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George Meredith: The Life and Writing of an Alteregoist is not only a critical biography of the Victorian novelist and poet George Meredith but also a portrait of the novel in the later nineteenth c……続きを見る

Oscar Wilde: A Literary Life tracks the intellectual biography of one of the most influential minds of the nineteenth century. Rather than focusing on the dramatic events of Wilde’s life, this volum……続きを見る

This book focuses on literal and metaphorical ruins, as they are appropriated and imagined in different forms of writing. Examining British and American literature and culture in the nineteenth and ……続きを見る

Victorian Cosmopolitanism and English Catholicity in the Mid-Century Novel argues that the Creedal doctrines of “the communion of saints” and the “holy Catholic Church” provided Victorian novelists……続きを見る

Elizabeth Bowen: A Literary Life reinvents Bowen as a public intellectual, propagandist, spy, cultural ambassador, journalist, and essayist as well as a writer of fiction. Patricia Laurence counters……続きを見る

This volume considers the work and life of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851). It looks not only at Frankenstein and its composition, sources, themes and reception but at the wide range of othe……続きを見る

Negotiating the Art of Fatherhood in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy examines contested notions of fatherhood in written and visual texts during the development of the mercantile economy in fou……続きを見る

While many scholars of world literature view national literary traditions as resolved and stable, Kafka’s Italian Progeny takes the fluid identity of the modern Italian tradition as an opportunity t……続きを見る

Originally published in 1967. Literary scholars often acknowledge that Brecht borrowed from a variety of traditions, including Goethe, Schiller, expressionists, naturalists, and realists, all of who……続きを見る

Originally published in 1967. Professor Sachs shows the inner coherence of Samuel Johnson's thought by pointing out the interconnectedness of his remarks on religious, moral, aesthetic, political, a……続きを見る

Everyone knows Rumpelstiltskin’s storyーor thinks they do. But this innocent-seeming tale hides generations of women’s shrewd accounts of their relationships with men. And the verdict is not flatter……続きを見る

Never before has a collection of original essays strived to create such constructive, shared discourse between ecocritical, narrative scholars and environmental humanities scholars interested in nar……続きを見る

This book resituates the ghost story as a matter of literary hospitality and as part of a vital prehistory of modernism, seeing it not as a quaint neo-gothic ornament, but as a powerful literary res……続きを見る

Krúdy Gyula világa álom és valóság, múlt és jelen, költészet és látomás különös, varázsos elemeiből épült. Századunk magyar irodalmának egyik legszuverénebb költői világa ez, mely lélekrajzban, idők……続きを見る

„Kérem az olvasót – írja Hegedüs Géza –, hogy ezt a regényt semmiképpen se tekintse afféle szabványos-szabályos történelmi regénynek, még ha teljes egészében bele is illeszkedik nemzeti történetünk ……続きを見る

Ez a vézna, törékeny, befelé élő és belülről izzó – ugyanakkor a külvilágot minden érzékével magába fogadó s éles szemmel figyelő – költő, akiről nemcsak a valais-i parasztok, de a végső perceiben v……続きを見る

Die Deponie ist eine paradoxe, risikobehaftete Einrichtung. Die moderne Gesellschaft erhofft sich durch sie, weggeworfene, unbrauchbare oder gefährliche Dinge, Stoffe oder Substanzen ein für alle Ma……続きを見る

In "Ivory, Apes and Peacocks," James Huneker presents a compelling exploration of the intersection between art and imagination, using his keen aesthetic sensibility to dissect the intricacies of hum……続きを見る

This is the first book-length study of how three important European thinkers-Kierkegaard, Kafka and Blanchot-use the Binding of Isaac to illuminate the sacrificial situation of the literary writer. ……続きを見る

The 1990s violence in the Former Yugoslavia, the worst in Europe since World War II, triggered the conversion of multi-ethnic, multi-religious, and cosmopolitan areas of idiosyncratic and independen……続きを見る

The early modern map has come to mark the threshold of modernity, cutting through the layered customs of Medieval parochialism with its clean, expansive geometries. Re-thinking the role played by ma……続きを見る

Through close readings of a selection of European novels and novellas written between 1340 and 1827, this study of "analytical fiction"examines how unconsummated love stories probe the frailty of se……続きを見る

Contrary to what their oppressive design would lead us to believe, might structures of imprisonment actually incite humour? Starting from the most obvious areas of imprisonment (war camps, prison ce……続きを見る

The Emergence of Literature is an extension and reworking of a series of significant propositions in philosophy and literary theory: Jean-Luc Nancy and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe's examination of the ……続きを見る

What is work? Why do we do it? Since time immemorial the answer to these questions, from both the left and the right, has been that work is both a natural necessity and, barring exploitation, a soci……続きを見る

Since the turn of the millennium, the Arabian Peninsula has produced a remarkable series of adaptations of Shakespeare. These include a 2007 production of Much Ado About Nothing, set in Kuwait in 18……続きを見る

This book represents a contribution to both border studies and short story studies. In today’s world, there is ample evidence of the return of borders worldwide: as material reality, as a concept, a……続きを見る

This Pivot explores the uses of the Mughal past in the historical fiction of colonial India. Through detailed reconsiderations of canonical works by Rudyard Kipling, Flora Annie Steel and Romesh Chu……続きを見る

This book attends to four poets – John Clare, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Edward Thomas, and Ivor Gurney – whose poems are remarkable for their personal directness and distinctiveness. It shows how their……続きを見る

Religion, Secularism, and the Spiritual Paths of Virginia Woolf offers an expansive interdisciplinary study of spirituality in Virginia Woolf's writing, drawing on theology, psychology, geography, h……続きを見る