Dramatic Sensibility in Mary Shelley's Novels
Author: Charlene Bunnell
This book examines the often tragic and nearly always disabling metaphor of thetheatrum mundi, world-as-stage, as it plays itself out in the characters of Mary Shelley's novels. |
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A Sketch
Author: A.S.F. Gow
This early study of A. E. Housman, first published in October 1936 just months after Housman's death, was written by his friend and colleague at Trinity College, Cambridge, A. S. F. Gow. As well as offering a skilful and ... |
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A Critical Biography
Author: Norman Page
A.E. Housman (1859-1936) was a poet of great popularity and widespread influence: a Latin scholar of the front rank, a prose stylist, a notable writer of comic verse and, thanks to the success of "A Shropshire Lad", one ... |
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Author: Terence Hoagwood
In this comprehensive study, Terence Hoagwood examines and explicates Housman's poetry in the light of classical literature, philosophy, and history, in the contexts of ancient, biblical, and contemporary poetry, and als ... |
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A Writing Life
Author: Edith B. Gelles
Often viewed narrowly as the wife of John Adams and the mother of John Quincy Adams, Abigail Adams was an important literary and historical figure in her own right. In this luminous reinterpretation of a life and a life' ... |
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Author: Don E. Fehrenbacher
Lincoln measured the promise--and the cost--of American freedom in lucid and extraordinarily moving prose. Here are all the significant works, including the complete Lincoln-Douglas debates, dozens of speeches, hundreds ... |
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The Cultural Politics of Multilingual Modernism
Author: Joshua L. Miller
Accented America is a sweeping study of U.S. literature between 1890-1950 that reveals a long history of English-Only nationalism: the political claim that U.S. citizens must speak a nationally distinctive form of Englis ... |
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The Cultural Politics of Multilingual Modernism
Author: Joshua L. Miller
Accented America is a sweeping study of U.S. literature between 1890-1950 that reveals a long history of English-Only nationalism: the political claim that U.S. citizens must speak a nationally distinctive form of Englis ... |
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Fashion and the Feminine in Nineteenth-century France
Author: Susan Hiner
Accessories to Modernity explores the ways in which feminine fashion accessories, such as cashmere shawls, parasols, fans, and handbags, became essential instruments in the bourgeois idealization of womanhood in nineteen ... |
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Victorian Sexuality, Theatre, and Oscar Wilde
Author: Kerry Powell
'I love acting - it is so much more real than life,' Oscar Wilde famously wrote. Acting Wilde demonstrates that Wilde's plays, fiction, and critical theory are organised by the idea that all so-called 'reality' is a mode ... |
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Feminine Performance and the Galatea Myth
Author: Gail Marshall
Gail Marshall argues that the professional and personal history of the Victorian actress was largely defined by her negotiation with the sculptural metaphor, and that this was authorized and determined by the Ovidian myt ... |
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Women and Sex on Stage 1800-1930
Author: Sos Eltis
From seduced maidens to adulterous wives, bigamists, courtesans, kept women and streetwalkers, the so-called 'fallen woman' was a ubiquitous and enduring figure on the Victorian and Edwardian stage. Acts of Desire trace ... |
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Author: Martin Swales & Erika Swales
Although Adalbert Stifter (1808-68) has long been recognised as a key figure in nineteenth-century German prose writing, his literary reputation has been curiously volatile. This major study, first published in 1984, was ... |
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Author: Eric A. Blackall
Adalbert Stifter (1805-68) is generally recognised in German-speaking countries to be the greatest prose-writer of Austria. First published in 1948, this was the first complete study of his work to appear in English. Sti ... |
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Author: George Eliot
The Clarendon edition of Adam Bede (1859) is the first critical edition of the work that established George Eliot's reputation. Its extensive textual apparatus lists manuscript and first edition variants from the copy-te ... |
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Author: George Eliot
'Our deeds carry their terrible consequences...consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves.' Pretty Hetty Sorrel is loved by the village carpenter Adam Bede, but her head is turned by the attentions of the fi ... |
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The Life of a Romantic
Author: Roman Robert Koropeckyj
Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855), Poland's national poet, was one of the extraordinary personalities of the age. In chronicling the events of his life-his travels, numerous loves, a troubled marriage, years spent as a memb ... |
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The Text and Its Mutations
Author: J.Douglas Clayton & Yana Meerzon
This book considers the hundred years of re-writes of Anton Chekhov's work, presenting a wide geographical landscape of Chekhovian influences in drama. The volume examines the elusive quality of Chekhov's dramatic univer ... |
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Author: Mark Twain
This is a reprint of the Iowa-California text of "Huckleberry Finn", accompanied by explanatory annotations, complete with original illustrations. "Context and Sources" provides a selection of documents related to the no ... |
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Author: Mark Twain
This critical edition is designed for "teaching the conflicts" surrounding Mark Twain's classic novel. It reprints the 1885 text of the first American edition (with a portfolio of illustrations) along with critical essay ... |
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