English Literary Classics – Bücher, CDs, Blu-ray Discs und mehr, Seite 7

Brad Kent
Censorship and the Irish Writer

Censorship affected the careers of many Irish writers and transformed the trajectory of modern Irish literature. Although some authors were reluctant to defend themselves and their art, others strenuously…

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Claudia Olk
Shakespeare and Beckett

"The danger is in the neatness of identifications", Samuel Beckett famously stated, and, at first glance, no two authors could be further distant from one another than William Shakespeare and Sa…

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James Aaron Green,
Fictions of Radical Life Extension

The first book-length study of fictions of radical life extension, this book recovers a major but as-yet unrecognized trend in literature and culture from 1878-1918, taking the form of literary thought ex…

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Tobias William Harris,
Flann O'Brien and the European Avant-Garde, 1934-45

Crossing the boundaries of a single-author study, this book uncovers Flann O'Brien's attempt to forge a commercially successful Irish literary project from international avant-garde influences.Situating O…

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Patrick Jones
Henry James and the Question of Living

A bold reinterpretation of Henry James's fictional universe that shows how characters who desire to "live" but struggle to translate that desire into reality actually have much to teach us about…

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Teaching the Arthurian Tradition

Essays on teaching medieval Arthurian literature and modern adaptationsFrom the Middle Ages to the present, legends of King Arthur and his court have fascinated readers, inviting contemplation of leadersh…

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Colette Nic Aodha
David Jones, Disability and Modernist Form

Employing a fresh theoretical approach to David Jones' work, this is the first book to use disability studies as a lens through which to consider his post-war work.

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Heidi Craig
Theatre Closure and the Paradoxical Rise of English Renaissance Drama in the Civil Wars

"Focusing on the production and reception of drama during the theatre closures of 1642 to 1660, Heidi Craig shows how the "death" of contemporary theatre in fact gave birth to English Renai…

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Angela Carter's Futures

This book explores Angela Carter's creative and critical afterlives as well as the multiple ways in which her work is amenable to being read through current critical and cultural theories.Examining topics…

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Teaching the Arthurian Tradition

Essays on teaching medieval Arthurian literature and modern adaptationsFrom the Middle Ages to the present, legends of King Arthur and his court have fascinated readers, inviting contemplation of leadersh…

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Florian Gargaillo
Queer Allusion

Queer Allusion uncovers the crucial but underexamined role played by literary allusion in shaping queer poetry on both sides of the Atlantic, from the trial of Oscar Wilde in 1895 to the Stonewall Riots o…

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Günter Leypoldt
Literature's Social Lives

This book draws from literary sociology to look at literature in a longue durée (from Romantic poetry to the Toni-Morrison novel). It proposes a new value theory, and sketches an institutional history of …

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Gabriele Lazzari,
New Global Realism

Shortlisted for the BACLS Monograph Prize 2025 A comparative study of contemporary realist novels that employ totality as a method and a formal principle to represent the social and economic inequalities …

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Sophie Gee
Making Waste

The obsession with waste in eighteenth-century English literatureWhy was eighteenth-century English culture so fascinated with the things its society discarded? Why did Restoration and Augustan writers su…

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Matthias Stephan,
Anglophone Literature and the Fight Against Climate Change

Offering a methodology for identifying particularly impactful literary narratives of climate change, this open access book examines a range of Anglophone fiction authors such as Margaret Atwood, Paolo Bac…

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Decoding Anne Lister

"The first edited collection of essays on the nineteenth-century diarist Anne Lister, this interdisciplinary collection highlights how her five-million-word diaries shifted paradigms and created awar…

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Ann C Hall
Ronald Harwood's Tragic Vision

"Ronald Harwood's Tragic Vision: A Critical Analysis of His Novels, Plays, and Screenplays offers the first critical analysis of prolific and award-winning British author, Ronald Harwood. The title i…

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Julianne Sandberg,
Early Modern Literature and the Bodies of a Reformed Eucharist

Examining what the eucharist taught early modern writers about their bodies and how it shaped the bodies they wrote about, this book shows how the exegetical roots of the Eucharistic controversy in 16th c…

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Julia Ditter,
Scottish Literature, Borders and the Environmental Imagination

Bringing together concerns in border studies, the environmental humanities and Scottish literary studies, this open access book examines the relationship between borders and the environment in Scottish li…

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Power and Society in Terry Pratchett's Discworld

A critical deep-drive into conceptions of power and society in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, this book brings together experts in fantasy literature, political sciences, economics, philosophy, histo…

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