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Melissa Frazier

Signs of the Material World

Signs of the Material World traces the literary effects of nineteenth-century materialism that includes the mind and body within a multifaceted "living life." The book examines a range of scient…

Natania Meeker

Illusive Materialisms

Illusive Materialisms brings a close attention to gender to bear on the philosophical and political argument that sensual pleasure, framed as a mode of feminine responsiveness, is the primary business of …

Steven Connor

Exorbitance

Although modern life provides many examples of exorbitance -- of wealth, growth, information, ambition, consumption, violence -- preoccupation with what is 'over the top' is not new. What is it about the …

Sarah Jones

The Doctor-Patient Relationship and the Nineteenth-Century French Novel

This book studies a wide range of canonical authors from across the nineteenth century from the perspective of the medical humanities, focussing on the idealized doctor-patient relationship and the medica…

Oscar Peterson (1925-2007)

The Classic Years

Carmen Lamas

The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas

The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas argues that the process of recovering Latina/o figures and writings in the nineteenth century does not merely create a bridge between the US and La…

Danakil

Dialogue De Sourds

2008 erschienen, ist »Dialogue De Sourds« inzwischen ein Klassiker des French Reggae und mit Songs wie »Les Vieillards«, »Marley«, »Woman« oder dem Titelsong ein Paradebeispiel für den modernen Roots-Soun…

Patrick Armstrong

Microscopy, Magnification and Modernist Fiction

Exploring how modernism registered shock experiences of the microscopic and extended vision in prose fiction through the work of four modernist writers - D. H. Lawrence, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and…

Laura Bradley

Brecht and the Art of Spectatorship

Bertolt Brecht's epic theatre sought to change how spectators watched performances, equipping them to critique and intervene in the world outside the theatre. Taking its cue from his call for theatre to d…

Jeffrey F Keuss,

Activism and the Literary Self in 20th- And 21st-Century Literature

Exploring how Shusaku Endo, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Thomas Merton, Marilynne Robinson, Cormac McCarthy, and Octavia E. Butler engage with social justice and activism, this book explores the significant role tha…

Gary Saul Morson

Wonder Confronts Certainty

Gary Saul Morson brings to life the intense intellectual debates shaping two centuries of Russian writing. Dialogues of great writers with philosophical wanderers and blood-soaked radicals reveal a contes…

The Vintage Caravan

Monuments (Limited Edition) (Black Vinyl)

Monuments verbindet modernen Psychedelic-Prog-Rock mit 70er-Jahre-Nostalgie! Virtuose 70er-Jahre-Rock-Gitarrenriffs treffen auf eine unwiderlegbare Mischung aus erstaunlichen modernen Elementen und kla…

Herbie Hancock (geb. 1940)

Maiden Voyage (UHQ-CD)

Jedes einzelne Stück auf diesem Album, vom eindringlichen "Maiden Voyage" bis zum sanft swingenden "Dolphin Dance", hat seinen Weg in das Standardrepertoire des Jazz gefunden. Herbie Hancock hat mit seine…

Lee Morgan (1938-1972)

The Sidewinder (180g)

The Sidewinder, Lee Morgans 24-taktiger Blues mit ansteckender Basslinie und Backbeat, wurde sofort zu einem der beliebtesten Stücke der modernen Jazzgeschichte. Jedes Stück auf diesem klassischen Album i…

Richard Sperber,

Intertextual Exoticism

Intertextual Exoticism reads a body of non-canonical German exoticist literature published after imperial Germany's loss of colonial Oceania in 1914, applying theories of "intertextuality" (Kris…

Brinda J Mehta

The Wounds of War and Conflict in Contemporary Arab Women's Writings from North Africa and the Middle East

The Wounds of War and Conflict in Contemporary Arab Women's Writings from North Africa and the Middle East focuses on the writings of women authors from North Africa and the Middle East who open a critica…

Angela Carter's Pasts

This book provides a fresh look at Angela Carter's critical and intertextual engagements with the past.Examining a broad range of Carter's work (novels, short stories, poetry, as well as stage plays), the…

Jesse Zuba

The First Book

"A fascinating story of poetic debuts. With nuanced understanding as well as clear-eyed realism, Jesse Zuba traces the self-fashioning that goes into the making of careers, allowing poets to strike a…

Jeffrey Meyers

Forty-Three Ways of Looking at Hemingway

The multifaceted, cubist, and comprehensive perspective of Forty-Three Ways of Looking at Hemingway appears on the fortieth anniversary of Meyers's magisterial biography of Hemingway. This approach has ne…