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The Persistence of the Soul in Literature, Art and Politics
This book analyses the evolution of literary and artistic representations of the soul, exploring its development through different time periods. The...
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The Shelleyan Brontës Mary and Percy Shelley in the Work of the Brontës
This book explores the significant textual relationship between Mary and Percy Shelley and the early works of the Brontë siblings. Through a detailed...
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Bees, Science, and Sex in the Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century
The long nineteenth century (1789-1914) has been described as an axial age in the history of both bees and literature. It was the period in which the...
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Sensation Fiction and Modernity The Meanings of Ambivalence in Mid-Victorian Britain
This book re-reads the relationship between the Victorian sensation novel and modernity. Whereas critics have long recognized its appearance in the...
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Romantischer Realismus Literarhistorische Kontinuität im 19. Jahrhundert
Romantik und Realismus werden in der Literaturgeschichtsschreibung vorwiegend als Gegensätze beschrieben. Ihre Rekonstruktion als dichotome Epochen...
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Holmes and the Ripper Versus Narratives
In versus narratives Sherlock Holmes is fighting or otherwise engaging Jack the Ripper. These texts pit the archetypal detective against the...
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Kate Chopin and the City The New Orleans Stories
This book examines selected short stories and novels by Kate Chopin through the lens of the city of New Orleans. Chopin’s depictions of and...
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The Testing of Barbara Pym London, the Wilderness Years, and the Rewards of Age
The Testing of Barbara Pym, a companion volume to The Making of Barbara Pym(Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), completes a comprehensive analysis of Pym’s...
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Coleridge's Political Poetics Radicalism and Whig Verse 1794 - 1802
This book considers Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s engagement with ‘Whig poetry’: a tradition of verse from the eighteenth century which celebrated the...
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Narratives of the Unspoken in Contemporary Irish Fiction Silences that Speak
This Open access book is a collection of essays and offers an in-depth analysis of silence as an aesthetic practice and a textual strategy which...
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Detoxing Masculinity in Anglophone Literature and Culture In Search of Good Men
This edited volume rethinks Masculinity Studies by breaking away from the notion of the perpetual crisis of masculinity. It argues that not enough...
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Navigating Women’s Friendships in American Literature and Culture
This volume presents a collection of critical essays that center women’s friendship in women’s literary and artistic production. Analyzing cultural...
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Austen After 200 New Reading Spaces
Austen After 200explores our contemporary relationship with Jane Austen in the wake of the bicentenaries of her death and the first publication of...
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Retrospective Poe The Master, His Readership, His Legacy
This book analyzes a range of Edgar Allan Poe’s writing, focusing on new readings that engage with classical and (post)modern studies of his work and...
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Lizensur Was darf fiktionale Literatur?
Öffentliche Kontroversen um Literatur werden primär unter ethischen und juristischen Prämissen diskutiert und münden oftmals in Debatten, die den...
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Taiwan Literature in the 21st Century A Critical Reader
This book is an anthology of research co-edited by Dr. Chia-rong Wu (University of Canterbury) and Professor Ming-ju Fan (National Chengchi...
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Understanding and Translating Chinese Martial Arts
The present book features some introductory discussions on martial arts for the international audience and highlights in brief the complexities of...
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Food, Consumption, and Masculinity in American Hardboiled Fiction
Food, Consumption, and Masculinity in American Hardboiled Fictiondraws on three related bodies of knowledge: crime fiction criticism, masculinity...
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Hallucinatory Realism in Chinese Literature Essays on Mo Yan and His Novels in China
This edited collection of 14 essays presents the most enlightening research findings on Mo Yan and his novels. The authors of the contributions are...
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Postcolonial Settings in the Fiction of James Clarence Mangan, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker Strange Surroundings
This book explores how three Anglo-Irish writers, J.C. Mangan, J.S. Le Fanu and Bram Stoker, use settings in their short fictions to recreate, depict...