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Cultural Status, Genre and Critique

Edited By: Pauline MacPherson, Chris Murray

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An incisive collection of essays exploring subversive texts, with readings of authors such as Kazuo Ishiguro, Neil Gaiman, and Philip Pullman, and filmmakers such as Terry Gilliam and Orson Welles.

Riots in Literature

Edited By: David Bell, Gerald Porter

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This book explores how literature portrays riots not as chaos, but as popular politics. Spanning from Shakespeare to postcolonial uprisings, these essays analyze the charged language of power and resistance, revealing the tension between official culture and the crowd.

With Poetry and Philosophy

Four Dialogic Studies—Wordsworth, Browning, Hopkins and Hardy

By: David Miller

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This book explores the dialogue between poetry and philosophy, from Kant and Wordsworth to Adorno and Hardy. Outlining a new ‘dialogic’ approach, it produces considerations on language and thought that are unexpected, yet strangely fitting.

“Catch if you can your country’s moment”

Recovery and Regeneration in the Poetry of Adrienne Rich

Edited By: William S. Waddell

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These essays explore Adrienne Rich’s work, arguing for a shift from her personal feminist awakening to her later, public re-imagination of America. A transformative cartographer of words, Rich remaps our culture for the marginalized and the resistant.

Through Other Eyes

The Translation of Anglophone Literature in Europe

Edited By: Sophie Alatorre, Richard Trim

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This volume investigates how English literary works have been translated and disseminated in Europe since the Renaissance. It explores translators’ intentions, faithfulness to the source text, and why translations are often portrayed in a different light to the original.

“A Noble Unrest”

Contemporary Essays on the Work of George MacDonald

Edited By: Jean Webb

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"A Noble Unrest" is an international collection of essays on George MacDonald, the 19th-century fantasy writer whose work critiqued the Victorian era. Scholars explore his fiction, his influence, and his relevance for the contemporary reader.

“A Noble Unrest” is an international collection of essays on George MacDonald, the 19th-century fantasy writer whose work critiqued the Victorian era. Scholars explore his fiction, his influence, and his relevance for the contemporary reader.

The Language of Literature and its Meaning

A Comparative Study of Indian and Western Aesthetics

By: Ashima Shrawan

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Exploring how the language of literature and its meaning have been dealt with in both Indian and Western aesthetic thinking, Shrawan focuses on the intersections between the theories of vakrokti and Russian formalism, and those between dhvani and deconstruction.

Romanticism and Parenting

Image, Instruction and Ideology

Edited By: Carolyn Weber

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How do parents encode and decode our world? Romantic writers explored what it meant to “parent” in the domestic and political sphere. This collection reveals how the Romantic period has come to profoundly influence our own current constructions of the politics of parenting.

Gaining a Face

The Romanticism of C.S. Lewis

By: James Prothero, Donald T. Williams

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This study traces the aspects of Lewis’s romantic thought as it is drawn from MacDonald, Wordsworth and other influences, and details how, beyond his fascination with joy, Lewis constructed a consistent romantic vision that allowed for a balance with reason.

The Position of Magic in Selected Medieval Spanish Texts

By: Francis Tobienne

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This book addresses the blurred lines between magic, religion, and science in Spanish literature and history. It explores the divide between white and black magic, Alfonso X’s court, and a window of quasi-tolerance amidst Muslims, Jews, and Christians.

Redefining Modernism and Postmodernism

Edited By: Sebnem Toplu, Şebnem Toplu

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Twenty-first century crises demand a re-evaluation of modernism and postmodernism. This collection of essays by international scholars offers new perspectives on literature, film, art, and politics, navigating debates beyond the traditional dichotomy.

Engaging Tradition, Making It New

Essays on Teaching Recent African American Literature

Edited By: Stephanie Brown, Éva Tettenborn

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Engaging Tradition, Making It New offers fresh scholarly and pedagogical approaches to new African American literature. Focusing on transgression, this collection explores writers who challenge expectations, pointing toward new methods of teaching and research.

Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de Tencin, The History of the Count de Comminge, translated by Charlotte Lennox

Edited By: Marianna D’Ezio

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In 1756, celebrated novelist Charlotte Lennox translated a novel by the controversial French intellectual Madame de Tencin. Knowing it was penned by a woman, Lennox serialized it in her feminist magazine. This is the first reprint in two centuries.

The Forbidden

Edited By: Benito Pérez Galdós

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A wealthy philanderer attempts to buy the favors of his three beautiful married cousins. He succeeds with two, but it is the wild and impetuous Camila who resists his temptations and holds our attention. A major work from Spain’s greatest novelist.

De-stereotyping Indian Body and Desire

Edited By: Kaustav Chakraborty

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This book deconstructs the ‘otherizing’ of the marginalized by offering an alternative reading of the body and desire. It investigates bodies with ‘unnatural’ desires to expose and subvert the subtle political ideologies behind stereotypes.

The Modernist Impulse and a Contemporary Opus

Replaced by Writing

By: Frederic Will

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This volume represents a study in the formation of a personal literary opus, and in theoretical reflections involved in understanding that opus. The opus is addressed by pieces of individual text and by a close pursuit of how the author is transformed into those pieces of text.

Factual Fictions

Narrative Truth and the Contemporary American Documentary Novel

By: Leonora Flis

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This book explores the American documentary novel's rise in the 1960s alongside New Journalism. Analyzing works by Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, and Don DeLillo, it productively complicates the precarious divide between fact and fiction.

This book explores the American documentary novel’s rise in the 1960s alongside New Journalism. Analyzing works by Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, and Don DeLillo, it productively complicates the precarious divide between fact and fiction.

George Moore

Artistic Visions and Literary Worlds

Edited By: Mary Pierse

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George Moore was a significant, controversial figure on the literary stages of Paris, London and Dublin. This collection offers fresh insights into his innovations, pioneering short stories, avant-garde feminism, and contentious novel about the historical Jesus.

Exploring Space

Trends in Literature, Linguistics and Translation

Edited By: Shakila Abdul Manan, Lalita Sinha

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This collection of original essays on Literature, Linguistics, and Translation by Malaysian academics reflects state-of-the-art, interdisciplinary research. It provides textual and theoretical readings from a variety of traditional and modern perspectives.

Readers, Audiences and Coteries in Early Modern England

Edited By: Geoff Baker

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This interdisciplinary collection explores how early modern texts were appropriated by individuals and groups. Case studies show how a text's physical form impacts its readership, concluding that texts hold no fixed meaning but are interpreted by each reader.

This interdisciplinary collection explores how early modern texts were appropriated by individuals and groups. Case studies show how a text’s physical form impacts its readership, concluding that texts hold no fixed meaning but are interpreted by each reader.