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The Inwardness of Things: Joseph Conrad and the Voice of PoetryThe Inwardness of Things considers Joseph Conrad as a modern voice in an ancient and enduring quarrel between the poets and the philosophers. Beginning from the polemical poetics of his 1897 preface, Debra Romanick Baldwin focuses on Conrad's distinctively poetic "inward" approach to truth...
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Dissensuous Modernism: Women Writers, the Senses, and TechnologyPlacing women writers at the center of the sensory and technological experimentation that characterized the modernist movement, Dissensuous Modernism shows how women of the era challenged gendered narratives that limited their power and agency and waged dissent through their radical sensuouswriting.Allyson DeMaagd critiques an...
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Cervantes' Architectures: The Dangers OutsideCervantes' Architectures is the first book dedicated to architecture in Cervantes' prose fiction. At a time when a pandemic is sweeping the world, this book reflects on the danger outside by concentrating on the role of enclosed structures as places where humans may feel...
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Joyce Writing DisabilityIn this book, the first to explore the role of disability in the writings of James Joyce, contributors approach the subject both on a figurative level, as a symbol or metaphor in Joyce's work, and also as a physical reality for many of Joyce's...
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Affective Materialities: Reorienting the Body in Modernist LiteratureAffective Materialities reexamines modernist theorizations of the body and opens up the artistic, political, and ethical possibilities at the intersection of affect theory and ecocriticism, two recent directions in literary studies not typically brought into conversation. Modernist creativity, the volume proposes, may return to...
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Disposing of Modernity: The Archaeology of Garbage and Consumerism During Chicago's 1893 World's FairThrough archaeological and archival research from sites associated with the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Disposing of Modernity explores the changing world of urban America at the turn of the twentieth century. Featuring excavations of trash deposited during the fair, Rebecca Graff's first-of-its-kind...
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Joyce Without Borders: Circulations, Sciences, Media, and Mortal FleshThis book addresses James Joyce's borderlessness andthe ways his work crosses or unsettles boundaries of all kinds. The essays inthis volume position borderlessness as a major key to understanding Joyceanpoiesis, opening new doors and new engagements with his work. Contributors begin by exploring the...
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Time and Identity in Ulysses and the OdysseyA comparative study of two classicliterary works, from a specialist in Joyce and Homer Time and Identity in"Ulysses" and the "Odyssey" offers a unique in-depth comparative study oftwo classic literary works, examiningessential themes such as change, the self, and humans' dependence on andisolation from...
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Dread DangerAuthor: Lesley J. GordonPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 11/21/2024Pages: 328Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.43lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88dISBN: 9781108492287
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Black Power in Bermuda: The Struggle for DecolonizationA transnational, pan-African youth movement, Black Power in Bermuda sought freedom for Blacks from the island's White oligarchy and independence from British colonialism. It was spearheaded by activists such as Pauulu Kamarakafego and the Black Beret Cadre. The Cadre maintained relationships with revolutionary organizations...
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Americanos: Latin America's Struggle for IndependenceA premier volume in Oxford's Pivotal Moments in World History series, Americanos offers an engagingly written, compact history of the Latin American wars of independence. Proceeding almost cinematically, scene by vivid scene, John Charles Chasteen introduces the reader to lead players, basic concepts, key...
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Wastepaper Modernism: Twentieth-Century Fiction and the Ruins of PrintFrom Henry James' fascination with burnt manuscripts to destroyed books in the fiction of the Blitz; from junk mail in the work of Elizabeth Bowen to bureaucratic paperwork in Vladimir Nabokov; modern fiction is littered with images of tattered and useless paper that reveal...
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When Ladies Go A-Thieving: Middle-Class Shoplifters in the Victorian Department StoreThis book focuses on middle-class urban women as participants in new forms of consumer culture. Within the special world of the department store, women found themselves challenged to resist the enticements of consumption. Many succumbed, buying both what they needed and what they desired,...
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A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing LineWriting, publishing, and marketing five politically engaged novels that appeared between 1899 and 1908, Sutton E. Griggs (1872-1933) was among the most prolific African American authors at the turn of the twentieth century. In contrast to his Northern contemporaries Paul Laurence Dunbar and Charles...
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Approaches to Teaching the Plum in the Golden Vase (the Golden Lotus)The Plum in the Golden Vase (also known as The Golden Lotus) was published in the early seventeenth century and may be the first long work of Chinese fiction written by a single (though anonymous) author. Featuring both complex structural elements and psychological and...
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The Fate of Progress in British RomanticismWhat did Romantic writers mean when they wrote about progress and perfection? This book shows how Romantic writers inventively responded to familiar ideas about political progress which they inherited from the eighteenth century. Whereas earlier writers such as Voltaire and John Millar likened improvements...
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Slavery Surveillance and Genre in Antebellum United StatesSlavery, Surveillance, and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature argues for the existence of deep, often unexamined, interconnections between genre and race by tracing how surveillance migrates from the literature of slavery to crime, gothic, and detective fiction. Attending to the long history of...
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Rulers, Guns, and Money: The Global Arms Trade in the Age of ImperialismThe explosion of the industrial revolution and the rise of imperialism in the second half of the nineteenth century served to dramatically increase the supply and demand for weapons on a global scale. No longer could arms manufacturers in industrialized nations subsist by supplying...
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John Keats and Romantic ScotlandBetween 22 June and 18 August 1818, John Keats and his friend and collaborator Charles Armitage Brown embarked on an epic walking tour of the English Lake District, South West Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Ayrshire Burns Country, the Scottish Highlands and Western Isles, and...
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Keats and Shelley: Winds of LightKeats and Shelley: Winds of Light combines unrivalled textual knowledge, biographical and contextual expertise, and profoundly insightful close readings of the poetry in a selection of outstanding essays from a leading critic of English Romantic Poetry. Some of the essays have been previously published...
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