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The Rhetoric of Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century Culture
The Rhetoric of Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century Culture explores the burgeoning eighteenth-century fascination with the human body as an eloquent,... Les mer
Correspondence and American Literature, 1770–1865
Elizabeth Hewitt uncovers the centrality of letter-writing to antebellum American literature. She argues that many canonical American authors turned... Les mer
Moral Identity in Early Modern English Literature
Paul Cefalu’s study explores the relationship between moral character and religious conversion in the poetry and prose of Sidney, Spenser, Donne,... Les mer
The Cambridge Companion to Flaubert
This volume brings together a series of essays by acknowledged experts on Flaubert. It offers a coherent overview of the writer\'s work and critical... Les mer
The Cambridge Companion to Byron
Byron’s life and work have fascinated readers around the world for two hundred years, but it is the complex interaction between his art and his... Les mer
Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere
This wide-ranging comparative study argues for a fundamental reassessment of the literary history of the nineteenth-century United States within the... Les mer
Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism
Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism is the first book devoted to Scottish writing between 1745 and 1830 - a key period marking the contested... Les mer
A History of Shakespeare on Screen
A History of Shakespeare on Screen chronicles how film-makers have re-imagined Shakespeare’s plays from the earliest exhibitions in music halls and... Les mer
Shakespeare, from Stage to Screen
How is a Shakespearean play transformed when it is directed for the screen? Sarah Hatchuel uses literary criticism, narratology, performance history,... Les mer
The Cambridge Companion to the Modern German Novel
The Cambridge Companion to the Modern German Novel provides a broad ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the German novel... Les mer
Literature, Technology, and Modernity, 1860–2000
Industrial modernity takes it as self-evident that there is a difference between people and machines, but the corollary of this has been a recurring... Les mer
Domesticity and Dissent in the Seventeenth Century
In Domesticity and Dissent Katharine Gillespie examines writings by seventeenth-century English Puritan women who fought for religious freedom.... Les mer
A History of South African Literature
This book is a critical study of its subject, from colonial and pre-colonial times to the present. Christopher Heywood discusses selected poems,... Les mer
Chomsky
Noam Chomsky is one of the leading intellectual figures of modern times. He has had a major influence on linguistics, psychology and philosophy, and... Les mer
The Cambridge Companion to Saussure
Ferdinand de Saussure is widely considered to be the founder of both modern linguistics and structuralism. The first to establish the structural... Les mer
The Forensic Stage
Graeco-Roman New Comedy has traditionally provided a source for legal historians examining the language and operation of law both in Athens in the... Les mer
Family, Kinship, and Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
In Family, Kinship, and Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Cindy Weinstein radically revises our understanding of nineteenth-century... Les mer
Gender, Desire, and Sexuality in T. S. Eliot
This collection of essays brings together scholars from a wide range of critical approaches to study T. S. Eliot’s engagement with desire,... Les mer
Women and Religious Writing in Early Modern England
This study challenges critical assumptions about the role of religion in shaping women’s experiences of authorship. Feminist critics have... Les mer
Literature, Science and Exploration in the Romantic Era
In 1768, Captain James Cook made the most important scientific voyage of the eighteenth century. He was not alone: scores of explorers like Cook,... Les mer
Anti-Catholicism and Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Susan Griffin uncovers and analyzes the important but neglected body of anti-Catholic fiction written between the 1830s and the turn of the century... Les mer
The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740–1830
This volume offers an introduction to British literature that challenges the traditional divide between eighteenth-century and Romantic studies.... Les mer
Shakespeare and Language
Shakespeare and language is an area of study that here includes style, speech, sound and sex. As the foremost Shakespeare publication, Shakespeare... Les mer
Shakespeare and Politics
This important collection of essays from Shakespeare Survey, the first published in 1975, shows a full range of writing on Shakespeare and politics... Les mer