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Laura Jansen
Susan Sontag's Tangential Classics

Susan Sontag's Tangential Classics examines the role the Greco-Roman classics play in Susan Sontag's intellectual and literary achievement. The collected chapters consider Sontag as a case of a thinker in…

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Lieven Ameel
Coastal Cities of the Future in Contemporary Literature

Focusing on writing about contemporary coastal cities, this open access book demonstrates how literature - in different genres, media, and cultural-geographical contexts - participates in shaping urban im…

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Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya, Nora Seligman Favorov, Anna A Berman, Hilde Hoogenboom
The Brother

'For his mother, he was a miracle. . . . Mothers can be deluded.'Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya (1821-89) was recognised in her day, both at home and abroad, as Russia's greatest writer after Tolstoy and Turgen…

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Arvi Särkelä
Vicious Circles

How can social critique respond to a catastrophic world? From Emerson to Adorno, a tradition of radical social critique has flourished that utilizes methods which disclose rather than judge the form of li…

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D Marcel Decoste
Professing Darkness

Professing Darkness confirms the centrality of Catholic thought, imagery, and sacrament to the spiritual and ethical outlook of the work of Cormac McCarthy and, more specifically, its consistent assessmen…

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Oliver Rendle
Cosmic Humour and Philosophical Pessimism in Contemporary Culture

An in-depth look at the concept of cosmic humour, a politically influential, philosophically pessimistic form of humour, exploring the popularity of this comedic form across Anglophone culture since 1969 …

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Toni Morrison
Language as Liberation

Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize--winning author of BelovedToni Morrison investigates Black characters in the American literary canon and the way they shaped the nation's collective unconscious.In a dazz…

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Ngugi Wa Thiong'o in Context

Ngugi wa Thiong'o in Context offers a compelling and comprehensive reading of the various contexts pivotal to Ngugi wa Thiong'o's practice as a writer. Ngugi drew a complex link between his role as a writ…

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Alexander Menrisky
Wild Abandon

The American wilderness narrative, which divides nature from culture, has remained remarkably persistent despite the rise of ecological science, which emphasizes interconnection between these spheres. Wil…

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Benjamin Mangrum
The Comedy of Computation

"In this cultural history of the computer, Benjamin Mangrum shows that comedy has been central to how we've made sense of the technology's sweeping effects on public life and private experience. From…

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Natalie Roxburgh
The Politics of Disinterestedness in Nineteenth-Century Literature

The Politics of Disinterestedness in Nineteenth-Century Literature historicizes the concept of disinterestedness by examining discourses on political economy during and before the 19th century. It argues …

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Kim Wheatley
John Cowper Powys and the Afterlife of Romanticism

This study bridges the chronological divide between the Romantic era and the first six decades of the 20th century, interpreting John Cowper Powys (1872 -1963) as a major, under-recognized contributor to …

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Rebecca Davis
Graceful Narratives

Graceful Narratives argues that the concept of grace functions as a form of literary theory in late-medieval English texts, generating dilated, deliberative narratives that resist linear plotting and crea…

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Women Romantic Poets

'Another May new buds and flowers shall bring; Ah! why has happiness---no second Spring?'The period between 1780 and 1840 was a tremendously rich one for the production of poetry. Everyone from labourers …

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Anke Walter
Festivals in Latin Literature

Festivals feature prominently in Latin literature, even in works that are not explicitly dedicated to festive days like Ovid's Fasti. This book explores the role of festivals in elegiac, lyric, and epic p…

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C M van der Keur
Silius Italicus: Punica, Book 13

This volume presents the first full-scale literary and linguistic analysis of the entire Punica 13. It includes the text and facing English translation, along with notes on syntax, textual criticism, styl…

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Louise Martin, Lou&,
Bilitis

In 1894, Pierre Louÿs unveiled Les Chansons de Bilitis to the French literary world, presenting it as a newly discovered translation of ancient Greek poetry composed by a contemporary of Sappho. The schol…

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Ronald C Egan
Exile and Invention in the Prose Writings of Su Shi

In Exile and Invention in the Prose Writings of Su Shi, Ronald Egan pays special attention to a neglected aspect of Su Shi's literary work, those prose forms that had traditionally been considered less pr…

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Thomas Leonard-Roy
Writerly Hate in Eighteenth-Century Britain

The eighteenth century was the great age of hate-writing and hate-reading. Hatred, contempt, resentment, and disdain were immensely generative feelings for authors in Britain, written into not only malici…

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Uttara Natarajan
Realism and the Romantic Essay

This book discusses the importance of the Romantic essay to the development of realism in the Victorian era. It explores how specific texts by key Victorian authors-Dickens, Ruskin, Eliot, Pater, Hardy, a…

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