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Preface The Exploration of a Literary Cult: Theoretical Assumptions and Methodological Problems The Genesis of a Ritual: The Shakespeare Cult in English Romanticism A Middle European Case Study: The Formation of the Shakespeare Cult in Hungary The...

Acknowledgements - Introduction: Shakespeare and Contemporary Marriage - Marriage as Comic Closure - Marriage in the Middle - What Makes a Marriage - The Fate of the Nation: Marriage in History Plays - Roman Marriage - Tragic Marriage - The Wedding of...

List of Illustrations - Preface - List of Abbreviations - Introduction - A Book Resisting Interpretation - Apocalypse and Reason - Prophecy and Poetry - Revelation and Revolution - Coleridge and the Limits of Interpretation - Re-writing Apocalypse:...

Acknowledgements (as the Crisis of Credit) - Introduction: 'The Outside as Inside': Echo's(') Narrative Domain - 'The Persistence of the Vocalic': Scott and the Early Strategies of Accommodation - 'A-Filiative Families and Subversive Reproduction':...

Acknowledgements - Preface - Notes on Contributors - Introduction; P.W.Martin & R.Jarvis - A Modern Electra: Matricide in the Writings of Mary and Charles Lamb; J.Aaron - Editing the Waverley Novels; J.H.Alexander & P.Garside - Reviewing Romanticism: The...

Acknowledgements - Introduction: Hardy and the Conjurors - Desperate Remedies (1871): Making the Trojan Horse - Far from the Madding Crowd (1874): Priapus in Arcadia - The Hand of Ethelberta (1875): The Writer's Contract - The Return of the Native...

General Editor's Preface Introduction List of Abbreviations The Poe Family Map of Atlantic Seaboard, United States AN EDGAR ALLAN POE CHRONOLOGY The Poe Circle Chronology of Poe's Works Sources Index

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go...

First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The book reviews scholarly literature and archival sources including maps and diagrams, to better situate Siena's achievement in urban history and broadens our understanding of medieval technology and urban life.

Nine new studies address the phenomenon of the medieval pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, the legendary burying place of St. James.

Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction; L.Harte & M.Parker The Right to the City: Re-presentations of Dublin in Contemporary Irish Fiction; G.Smyth The Aesthetics of Exile; G.O'Brien Re-citing the Rosary: Women, Catholicism and Agency in...

Acknowledgements Note on Editions Used Introduction PART I: REPUBLICS - FAKE AND GENUINE Roman Frames of Mind 'Saying Something About Venice' PART II: THEATRICAL REPUBLICS The Alternative Commonwealth of Women Republicanism and Theatre The Republic in...

Preface - Acknowledgements - A Note on the Text - Forster's Life: A Chronology - INTERVIEWS AND RECOLLECTIONS - Forster Observed - In Conversation - Bloomsbury - Among Friends - Encounters with Forster - On Stage - Forster at King's - Pen Portraits -...

List of Plates - Preface - PART 1 - The Making of a Novelist - Defoe's Literary Achievement - A Defoe Dictionary - Key to the Characters and Locations - PART 2 - The Shorter Fiction - Robinson Crusoe - Memoirs of a Cavalier - Captain Singleton - Moll...

General Editor's Preface - Introduction - A Dickens Chronology - Sources - Genealogical Table - Index

List of Plates Preface to Volume 2 Letters The Moonstone to the Death of his Mother (1866-1868) Martha and the American Triumph (1869-February 1874) Domesticity (March 1874-1879) Illness, Work, and Family (1880-1885) Letters to 'Nannie' (1885-1888)...

The Middle Ages provides a particularly rich trove of hybrid creatures, semi-human beings, and composite bodies: we need only consider manuscript pages and stone capitals in Romanesque churches to picture the myriad figures incorporating both human and...

In this new edition Musa views Dante's intention as one of cruel and comic commentary on the shallowness and self-pity of his protagonist, who only occasionally glimpses the true nature of love. ". . . the explication de texte which accompanies [Musa's]...

The plays collected in Sisters of Gore span the development of Gothic melodrama from the 1790s to the 1840s.

At a time when biblical authority was under challenge from the Higher Criticism and evolutionary science, 'what providence meant' was the most keenly contested of questions. This book takes up the controversial subject of Dickens and religion, and offers...

Pornographic Sensibilities stages a conversation between two fields-Medieval/Early Modern Hispanic Studies and Porn Studies-that traditionally have had little to say to each other. The collection offers innovative new approaches to the study of gendered...

For over a century British authors have been writing about the Antarctic for child readers, yet this body of literature has never been explored in detail. Antarctica in British Children's Literature examines this field for the first time, identifying the...

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Keats's 'Posthumous Life': Corpus and Body Keats, Sexuality, and Tennyson's Reticence 'Curled Minion': Keats and Arnold's Dandyism 'The Sordidness of Things': Keats, Hopkins, and the Landscapes of...

The Economy of Salvation Northanger Abbey Sense and Sensibility Pride and Prejudice Mansfield Park Emma Persuasion References Selected Bibliography Index

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Abbreviations Preface Introduction The Experimental and the Absurd in Two on a Tower Some Surrealist Elements in Hardy's Prose and Verse Chance and Indeterminacy in Hardy's Novels and Poetry Discoveries of...

Introduction: Philology in A New Key Corage/Courage Estat/Estate Fre/Free Gloss Kynde/Kind Lewed/Lewd Providence Queynte/Quaint Sely/Silly Thrift Virtù/Virtue After Words References Cited Index

Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 'Failed individualism' observed in Japan: The Novels of Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) The trip of Hiroshi (1873-1935) and Akiko Yosano (1878-1942) to France and England in 1928 Yukio Mishima (1925-1970): His love of...

Introduction; W.Chernaik & M.Dzelzainis Marvell and Secret History; A.Patterson Marvell's Ghost; N.von Maltzahn The Romantic Marvell; P.Hamilton The Alchemical Republic: A Reading of the Horatian Ode ; L.Abraham & M.Wilding Rude Heaps and Decent Order; D...

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; R.Knowles A Short Report and Not Otherwise: Jack Cade in 2 Henry VI ; S.Longstaffe Carnival and Death in Romeo and Juliet ; R.Knowles The Carnivalesque in A Midsummer Night's Dream ; D.Wiles...

Acknowledgements - Introduction - Notes - PART 1: STRATEGIES OF NARRATION - 'Ignorance' and Textuality - Intertextualities - Sleeping Beauties: Discourse, Gender, Genre in the 'Erotic' Texts - PART 2: TOWARDS A POETICS OF DURAS' PROSE - Elements of a...

General Editor's Preface - Introduction - List of Abbreviations - A SHELLEY CHRONOLOGY - The Shelley Circle - Select Bibliography - Index

Preface - Acknowledgements - Author's Note - Introduction - Early Influences: 'A History of the Jews' - Frankenstein and the 'Good Cause' - 'Connected in a Thousand Ways': Mary Shelley and Lord Byron - That Masterpiece of His Malice: Valperge - 'This...

Preface - Note on Transliteration - Abbreviations - Russia and Joyce - Joyce and Three Russian Contemporaries - Joyce in Russia - Notes - Bibliography - Index

General Editor's Preface - Introduction - List of the Contributors - Music, Madness and Mephistopheles: Art and Nihilism in Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus; G.Pattison - The Appropriation of Dostoevsky in the Early Twentieth Century: Cult, Counter-cult and...

Preface - Introduction - Lopped Limbs and Chopped Purposes - Star-Crossed and Stumbling - Julius Caesar: the Making of a Diptych - The Mobled Queen and the Sweet Prince - Ironic Engagements - With Violent Pace - The Divided Kingdom - Double, Double, Toil...

Notes on the Contributors - Preface - Introduction: Coming and Going in Victorian Literature; R.Barreca - 'You did not come': Absence, Death and Eroticism in Tess; J.Kincaid - Loving You All Ways: Vamps, Vampires, Necrophiles and Necrofilles in...

Acknowledgements - Introduction to the Second Edition - Introduction to the First Edition - Jane Eyre - The Professor - Shirley - Villette - The Structure of Charlotte Bronte's Fiction - Wuthering Heights - Anne Bronte - Notes - Index