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  • Utopian and Dystopian Writing for Children and Young Adults by Carrie Hintz 9780415803649

    Utopian and Dystopian Writing for Children and Young Adults by Carrie Hintz 9780415803649

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    This volume examines a variety of utopian writing for children from the 18th century to the present day, defining and exploring this new genre in the field of children's literature. The original essays discuss thematic conventions and present detailed...
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  • Questions of Cinema by Stephen Heath

    Questions of Cinema by Stephen Heath

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    "It is essential reading for anyone concerned with the theoretical discussion of cinema, and ideology in general." -Semiotica" . . . Heath is an antidote to the Cinema 101 worldview." -Voice Literary SupplementHeath's study of film draws on Lacanian...
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  • How Bad Writing Destroyed the World: Ayn Rand and the Literary Origins of the Financial Crisis by Adam Weiner

    How Bad Writing Destroyed the World: Ayn Rand and the Literary Origins of the Financial Crisis by Adam Weiner

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    Literature can be used to disseminate ideas with devastating real-life consequences. In How Bad Writing Destroyed the World, Adam Weiner spans decades and continents to reveal the surprising connections between the 2008-2009 financial crisis and a...
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  • Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers by Nina Auerbach

    Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers by Nina Auerbach

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    As these eleven dark and wild stories demonstrate, fairy tales by Victorian women constitute a distinct literary tradition, one startlingly subversive of the society that fostered it. From Anne Thackeray Ritchie's adaptations of "The Sleeping Beauty in...
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  • Notes on Post-Conceptual Poetry by Felix Bernstein 9780996169639

    Notes on Post-Conceptual Poetry by Felix Bernstein 9780996169639

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996169639Author Felix BernsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Insert Blanc PressPublisher Insert Blanc PressWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 216mm...
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  • Gothic Contemporaries: The Haunted Text by Joanne Watkiss 9780708324561

    Gothic Contemporaries: The Haunted Text by Joanne Watkiss 9780708324561

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    Gothic Contemporaries: The Haunted Text is the first of its kind to align selected 21st century fiction with a revised understanding of the gothic through themes such as signification, communication, ethics, inheritance and currency.Book InformationISBN...
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  • The Critic as Amateur by Saikat Majumdar

    The Critic as Amateur by Saikat Majumdar

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    Can the criticism of literature and culture ever be completely professionalized? Does criticism retain an amateur impulse even after it evolves into a highly specialized discipline enshrined in the university? The Critic as Amateur brings leading...
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  • The Symbolism and Sources of Outlander: The Scottish Fairies, Folklore, Ballads, Magic and Meanings That Inspired the Series by Valerie Estelle Frankel 9780786499526

    The Symbolism and Sources of Outlander: The Scottish Fairies, Folklore, Ballads, Magic and Meanings That Inspired the Series by Valerie Estelle Frankel 9780786499526

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    Outlander is much more than a television romance about a World War II nurse and a Jacobite soldier in a fetching kilt. The series--and the massive serial novel on which it is based--has been categorized as a period drama, adventure saga, military...
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  • The Good Little Ceylonese Girl by Ashok Ferry 9780143440147

    The Good Little Ceylonese Girl by Ashok Ferry 9780143440147

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143440147Author Ashok FerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House India
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  • James Hogg's Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by Elaine Petrie

    James Hogg's Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by Elaine Petrie

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948877056Author Elaine PetrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish Literary...
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  • The Medieval New: Ambivalence in an Age of Innovation by Patricia Clare Ingham

    The Medieval New: Ambivalence in an Age of Innovation by Patricia Clare Ingham

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    Despite the prodigious inventiveness of the Middle Ages, the era is often characterized as deeply suspicious of novelty. But if poets and philosophers urged caution about the new, Patricia Clare Ingham contends, their apprehension was less the result of...
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  • Threshold Modernism: New Public Women and the Literary Spaces of Imperial London by Elizabeth F. Evans

    Threshold Modernism: New Public Women and the Literary Spaces of Imperial London by Elizabeth F. Evans

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    Threshold Modernism reveals how changing ideas about gender and race in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain shaped - and were shaped by - London and its literature. Chapters address key sites, especially department stores, women's clubs,...
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  • Common Prayer: The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England by Ramie Targoff 9780226789699

    Common Prayer: The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England by Ramie Targoff 9780226789699

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    Common Prayer explores the relationship between prayer and poetry in the century following the Protestant Reformation. Ramie Targoff challenges the conventional and largely misleading distinctions between the ritualized world of Catholicism and the more...
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  • Jane Austen Robert P. Irvine 9780415314350

    Jane Austen Robert P. Irvine 9780415314350

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    Jane Austen is one of England's most enduringly popular authors, renowned for her subtle observations of the provincial middle classes of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England.This guide to Austen's much-loved work offers:an accessible...
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  • Othello by Lois Potter 9780719027260

    Othello by Lois Potter 9780719027260

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    Of all Shakespeare's tragedies, Othello, with its issues of racism, jealousy and sexual stereotyping seems most immediate to contemporary audiences. Traces Othello's acting tradition as it has affected the roles of Othello, Desdemona and Iago -...
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  • Between Form and Faith: Graham Greene and the Catholic Novel by Martyn Sampson

    Between Form and Faith: Graham Greene and the Catholic Novel by Martyn Sampson

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    What is a "Catholic" novel? This book analyzes the fiction of Graham Greene in a radically new manner, considering in depth its form and content, which rest on the oppositions between secularism and religion. Sampson challenges these distinctions,...
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  • Subterranean Cities: The World beneath Paris and London, 1800-1945 by David L. Pike

    Subterranean Cities: The World beneath Paris and London, 1800-1945 by David L. Pike

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    The underground has been a dominant image of modern life since the late eighteenth century. A site of crisis, fascination, and hidden truth, the underground is a space at once more immediate and more threatening than the ordinary world above. In...
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  • Of Bread, Blood and The Hunger Games: Critical Essays on the Suzanne Collins Trilogy by Donald E. Palumbo 9780786470198

    Of Bread, Blood and The Hunger Games: Critical Essays on the Suzanne Collins Trilogy by Donald E. Palumbo 9780786470198

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    This collection of fresh essays on Suzanne Collins's epic trilogy spans multiple disciplines. The contributors probe the trilogy's meaning using theories grounded in historicism, feminism, humanism, queer theory, as well as cultural, political, and...
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  • The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture by Lawrence Buell

    The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture by Lawrence Buell

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    With the environmental crisis comes a crisis of the imagination, a need to find new ways to understand nature and humanity's relation to it. This is the challenge Lawrence Buell takes up in The Environmental Imagination, the most ambitious study to date...
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  • English Poetry of the Sixteenth Century by Gary F. Waller 9780582090965

    English Poetry of the Sixteenth Century by Gary F. Waller 9780582090965

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    Explores the poetry of the Renaissance, from Dunbar in the late 15th century to the Songs and Sonnets of John Donne in the early 17th. The book offers more than the wealth of literature discussed: it is a pioneering work in its own right, bringing the...
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  • Queer Faith: Reading Promiscuity and Race in the Secular Love Tradition by Melissa E. Sanchez

    Queer Faith: Reading Promiscuity and Race in the Secular Love Tradition by Melissa E. Sanchez

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    Honorable Mention, 2020 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize, given by the Modern Language Association Uncovers the queer logics of premodern religious and secular texts Putting premodern theology and poetry in dialogue with contemporary theory and...
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  • Political Parties in Britain by Matt Cole

    Political Parties in Britain by Matt Cole

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    This introduction to political parties in Britain offers an examination of the main parties' individual characteristics (including policy, organisation and support) and explains the impact of smaller parties. Key themes traced throughout the book are the...
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  • Aging, Duration, and the English Novel: Growing Old from Dickens to Woolf by Jacob Jewusiak

    Aging, Duration, and the English Novel: Growing Old from Dickens to Woolf by Jacob Jewusiak

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    The rapid onset of dementia after an illness, the development of gray hair after a traumatic loss, the sudden appearance of a wrinkle in the brow of a spurned lover. The realist novel uses these conventions to accelerate the process of aging into a...
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  • Walking Papers by Thomas Lynch 9780224090063

    Walking Papers by Thomas Lynch 9780224090063

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    If life is pilgrimage, Walking Papers are the pages - the notes on the journey, news of the world, letters of introduction and dismissal - found in one's breast-pocket amongst one's effects. And Thomas Lynch, the celebrated poet-undertaker is our guide...
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  • Fictions of Presence: Theatre and Novel in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Ros Ballaster 9781783275588

    Fictions of Presence: Theatre and Novel in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Ros Ballaster 9781783275588

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    An absorbing study of the contested embodiment of the idea of "presence" in the plays and novels of the eighteenth century. In the years following the 1737 Licensing Act, the English stage found itself for the first time facing serious competition...
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  • The Edinburgh Companion to James Hogg by Ian Duncan

    The Edinburgh Companion to James Hogg by Ian Duncan

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    James Hogg (1770-1835) is increasingly recognised as a major Scottish author and one of the most original figures in European Romanticism. 16 essays written by international experts on Hogg draw on recent breakthroughs in research to illuminate the...
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  • The Novel Now: Contemporary British Fiction Richard Bradford (University of Ulster, Coleraine) 9781405113861

    The Novel Now: Contemporary British Fiction Richard Bradford (University of Ulster, Coleraine) 9781405113861

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    The Novel Now is an intelligent and engaging survey of contemporary British fiction. Discusses familiar names such as Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, and Angela Carter and compares them with more recent authors, including David Mitchell, Ali...
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  • The Alice Behind Wonderland by Simon Winchester

    The Alice Behind Wonderland by Simon Winchester

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    On a summer's day in 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church College in Oxford, Charles Dodgson, a lecturer in mathematics, photographed six-year-old Alice Liddell, the daughter of the college dean, with a Thomas Ottewill Registered Double Folding camera,...
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  • Writing Down Deep - An Alchemy of the Writing Life by Jan Fortune

    Writing Down Deep - An Alchemy of the Writing Life by Jan Fortune

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    Writing Down Deep; an Alchemy of the Writing Life, has been a huge labour of love over the last three years. Many of the ideas have been trialed in blog articles and in online courses, and have been honed and rewritten for the book. There's also a...
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  • Tokyo in Transit: Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road by Alisa Freedman

    Tokyo in Transit: Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road by Alisa Freedman

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    Increased use of mass transportation in the early twentieth century enabled men and women of different social classes to interact in ways they had not before. Using a cultural studies approach that combines historical research and literary analysis,...
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  • New Legends of England: Forms of Community in Late Medieval Saints' Lives by Catherine Sanok

    New Legends of England: Forms of Community in Late Medieval Saints' Lives by Catherine Sanok

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    In New Legends of England, Catherine Sanok examines a significant, albeit previously unrecognized, phenomenon of fifteenth-century literary culture in England: the sudden fascination with the Lives of British, Anglo-Saxon, and other native saints...
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  • The Arthur of Medieval Latin Literature: The Development and Dissemination of the Arthurian Legend in Medieval Latin by Sian Echard 9781783168569

    The Arthur of Medieval Latin Literature: The Development and Dissemination of the Arthurian Legend in Medieval Latin by Sian Echard 9781783168569

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    King Arthur is arguably the most recognizable literary hero of the European Middle Ages. His stories survive in many genres and many languages, but while scholars and enthusiasts alike know something of his roots in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Latin History...
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  • Renaissance Literature and Linguistic Creativity by James Harmer

    Renaissance Literature and Linguistic Creativity by James Harmer

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    Renaissance Literature and Linguistic Creativity interrogates notions of linguistic creativity as presented in English literary texts of the late sixteenth century. It considers the reflections of Renaissance English writers upon the problem of how...
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  • Piers Plowman: The A Version by Miceal F. Vaughan 9781421401409

    Piers Plowman: The A Version by Miceal F. Vaughan 9781421401409

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    The fourteenth-century Piers Plowman is one of the most influential poems from the Age of Chaucer. Following the character Will on his quest for the true Christian life, the three dream narratives that make up this work address a number of pressing...
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  • Against the Event: The Everyday and Evolution of Modernist Narrative by Michael Sayeau 9780199681259

    Against the Event: The Everyday and Evolution of Modernist Narrative by Michael Sayeau 9780199681259

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    Against the Event: The Everyday and the Evolution of Modernist Narrative investigates how a modernity famed for temporal acceleration - from Benjamin's 'shock' and 'distraction' to the postmodern loss of historical consciousness diagnosed by Jameson -...
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  • The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume I: The Basic Annals of Pre-Han China by Ssu-ma Ch'ien 9780253038555

    The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume I: The Basic Annals of Pre-Han China by Ssu-ma Ch'ien 9780253038555

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    "An essential source for the study of events in early China, a guide to the moral philosophy of the gentlemen of Han, and a splendid work of literature which may be read for the pleasure of its style and the power of its narrative. . . . This work makes...
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  • Troubling Late Modernism: Ethics, Feeling, and the Novel Form by Doug Battersby 9780192863331

    Troubling Late Modernism: Ethics, Feeling, and the Novel Form by Doug Battersby 9780192863331

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    In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, modernist writers developed new techniques for depicting characters' thoughts, feelings, and desires that revolutionized the novel form--a revolution novelists and critics are still reckoning with...
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  • Raymond Williams: Literature, Marxism and Cultural Materialism by John Higgins 9780415023450

    Raymond Williams: Literature, Marxism and Cultural Materialism by John Higgins 9780415023450

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    Raymond Williams' prolific output is increasingly recognised as the most influential body of work on literary and cultural studies in the past fifty years. This book provides the most comprehensive study to date of the theoretical and historical context...
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  • Anachronism and Its Others: Sexuality, Race, Temporality by Valerie Rohy

    Anachronism and Its Others: Sexuality, Race, Temporality by Valerie Rohy

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438428642Author Valerie RohyFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...
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  • The Norton Introduction to Literature by Kelly J. Mays 9780393886306

    The Norton Introduction to Literature by Kelly J. Mays 9780393886306

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    The Norton Introduction to Literature offers the trusted writing and reading guidance students need, along with an exciting mix of the stories, poems and plays instructors want. The Shorter Fourteenth Edition is the most inclusive ever, with more...
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