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Though literature and censorship have been conceived as long-time adversaries, this collection seeks to understand the degree to which they have been dialectical terms, each producing the other, coe……続きを見る

Although the theme of blindness occurs frequently in literature, literary criticism has rarely engaged the experiential knowledge of people with visual impairments. The Metanarrative of Blindness co……続きを見る

In romancesーRenaissance England’s version of the fantasy novelーcharacters often discover books that turn out to be magical or prophetic, and to offer insights into their readers’ selves. The Immat……続きを見る

This collection explores how the complications and contradictions of Irish-Caribbean relations are much richer and deeper than previously recognized. Caribbean Irish Connections makes an important ……続きを見る

By November 1822, the British reading public had already voraciously consumed both Walter Scott’s expensive novels and Rudolf Ackermann’s exquisite lithographs. The next decade, referred to by some ……続きを見る

Victorian science changed language from a tool into a natural phenomenon, evolving independently of its speakers. Will Abberley explores how science and fiction interacted in imagining different sto……続きを見る

This fascinating study reveals the extent to which the Orientalism of Byron and the Shelleys resonated with the reformist movement of the Romantic era. It documents how and why radicals like Bentham……続きを見る

The first volume in the re-launched series Shakespeare on Screen is devoted to Othello, offering up-to-date coverage of recent screen versions as well as new critical essays on older, canonical film……続きを見る

This collection of authoritative essays represents the latest scholarship on topics relating to the themes, movements, and forms of English fiction, while chronicling its development in Britain from……続きを見る

Drawing on a range of archival materials, this book explores the writing career of the poet, philosopher, art critic, and political commentator T.E. Hulme, a key figure in British modernism. T.E. Hu……続きを見る

Swift has been said to have little interest in history; his attempts to write it have been disparaged and his desire to become Historiographer Royal ridiculed. Ashley Marshall argues that history ma……続きを見る

"Fascinating and important . . . a work of prodigious scholarship, covering the entire history of Western thought and treating both literary and medical discourses with subtlety and verve." ---Louis……続きを見る

This revaluation of Shakespeare’s most seductive tragedy, Antony and Cleopatra, allies itself with neither George Bernard Shaw and Philo’s Roman judgment of the lovers as “strumpet and fool”ーpremis……続きを見る

Hamlet's Problematic Revenge: Forging a Royal Mandate provides a new argument within Shakespearean studies that argues the oft-noted arrest of the play’s dramaturgical momentum, especially evident i……続きを見る

In Changing Hands, Peter J. Capuano sifts through Victorian literature and culture for changes in the way the human body is imagined in the face of urgent questions about creation, labor, gender, cl……続きを見る

This volume provides a new and nuanced appreciation of David Hume as a historian. Gone for good are the days when one can offhandedly assert, as R. G. Collingwood once did, that Hume “deserted philo……続きを見る

Cultural Imperialism and the Indo-English Novel focuses on the novels of R. K. Narayan, Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya, and Salman Rushdie and explores the tension in these novels between ideology a……続きを見る

In Divided Empire, Robert T. Fallon examines the influence of John Milton's political experience on his great poems: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes. This study is a natural s……続きを見る

This anthology examines Love's Labours Lost from a variety of perspectives and through a wide range of materials. Selections discuss the play in terms of historical context, dating, and sources; cha……続きを見る

Essay from the year 2014 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2.1, University of Cambridge (Summer School), course: Literature, language: English, abstract: Th……続きを見る

Dans l’automne de l’année 1816, John Melmoth, élève du collège de la Trinité, à Dublin, suspendit momentanément ses études pour visiter un oncle mourant, et de qui dépendaient toutes ses espérances ……続きを見る

Il y a, dans la situation actuelle du savoir humain, une circonstance bien remarquable, bien inattendue, et surtout bien caractéristique de l’état de certaines grandes et importantes questions spécu……続きを見る

The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodernism surveys the full spectrum of postmodern culture - high and low, avant-garde and popular, famous and obscure - across a range of fields, from architecture ……続きを見る

Mistress Amadroz, femme de Bernard Amadroz de Belton et mère de Charles et de Clara, mourut quand ses enfants avaient huit et six ans, leur faisant ainsi éprouver le plus grand malheur qui puisse at……続きを見る

C’était au commencement du mois de novembre de l’année 17… Un jeune Anglais, récemment sorti de l’université d’Oxford, faisait usage de sa liberté pour visiter quelques parties du nord de l’Angleter……続きを見る

« Cette affaire, dis-je, est mieux réglée en France. »Vous avez été en France ? me dit le plus poliment du monde, et avec un air de triomphe, la personne avec laquelle je disputois… Il est bien surp……続きを見る

Winner of the 2016 ESSE Junior Scholar Book Award in Literatures in the English Language The Literature of Reconstruction argues for the term and concept of 'postmillennial reconstruction' to fill t……続きを見る

For much of the 20th century the modernist city was articulated in terms of narratives of progress and development. Today the neoliberal city confronts us with all the cultural 'noise' of disorder a……続きを見る

Le Portrait de Dorian Gray est un roman de l'écrivain irlandais (1854 – 1900). Ce livre numérique comporte une table des matières dynamique. Il est parfaitement mise en page pour une lecture sur lis……続きを見る

Originally published in 1981. This study concentrates on one aspect of Victorian theatre production in the second half of the nineteenth century – the spectacular, which came to dominate certain kin……続きを見る