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Poetry and Popular Protest
Peterloo, Cato Street and the Queen Caroline Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
This book provides provocative information on poetry written in response to the most revolutionary set of events seen in Britain since the 1640s: 'Peterloo', a peaceful protest that became a massacre; 'Cato Street', a government scripted rebellion; and the 'Queen Caroline Controversy', when the estranged wife of George IV tried to claim her crown.
The Celtic Revival in Shakespeare's Wake
Appropriation and Cultural Politics in Ireland, 1867-1922
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
This book reconsiders the Celtic Revival by examining appropriations of Shakespeare, using close readings of works by Arnold, Dowden, Yeats and Joyce to reveal the pernicious manner in which the discourse of Anglo-Irish cultural politics informed the critical paradigms that mediated the reading of Shakespeare in Ireland for a generation.
by Alan Bilton
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
This absorbing study of early 20th Century American Culture interprets the anarchic absurdity of slapstick movies as a form of collective anxiety dream, their fantastical images and illogical gags expressing the unconscious wishes and fears of the modern age, in a way that foreshadows the concerns of our own celebrity-obsessed consumer culture.
Modernism and Nostalgia
Bodies, Locations, Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
This book addresses the multiple meanings of nostalgia in the literature of the period. Whether depicted as an emotion, remembrance, or fixation, these essays demonstrate that the nostalgic impulse reveals how deeply rooted in the damaged, the old, and the vanishing, were the variety of efforts to imagine and produce the new—the distinctly modern.
The Writer on Film
Screening Literary Authorship
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Examining films about writers and acts of writing, The Writer on Film brilliantly refreshes some of the well-worn 'adaptation' debates by inviting film and literature to engage with each other trenchantly and anew – through acts of explicit configuration not adaptation.
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Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Melodrama in Contemporary Film and Television debates the ways in which melodrama expresses and gives meaning to: trauma and pathos; memory and historical re-visioning; home and borders; gendered and queer relations; the family and psychic identities; the national and emerging public cultures; and morality and ethics.
The Postfeminist Biopic
Narrating the Lives of Plath, Kahlo, Woolf and Austen
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
This book contributes to the growing literature on the biopic genre by outlining and exploring the conventions of the postfeminist biopic. It does so by analyzing recent films about the lives of famous women including Sylvia Plath, Frida Kahlo, Virginia Woolf and Jane Austen.
by O. Clayton
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Literature and Photography in Transition, 1850-1915 examines how British and American writers used early photography and film as illustrations and metaphors. It concentrates on five figures in particular: Henry Mayhew, Robert Louis Stevenson, Amy Levy, William Dean Howells, and Jack London.
Uses of Austen
Jane's Afterlives
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This book focuses on how Austen's life and work is being re-framed and re-imagined in 20th and 21st century literature and culture. Tracing the connections between Modernist Austen in the early C20th and feminist and post-feminist appropriations in the later C20th, it examines how Austen emerged as a complex point of reference on the global stage.
The Novels of Walter Scott and his Literary Relations
Mary Brunton, Susan Ferrier and Christian Johnstone
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Using a wealth of diverse source material this book comprises an innovative critical study which, for the first time, examines Scott through the filter of his female contemporaries. It not only provides thought-provoking ideas about their handling of, for example, the love-plot, but also produces a different, more sombre Scott.
by K. Stollznow
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Can a bump on the head cause someone to speak with a different accent? Can animals, aliens, and objects talk? Can we communicate with gods, demons, and the dead? Language Myths, Mysteries and Magic is a curio shop full of colourful superstitions, folklore, and legends about language.
The End of Russian Philosophy
Tradition and Transition at the Turn of the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
The End of Russian Philosophy describes and evaluates the troubled state of Russian philosophical thought in the post-Soviet decades. The book suggests that in order to revive philosophy as a universal, professional discipline in Russia, it may be necessary for Russian philosophy to first do away with the messianic traditions of the 19th century.
Writing Postcommunism
Towards a Literature of the East European Ruins
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
Moving through the elegiac ruins of the Berlin Wall and the Yugoslav disintegration, Writing Postcommunism explores literary evocations of the pervasive disappointment and mourning that have marked the postcommunist twilight.
Writing Lives in China, 1600-2010
Histories of the Elusive Self
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
This innovative collection explores the life stories of Chinese women and men between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries. It draws on both biographical and autobiographical narratives and on perspectives taken from life writing theory to ask how lives were lived and written within and against the rules of the auto/biographical game.