotes much entirely new and previously unpublished Shaw material (the fruits of six years research at the British Museum and elsewhere) as the basis for his aim of assisting towards a better under...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1920, The Quintessence of Bernard Shaw, the title a play on Shaws own essay The Quintessence of Ibsenism, offered a coherent review of his ideas mainly, though not exclusively, as expressed in his plays and prefaces....Loe edasi...
Alices Adventures in Lacan-Land is an accessible exploration of Lacanian psychoanalysis through the prism of Lewis Carrolls Alices Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass....Loe edasi...
It scrutinises the production and transnational distribution of sexological knowledge at the turn of the century. By foregrounding a culturalist approach to fiction by Wilde, Stenbock, and Prime-Stevenson, this book offers non-Anglocentric insights...Loe edasi...
Beyond the Shelley Circle: The Clairmont Family and Its Descendants will interest Shelleycircle researchers, life-writing scholars, and nineteenth-century historians alike....Loe edasi...
George Eliot thought of herself as a teacher, as did her contemporaries. Their view that her writing was a deliberate and consistent attempt to synthesize in fiction an elaborate and coherent theoretical analysis of the human situation is studied in...Loe edasi...
First published in 1821, Robert Southeys Expedition of Orsua and the Crimes of Aguirre is the first account in English of one of the earliest expeditions down the Amazon River, made in the years 1560-1 by a renegade band of Spanish conquistadors i...Loe edasi...
Although the Brontë story had been told many times, first published in 1959, this was the first book devoted entirely to the life and work of Anne. The youngest of the 3 famous sisters, Anne was too often regarded as a mere appendage to the more spe...Loe edasi...
Andrew Lang (1844-1912) made his name in the last quarter of the Victorian era in a remarkable number of literary and intellectual fields. This is the first annotated edition of Langs poems, bringing together his books of verse and over 150 addition...Loe edasi...
Using Italo Calvinos Six Memos for the Next Millennium as structure and methodology, this book conjoins literary studies with creative practice to interrogate, extend/subvert, and then reflect on the aesthetic and structural ambitions of multiple in...Loe edasi...
The principal aim of this collection of articles, which covers a diverse range of geographical regions, is to explore the evolving generic patterns and the modes of transnational distribution of popular narrative over the course of the nineteenth ce...Loe edasi...
Figures of Reality (1981) may be described as a polemic against those who feel poetry to be remote from normal life an abstruse and empty game. The author argues from a contrary perspective, shared by many poets in the Romantic and Surrealist tradi...Loe edasi...
This book examines the emergence of women as audiences and speakers on the British lecture circuit and in print from 1870-1910. Bringing together research on Victorian lecturing, periodicals, voice studies, and the history of feminism, it sheds new...Loe edasi...
The Routledge Companion to Biofiction provides readers with the history, origins, and evolution of this popular genre. Featuring contributions from leading scholars in the field, this authoritative collection foregrounds analyses of biofictions cor...Loe edasi...
David Copperfield Unbound is a highly original exploration of the sources and motivations underpinning this canonical work, treated here as a melting pot of ideas and a proto-modernist masterpiece....Loe edasi...
Bringing together the works of 19th and 20th century writers Henry David Thoreau and Anna Shepherd, the book discovers a common approach of poetic forms of writing that enact kinds of poetic environmental activism, and in doing so, re-position them...Loe edasi...
Fieldwork in Ukrainian Childrens Literature showcases the work of prominent scholars of childrens literature from Ukraine and the diaspora as it traces the history of books written, marketed for, and circulating among young people since the rise of...Loe edasi...
Oscar Wilde and Nihilism examines Wildes major works in the context of nineteenth-century philosophical nihilism and the Victorian religious unsettlement....Loe edasi...
Reading Oscar Wilde is a comprehensive interpretive guide designed for students and readers who come to Wildes writings for the first time, delivering a fuller understanding of the works and the background from which the canon has emerged....Loe edasi...
Swarnakumari Debi: Bengali Female Writer unpacks the scholarship of the 19th century Bengal luminary, and assesses her works in a contemporary context. It will benefit the researchers in Literature, Womens Studies, Gender Studies, and Culture Studie...Loe edasi...
First published in 1985, in this book Malcolm Barnes, the editor of Augustus Hares autobiography, tries to elucidate: a man who wrote much about others, but little of consequence about himself in spite of the longest story of my life in the English...Loe edasi...
This edited collection contends that the figure of the child is foundational to the workings of biopolitical power yet remains undertheorized. The collection is organized into three sections that illustrate how these qualities enable the sorting of...Loe edasi...
Although history records that the British nineteenth century was obsessed with order, conventionality, and conformity, this study highlights myriad Victorians from all walks of life, across lines of class, race, and gender, who resisted social mores...Loe edasi...
Inveterate Walkers, Literary Minds makes visible the writings of Bengals travellers (mostly pilgrims) who went, on foot, into Himalayan trails from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. It traces the emergent subjectivities of the men an...Loe edasi...
This volume seeks to discuss the influence of new modes of transportation and their coexistence with older ones by incorporating a comprehensive range of sources written by both European and Asian travellers. It is inspired by the anthropology of th...Loe edasi...
