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  • Baroness Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel

    A Publishing History

    de Sally Dugan ...
    Since its publication in 1905, The Scarlet Pimpernel has experienced global success, not only as a novel but in theatrical and film adaptations. Sally Dugan charts the history of Baroness Orczy's elusive hero, from the novel's origins through its continuing afterlife, including postmodern appropriations of the myth. Drawing on archival research in Britain, the United States and Australia, her ... Leer más

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  • Science Fiction Criticism

    An Anthology of Essential Writings

    Including more than 30 essential works of science fiction criticism in a single volume, this is a comprehensive introduction to the study of this enduringly popular genre. Science Fiction Criticism: An Anthology of Essential Writings covers such topics as:·Definitions and boundaries of the genre·The many forms of science fiction, from time travel to 'inner space'·Ideology and identity: from ... Leer más

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  • The Posthumous Voice in Women's Writing from Mary Shelley to Sylvia Plath

    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 ... Leer más

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  • The Child Savage, 1890–2010

    From Comics to Games

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    Series series Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
    Taking up the understudied relationship between the cultural history of childhood and media studies, this volume traces twentieth-century migrations of the child-savage analogy from colonial into postcolonial discourse across a wide range of old and new media. Older and newer media such as films, textbooks, children's literature, periodicals, comic strips, children's radio, and toys are deeply ... Leer más

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  • Crafting the Woman Professional in the Long Nineteenth Century

    Artistry and Industry in Britain

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  • Precarious Labour and the Contemporary Novel

    de Liam Connell ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is a major study of the presentation of work and workers in contemporary novels from India, North America and the UK. Drawing on lively recent theories about work, it shows how the novel is a crucial form for helping us to understand what work means in contemporary society. It tackles some of the most urgent questions of contemporary life by examining the stories about work that novels ... Leer más

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  • Masculinity, Anti-Semitism and Early Modern English Literature

    From the Satanic to the Effeminate Jew

    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    Offering a profound re-assessment of the conceptual, rhetorical, and cultural intersections among sexuality, race and religion in English Renaissance texts, this study argues that antisemitism is a by-product of tensions between received Classical conceptions of masculinity and Christianity's strident critique of that ideal. Utilizing works by Shakespeare, Milton, Marlowe and others, Biberman ... Leer más

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  • Re-Presenting 'Jane' Shore

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  • Alterity and Criticism

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  • Francis Bacon and the Refiguring of Early Modern Thought

    Essays to Commemorate The Advancement of Learning (1605–2005)

    Series series Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
    Commemorating the 400th anniversary of the publication of Francis Bacon's Advancement of Learning (1605), this collection examines Bacon's recasting of proto-scientific philosophies and practices into early modern discourses of knowledge. Like Bacon, all of the contributors to this volume confront an essential question: how to integrate intellectual traditions with emergent knowledges to forge new ... Leer más

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  • British Literature and Classical Music

    Cultural Contexts 1870-1945

    Series series Historicizing Modernism
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