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“penny mccarthy”

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  • Pseudonymous Shakespeare

    Rioting Language in the Sidney Circle

    by Penny McCarthy ...
    An investigation into modes of early modern English literary 'indirection,' this study could also be considered a detective work on a pseudonym attached to some late sixteenth-century works. In the course of unmasking 'R.L.', McCarthy scrutinizes devices employed by writers in the Sidney coterie: punning, often across languages; repetitio-insistence on a sound, or hiding two persons 'under one ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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    by Claire Raymond ...
    This provocative book posits a new theory of women's writing characterized by what Claire Raymond calls 'the posthumous voice.'This suggestive term evokes the way that women's writing both forefronts and hides the author's implied body within and behind the written work. Tracing the use of the disembodied posthumous voice in fiction and poetry by Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, Emily Dickinson, and ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous

    Edited by Asa Simon Mittman, Peter J. Dendle ...
    The field of monster studies has grown significantly over the past few years and this companion provides a comprehensive guide to the study of monsters and the monstrous from historical, regional and thematic perspectives. The collection reflects the truly multi-disciplinary nature of monster studies, bringing in scholars from literature, art history, religious studies, history, classics, and ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Nerd Ecology: Defending the Earth with Unpopular Culture

    by Dr Anthony Lioi ...
    Series series Environmental Cultures
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.Drawing on a wide range of examples from literature, comics, film, television and digital media, Nerd Ecology is the first substantial ecocritical study of nerd culture's engagement with environmental issues. Exploring such works as Star Trek, Tolkien's Lord of the ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • The Art of Adapting Victorian Literature, 1848-1920

    Dramatizing Jane Eyre, David Copperfield, and The Woman in White

    by Karen E. Laird ...
    In The Art of Adapting Victorian Literature, 1848-1920, Karen E. Laird alternates between readings of nineteenth-century stage and twentieth-century silent film adaptations to investigate the working practices of the first adapters of Victorian fiction. Laird’s juxtaposition between stage and screen brings to life the dynamic culture of literary adaptation as it developed throughout the long ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Manifestos for World Thought

    Edited by Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh, Lucian Stone ...
    Series series Future Perfect: Images of the Time to Come in Philosophy, Politics and Cultural Studies
    What are the still-unknown horizons of world thought?This book brings together prominent scholars from varying disciplines to speculate on this obscure question and the many crossroads that face intellectuals in our contemporary era and its aftermath. The result is a collection of “manifestos” that contemplate a potential global future for thinking itself, venturing across some of the most ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Text, Image, and the Problem with Perfection in Nineteenth-Century France

    Utopia and Its Afterlives

    by Daniel Sipe ...
    In the decades after the French Revolution, philosophers, artists, and social scientists set out to chart and build a way to a new world and their speculative blueprints circulated like banknotes in a parallel economy of ideas. Examining representations of ideal societies in nineteenth-century French culture, Daniel Sipe argues that the dream-image of the literary or art-historical utopia does not ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Persistent Ruskin

    Studies in Influence, Assimilation and Effect

    by Keith Hanley ...
    Examining the wide-ranging implications of Ruskin's engagement with his contemporaries and followers, this collection is organized around three related themes: Ruskin's intellectual legacy and the extent to which its address to working men and women and children was realised in practice; Ruskin's followers and their sites of influence, especially those related to the formation of collections, ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Subversion and Scurrility

    Popular Discourse in Europe from 1500 to the Present

    by Tim Kirk ...
    Gossip, rumour, scandal and defamation are just some of the popular discourses examined in this collection of essays by an international group of scholars. Featuring research on a wide range of resource materials (including political literature, police reports, drama, ballads, contemporary fiction, poetry and caricatures) the volume provides an introduction to the history and sociology of dissent. ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Masks of Conquest

    Literary Study and British Rule in India

    by Gauri Viswanathan ...
    A classic work in postcolonial studies, Masks of Conquest describes the introduction of English studies in India under British rule and illuminates the discipline's transcontinental movements and derivations, showing that the origins of English studies are as diverse and diffuse as its future shape. In her new preface, Gauri Viswanathan argues forcefully that the curricular study of English can no ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Edward Upward and Left-Wing Literary Culture in Britain

    Edited by Benjamin Kohlmann ...
    Offering the first book-length consideration of Edward Upward (1903-2009), one of the major British left-wing writers, this collection positions his life and works in the changing artistic, social and political contexts of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Upward’s fiction and non-fiction, from the 1920s onwards, illustrate the thematic and formal richness of left-wing writing during ... Read more

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  • Volume 16, Tome II: Kierkegaard's Literary Figures and Motifs

    Gulliver to Zerlina

    by Katalin Nun, Jon Stewart ...
    Series series Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources
    While Kierkegaard is perhaps known best as a religious thinker and philosopher, there is an unmistakable literary element in his writings. He often explains complex concepts and ideas by using literary figures and motifs that he could assume his readers would have some familiarity with. This dimension of his thought has served to make his writings far more popular than those of other philosophers ... Read more

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