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  • Individualism, Decadence and Globalization Individualism, Decadence and Globalization
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    Individualism, Decadence and Globalization

    Acknowledgements Introduction: Individuals-in-Relation The Ironies of Western Individualism New Women, Female Aesthetes and Socialist Individualists: The Literature of Separateness and Solubility Decadent Interiority and the Will The Unclassed and the...
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  • The Female Gothic The Female Gothic
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    The Female Gothic

    This rich and varied collection of essays makes a timely contribution to critical debates about the Female Gothic, a popular but contested area of literary studies. The contributors revisit key Gothic themes - gender, race, the body, monstrosity,...
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  • Sensation and Sublimation in Charles Dickens Sensation and Sublimation in Charles Dickens
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    Sensation and Sublimation in Charles Dickens

    To what extent did Charles Dickens see himself as a medium of forces beyond his conscious control? What did he think such subconscious mechanisms might be, and how did his thoughts on the subject play out in his writings? Sensation and Sublimation in...
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  • Romanticism and the City Romanticism and the City
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    Romanticism and the City

    Romanticism and the City explores how late eighteenth-and early nineteenth-century literature conceptualized urban space. Fresh readings of key texts show how Romantic concerns with urban life shaped both individual works and broader theoretical issues.
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  • The Traffic in Obscenity From Byron to Beardsley The Traffic in Obscenity From Byron to Beardsley
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    The Traffic in Obscenity From Byron to Beardsley

    List of Figures List of Plates Acknowledgements PART I: THE TRAFFIC IN OBSCENITY Introduction An "Extensive Traffic": The Print Trade in Nineteenth-Century British Obscenity PART II: HAREMS AND LONDON'S UNDERGROUND PRINT CULTURE The Unruly Copies of...
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    Biography of a Book
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    Biography of a Book

    Biography of a Book traces the life of an iconic Australian literary work in the lead-up to, and for a century after, its initial publication: Henry Lawson's 1896 collection While the Billy Boils. Paul Eggert follows Lawson's gradual development of a...
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  • Glad to the Brink of Fear
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    Glad to the Brink of Fear

    An engaging reassessment of the celebrated essayist and his relevance to contemporary readersMore than two centuries after his birth, Ralph Waldo Emerson remains one of the presiding spirits in American culture. Yet his reputation as the starry-eyed...
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    Dostoevsky at 200
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    Dostoevsky at 200

    Marking the bicentenary of Dostoevsky's birth, Dostoevsky at 200: The Novel in Modernity takes the writer's art specifically the tension between experience and formal representation as its central theme. While many critical approaches to Dostoevsky's...
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  • Art and Literature of the Second Empire Art and Literature of the Second Empire
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    Art and Literature of the Second Empire

    This volume explores the characteristics of the art and literature of the Second Empire in France; it examines the attitudes and positioning of artists and writers of the period in relation to a regime of dubious legitimacy, and the ways in which that...
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  • Before Modernism
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    Before Modernism

    How Black poets have charted the direction of American poetics for the past two centuriesBefore Modernism examines how Black poetics, in antagonism with White poetics in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, produced the conditions for the...
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  • Jane Austen, Early and Late
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    Jane Austen, Early and Late

    A reexamination of Austen's unpublished writings that uncovers their continuity with her celebrated novels-and that challenges distinctions between her "early" and "late" workJane Austen's six novels, published toward the end of her short life, represent...
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  • Quaint, Exquisite
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    Quaint, Exquisite

    Winner of the NAVSA Best Book of the Year, North American Victorian Studies AssociationFrom the opening of trade with Britain in the 1850s, Japan occupied a unique and contradictory place in the Victorian imagination, regarded as both a rival empire and...
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Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900