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  • A.C. Swinburne

    A Poet's Life

    de Ricky Rooksby ...
    Series series The Nineteenth Century Series
    Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) was one of the literary sensations of the Victorian period. His iconoclastic poetry and prose challenged attitudes to sex, politics, religion and censorship. Not only writing some of the most original lyric poetry of the time and pioneering criticism, Swinburne became a cultural icon. In the 1860s his very name was a symbol of progressive forces emerging in a ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

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  • 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

  • Inferno Revealed

    From Dante to Dan Brown

    de Deborah Parker, Mark Parker ...
    Using Dan Brown's book as a jumping off point, Inferno Revealed will provide readers of Brown's Inferno with an engaging introduction to Dante and his world. Much like the books on Leonardo that followed the release of the Da Vinci Code, this book will provide readers with more information about the ever-intriguing Dante. Specifically, Inferno Revealed explores how Dante made himself the ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Illustrating the Past in Early Modern England

    The Representation of History in Printed Books

    de James A. Knapp ...
    Illustrating the Past is a study of the status of visual and verbal media in early modern English representations of the past. It focuses on general attitudes towards visual and verbal representations of history as well as specific illustrated books produced during the period. Through a close examination of the relationship of image to text in light of contemporary discussions of poetic and ... Leer más

    $69.99 USD

  • Genealogy of the Tragic

    Greek Tragedy and German Philosophy

    de Joshua Billings ...
    Why did Greek tragedy and "the tragic" come to be seen as essential to conceptions of modernity? And how has this belief affected modern understandings of Greek drama? In Genealogy of the Tragic, Joshua Billings answers these and related questions by tracing the emergence of the modern theory of the tragic, which was first developed around 1800 by thinkers associated with German Idealism. The book ... Leer más

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  • The Elemental Dialectic of Light and Darkness

    The Passions of the Soul in the Onto-Poiesis of Life

    Edición de Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The dialectic of light and darkness studied in this collection of essays reveals itself as a primal factor of life as well as the essential element of the specifically human world. From its borderline position between physis and psyche, natural growth and techne, bios and ethos, it functions as the essential factor in all the sectors of life at large. We see its crucial role in all sectors of life ... Leer más

    $206.99 USD

  • Memoirs of Victorian Working-Class Women

    The Hard Way Up

    de Florence s. Boos ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This volume is the first to identify a significant body of life narratives by working-class women and to demonstrate their inherent literary significance. Placing each memoir within its generic, historical, and biographical context, this book traces the shifts in such writings over time, examines the circumstances which enabled working-class women authors to publish their life stories, and places ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

  • 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

  • Place and Progress in the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell

    de Lesa Scholl, Emily Morris ...
    Critical assessments of Elizabeth Gaskell have tended to emphasise the regional and provincial aspects of her writing, but the scope of her influence extended across the globe. Building on theories of space and place, the contributors to this collection bring a variety of geographical, industrial, psychological, and spatial perspectives to bear on the vast range of Gaskell’s literary output and on ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Balzac, Grandville, and the Rise of Book Illustration

    de Keri Yousif ...
    Examining how the rise of book illustration affected the historic hegemony of the word, Keri Yousif explores the complex literary and artistic relationship between the novelist Honoré de Balzac and the illustrator J. J. Grandville during the French July Monarchy (1830-1848). Both collaborators and rivals, these towering figures struggled for dominance in the Parisian book trade at the height of ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

  • Country House Discourse in Early Modern England

    A Cultural Study of Landscape and Legitimacy

    de Kari Boyd McBride ...
    In this study, Kari Boyd McBride defines 'country house discourse' as a network of fictions that articulated and mediated early modern concerns about the right use of land and the social relationships that land engendered. McBride provides new perspectives on the roles of the discourse she identifies, linking it with a number of larger historical shifts during the time period. Her ... Leer más

    $69.99 USD

  • Gender and Utopia in the Eighteenth Century

    Essays in English and French Utopian Writing

    de Brenda Tooley ...
    Focusing on eighteenth-century constructions of symbolic femininity and eighteenth-century women's writing in relation to contemporary utopian discourse, this volume adjusts our understanding of the utopia of the Enlightenment, placing a unique emphasis on colonial utopias. These essays reflect on issues related to specific configurations of utopias and utopianism by considering in detail English ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD