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  • A Little Pilgrim in the Unseen A Little Pilgrim in the Unseen
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    A Little Pilgrim in the Unseen

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  • A Quiet Corner in a Library A Quiet Corner in a Library
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    A Quiet Corner in a Library

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  • The Shooter's Hand-Book The Shooter's Hand-Book
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    The Shooter's Hand-Book

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  • The Two Foundations of St. Bartholomew's Hospital The Two Foundations of St. Bartholomew's Hospital
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    The Two Foundations of St. Bartholomew's Hospital

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  • Sermons Upon the Lord's Supper Sermons Upon the Lord's Supper
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    Sermons Upon the Lord's Supper

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  • Maids of Paradise Maids of Paradise
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    Maids of Paradise

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  • The Rivals of Este The Rivals of Este
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    The Rivals of Este

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  • Memorials of Holdenby Memorials of Holdenby
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    Memorials of Holdenby

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  • The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Volume 16 The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Volume 16
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    The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Volume 16

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  • Letters On England, Volume 2 Letters On England, Volume 2
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    Letters On England, Volume 2

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  • Fortunate Days Fortunate Days
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    Fortunate Days

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  • As a Man Lives As a Man Lives
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    As a Man Lives

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  • Writings on Love in the English Middle Ages Writings on Love in the English Middle Ages
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    Writings on Love in the English Middle Ages

    This is a set of essays from many of the leading scholars in the world of medieval studies, which addresses a wide diversity of texts and genres and their diverse perspectives on love. Attention is given to interaction between English writings and...
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  • Reading Irish-American Fiction Reading Irish-American Fiction
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    Reading Irish-American Fiction

    This book analyzes five novels, all published between 1989 and 1999, in which the main characters are 'hyphenated people': Americans who are ancestrally joined to, yet realistically separated from, the Irish. Hallissy explores why these characters think...
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  • The Legacy of Primo Levi The Legacy of Primo Levi
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    The Legacy of Primo Levi

    This collection represents some of the latest research on Primo Levi, the famous Auschwitz survivor Italian author, in the field of Italian Studies, Holocaust Studies, Jewish Studies, literary theory, philosophy, and ethics. The author has collected an...
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  • The Busiest Man in England The Busiest Man in England
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    The Busiest Man in England

    This book is a critical biography of Grant Allen, (1848-1899), the first for a century, based on all the surviving primary sources. Born in Kingston, Ontario, into a cultured and affluent family, Allen was educated in France and England. A mysterious...
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  • Territories of the Psyche Territories of the Psyche
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    Territories of the Psyche

    Jean Rhys is widely credited for exposing issues of gender, nationality, race, and class in technically sophisticated, arresting narratives. Her lifelong exploration of the dynamics of the human psyche has, however, gone unrecognized. This examination...
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  • Victorian Religious Discourse Victorian Religious Discourse
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    Victorian Religious Discourse

    This collection of essays attempts to address the disparate historical and critical ways religion informs the literature and culture of nineteenth century England, showing how a representative group of major Victorians negotiated its impact. The...
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  • Dark Humour and Social Satire in the Modern British Novel Dark Humour and Social Satire in the Modern British Novel
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    Dark Humour and Social Satire in the Modern British Novel

    Colletta uses psychoanalytic theories of joke-work and gallows humour to argue that dark humour is an important, defining characteristic of Modernism. She brings together the usual suspects alongside more often overlooked writers from the period, and...
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  • Rebellious Feminism Rebellious Feminism
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    Rebellious Feminism

    In what might seem an unusual pairing, Barlett brings together the insights of Albert Camus and feminist thought, and in doing so sheds new light on both. Looking through a Camusian lens, Bartlett reveals a 'rebellious feminism' that simultaneously...
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  • The Reenchantment of Nineteenth-Century Fiction The Reenchantment of Nineteenth-Century Fiction
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    The Reenchantment of Nineteenth-Century Fiction

    An ambitious weave of ideological, literary, and commodity history, The Reenchantment of Nineteenth-Century Fiction shows how Dickens, Thackeray, and George Eliot sacralized Victorian modernity in two contradictory ways: by incarnating their moment as...
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  • Henry James and the Abuse of the Past Henry James and the Abuse of the Past
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    Henry James and the Abuse of the Past

    Henry James and the Abuse of the Past explores the complex uses to which James puts his oblique experience of the American Civil War. Why does James use and abuse the past by fabricating and distorting people and events in his autobiographical work? The...
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  • Masculinity in Male-Authored Fiction, 1950-2000 Masculinity in Male-Authored Fiction, 1950-2000
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    Masculinity in Male-Authored Fiction, 1950-2000

    Tracing the influence of masculinity on fictional form and theme through an era of dizzying social change, this timely new book conducts a close analysis of English novels selected for contrasting definitions of the male gender, from the allegedly Angry...
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  • Travel Writing and Ireland, 1760-1860 Travel Writing and Ireland, 1760-1860
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    Travel Writing and Ireland, 1760-1860

    Travel Writing and Ireland, 1760-1860 examines a range of mainly British travel and travel-writing material from the period 1760 to 1860. Beginning with an analysis of the Home Tour and Ireland's function within it, the book then considers the role of...
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  • Thomas Hardy, Metaphysics and Music Thomas Hardy, Metaphysics and Music
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    Thomas Hardy, Metaphysics and Music

    This fascinating new study by Mark Asquith offers an original approach to Hardy's art as a novelist and entirely new readings of certain musical scenes in Hardy's works. Asquith utilizes a rich seam of original archival research (both scientific and...
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  • Reading the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel Reading the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel
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    Reading the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel

    McMaster's lively study looks at the various codes by which Eighteenth-century novelists made the minds of their characters legible through their bodies. She tellingly explores the discourses of medicine, physiognomy, gesture and facial expression,...
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  • Moral Philosophers and the Novel Moral Philosophers and the Novel
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    Moral Philosophers and the Novel

    In this fascinating study, Peter Johnson makes explicit the issues involved in using the novel as a source in moral philosophy. The book pays close attention to questions of method, aesthetic accounts of the novel and the nature of ethical knowledge. The...
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  • The Theatre of Joseph Conrad The Theatre of Joseph Conrad
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    The Theatre of Joseph Conrad

    Although the dramatic dimension to Joseph Conrad's fiction is frequently acknowledged, his own experiments in drama have traditionally been marginalized. However, in all of Conrad's plays we see a distinct effort to investigate seriously the dramatic...
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  • Social Transformations in Hardy's Tragic Novels Social Transformations in Hardy's Tragic Novels
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    Social Transformations in Hardy's Tragic Novels

    Drawing on the theoretical work of Deleuze and Guattari and that of Jean Laplanche - particularly his major and as yet still relatively unfamiliar notion of the phantasme - Social Formation in Hardy's Major Novels is an original and groundbreaking...
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  • A James Joyce Chronology A James Joyce Chronology
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    A James Joyce Chronology

    The Author Chronologies Series aims to provide a means whereby the precise chronological facts of an author's life and career can be seen at a glance. This chronology provides a synopsis of Joyce's first years in Dublin and, from 1900, a more detailed...
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  • Figuring the Woman Author in Contemporary Fiction Figuring the Woman Author in Contemporary Fiction
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    Figuring the Woman Author in Contemporary Fiction

    If the author is 'dead', if feminism is 'post-', why does the figure of the woman author keep appearing as a central character in contemporary fiction? She is concerned with ownership but, equally, with loss; determined to enter the cultural field but...
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  • British Women Writers and the French Revolution British Women Writers and the French Revolution
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    British Women Writers and the French Revolution

    British Women Writers and the French Revolution provides an overview of a wide range of British women's writings on the French Revolution, from writers sympathetic to the Revolution like Mary Robinson, Helen Maria Williams, and Charlotte Smith, to...
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  • An Elizabeth Gaskell Chronology An Elizabeth Gaskell Chronology
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    An Elizabeth Gaskell Chronology

    This chronology will set Elizabeth Gaskell in her historical, social and literary contexts. It will focus on her career as a writer but will also underline her interactive roles as wife, mother, practical and tolerant Christian, radical sympathizer...
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  • Victorian Travel Writing and Imperial Violence Victorian Travel Writing and Imperial Violence
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    Victorian Travel Writing and Imperial Violence

    This study explores the cultural and political impact of Victorian travelers' descriptions of physical and verbal violence in Africa. Travel narratives provide a rich entry into the shifting meanings of colonialism, as formal imperialism replaced...
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  • Jane Austen and Modernization Jane Austen and Modernization
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    Jane Austen and Modernization

    Jane Austen wrote when sociology was being established as the new discipline to understand social issues such as urbanization and industrialization. Drawing on landmark sociologists such as Durkheim and Bourdieu, this study argues that the novels of...
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  • Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star
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    Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star

    Roberto Bolaño has attained an almost mythical stature and is often considered the most influential Latin American writer of his generation. The first English-language volume of essays on the Chilean author, Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star:...
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  • Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells
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    Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells

    This book traces the literary friendship between Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells from their early correspondence through to the differences that caused their estrangement, including their respective responses to the First World War. It thus gives an...
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  • Literature's Sensuous Geographies Literature's Sensuous Geographies
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    Literature's Sensuous Geographies

    Using place studies within a postcolonial context, this study explores the sense-aesthetic dimensions in literature such as smell, sound, etc. that often challenge the rationalizing logic of modernity. Through close readings of writers such as Conrad and...
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  • Literature and Photography in Transition, 1850-1915 Literature and Photography in Transition, 1850-1915
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    Literature and Photography in Transition, 1850-1915

    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,...
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  • The Postcolonial Historical Novel The Postcolonial Historical Novel
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    The Postcolonial Historical Novel

    The Postcolonial Historical Novel is the first systematic work to examine how the historical novel has been transformed by its appropriation in postcolonial writing. It proposes new ways to understand literary realism, and explores how the relationship...
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  • The Perils of Print Culture The Perils of Print Culture
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    The Perils of Print Culture

    This collection of essays illustrates various pressures and concerns-both practical and theoretical-related to the study of print culture. Procedural difficulties range from doubts about the reliability of digitized resources to concerns with the...
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  • British Novelists in Hollywood, 1935-1965 British Novelists in Hollywood, 1935-1965
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    British Novelists in Hollywood, 1935-1965

    British Novelists in Hollywood, 1935-1965 calls attention to the shifting grounds of cultural expression by highlighting Hollywood as a site that unsettled definitions and narratives of colonialism and national identity for prominent British novelists...
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  • William Cobbett, the Press and Rural England William Cobbett, the Press and Rural England
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    William Cobbett, the Press and Rural England

    William Cobbett, the Press and Rural England offers a thorough re-appraisal of William Cobbett (1763-1835), situating his journalism and rural radicalism in relation to contemporary political debates.
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