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Contemporary Irish Republican Prison Writing Writing and Resistance
As it traces the textual history of the works of authors like Bobby Sands and Gerry Adams, this book analyses Republican resistance to disciplinary...
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Sex, Scandal, and Celebrity in Late Eighteenth-Century England
This book tells the story of the bitter feud between the Duchess of Kingston and the actor, Samuel Foote, which resulted in a pair of scandalous...
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Palgrave Advances in Virginia Woolf Studies
This book is an invaluable guide to the body of criticism on Virginia Woolf. It includes comprehensive and insightful chapters on different...
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Reading the Brontë Body Disease, Desire and the Constraints of Culture
Anne, Emily, and Charlotte Brontë's literary representations of illness and disease reflect the major role illness played in the lives of the...
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Woman and the Feminine in Medieval and Early Modern Scottish Writing
This collection is the first critical and theoretical study of women as the subjects of writing and as writers in Medieval and Early-Modern Scottish...
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Psychoanalysis,Psychiatry and Modernist Literature
Two developments during the modernist period - the consolidation of psychiatry as a medical speciality and the emergence of psychoanalysis - affected...
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Women's Autobiography War and Trauma
Examining a range of twentieth century writers, including Vera Brittain, Anne Frank and Eva Hoffman, this study focuses on how recent theories of...
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Reading Alcoholisms Theorizing Character and Narrative in Selected Novels of Thomas Hardy, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf
With Reading Alcoholisms, Jane Lilienfeld has produced a ground-breaking cross-disciplinary study using the social, psychological, and scientific...
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Shakespeare's Cross-Cultural Encounters
In this highly entertaining study, De Sousa argues that Shakespeare reinterprets, refashions and reinscribes his alien characters - Jews, Moors,...
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Allegory in America From Puritanism to Postmodernism
Allegory in America surveys the history of American allegorical writing from the Puritans through the period of American romanticism to...