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The Revival of Evangelicalism: Mission and Piety in the Victorian Church of ScotlandThe Revival of Evangelicalism presents a critical analysis of the evangelical movement in the national Church. It emphasises the manner in which the movement both continued along certain pre-Disruption lines and evolved to represent a broader spectrum of Reformed Presbyterian doctrine and piety during...
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Joycean Possibilities: A Margot Norris LegacyThis dedicated volume proposes to honor the rich, varied, trenchant, and tremendously influential scholarship of Professor Margot Norris in a series of essays amplifying her illumination of Joyce's literary oeuvre along with several prominent lines she introduced and investigated. Our title is intended to...
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Sensing Willa Cather: The Writer and the Body in TransitionA radical reinterpretation of Willa Cather's oeuvre Deploying the concepts and techniques of Body Studies, Guy J. Reynolds remaps Cather's vast and diverse range of writing from the 1890s through to 1940. His study of embodiment and narrative focuses on the senses and reads...
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The Habsburg Monarchy as a Fiscal-Military State: Contours and Perspectives 1648-1815Bringing together a team of leading international experts to examine the impact of the rise and expansion of a large standing army on government and society over nearly two centuries, this themed volume provides the first major analysis of the Habsburg Monarchy as a...
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Romantic Pasts: History, Fiction and Feeling in Britain, 1790-1850Working against the long-standing belief that romantic-era history is primarily sentimental, Romantic Pasts argues that historians from Mary Wollstonecraft to Thomas Carlyle developed a new kind of cognitive or psychological historicism that was as much concerned with motive as with affect. Recognising that feelings...
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Character, Writing, and Reputation in Victorian Law and LiteratureWhy would Hawthorne and Eliot grant their fallen women an anachronistic right to silence that could only worsen their punishment? Why did Bronte and Gaskell find gossip such a useful source of information when lawyers excluded it as hearsay? How did Trollope's work as...
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The Making of Samuel Beckett's Company/ CompagnieCompany was first composed in English over two years, with Beckett breaking a 20-year-long pattern of composing primarily in French to craft this meticulously structured 59-paragraph masterpiece of his late prose. Its French companion, Compagnie, was translated in only two weeks. The genetic critical...
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Sayfo - An Account of the Assyrian GenocideThis text is one of the few surviving eyewitness sources on the Assyrian genocide, written by a seminarian living in greater Tur Abdin (the southeast of today's Turkish state). The perspective is one that is little known and less discussed. Translated and annotated by...
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Russomania: Russian Culture and the Creation of British Modernism, 1881-1922Russomania: Russian Culture and the Creation of British Modernism provides a new account of modernist literature's emergence in Britain. British writers played a central role in the dissemination of Russian literature and culture during the early twentieth century, and their writing was transformed by...
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The Reader's Joyce: Ulysses, Authorship and the Authority of the ReaderRethinks the relationships between author, reader, and text in literature and criticism, through a study of James Joyce The Reader's Joyce engages with core issues of literary studies by rethinking accepted literary, critical, and theoretical notions of the relationships between author, reader, and text....
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Virginia Woolf and Nineteenth-Century Women Writers: Victorian Legacies and Literary AfterlivesThis book examines Virginia Woolf's influence on the literary afterlives of nineteenth-century women of letters including Jane Austen, Mary Russell Mitford, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Margaret Oliphant and Mary Augusta Ward through her journalism. Woolf's responses to her literary predecessors provide...
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Consuming Female Beauty: British Literature and Periodicals, 1840-1914Pinpointing how consumer culture transformed female beauty ideals during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this study documents the movement from traditional views about beauty in relation to nature, God, morality and character to a modern conception of beauty as produced in and through...
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A History of Our Time: Readings on Postwar AmericaA History of Our Time, Eighth Edition, offers selections by leading historians as well as first-person accounts of various issues by people who have contributed to the shaping of America's rich history, including Bill Clinton, Joseph McCarthy, Anne Moody, Robin Morgan, and Phyllis Schlafly....
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Illustrious Heritage, An: The History of Tan Tock Seng and FamilyTan Tock Seng, one of Singapore's most illustrious pioneers, was an influential Chinese community leader. In the early 1820s, he responded to Sir Stamford Raffles' call to open up Singapore for trade, and later became a prominent entrepreneur, a social leader of the Chinese...
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Bengal Tiger, Celtic Tiger: Governing the Empire. Sir Antony Macdonnell, the Raj, and Irish Home RuleThis new work offers significant insights into the governance of the British Raj, and the development of Irish home rule - in all of which Sir Antony Patrick MacDonnell played major roles. / "You are about to leave India," George Curzon, the Viceroy of...
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Philip Larkin and the Place of WritingThis book extensively investigates the integral nature of spatiality and spatial imagination in the works of Philip Larkin. It addresses Larkin's idea of space and place, both private and public, and reflects upon his early fictional works as well as poems. To do so,...
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The Theatres of Eighteenth-Century Weather: Spectacle and Climatological Reckoning in English DramaWhile British drama of the long eighteenth century remains largely unexamined as registering ecological fears, its visual spectacle and settings allow the audience to grasp threats to environments across the globe. In plays from 1682-1799, The Theatres of Eighteenth-Century Weather: Spectacle and Climatological Reckoning...
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Cognitive Spaces and Perspective in LiteratureThis book brings an original perspective to literary theory and criticism by using insights drawn from visual cognition and neuroscience. Employing recent findings in neuroscience to explain consistent patterns in the representation of space in literature, Finnigan explores how these patterns exploit readers' power...
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Men Beyond Desire: Male Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century AmericaThis book explores the construction of male sexuality in nineteenth-century American literature and overturns longstanding views. Far from desiring heterosexual sex and wishing to bond with other men through fraternity, the male protagonists of classic American literature mainly want to be left alone. Greven...
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Emotions and Contingencies in Conrad's FictionThis book sets out to elucidate Conrad's unique insight into the workings of human emotions for a readership of scholars and graduate students engaged in Conrad studies. It argues that the originality of Conrad's conception of human emotions lies in his comprehensive grasp of...
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