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Preface - Introduction - Growing Up - Fabian Socialist and Platform Speaker - In Print: Journalism, Publishers, Printers - Plays and Players, 1892-1914 - Philanderer and Married Man - 'Anything, Except Sport': Shaw's Recreations - World War I - Earlier...

Acknowledgements Preludium on Synchronicity Romantic Dynamics, or Towards a Physical Criticism Blake's Deep Ecology, or the Ethos of Otherness At the Limit of Physical Theory, or Physical Dynamics in Coleridge's Rime Blake's Vortex, or the Quantum Bridge...

List of Abbreviations List of Illustrations Preface with Acknowledgements PART ONE: TRIBES The Force of Negation The Deaf and Dumb Asylum Boundaries and Bounders Men at Work Image of Snow: Whartonian Womanhood Libraries and Studies: Where Real Things...

Contents Preface Preface to the Second Edition Acknowledgements Introduction Thomas Hardy Rudyard Kipling and Rupert Brooke Charles Sorley and Others Edward Thomas Edmund Blunden and Ivor Gurney Siegfried Sassoon Herbert Reed, Richard Aldington and Ford...

Introduction - A Game of Shards: Keats's 'vitally metaphorical poetry' - Enshrinings: Public Memorials and Keatsian Poetics - Keats Enshrined in Poems: the 19th-century and Traditional Poetics - Readings - Flowers, Keats, and Death - Quoting the...

This book examines Tylor's historical and polemical writings.

This critical introduction to Warner's writings aims to rehabilitate them from neglect by discussing the development of his ideas and their problematic relationship with the fictional forms through which he articulated them--a relationship which deepens...

This is a sardonic portrait of the cult of the specialist interpreter, from I.A. Richards and the Cambridge School to Jacques Derrida and his disciples.

Foreword Our First Meeting Language Like Lightning from a Clear Sky Tolkien's Double Worlds Middle-earth From Bloemfontein to Birmingham From Sarehole to Shire An Orphan Drawn to Reading Student Life in Oxford Soldier at the Front Experience of War in...

These fourteen essays create an interdisciplinary conversation about the nature and function of sacred and devotional objects across the globe during the medieval and Early Modern period.

This detailed study is the first to outline Julian of Norwich's reception throughout history, from the extant manuscripts to the present day.

Through close readings of both familiar and obscure medieval texts, the contributors to this volume attempt to read England as a singularly powerful entity within a vast geopolitical network. This capacious world can be glimpsed in the cultural flows...

Medievalism, Multilingualism, and Chaucer examines multilingual identity in the writing of Gower, Langland, and Chaucer. Mary Catherine Davidson traces monolingual habits of inquiry to nineteenth-century attitudes toward French, which had first...

This book traces the dialogic relation between Conrad's Eastern fiction and other histories and argues that it is precisely in the intersections of art and history that we locate Conrad's irony. The dialogism of Conrad's East resists any finalising...

Acknowledgements Illustrations John Ruskin at the Theatre Ruskinian Influences E.W. Godwin and Ruskinian Aesthetics Toga Plays Melodrama Pantomime Ruskinian Shakespeare Stage Beauty Index

Based on extensive new archival research, Edith Wharton and Genre: BeyondFiction offers the first study of Wharton's full engagement with original writing ingenres outside those with which she has been most closely identified. So muchmore than an...

Margaret, saint and 11th-century Queen of the Scots, remains an often-cited yet little-understood historical figure. Her world was the product of perspectives and models from Nordic, Kievan, Hungarian, Anglo-Saxon, Norman, and Scottish traditions, with...

The Middle Ages depicted in Walt Disney movies have come, for many, to figure as the Middle Ages, forming the earliest visions of the medieval past for much of the contemporary western (and increasingly eastern) imaginary. The essayists of The Disney...

This book is the first comprehensive study of the reception of classical Greece among English aesthetic writers of the nineteenth century. By exploring this history of reception, the book aims to give readers a new and fuller understanding of literary...

In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve were tempted to take a bite out of an apple that promised them the "knowledge of good and evil." Today, a shiny apple with a bite out of it is the symbol of Apple Computers. The age of the Internet has speeded up human...

This book is a study of the "mothers" of the mystery genre. Traditionally the invention of crime writing has been ascribed to Poe, Wilkie Collins and Conan Doyle, but they had formidable women rivals, whose work has been until recently largely forgotten...

Modernism and Christianity is about the formative and continuing impact of Christianity upon the cultural movement known as Modernism. It defends the view that any theoretical, historical, or critical discussion of Modernism that neglects or minimises...

List of Abbreviations Introduction Woolf's Definition of the Short Story Woolf's Short Stories as a Paradoxical and Dynamic Space Conversation, Emotion and Ethics or the Short Story as Conversation Woolf's Ethics of Reading and Writing Woolf's Short...

Contents Introduction Paradigmatic Shifts and New Orientations in Diasporic Studies: Mapping the Site of Intervention Identity, Interstitiality and Diaspora Interstitiality, Authenticity, Postmodernity Shaky Ground, New Territoralities and the Diasporic...

When a writer produces a novel that is both denounced as Communist propaganda and extolled as the ideal travelling companion for hearty venture capitalists looking to conquer the untapped markets of Southeast Asia, one would expect to see a troupe of...

The Radical Spaces of Poetry introduces a diverse range of experimental writing from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It examines the political, social and cultural implications of some of the most exciting and dynamic work of recent years, and...

Acknowledgements Introduction Systems of Literary Lionism Keats, Lyric and Personality The Cenci 's Celebrity Shelley's Glamour The Atmosphere of Authorship: Landon, Byron and Literary Culture Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Energies of Fandom Notes...

Foreword List of Illustrations Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Preface; R.Holmes Introduction; N.Roe PART I: LANDSCAPES AND LEGENDS 'More wondrous far than Egypt's boasted pyramids': The South West's Megaliths in the Romantic Period; J.Parker 'Al...

Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Feminizing Disinterest Burney's Heroines of Disinterest Strategic Disavowals in A Simple Story Gothic Properties Property Recollected in Tranquility Conclusion: Austenian Disinterest Notes Bibliography Index

Introduction War, Trauma, Postmodernism Gravity's Rainbow and Traumatic Models of History 'A Secret Code of Pain and Memory': Traumatic Repetition in the Fiction of J.G. Ballard Total War and the English Stream-of-Consciousness Novel: From Mrs Dalloway...

Contents Acknowledgements Notes on contributors Introduction: The Victorian Stage and Visual Culture; K.Newey PART I: RUSKIN AND THE THEATRE John Ruskin, Olympian Painters and the Amateur Stage; J.Richards Ruskin at the Savoy ; T.Hilton Ruskinian Moral...

Introduction: The Novel of History 1969-2005 Tradition and Renewal The Romance of the Past Empire and the Politics of Representation Political Engagement and the Romance of Withdrawal Conclusion: Fictions of the Garden Bibliography Index

The Invisible Satirist offers a fresh new reading of the Satires of Juvenal, rediscovering the poet as a smart and scathing commentator on the cultural and political world of second-century Rome. Breaking away from the focus in recent scholarship on...

This volume explores how disability is seen, written about, read and understood through literature and translation. Foregrounding the asymmetrical world of power relations, it delves into the act of translation to exhibit how disability is constructed...