Lansdown, Richard
87,45€
In the aftermath of the theory wars, the imaginative, formal, and moral features of literature have been substantially marginalized, downgraded, and neglected. Yet for many readers such elements will always be central to the experience of reading, just as for writers they are central to…
Kelly, Catriona
16,50€
This book is intended to capture the interest of anyone who has been attracted to Russian culture through the greats of Russian literature, either through the texts themselves, or encountering them in the cinema, or opera. Rather than a conventional chronology of Russian literature,…
Laird, Sally
53,90€
Voices of Russian Literature presents in-depth interviews with ten of the most interesting figures writing in Russian today. They range from established authors such as Fazil Iskander and Andrei Bitov, who began their careers in the post-Stalinist Thaw, to newcomers like Viktor Pelevin,…
Cronin, Richard
87,45€
…Contents:
Introduction
Memorializing Romanticism
Historicizing Romanticism
Feminizing Romanticism
Fashioning Romanticism
Civilizing Romanticism
Realizing Romanticism
Christening Romanticism
Domesticating Romanticism
Conclusion
Index
Author Biographies:
RICHARD CRONIN is Professor of English…
Freeman, Nicholas
75,40€
…Conceiving the City is an innovative study of the ways in which a generation of late-Victorian novelists, poets, painters, and theoreticians attempted to represent London in literature and art. Breaking away from the language and style of Dickens and the static panorama…
Wood, Sarah F.
99,75€
Quixotic Fictions is the first book-length study of the role of Don Quixote in early American literature. Coinciding with the quadricentenary of Don Quixote's first publication, Quixotic Fictions reaffirms the global reach of
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O´Connell, Helen
95,70€
This study of 'improving' fiction produced in Ireland in the 19th century demonstrates how this pamphlet literature shaped the mainstream literary culture. While uncovering previously neglected material, O'Connell also sheds new light on the work of Maria...
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Fronius, Helen
78,55€
Late eighteenth-century German literature was dominated by men. Women were discouraged from reading and scorned as writers, but the attempt to exclude did not always succeed. This study combines archival research, literary analysis, and statistical evidence to give a sociological-historical…
Jones, Emrys
33,00€
The sixteenth century has long been acknowledged the 'Golden Age' of English verse - with such names as Shakespeare, Donne, and Spenser to its credit it could hardly be otherwise. Yet this anthology, which includes both undisputed masterpieces and achievements…
Strohm, Paul
126,95€
This volume energizes issues of research in Middle English studies by eschewing an emphasis on what 'we know' and instead addressing the most challenging areas of unfixed opinion and unsettled debate. Although major authors such as Chaucer and Langland…
