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The Politics and Poetics of Journalistic Narrative
Early in the twentieth century, journalism and fiction suffered a forced separation as a result of two coinciding trends: a popular tendency to treat...
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Out of the Sixties
In a highly original study, David Wyatt takes a broad, yet personal, look at the cultural legacy of the sixties through ten creative figures who came...
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Myth and Poetry in Lucretius
The employment of mythological language and imagery by an Epicurean poet - an adherent of a system not only materialist, but overtly hostile to myth...
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The Visionary D. H. Lawrence
D. H. Lawrence is often seen either as an artist whose novels are spoiled by the intrusion of ideas or as a philosopher whose ideas happen to be...
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The Revolution in the Visual Arts and the Poetry of William Carlos Williams
This book is a reassessment of the poetic achievement of William Carlos Williams in the light of the influence of such visual arts movements as...
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Blueprints for a Black Federal Theatre
In the 1930s, the Work Progress Administration funded a massive Federal Theatre Project in America’s major urban centres, presenting hundreds of...
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Muscular Christianity
Muscular Christianity was an important religious, literary and social movement of the mid-nineteenth century. This volume draws on recent...
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Writing and the Rise of Finance
The early eighteenth century saw a far-reaching financial revolution in England, whose impact on the literature of the period has hitherto been...
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Swift’s Politics
Modern scholarship has represented Jonathan Swift as both an Old Whig and a non-Jacobite Tory. Ian Higgins’ contextual reassessment of Swift’s...
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Sentimental Narrative and the Social Order in France, 1760–1820
In this discerning study of sentimental discourse of the late eighteenth century, David J. Denby sheds new light on Enlightenment thought and...
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The Birth of European Romanticism
It was through Staël’s best-seller De l’Allemagne that the term Romanticism, coined in Germany, reached Europe and America. Around this term,...
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The Poetic Art of Aldhelm
Aldhelm of Malmesbury has been described as the first English man of letters. He was the first Germanic author to compose extensively in Latin...
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The Cambridge History of American Literature
Volume I covers the colonial and early national periods and discusses the work of a diverse assemblage of authors, from Renaissance explorers and...
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Essays, Mainly Shakespearean
Anne Barton’s essays on Shakespeare and his contemporaries are characterized by their combination of intelligence, humanity and elegance. In this...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
From the self-withdrawn Fanshawe through the posthumously issued Dr Grimshaw’s Secret, this compilation of reviews and notices traces Nathaniel...
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New Essays on Walden
New Essays on Walden reviews Thoreau’s classic from four important contemporary perspectives. Lawrence Buell explains how decisions by Thoreau’s...
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New Essays on Rabbit Run
Still John Updike’s most popular and critically acclaimed novel, Rabbit Run introduced the character of Harry ‘Rabbit’ Angstrom, one of those...
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Writing the Apocalypse
This is a comparative literary study of apocalyptic themes and narrative techniques in the contemporary North and Latin American novel. Zamora...
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Romanen som forskningsresa
Strömkantringens år är en gängse etikett på kulturutvecklingen 1965-67, tiden för den första Vietnamdebatten strax före studentvänsterns...
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Shakespeare’s Caliban
Among Shakespeare’s numerous stage characters, probably none has been so variously interpreted as the savage and deformed slave Caliban in The...
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Sexuality and Gender in Early Modern Europe
This exploration of sexuality and gender in Renaissance art and literature starts from an assumption that would have seemed unthinkable a generation...
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The Fine Art of Repetition
Peter Kivy is the author of many books on the history of art and, in particular, the aesthetics of music. This collection of essays spans a period of...
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