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Outcasts and Angels
The New Anthology of Deaf Characters in Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
In 1976, Trent Batson and Eugene Bergman released their classic Angels and Outcasts: An Anthology of Deaf Characters in Literature. In it, they featured works from the 19th and 20th centuries by well-known authors such as Charles Dickens and Eudora Welty. They also presented less-well-known deaf authors,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2000
This book introduces in a lively and succinct way the major writers, literary movements, styles and genres that, at the beginning of a new century, are seen as constituting the field of 'Australian literature'. The book consciously takes a perspective that sees literary works not as aesthetic objects...
by Professor Phillip J. Barrish
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
Between the Civil War and the First World War, realism was the most prominent form of American fiction. Realist writers of the period include some of America's greatest, such as Henry James, Edith Wharton and Mark Twain, but also many lesser-known writers whose work still speaks to us today, for instance...
On Company Time
American Modernism in the Big Magazines
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
American novelists and poets who came of age in the early twentieth century were taught to avoid journalism "like wet sox and gin before breakfast." It dulled creativity, rewarded sensationalist content, and stole time from "serious" writing. Yet Willa Cather, W. E. B. Du Bois,...
Working Fictions
A Genealogy of the Victorian Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2007
Working Fictions takes as its point of departure the common and painful truth that the vast majority of human beings toil for a wage and rarely for their own enjoyment or satisfaction. In this striking reconceptualization of Victorian literary history, Carolyn Lesjak interrogates the relationship...
Keepers of the Code
English-Canadian Literary Anthologies and the Representation of the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Keepers of the Code explores the complex network of associations and negotiations that influenced the development of literary anthologies in English Canada from 1837 to the present. Lecker shows that these anthologies are deeply conflicted narratives that embody the tensions and anxieties felt by...
by Jonathan Sachs
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Anxieties about decline were a prominent feature of British public discourse in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. These anxieties were borne out repeatedly in books and periodicals, pamphlets and poems. Tracing the reciprocal development of Romantic-era Britain's rapidly expanding...
by Katrin Berndt
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Friendship has always been a universal category of human relationships and an influential motif in literature, but it is rarely discussed as a theme in its own right. In her study of how friendship gives direction and shape to new ideas and novel strategies of plot, character formation, and style...
Heimat, Loss and Identity
Flight and Expulsion in German Literature from the 1950s to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
What became of ethnic Germans in Eastern Europe during the Second World War? In recent years, their suffering, flight and expulsion during and after the war has attracted increasing critical attention. A wave of literary fiction has accompanied this trend, contributing to, and sometimes triggering,...
Comrades and Critics
Women, Literature, and the Left in 1930s Canada
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2009
While Canadian historians have studied socialism in the 1930s, and although there have been many studies of American and British literary leftists from this period, Comrades and Critics is the first full-length study of Canada's 1930s literary left. Challenging dominant perceptions that this decade...
Literary Half-Lives
Doris Lessing, Clancy Sigal, and Roman à Clef
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
While Doris Lessing was composing The Golden Notebook , she was intimately involved with Clancy Sigal and their relationship influenced the literary methods of both writers. Focusing on literary transformations, Rubenstein offers compelling insights into the ethical implications of disguised autobiography and roman à clef .
by Maud Ellmann
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
This collection of essays provides students of literary critical theory with an introduction to Freudian methods of interpretation, and shows how those methods have been transformed by recent developments in French psychoanalysis, particularly by the influence of Jacques Lacan. It explains how classical...
The Ruined House
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
“In The Ruined House a ‘small harmless modicum of vanity’ turns into an apocalyptic bonfire. Shot through with humor and mystery and insight, Ruby Namdar's wonderful first novel examines how the real and the unreal merge. It's a daring study of madness, masculinity, myth-making and the...
Rethinking G.K. Chesterton and Literary Modernism
Parody, Performance, and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
This book comprehensively rethinks the relationship between G.K. Chesterton and a range of key literary modernists. When Chesterton and modernism have previously been considered in relation to one another, the dynamic has typically been conceived as one of mutual hostility, grounded in Chesterton’s...