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by Dr. David Hering
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
In David Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form, David Hering analyses the structures of David Foster Wallace's fiction, from his debut The Broom of the System to his final unfinished novel The Pale King. Incorporating extensive analysis of Wallace's drafts, notes and letters, and taking account of the...
The French Genealogy of the Beat Generation
Burroughs, Ginsberg and Kerouac's Appropriations of Modern Literature, from Rimbaud to Michaux
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
The Francophilia of the Beat circle in the New York of the mid-1940s is well known, as is the importance of the Beat Hotel in the Paris of the late 1950s and early 1960s, but how exactly did French literature and culture participate in the emergence of the Beat Generation? French modernism did much...
Jonathan Franzen
The Comedy of Rage
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage is the first critical biography of one of today's most important novelists. Drawing on unpublished emails and both published and private interviews, Philip Weinstein conveys the feel and heft of Franzen's voice as he ponders the purposes and problems of his life...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Roberto Bolaño as World Literature provides an introduction to the Chilean novelist that highlights his connections with classic and contemporary masters of world literature and his investigation of topics of international interest, such as the rise of rightwing and neofascist movements during the...
The Hidden History of American Fashion
Rediscovering 20th-century Women Designers
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
This book is the first in-depth exploration of the revolutionary designers who defined American fashion in its emerging years and helped build an industry with global impact, yet have been largely forgotten. Focusing on female designers, the authors reclaim a place in history for the women who created...
Worrying
A Literary and Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History suggests a unique approach to the inner lifeand its ordinary pains. Francis O'Gormancharts the emergence of our contemporaryidea of worry in the Victorian era and itsestablishment, after the First World War,as a feature of modernity. For some writersbetween...
by Dr Serena Trowbridge
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
The poetry of Christina Rossetti is often described as 'gothic' and yet this term has rarely been examined in the specific case of Rossetti's work. Based on new readings of the full range of her writings, from 'Goblin Market' to the devotional poems and prose works, this book explores Rossetti's use...
by Dr Juliette Wells
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Reading Austen in America presents a colorful, compelling account of how an appreciative audience for Austen's novels originated and developed in America, and how American readers contributed to the rise of Austen's international fame. Drawing on a range of sources that have never before come to light,...
Alice Munro
'Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage', 'Runaway', 'Dear Life'
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
The awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to the Canadian writer Alice Munro in 2013 confirmed her position as a master of the short story form. This book explores Munro's work from a full range of critical perspectives, focussing on three of her most popular and important published collections:...
Supplanting the Postmodern
An Anthology of Writings on the Arts and Culture of the Early 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
For more than a decade now a steadily growing chorus of voices has announced that the 'postmodern' literature, art, thought and culture of the late 20th century have come to an end. At the same time as this, the early years of the 21st century have seen a stream of critical formulations proclaiming...
by Professor Stephen Shapiro, Professor Philip Barnard
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Bringing together new accounts of the pulp horror writings of H.P. Lovecraft and the rise of the popular early 20th-century religious movements of American Pentecostalism and Social Gospel, Pentecostal Modernism challenges traditional histories of modernism as a secular avant-garde movement based...
Sharing Common Ground
A Space for Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Sharing Common Ground makes a compelling contribution to an important emerging field that affects a broad swath of humanities. It uses historical, photographic, and literary examples, including an entirely new translation of a little known work by Marguerite Duras, presented here in full, to showcase...
The Politics of 1930s British Literature
Education, Class, Gender
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Winner of the 2019 International Standing Conference for the History of Education's First Book Award
Drawing on a rich array of archival sources and historical detail, The Politics of 1930s British Literature tells the story of a school-minded decade and illuminates new readings of the politics...
De Imperio
An Extract 27-45
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
De Imperio Cn. Pompeii (in support of Pompey), or Pro Lege Manilia, (in favour of the Manilian law) was Cicero's first speech on public affairs. Delivered in 66 BC when Cicero was praetor, he argued in support of a proposal from Manilius, the tribune at that time, to extend Pompey's command in the...