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The Poetic Idioms of Jean Cocteau's Art: Paths to ImmortalityCocteau had an ambition many a poet has: to become immortal. But he, perhaps more than most, addressed this ambition directly in a great many of his plays, poems, and films. This book puts the work of this elusive and compelling poet under the...
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Modernism in the Peripheral Metropolis: Form, Crisis and the City in Latin AmericaThis book shows how Latin American writers and artists in the crisis-decades of the 1920s and 1930s used modernist techniques to explore national issues in relation to global capitalism. Drawing on a rich interdisciplinary archive of novels, poetry, essays, photography, and architecture, it includes...
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The Poetic Music of Wallace StevensWallace Stevens's musicality is so profound that scholars have only begun to grasp his ties to the art of music or the music of his own poetry. In this study, two long-time specialists present a polyphonic composition in which they pursue various interlocking perspectives....
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Romantic Actors, Romantic Dramas: British Tragedy on the Regency StageThis book reinterprets British dramas of the early-nineteenth century through the lens of the star actors for whom they were written. Unlike most playwrights of previous generations, the writers of British Romantic dramas generally did not work in the theatre themselves. However, they closely...
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Nurse Memoirs from the Great War in Britain, France, and Germany1. Introduction2. Hospitals and Nursing Before the Great War3. Nurses and the Military Medical Services in the Great War4. Women and War Work (1): Debates and Issues5. Women and War Work (2): Nursing6. The Nurse Memoirs (1)7. The Nurse Memoirs (2)8. The Nurse Memoirs...
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Beckett's Imagined Interpreters and the Failures of ModernismSamuel Beckett's work is littered with ironic self-reflexive comments on presumed audience expectations that it should ultimately make explicable sense. An ample store of letters and anecdotes suggests Beckett's own preoccupation with and resistance to similar interpretive mindsets. Yet until now such concerns have...
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Gender Roles and Political Contexts in Cold War Spy FictionThis book analyses the gender roles and political contexts of spy fiction narratives published during the years of the Cold War. It offers an introduction to the development of spy fiction both in England and in the United States and explores the ways in...
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The Early Evolutionary Imagination: Literature and Human NatureDarwinian evolution is an imaginative problem that has been passed down to us unsolved. It is our most powerful explanation of humanity's place in nature, but it is also more cognitively demanding and less emotionally satisfying than any myth. From the publication of the...
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A Vindication of the Redhead: The Typology of Red Hair Throughout the Literary and Visual ArtsA Vindication of the Redhead investigates red hair in literature, art, television, and film throughout Eastern and Western cultures. This study examines red hair as a signifier, perpetuated through stereotypes, myths, legends, and literary and visual representations. Brenda Ayres and Sarah E. Maier provide...
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The Multiverse of Office Fiction: Bartlebys at WorkThe Multiverse of Office Fiction liberates Herman Melville's 1853 classic, "Bartleby, the Scrivener," from a microcosm of Melville studies, namely the so-called Bartleby Industry. This book aims to illuminate office fiction--fiction featuring office workers such as clerks, civil servants, and company employees--as an underexplored...
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The Struggle for Life and the Modern Italian Novel, 1859-1925This book explores Darwinism in modern Italian literature. In the years between Italy's unification (1861) and the rise of fascism, many writers gave voice to anxieties connected with the ideas of evolution and progress. This study shows how Italian authors borrowed and reworked a...
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Navigating Urban Soundscapes: Dublin and Los Angeles in FictionNavigating Urban Soundscapes: Dublin and Los Angeles in Fiction offers an innovative analytical framework to explore sound in different media and across two distinct urban soundscapes. Studying a wide range of novels, films, and radio dramas, using Dublin and Los Angeles as case studies,...
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The Second and Third Generation: The Legacy of Forced Migration from Nazi EuropeThe Second and Third Generation have become increasingly active in remembering and researching their families' pasts, especially now that most refugees from National Socialism have passed away. How was lived experience mediated to them, and how have their own lives and identities been impacted...
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Between Neutrality and Solidarity: Swiss Good Offices in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1992After 1979, Switzerland became increasingly involved in Soviet-occupied Afghanistan as a provider of humanitarian aid and good offices. It delivered aid to the region, hosted Soviet prisoners of war and eventually mediated between the Afghan regime and the mujahideen. What is puzzling about this...
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Religious Transformations in New Communities of Interpretation in Europe (1350-1570): Bridging the Historiographical DividesThis volume brings together medievalist and early modernist specialists, whose research fields are traditionally divided by the jubilee year of 1500, in order to concentrate on the role of the laity (and those in holy orders) in the religious transformations characterizing the 'long fifteenth...
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Collective Wisdom: Collecting in the Early Modern AcademyThis volume analyses how and why members of scholarly societies such as the Royal Society, the Society of Antiquaries of London, and the Leopoldina collected specimens of the natural world, art, and archaeology in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. These scholarly societies, founded before...
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The German War Machine in World War II: An EncyclopediaThis book provides everything the reader needs to know about the German war machine that developed into the potent armed force under Adolf Hitler. This expansive encyclopedia covers the period of the German Third Reich, from January 1933 to the end of World War...
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Emerging Trends in Third-Generation Holocaust LiteratureEmerging Trends in Third-Generation Holocaust Literature offers fresh approaches to understanding how grandchildren of Holocaust survivors and perpetrators treat their traumatic legacies. The contributors to this volume present a two-fold perspective: that the past continues to live in the lives of the third generation...
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Familial Fitness: Disability, Adoption, and Family in Modern AmericaThe first social history of disability and difference in American adoption, from the Progressive Era to the end of the twentieth century. Disability and child welfare, together and apart, are major concerns in American society. Today, about 125,000 children in foster care are eligible...
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The Science of Character: Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian RealismThe Science of Character makes a bold new claim for the power of the literary by showing how Victorian novelists used fiction to theorize how character forms. In 1843, the Victorian philosopher John Stuart Mill called for the establishment of a new science, "the...
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