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Natania Meeker
Illusive Materialisms

Illusive Materialisms brings a close attention to gender to bear on the philosophical and political argument that sensual pleasure, framed as a mode of feminine responsiveness, is the primary business of …

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Zombie Futures in Literature, Media and Culture

An exploration into how the figure of the zombie uniquely articulates the societal changes prompted by the health, ecological and ideological threats to humanity in the 2020s and what such narratives can …

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Natania Meeker
Illusive Materialisms

Illusive Materialisms brings a close attention to gender to bear on the philosophical and political argument that sensual pleasure, framed as a mode of feminine responsiveness, is the primary business of …

lieferbar ab 6.1.2026.

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Melissa Frazier
Signs of the Material World

Signs of the Material World traces the literary effects of nineteenth-century materialism that includes the mind and body within a multifaceted "living life." The book examines a range of scient…

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Kimberly Chung
The Sensational Proletarian

"Starving ghosts, anguished farmers, and grieving mothers. Floating heads, gaunt bodies, and masses of bodily fluids. Such are the visceral sensations, exaggerated affects, and suffering subjects tha…

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Kiron Ward,
Encyclopaedism and Totality in Contemporary Fiction

Taking as key examples work by Don DeLillo, Leslie Marmon Silko, Roberto Bolaño, and Karen Tei Yamashita, this book looks at engagements with encyclopaedic thought and practice in contemporary fiction. Ch…

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Joyce in Trieste

Through a wide variety of essays on language, history, politics, and culture in the works of James Joyce, this book celebrates the transformative effects of the city of Trieste on Joyce's writing

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Jenifer Presto
The Geopoetics of Catastrophe

For the Russian modernists, Italy's cataclysmic terrain proved no less arresting than its art and culture. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, and the ruinous effects of tourism: these are the di…

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Toni Morrison
Language as Liberation

Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize--winning author of BelovedToni Morrison investigates Black characters in the American literary canon and the way they shaped the nation's collective unconscious.In a dazz…

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Carmen Lamas
The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas

The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas argues that the process of recovering Latina/o figures and writings in the nineteenth century does not merely create a bridge between the US and La…

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Thomas Mann, Nicola Luckhurst, Ritchie Robertson
Death in Venice and Other Stories

'impossible here, absurd, depraved, ludicrous and yet sacred, still honourable, even here: "I love you!"'RThis volume contains a generous selection of the short fiction Thomas Mann published in …

lieferbar ab 8.4.2026.

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John Gordon
Sensational Joyce

This book demonstrates that James Joyce's Ulysses is a book that imitates the workings of the human mind, connecting close readings of the novel's text to psychological theories of Joyce's time.

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Joseph Conrad's Cultural Legacy

"In 2024 the literary community commemorates the 100th anniversary of the death of Joseph Conrad. This volume of collected essays by leading critics and scholars in the field of Conrad studies as wel…

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British Writing, Propaganda and Cultural Diplomacy in the Second World War and Beyond

This book offers the first sustained analysis of the interactions between British writers, propaganda and culture from the Second World War to the Cold War. It traces the involvement of a series of major …

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Patrick Armstrong
Microscopy, Magnification and Modernist Fiction

Exploring how modernism registered shock experiences of the microscopic and extended vision in prose fiction through the work of four modernist writers - D. H. Lawrence, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and…

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Laura Bradley
Brecht and the Art of Spectatorship

Bertolt Brecht's epic theatre sought to change how spectators watched performances, equipping them to critique and intervene in the world outside the theatre. Taking its cue from his call for theatre to d…

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Modernism Revisited

"This book delves into modernism, addressing its intricate relationship with the socio-political, philosophical, and cultural upheavals of the late 19th and early 20th centuries"-- Provided by p…

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modernist Archives

Providing a broad, definitive account of how the 'archival turn' in humanities scholarship has shaped modernist studies, this book also functions as an ongoing 'practitioner's toolkit' (including useful b…

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Gary Saul Morson
Wonder Confronts Certainty

Gary Saul Morson brings to life the intense intellectual debates shaping two centuries of Russian writing. Dialogues of great writers with philosophical wanderers and blood-soaked radicals reveal a contes…

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Jeffrey F Keuss,
Activism and the Literary Self in 20th- And 21st-Century Literature

Exploring how Shusaku Endo, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Thomas Merton, Marilynne Robinson, Cormac McCarthy, and Octavia E. Butler engage with social justice and activism, this book explores the significant role tha…

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