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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau and British Romanticism

    Gender and Selfhood, Politics and Nation

    Edición de Professor Russell Goulbourne, Dr David Higgins ...
    Bringing together leading scholars from the USA, UK and Europe, this is the first substantial study of the seminal influence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau on British Romanticism.Reconsidering Rousseau's connection to canonical Romantic authors such as Wordsworth, Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and British Romanticism also explores his impact on a wide range of literature, ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

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  • How to Read Novels Like a Professor

    A Jaunty Exploration of the World’s Favorite Literary Form

    de Thomas C. Foster ...
    The follow-up and companion volume to the New York Times bestselling How to Read Literature Like a Professor—a lively and entertaining guide to understanding and dissecting novels to make everyday reading more enriching, satisfying, and funOf all the literary forms, the novel is arguably the most discussed . . . and fretted over. From Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote to the works of Jane Austen, ... Leer más

    $9.49 USD

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  • Against World Literature

    On the Politics of Untranslatability

    de Emily Apter ...
    Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability argues for a rethinking of comparative literature focusing on the problems that emerge when large-scale paradigms of literary studies ignore the politics of the “Untranslatable”—the realm of those words that are continually retranslated, mistranslated, transferred from language to language, or especially resistant to substitution.In ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • In the Name of the Mother

    Reflections on Writers and Empire

    de Ngugi wa Thiong'o ...
    Renowned worldwide, as novelist and dramatist, Ngugi wa Thiongo's contributions to the body of critical writing on African literature, politics and society have been highly significant. His best known critical work is Decolonising the Mind, which since publication in 1986 has profoundly influenced other writers, critics, scholars and students.These latest essays reflect Ngugi's continuing ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Deborah and Her Sisters

    How One Nineteenth-Century Melodrama and a Host of Celebrated Actresses Put Judaism on the World Stage

    de Jonathan M. Hess ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    Before Fiddler on the Roof, before The Jazz Singer, there was Deborah, a tear-jerking melodrama about a Jewish woman forsaken by her non-Jewish lover. Within a few years of its 1849 debut in Hamburg, the play was seen on stages across Germany and Austria, as well as throughout Europe, the British Empire, and North America. The German-Jewish elite complained that the playwright, Jewish writer S. H. ... Leer más

    $53.99 USD

  • The Deep Zoo

    Essays

    de Rikki Ducornet ...
    Rikki Ducornet’s essays explore eros, violence, dreams, fairy tales, and art as alchemy—the Deep Zoo at the core of humanity.Within the writer’s life, words and things acquire power. For Borges it is the tiger and the color red, for Cortázar a pair of amorous lions, and for an early Egyptian scribe the monarch butterfly that metamorphosed into the Key of Life. Ducornet names these powers The Deep ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Romantic Adaptations

    Essays in Mediation and Remediation

    de Cian Duffy, Peter Howell ...
    How did romanticism define its relationship with its sources? How has romanticism since been understood and misunderstood across a range of cultural activities? These are among the questions taken up in this reexamination of the place of adaptation within romanticism. Renegotiating the cultural topography of the period and the place of romanticism in subsequent cultural history, the volume focuses ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD

  • Elizabeth Tyrwhit's Morning and Evening Prayers

    Edición de Susan M. Felch ...
    Series series The Early Modern Englishwoman, 1500-1750: Contemporary Editions
    In 1574, Christopher Barker published a volume of prayers and poems collected and composed by Elizabeth Tyrwhit, an intimate member of Katherine Parr's circle, governess to the princess Elizabeth, wife of a Tudor court functionary, and a wealthy widow. Later, Tyrwhit's Morning and Evening Prayers was selected by Thomas Bentley to be republished in his 1582 compilation of devotional works, The ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Ted Hughes and Trauma

    Burning the Foxes

    de Danny O'Connor ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is a radical re-appraisal of the poetry of Ted Hughes, placing him in the context of continental theorists such as Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Slavoj Zizek to address the traumas of his work. As an undergraduate, Hughes was visited in his sleep by a burnt fox/man who left a bloody handprint on his essay, warning him of the dangers of literary criticism. Hereafter, criticism became ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • British Romanticism and the Reception of Italian Old Master Art, 1793-1840

    de Maureen McCue ...
    Series series Studies in Art Historiography
    As a result of Napoleon’s campaigns in Italy, Old Master art flooded into Britain and its acquisition became an index of national prestige. Maureen McCue argues that their responses to these works informed the writing of Romantic period authors, enabling them to forge often surprising connections between Italian art, the imagination and the period’s political, social and commercial realities. Dr ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Marie Madeleine Jodin 1741–1790

    Actress, Philosophe and Feminist

    de Felicia Gordon, P.N. Furbank ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    The life story of Marie-Madeleine Jodin opens an exciting new perspective on the world of 18th-century women, European court theatres, and, most strikingly, entails the remarkable discovery of a previously unknown French feminist. In 1790, Jodin, a protégée of Denis Diderot and a former actress, published a treatise entitled Vues législatives pour les femmes (Legislative Views for Women), which ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Elizabeth von Arnim

    Beyond the German Garden

    de Isobel Maddison ...
    In the first book-length treatment of Elizabeth von Arnim's fiction, Isobel Maddison examines her work in its historical and intellectual contexts, demonstrating that von Arnim's fine comic writing and complex and compelling narrative style reward close analysis. Organised chronologically and thematically, Maddison's book is informed by unpublished material from the British and Huntington ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD