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Blake, Myth, and Enlightenment
The Politics of Apotheosis
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
This book provides compelling new readings of William Blake’s poetry and art, including the first sustained account of his visionary paintings of Pitt and Nelson. It focuses on the recurrent motif of apotheosis, both as a figure of political authority to be demystified but also as an image of utopian...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
This book lays bare numerous sexy Blakes, arguing for both chastity and pornography, violence and domination as well as desire and redemption, and also journeying in the realms of conceptual sex and conceptual art. Fierce tussles over the body in, and the body of, the poet-artist's work celebrate Blakean attractions and repulsions.
Blake's Drama
Theatre, Performance and Identity in the Illuminated Books
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Blake's Drama challenges conventional views of William Blake's multimedia work by reinterpreting it as theatrical performance. Viewed in its dramatic contexts, this art form is shown to provoke an active spectatorship and to depict identity as paradoxically essential and constructed, revealing Blake's investments in drama, action, and the body.
Blake 2.0
William Blake in Twentieth-Century Art, Music and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Blake said of his works, 'Tho' I call them Mine I know they are not Mine'. So who owns Blake? Blake has always been more than words on a page. This volume takes Blake 2.0 as an interactive concept, examining digital dissemination of his works and reinvention by artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers across a variety of twentieth-century media.
by Adam Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
This book is the definitive critical history of science fiction. The 2006 first edition of this work traced the development of the genre from Ancient Greece and the European Reformation through to the end of the 20th century. This new 2nd edition has been revised thoroughly and very significantly...
Middlebrow Feminism in Classic British Detective Fiction
The Female Gentleman
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
This is a feminist study of a recurring character type in classic British detective fiction by women - a woman who behaves like a Victorian gentleman. Exploring this character type leads to a new evaluation of the politics of classic detective fiction and the middlebrow novel as a whole.
Women’s Writing, Englishness and National and Cultural Identity
The Mobile Woman and the Migrant Voice, 1938-62
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
An original mapping of women's writing in the 1940s and 1950s, this book looks at Englishness and national identity in women's writing and includes writing from Scotland, Wales, Ireland the Indian subcontinent and Africa. The authors discussed include Virginia Woolf, Daphne Du Maurier, Doris Lessing and Muriel Spark.
Women's Life Writing, 1700-1850
Gender, Genre and Authorship
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
This collection discusses British and Irish life writings by women in the period 1700-1850. It argues for the importance of women's life writing as part of the culture and practice of eighteenth-century and Romantic auto/biography, exploring the complex relationships between constructions of femininity, life writing forms and models of authorship.
Jane Austen's Possessions and Dispossessions
The Significance of Objects
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Who owns, who buys, who gives, and who notices objects is always significant in Austen's writing, placing characters socially and characterizing them symbolically. Jane Austen's Possessions and Dispossessions looks at the significance of objects in Austen's major novels, fragments, and juvenilia.
by J. Darcy
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
This book traces the development of literary biography in the eighteenth century; how writers' melancholy was probed to explore the inner life. Case studies of a number of significant authors reveal the 1790s as a time of biographical experimentation. Reaction against philosophical biography led to a nineteenth-century taste for romanticized lives.
by R. Terry
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
Contributing to the growth in plagiarism studies, this timely new book highlights the impact of the allegation of plagiarism on the working lives of some of the major writers of the period, and considers plagiarism in relation to the emergence of literary copyright and the aesthetic of originality.
The Foundations of Anti-Apartheid
Liberal Humanitarians and Transnational Activists in Britain and the United States, c.1919-64
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
Anti-apartheid was one of the most significant international causes of the late twentieth century. The book provides the first detailed history of the emergence of anti-apartheid activism in Britain and the USA, tracing the network of individuals and groups who shaped the moral and political character of the movement.
by J. Barry
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Using south-western England as a focus for considering the continued place of witchcraft and demonology in provincial culture in the period between the English and French revolutions, Barry shows how witch-beliefs were intricately woven into the fabric of daily life, even at a time when they arguably ceased to be of interest to the educated.
Romanticism and Blackwood's Magazine
'An Unprecedented Phenomenon'
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
This collection of essays throws vast new light on the most significant literary-political journal of the Romantic age. Its chapters analyze Blackwood's wide-ranging contributions on some of the most topical issues in Romantic studies, including celebrity, British versus Scottish nationalism, and the rise of terror and detective fiction.