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Indias Literary History
Essays on the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This book, the first major reassessment of literary history in nineteenth-century India for a generation, opens up this emerging field of literary history to nineteenth-century India. Its essays emphasise the making of literary history, the process of canonisation, the reinvention of literary tradition,...
A Writing Life
Helen Garner and Her Work
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
‘This is literary critique and biography at its finest. Australian Financial Review
Helen Garner is one of Australia’s most important and most admired writers. She is revered for her fearless honesty in the pursuit of her craft.
But Garner also courts controversy, not least because...
by Faye Hammill
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
As mass media burgeoned in the years between the first and second world wars, so did another phenomenon—celebrity. Beginning in Hollywood with the studio-orchestrated transformation of uncredited actors into brand-name stars, celebrity also spread to writers, whose personal appearances and private...
Literary Seductions
Compulsive Writers and Diverted Readers
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
We have all surrendered ourselves to the world that writing creates. Eudora Welty once observed that her mother read the works of Charles Dickens in the same spirit with which she would have eloped with him. Some of us remember our first novel with more pleasurable vividness than our first kiss. Many...
by Sara Upstone
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Literary theory has now become integral to how we produce literary criticism. When critics write about a text, they no longer think just about the biographical or historical contexts of the work, but also about the different approaches that literary theory offers. By making use of these, they create...
The Oxford English Literary History
Volume V: 1645-1714: The Later Seventeenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more. Each of these thirteen groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered assessment of the authors, works, cultural traditions,...
The Oxford English Literary History
Volume V: 1645-1714: Companion Volume
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more. Each of these thirteen groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered assessment of the authors, works, cultural traditions,...
The Literary Life of Cairo
One Hundred Years in the Heart of the City
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Readings from literary works that re-construct a century of Cairo's changing social life. Unlike The Literary Atlas of Cairo, which focuses on the literary geopolitics of the cityscape, this companion volume immerses the reader in the complex network of socioeconomic and cultural lives in the city....
Literary Landscapes
Charting the Worlds of Classic Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
The anticipated follow-up to the book lovers' favorite, Literary Wonderlands, LITERARY LANDSCAPES delves deep into the geography, location, and terrain of our best-loved literary works and looks at how setting and environmental attributes influence storytelling, character, and our emotional response...
The Values of Literary Studies
Critical Institutions, Scholarly Agendas
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
What is valuable about literary studies? What is its point and purpose? In The Values of Literary Studies: Critical Institutions, Scholarly Agendas, leading scholars in the field illuminate both the purpose and priorities of literary criticism. At a time when the humanities are increasingly called...
by Leah Price
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Secretaries are the hidden technicians of much literary (and non-literary) writing; they also figure startlingly often as characters in modern literature, film, and even literary criticism. Literary Secretaries/Secretarial Culture brings together secretaries' role in the production (and, more surprisingly,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
All of American author Frank Norris’s significant critical writings have been compiled in this book, including his articles for the San Francisco Wave during 1896–1897 and selections from his “Weekly Letter” column for the Chicago American in 1901. Essays from these two previously unexploited...
by Ina Ferris
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2015
This book re-reads the tangled relations of book culture and literary culture in the early nineteenth century by restoring to view the figure of the bookman and the effaced history of his book clubs. As outliers inserting themselves into the matrix of literary production rather than remaining within...
Literary Knowing in Neoclassical France
From Poetics to Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Literary Knowing in Neoclassical France analyzes the work of several literary critics in France and England, at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, who were inspired by the idea that literature – especially the literary sublime – might offer us the deepest kind...