Literary category: 117525 books
Chaos and Cosmos
Literary Roots of Modern Ecology in the British Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
In Chaos and Cosmos, Heidi Scott integrates literary readings with contemporary ecological methods to investigate two essential and contrasting paradigms of nature that scientific ecology continues to debate: chaos and balance. Ecological literature of the Romantic and Victorian eras uses environmental...
Literary Infinities
Number and Narrative in Modern Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Today, we have forgotten that mathematics was once aligned with the arts, rather than with the sciences. Literary Infinities analyses the connection between the late 19th-century revolution in the mathematics of the infinite and the literature of 20th-century modernism, opening up a novel path of...
Teaching Later British Literature
A Thematic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019
There are few more intimidating moments in an English teacher’s career than those in which they learn that they have been assigned ‘the survey’ for the first time. Distilling scores of years of literary history and thousands of pages of literary texts into a coherent semester can seem impossible...
by André Ladouceur
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
There is a world of difference between Francreole and Creole. They differ not so much by their phraseologies, but much more so in everything else.
Francreole is a diaglocy, a romantic literary genre, a mixture of two grammatical and modern languages. Creole is just a grammatically neglected...
Postcolonial Manchester
Diaspora space and the devolution of literary culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Postcolonial Manchester offers a radical new perspective on Britain’s devolved literary cultures by focusing on Manchester’s vibrant, multicultural literary scene. Referencing Avtar Brah’s concept of ‘diaspora space’, the authors argue that Manchester is, and always has been, a quintessentially...
Phonopoetics
The Making of Early Literary Recordings
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
Phonopoetics tells the neglected story of early "talking records" and their significance for literature, from the 1877 invention of the phonograph to some of the first recorded performances of modernist works. The book challenges assumptions of much contemporary criticism by taking the recorded,...
Literary Sociability in Early Modern England
The Epistolary Record
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
This study represents a significant reinterpretation of literary networks during what is often called the transition from manuscript to print during the early modern period. It is based on a survey of 28,000 letters and over 850 mainly English correspondents, ranging from consumers to authors, significant...
Writing for the Masses
Dorothy L. Sayers and the Victorian Literary Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
In Writing for the Masses: Dorothy L. Sayers and the Victorian Literary Tradition Dr. Christine A. Colón explores how Sayers carefully negotiates the complexities of early twentieth century literary culture by embracing a specifically Victorian literary tradition of writing to engage a wide audience....
Paper Minds
Literature and the Ecology of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
How do poems and novels create a sense of mind? What does literary criticism say in conversation with other disciplines that addresses problems of consciousness? In Paper Minds, Jonathan Kramnick takes up these vital questions, exploring the relations between mind and environment, the literary forms...
The Shifting Sands of the North Sea Lowlands
Literary and Historical Imaginaries
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Global seawater levels are rising and the low-lying coasts of the North Sea basin are amongst the most vulnerable in Europe. In our current moment of environmental crisis, the North Sea coasts are literary arenas in which the challenges and concerns of the Anthropocene are being played out.
This...
by Sandy Petrey
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
This book, first published in 1990, combines an introduction to speech-act theory as developed by J. L. Austin with a survey of critical essays that have adapted Austin's thought for literary analysis. Speech-act theory emphasizes the social reality created when speakers agree that their language...
Edward Thomas and World Literary Studies
Wales, Anglocentrism and English Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Edward Thomas and World Literary Studies offers a revelatory re-reading of Edward Thomas. Adapting Pascale Casanova’s vision of ‘world literature’ as a system of competing national traditions, this study analyses Thomas’s appropriation of Anglocentric British literary culture at key moments...
Tolkien and the Great War
The Threshold of Middle-earth
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
How the First World War influenced the author of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy: “Very much the best book about J.R.R. Tolkien that has yet been written.” —A. N. Wilson
As Europe plunged into World War I, J. R. R. Tolkien was a student at Oxford and part of a cohort of literary-minded...
The Wives
The Women Behind Russia's Literary Giants
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
An “intriguing collection of biographies of six extraordinary women . . . Fascinating proof that being a writer’s wife is a profession in itself” (Kirkus Reviews).
“Behind every good man is a good woman” is a common saying, but when it comes to literature, the relationship between...