Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Dickens and Victorian Psychology: Introspection, First-Person Narration, and the MindDickens and Victorian Psychology: Introspection, First-Person Narration, and the Mind positions Charles Dickens's fiction in the midst of Victorian psychological debate, tracking Dickens's increasing reliance over the course of his career on the introspective mode, those moments--from free indirect discourse to first-person narration--in which...
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Abolitionist Cosmopolitanism: Reconfiguring Gender, Race, and Nation in American Antislavery LiteratureAbolitionist Cosmopolitanism redefines the potential of American antislavery literature as a cultural and political imaginary by situating antislavery literature in specific transnational contexts and highlighting the role of women as producers, subjects, and audiences of antislavery literature.Author: Pia WiegminkPublisher: BrillPublished: 09/22/2022Pages: 348Binding Type: HardcoverISBN:...
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Openness in Medieval EuropeThis volume challenges the persistent association of the Middle Ages with closure and fixity. Bringing together a range of disciplines and perspectives, it identifies and uncovers forms of openness which are often obscured by modern assumptions, and demonstrates how they coexist with, or even...
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La traduzione latina del isocrateo di Guarino VeroneseQuesto lavoro ha per oggetto la versione latina del Nicocles isocrateo eseguita da Guarino Veronese e dedicata a Leonello d'Este. La sezione introduttiva consta di due parti: nella prima si contestualizza il Nicocles all'interno della produzione isocratea e se ne approfondisce la fortuna in...
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The Age of NightmareHistorian Jeremy Black is comprehensive, as ever, but in his treatment of the British Gothic novel his greatest service is the preservation of the detail--namely, the human impetus behind art that is often undervalued. Gothic novelists were purposeful, thoughtful, and engaged questions and feelings...
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The Garden Politic: Global Plants and Botanical Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century AmericaHow worldwide plant circulation and new botanical ideas enabled Americans to radically re-envision politics and society The Garden Politic argues that botanical practices and discourses helped nineteenth-century Americans engage pressing questions of race, gender, settler colonialism, and liberal subjectivity. In the early republic, ideas...
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Man's Estate: Masculine Identity in ShakespeareThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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Notes on Footnotes: Annotating Eighteenth-Century LiteratureThis collection presents fourteen essays on annotating eighteenth-century literature. Authored by editors and annotators of current standard editions--such as California's Works of John Dryden, the Florida Edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne, and the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson--this book...
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Resurrecting Jane de la Vaudère: Literary Shapeshifter of the Belle ÉpoqueThis engrossing narrative recounts the story of Jane de La Vaudère (née Jeanne Scrive), a prolific and celebrated writer of France's Belle Époque. Interweaving biography and literary analysis, Sharon Larson examines the ways in which La Vaudère adapted her persona to shifting literary trends...
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Fitzgerald and the War Between the Sexes: EssaysWritten by the preeminent Fitzgerald biographer and literary critic Scott Donaldson, this book presents a fresh, insightful exploration of the war between the sexes in F. Scott Fitzgerald's fictional and autobiographical writings.The volume opens with a close reading of Tender Is the Night, in...
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Paratexts of the English Bible, 1525-1611English bibles, from Tyndale's 1525 New Testament to the 1611 King James, feature calendars, woodcuts, maps, chronologies, prayers, philological glosses, inset historical essays, elaborate multi-page diagrams, single-leaf summaries of scripture, prefaces by eminent churchmen, doctrinal notes by leading theologians, a dialogue on predestination, a...
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Milton and the Resources of the LineThis book will change how readers read not only Milton but any poetry. Whereas prose is written in sentences, poetry is written in lines, lines that may or may not coincide with the syntax of the sentence. Lines add an aural and visual mode...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald on Silent FilmF. Scott Fitzgerald on Silent Film is the first full-length monograph focusing on the silent movie adaptations of the celebrated author's work. This ground-breaking book reveals the crucial role that Hollywood played in establishing Fitzgerald's burgeoning reputation in the 1920s.Author: Martina MastandreaPublisher: BrillPublished: 08/18/2022Pages:...
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Poetry, Painting, Park: Goethe and Claude LorrainImbued with a pulsating energy that emanates from the sun, Claude Lorrain's landscape draws on the interplay of light and darkness to effect a 'living whole' and evoke the symbolic. In a life-long conversation with Lorrain - recorded in texts as diverse as 'Amor...
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The Aesthetics of Kinship: Form and Family in the Long Eighteenth CenturyThe Aesthetics of Kinship intervenes critically into rigidified discourses about the emergence of the nuclear family and the corresponding interior subject in the eighteenth century. By focusing on kinship constellations instead of "family plots" in seminal literary works of the period, this book presents...
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The Idea of the Canterbury TalesThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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Uttering the Unutterable: Aristotle, Religion, and LiteratureLiterature utters the unutterable, not through logic, not through science, not through argument, but through a pitch of eloquence so pronounced the conscientious reader cannot fail to pay attention. Louis Groarke argues that literature is an honorific term we use to describe texts that...
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A Narnian Vision of the AtonementHow can we have redemption or atonement (at-one-ment) with God? Ancient Christians proposed a ransom theory, according to which God pays the ransom for us through heroic self-sacrifice so we can be liberated from the power of the demonic, sin, and death. This theory...
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Nothing is being suppressedThis book is a pioneering attempt to roll back misrepresentation and depersonalisation and recover one of the most high-achieving eras of British poetry. The '70s saw the collapse of the post-war settlement amid apparently insoluble problems over inflation and profitability. Consensus broke down and...
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Imagining India in Modern China: Literary Decolonization and the Imperial Unconscious, 1895-1962Beginning in the late Qing era, Chinese writers and intellectuals looked to India in search of new literary possibilities and anticolonial solidarity. In their view, India and China shared both an illustrious past of cultural and religious exchange and a present experience of colonial...
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