Literary Theory category: 45240 books
Mind, Body, Motion, Matter
Eighteenth-Century British and French Literary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Mind, Body, Motion, Matter investigates the relationship between the eighteenth century’s two predominant approaches to the natural world – mechanistic materialism and vitalism – in the works of leading British and French writers such as Daniel Defoe, William Hogarth, Laurence Sterne, the third...
Johnson's Critical Presence
Image, History, Judgment
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Samuel Johnson remains one of the most frequently discussed and cited of the eighteenth-century critics; but historians of criticism have invariably interpreted his work within conventions that have allowed for little evaluative commerce between the needs of the critical present and the voices of...
by Harald Weinrich
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Can language hide thoughts? This question, posed by the German Academy for Language and Literature in 1965 as the topic of its first essay competition, was taken up by the philologist Harald Weinrich, with far-ranging results. The most immediate was his claiming first prize with this volume's title...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
A prolific poet, art critic, essayist, and translator, Charles Baudelaire is best known for his volumes of verse (*Les Fleurs du Mal* [*Flowers of Evil*]) and prose poems (*Le Spleen de Paris* [*Paris Spleen*]). This volume explores his prose poems, which depict Paris during the Second Empire and...
The Politics of Gender in Anthony Trollope's Novels
New Readings for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Bringing together established critics and exciting new voices, The Politics of Gender in Anthony Trollope's Novels offers original readings of Trollope that recognize and repay his importance as source material for scholars working in diverse fields of literary and cultural studies. As the editors...
by Patricia Ingham
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
The novels of Charlotte and Emily Bronte have become canonical texts for the application of twentieth century literary and cultural theory. Along with the work of their sister, Anne, their texts are regarded as a sources of diversity in themselves, full of conflictual material which different schools...
Subjecting Verses
Latin Love Elegy and the Emergence of the Real
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
The elegy flared into existence, commanded the cultural stage for several decades, then went extinct. This book accounts for the swift rise and sudden decline of a genre whose life span was incredibly brief relative to its impact. Examining every major poet from Catullus to Ovid, Subjecting Verses...
Postal Plots in British Fiction, 1840-1898
Readdressing Correspondence in Victorian Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
By 1840, the epistolary novel was dead. Letters in Victorian fiction, however, were unmistakably alive. Postal Plots explores how Victorian postal reforms unleashed a new and sometimes unruly population into the Victorian literary marketplace where they threatened the definition and development of the Victorian literary professional.
Disabling Characters
Representations of Disability in Young Adult Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Disabling Characters provides detailed analyses of selected young adult (YA) novels and short stories. It looks at the relative agency of the disabled character, the behavior of the other characters, the environment in which the character must live, the assumptions that seem to be underlying certain...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
The essays collected in this book examine different aspects of change in literature and culture of the Anglophone world. The contributors analyse literary theory as well as individual literary works ranging from John Dryden’s poetry, through the 18th-century English novel, to the 20th-century drama...
by David Alderson
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Terry Eagleton is the foremost Marxist cultural theorist of our time. In the first book-length study of this highly influential figure, David Alderson provides detailed discussions of Eagleton's Marxism and his engagements with postmodernism, as well as an evaluation of his interventions in Irish...
by Elizabeth A. Dolan
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Arguing that vision was the dominant mode for understanding suffering in the Romantic era, Elizabeth A. Dolan shows that Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Smith, and Mary Shelley experimented with aesthetic and scientific visual methods in order to expose the social structures underlying suffering. Dolan's...
Taste
A Literary History
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
What does eating have to do with aesthetic taste? While most accounts of aesthetic history avoid the gustatory aspects of taste, this book rewrites standard history to uncover the constitutive and dramatic tension between appetite and aesthetics at the heart of British literary tradition. From Milton...
Surprise
The Poetics of the Unexpected from Milton to Austen
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Today, in the era of the spoiler alert, "surprise" in fiction is primarily associated with an unexpected plot twist, but in earlier usage, the word had darker and more complex meanings. Originally denoting a military ambush or physical assault, surprise went through a major semantic shift in the eighteenth...