Literary category: 117525 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
First published in 1974. Wordsworth, with Coleridge, is the major literary critic of the Romantic period. This volume assembles all of Wordsworth’s formal critical writings and a selection of critical comments from his correspondence. These documents are invaluable for Romantic poetry at large,...
by Rebecca Styler
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Examining popular fiction, life writing, poetry and political works, Rebecca Styler explores women's contributions to theology in the nineteenth century. Female writers, Styler argues, acted as amateur theologians by use of a range of literary genres. Through these, they questioned the Christian tradition...
George Orwell
The Politics of Literary Reputation
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
The making of literary reputations is as much a reflection of a writer's surrounding culture and politics as it is of the intrinsic quality and importance of his work. The current stature of George Orwell, commonly recognized as the foremost political journalist and essayist of the century, provides...
Jewish Feeling
Difference and Affect in Nineteenth-Century Jewish Women's Writing
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Jewish Feeling brings together affect theory and Jewish Studies to trace Jewish difference in literary works by nineteenth-century Anglo-Jewish authors. Dwor argues that midrash, a classical rabbinic interpretive form, is a site of Jewish feeling and that literary works underpinned by midrashic concepts...
by Richard J. Lane
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Covering over a century's worth of debate, thinking and writing about literature, this is a unique guide to the lives and works of fifty theorists who have left an indelible mark on literary studies.
Featuring theorists such as Judith Butler, Jacques Derrida, Sigmund Freud and Edward Said,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Exploring environmental literature from a feminist perspective, this volume presents a diversity of feminist ecocritical approaches to affirm the continuing contributions, relevance, and necessity of a feminist perspective in environmental literature, culture, and science. Feminist ecocriticism has...
Fantasies of the New Class
Ideologies of Professionalism in Post–World War II American Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
America's post–World War II prosperity created a boom in higher education, expanding the number of university-educated readers and making a new literary politics possible. Writers began to direct their work toward the growing professional class, and the American public in turn became more open to...
The Feminization of Quest-Romance
Radical Departures
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
What happens when a woman dares to imagine herself a hero? Questing, she sets out for unknown regions. Lighting a torch, she elicits from the darkness stories never told or heard before. The woman hero sails against the tides of great legends that recount the adventures of heroic men, legends deemed...
Reaping Something New
African American Transformations of Victorian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Tackling fraught but fascinating issues of cultural borrowing and appropriation, this groundbreaking book reveals that Victorian literature was put to use in African American literature and print culture in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in much more intricate, sustained, and imaginative...
Literary Criticism from Plato to Postmodernism
The Humanistic Alternative
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
This book offers a history of literary criticism from Plato to the present, arguing that this history can best be seen as a dialogue among three traditions - the Platonic, Neoplatonic, and the humanistic, originated by Aristotle. There are many histories of literary criticism, but this is the first...
Ancestral Recall
The Celtic Revival and Japanese Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Despite distance and differences in culture, the early twentieth century was a time of literary cross-pollination between Ireland and Japan. Notably, the Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats had a powerful influence on Japanese letters, at the same time that contemporary and classical Japanese...
Into the Twilight of Sanskrit Court Poetry
The Sena Salon of Bengal and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
At the turn of the twelfth-century into the thirteenth, at the court of King Laksmanasena of Bengal, Sanskrit poetry showed profound and sudden changes: a new social scope made its definitive entrance into high literature. Courtly and pastoral, rural and urban, cosmopolitan and vernacular confronted...
Avant-Garde Canadian Literature
The Early Manifestations
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
In Avant-Garde Canadian Literature, Gregory Betts draws attention to the fact that the avant-garde has had a presence in Canada long before the country's literary histories have recognized, and that the radicalism of avant-garde art has been sabotaged by pedestrian terms of engagement by the Canadian...
by Seth Whidden
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
By the 1850s, the expansion of printing and distribution technologies provided writers with more readers and literary outlets than ever before, while the ever-changing political contexts occasioned by the revolutions of 1830 and 1848 brought about differing degrees of political, social, and literary...