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    Religion and Identity in the Post-9/11 Vampire

    This book offers a unique argument for the emergence of a post-9/11 vampire that showcases changing perspectives on identity and religion in American culture, offering a look at how cultural narratives can be used to work through trauma. Cultural...
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    Conrad's Reading

    This book aligns concepts and methods from book history with new literary research on a globally studied writer. An innovative three-part approach, combining close reading the evidence of reading, scrutiny of international book distribution circuits, and...
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    Nietzsche and Modernism

    Reconfiguring Nietzsche's seminal impact on modernist literature and culture, this book presents a distinctive new reading of modernism by exploring his sustained philosophical engagement with nihilism and its inextricable tie to pain and sickness...
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  • Sleep and the Novel Sleep and the Novel
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    Sleep and the Novel

    Sleep and the Novel is a study of representations of the sleeping body in fiction from 1800 to the present day which traces the ways in which novelists have engaged with this universal, indispensable -- but seemingly nondescript -- region of human...
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  • Medical Paratexts from Medieval to Modern Medical Paratexts from Medieval to Modern
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    Medical Paratexts from Medieval to Modern

    This collection establishes the term 'medical paratexts' as a useful addition to medical humanities, book history, and literary studies research. As a relatively new field of study, little critical attention has been paid to medical paratexts. We...
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  • Joyce's Non-Fiction Writings Joyce's Non-Fiction Writings
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    Joyce's Non-Fiction Writings

    This book presents a fundamental shift in the way we approach, discuss, and evaluate Joyce's non-fictional writings. Rather than simply proposing or applying new methodologies, it historicises and reconceives the critical assumptions that have shaped...
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  • Fictions of the Press in Nineteenth-Century France Fictions of the Press in Nineteenth-Century France
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    Fictions of the Press in Nineteenth-Century France

    This book explores how writers responded to the rise of the newspaper over the course of the nineteenth century. Taking as its subject the ceaseless intertwining of fiction and journalism at this time, it tracks the representation of newspapers and...
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  • The Language of Jane Austen The Language of Jane Austen
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    The Language of Jane Austen

    Joe Bray's careful analysis of Jane Austen's stylistic techniques reveals that the genius of her writing is far from effortless; rather he makes the case for her as a meticulous craftswoman and a radical stylistic pioneer. Countering those who have...
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  • Literary Histories of the Early Anglophone Caribbean Literary Histories of the Early Anglophone Caribbean
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    Literary Histories of the Early Anglophone Caribbean

    The Caribbean has traditionally been understood as a region that did not develop a significant 'native' literary culture until the postcolonial period. Indeed, most literary histories of the Caribbean begin with the texts associated with the independence...
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  • Romantic Literature and the Colonised World Romantic Literature and the Colonised World
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    Romantic Literature and the Colonised World

    This book considers indigenous-language translations of Romantic texts in the British colonies. It argues that these translations uncover a latent discourse around colonisation in the original English texts. Focusing on poems by William Wordsworth, John...
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  • The Figure of the Animal in Modern and Contemporary Poetry The Figure of the Animal in Modern and Contemporary Poetry
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    The Figure of the Animal in Modern and Contemporary Poetry

    This book argues that there are deep connections between 'poetic' thinking and the sensitive recognition of creaturely others. It explores this proposition in relation to four poets: Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, Ted Hughes, and Les Murray. Through a...
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  • The Form of Poetry in the 1820s and 1830s The Form of Poetry in the 1820s and 1830s
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    The Form of Poetry in the 1820s and 1830s

    The 1820s and 1830s, the gap between Romanticism and Victorianism, continues to prove a difficulty for scholars. This book explores and recovers a neglected culture of poetry in those years, and it demonstrates that culture was a crucial turning point in...
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  • Reading Children in Early Modern Culture Reading Children in Early Modern Culture
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    Reading Children in Early Modern Culture

    This book is a study of children, their books and their reading experiences in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain.  It argues for the importance of reading to early modern childhood and of childhood to early modern reading cultures by...
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  • Romanticism and Aesthetic Life in Postcolonial Writing Romanticism and Aesthetic Life in Postcolonial Writing
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    Romanticism and Aesthetic Life in Postcolonial Writing

    This book explores Romanticism as a force that exerts an insistent but critically neglected pressure on the postcolonial imagination. From the decolonizing poetics of the Caribbean to the white writing of South Africa, from the aesthetics of...
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  • Domestic Noir Domestic Noir
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    Domestic Noir

    This book represents the first serious consideration of the 'domestic noir' phenomenon and, by extension, the psychological thriller. The only such landmark collection since Lee Horsley's The Noir Thriller, it extends the argument for serious, academic...
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  • Multilingualism and Modernity Multilingualism and Modernity
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    Multilingualism and Modernity

    This book explores multilingualism as an imaginative articulation of the experience of modernity in twentieth-century Spanish and American literature. It argues that while individual multilingual practices are highly singular, literary multilingualism...
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  • Nietzsche and Montaigne Nietzsche and Montaigne
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    Nietzsche and Montaigne

    This book is a historically informed and textually grounded study of the connections between Montaigne, the inventor of the essay, and Nietzsche, who thought of himself as an "attempter." In conversation with the Essais, Nietzsche developed key themes...
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  • Masculine Identity in Modernist Literature Masculine Identity in Modernist Literature
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    Masculine Identity in Modernist Literature

    This book is about the modernist narrative voice and its correlation to medical, mythological, and psychoanalytic images of emasculation between 1919 and 1945. It shows how special-effects of rhetoric and form inspired by outré modernist developments in...
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  • Haunting Modernisms Haunting Modernisms
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    Haunting Modernisms

    This book is about haunting in modernist literature. Offering an extended and textually-sensitive reading of modernist spectrality that has yet to be undertaken by scholars of either haunting or modernism, it provides a fresh reconceptualization of...
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  • Boccaccio the Philosopher Boccaccio the Philosopher
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    Boccaccio the Philosopher

    This book explores the tangled relationship between literary production and epistemological foundation as exemplified in one of the masterpieces of Italian literature. Filippo Andrei argues that Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron has a significant though...
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  • Twenty-First Century Marianne Moore Twenty-First Century Marianne Moore
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    Twenty-First Century Marianne Moore

    This collection represents a new range of critical awareness and marks the burgeoning of what is a twenty-first-century Marianne Moore renaissance. The essays explore Moore's participation in modernist movements and communities, her impact on subsequent...
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  • Romantic Childhood, Romantic Heirs Romantic Childhood, Romantic Heirs
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    Romantic Childhood, Romantic Heirs

    This book views Romantic literature's discourses of childhood, education, and reproduction through the eyes of four early nineteenth-century British authors who were uniquely implicated in those discourses. Hartley and Sara Coleridge, children of Samuel...
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  • Spain in British Romanticism Spain in British Romanticism
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    Spain in British Romanticism

    This collection of thirteen specially commissioned essays by international scholars takes a fresh look at the profound impact of the Peninsular War on Romantic British literature and culture. The expertly authored chapters explore the valorization of...
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  • Precarious Labour and the Contemporary Novel Precarious Labour and the Contemporary Novel
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    Precarious Labour and the Contemporary Novel

    This book is a major study of the presentation of work and workers in contemporary novels from India, North America and the UK. Drawing on lively recent theories about work, it shows how the novel is a crucial form for helping us to understand what work...
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  • Jews in Medieval England Jews in Medieval England
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    Jews in Medieval England

    This volume examines the teaching of Jewishness within the context of medieval England. It covers a wide array of academic disciplines and addresses a multitude of primary sources, including medieval English manuscripts, law codes, philosophy, art, and...
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  • Stupid Humanism Stupid Humanism
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    Stupid Humanism

    This book frames the undeniably copious 21st-century performances of stupidity that occur within social media as echoes of rhetorical experiments conducted by humanist writers of the Renaissance. Any historical overview of humanism will associate it with...
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  • Shakespeare / Not Shakespeare Shakespeare / Not Shakespeare
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    Shakespeare / Not Shakespeare

    This essay collection addresses the paradox that something may at once "be" and "not be" Shakespeare. This phenomenon can be a matter of perception rather than authorial intention: audiences may detect Shakespeare where the author disclaims him or have...
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  • Conrad's Sensational Heroines Conrad's Sensational Heroines
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    Conrad's Sensational Heroines

    This volume considers Joseph Conrad's use of multiple genres, including allusions to sensation fiction, pornography, anthropology, and Darwinian science, to respond to Victorian representations of gender in layered and contradictory representations of...
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  • Feminist Periodicals and Daily Life Feminist Periodicals and Daily Life
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    Feminist Periodicals and Daily Life

    This volume uncovers the ideas concerning everyday life circulating in the burgeoning feminist periodical culture of Britain in the early twentieth century. Barbara Green explores the ways in which the feminist press used its correspondence columns,...
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  • Veronica Forrest-Thomson Veronica Forrest-Thomson
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    Veronica Forrest-Thomson

    This study offers a comprehensive examination of the work of the young poet and scholar, Veronica Forrest-Thomson (1947-1975) in the context of a literary-critical revolution of the late sixties and seventies and evaluates her work against contemporary...
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  • The Aesthetics of Democracy The Aesthetics of Democracy
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    The Aesthetics of Democracy

    This book offers an original and interdisciplinary interpretation of the relation between aesthetics and modern liberal democracy, uniting the fields of art theory with the democratic political philosophy and modern liberal economic theory. The central...
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  • The Body in Pain in Irish Literature and Culture The Body in Pain in Irish Literature and Culture
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    The Body in Pain in Irish Literature and Culture

    This book elucidates the ways the pained and suffering body has been registered and mobilized in specifically Irish contexts across more than four hundred years of literature and culture. There is no singular approach to what pain means: the material...
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  • American Crime Fiction American Crime Fiction
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    American Crime Fiction

    Peter Swirski looks at American crime fiction as an artform that expresses and reflects the social and aesthetic values of its authors and readers. As such he documents the manifold ways in which such authorship and readership are a matter of informed...
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  • Thomas Hardy and Victorian Communication Thomas Hardy and Victorian Communication
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    Thomas Hardy and Victorian Communication

    This book explores the relationship between Thomas Hardy's works and Victorian media and technologies of communication - especially the penny post and the telegraph. Through its close analysis of letters, telegrams, and hand-delivered notes in Hardy's...
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  • Post-Agreement Northern Irish Literature Post-Agreement Northern Irish Literature
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    Post-Agreement Northern Irish Literature

    This book uncovers a new genre of 'post-Agreement literature', consisting of a body of texts - fiction, poetry and drama - by Northern Irish writers who grew up during the Troubles but published their work in the aftermath of the Good Friday Agreement...
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  • The Poetic Idioms of Jean Cocteau's Art The Poetic Idioms of Jean Cocteau's Art
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    The Poetic Idioms of Jean Cocteau's Art

    Cocteau had an ambition many a poet has: to become immortal. But he, perhaps more than most, addressed this ambition directly in a great many of his plays, poems, and films. This book puts the work of this elusive and compelling poet under the...
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  • The Theatres of Eighteenth-Century Weather The Theatres of Eighteenth-Century Weather
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    The Theatres of Eighteenth-Century Weather

    While British drama of the long eighteenth century remains largely unexamined as registering ecological fears, its visual spectacle and settings allow the audience to grasp threats to environments across the globe. In plays from 1682-1799, The Theatres...
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  • Fictions of Witness in the Confessio Amantis Fictions of Witness in the Confessio Amantis
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    Fictions of Witness in the Confessio Amantis

    Fictions of Witness in the Confessio Amantis details the first years of the Confessio's material history and offers a major revision to a century's old narrative of political revision and conversion around the trauma of 1400. Joel Fredell argues for...
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  • Imagining the Self in South Asian and African Literatures Imagining the Self in South Asian and African Literatures
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    Imagining the Self in South Asian and African Literatures

    This book examines the idea of the self in Anglophone literatures from British colonies in Africa and the subcontinent, and in the context of intercultural encounter, literary hybridity and globalization. The project examines texts by eight authors...
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  • Shakespeare, Tragedy and Menopause Shakespeare, Tragedy and Menopause
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    Shakespeare, Tragedy and Menopause

    Shakespeare was not only aware of the socio-cultural fears and anxieties generated by the older woman's body but with the characterization of his tragic ageing females, Shakespeare becomes the first literary giant to explore the physiological and...
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