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Gothic Romanticism Wordsworth, Architecture, Politics, Form
Gothic Romanticism: Wordsworth, Architecture, Politics, Formoffers a revisionist account of both Wordsworth and the politics of antiquarianism in...
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Marriage as a National Fiction Represented Law in the Modern Novel
There is a prehistory of the adultery novel, which became a pan-European literary paradigm in the second half of the 19th century. In the wake of the...
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Short Stories, Knowledge and the Supernatural Machado de Assis, Henry James and Guy de Maupassant
This book proposes a comparative approach to the supernatural short stories of Machado de Assis, Henry James and Guy de Maupassant. It offers...
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The Early Evolutionary Imagination Literature and Human Nature
Darwinian evolution is an imaginative problem that has been passed down to us unsolved. It is our most powerful explanation of humanity’s place in...
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Elizabeth Gaskell’s Smaller Stories
This book re-locates Elizabeth Gaskell’s ‘smaller stories’ in the literary and cultural context of the nineteenth century. While Gaskell is...
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Writing Manuals for the Masses The Rise of the Literary Advice Industry from Quill to Keyboard
This open access collection of essays examines the literary advice industry since its emergence in Anglo-American literary culture in the...
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Medical Identities and Print Culture, 1830s–1910s
This book examines how the medical profession engaged with print and literary culture to shape its identities between the 1830s and 1910s in Britain...
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British Sociability in the European Enlightenment Cultural Practices and Personal Encounters
This volume covers a broad range of everyday private and public, touristic, commercial and fictional encounters between Britons and continental...
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Women Writers and Experimental Narratives Early Modern to Contemporary
This book explores the history of women’s engagement with writing experimentally. Women writers have long used different narratives and modes of...
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Living as an Author in the Romantic Period
This book explores how authors profited from their writings in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, contending that the most...
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Miscellanies, Poetry, and Authorship, 1680–1800
This book is a critical study of the ancestors of contemporary poetry anthologies: the poetic miscellanies of the late seventeenth and eighteenth...
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Joseph Conrad and Postcritique Politics of Hope, Politics of Fear
This book takes a postcritical perspective on Joseph Conrad’s central texts, including Heart of Darkness, The Secret Agent, Under Western Eyes, and Lor...
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Blake and the Failure of Prophecy
This monograph reorients discussion of Blake’s prophetic mode, revealing it to be not a system in any formal sense, but a dynamic, human response to...
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Emotions in Non-Fictional Representations of the Individual, 1600-1850 Between East and West
This book addresses the distinct representations of emotions in non-fictional texts from the seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century (1600-1850)....
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Literary Representations of Precarious Work, 1840 to the Present
Literary Representations of Precarious Work, 1840 to the Presentsheds new light on literary representations of precarious labor from 1840 until the...
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Writing the South African San Colonial Ethnographic Discourses
This book offers an innovative new framework for reading British and settler representations of Indigenous peoples in the nineteenth century. Taking...
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Spa Culture and Literature in England, 1500-1800
This edited collection aims at highlighting the various uses of water in sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth-century England, while exploring the...
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Data Visualization in Enlightenment Literature and Culture
Data Visualization in Enlightenment Literature and Culture explores the new interpretive possibilities offered by using data visualization in...
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Familial Feeling Entangled Tonalities in Early Black Atlantic Writing and the Rise of the British Novel
This open access book discusses British literature as part of a network of global entangled modernities and shared aesthetic concerns, departing from...
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The Urban Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century European Literature City Fissures
The Urban Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century European Literatureexplores transnational perspectives of modern city life in Europe by engaging with the...
