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  • The Oxford Handbook of Oscar Wilde

    by Kate Hext, Alex Murray ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Oscar Wilde puts Wilde the Icon into an expansive literary and dramatic context. It offers a readable guide to Wilde studies for the early twenty-first century. Its chapters reflect Wilde's status as a queer writer while filling in the gaps that this focus have left and looking forward to the next generation of critical studies on Wilde. It is designed to appeal to students ... Read more

    $166.49 USD

  • Decadent Conservatism

    Aesthetics, Politics, and the Past

    by Dr Alex Murray ...
    British Decadent literature was a radical attack on conventional morality and middle-class taste, its insistence on the autonomy of art and its exploration of sexuality, dissipation, and depravity at odds with the literary and social establishment. Yet this counter-cultural narrative has obscured the often reactionary and elitist tendencies of Decadent writers and artists of the fin de siècle. ... Read more

    $85.99 USD

  • Decadence

    A Literary History

    Edited by Alex Murray ...
    Decadence, that flowering of a mannered literary style in France during the Second Empire, and in the last two decades of the nineteenth century in Britain, holds an endless fascination. Yet the ambiguity of the term 'decadence' and the challenges of identifying its practitioners make grasping its contours difficult. From the obsession with classical cultures, to the responses to the HIV/AIDS ... Read more

    $112.39 USD

  • Decadence in the Age of Modernism

    Edited by Kate Hext, Alex Murray ...
    Series series Hopkins Studies in Modernism
    The first holistic reappraisal of the significance of the decadent movement, from the 1900s through the 1930s.Decadence in the Age of Modernism begins where the history of the decadent movement all too often ends: in 1895. It argues that the decadent principles and aesthetics of Oscar Wilde, Walter Pater, Algernon Swinburne, and others continued to exert a compelling legacy on the next generation ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Agamben Dictionary

    Edited by Alex Murray ...
    Series series Philosophical Dictionaries

    $31.99 USD

  • Landscapes of Decadence

    Literature and Place at the Fin de Siècle

    by Alex Murray ...
    The challenges posed by Decadence to Victorian moral conventions - particularly sexual - have been well documented, but this book makes the case for understanding Decadence as a response to the ways in which place was accorded moral value in the period. The book uses landscape as a key trope for exploring Decadent writing's approach to location and identity. Drawing on a wide range of fin-de ... Read more

    $100.09 USD

  • Giorgio Agamben

    by Alex Murray ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Thinkers
    Giorgio Agamben is one of the most important and controversial figures in contemporary continental philosophy and critical theory. His work covers a broad array of topics from biblical criticism to Guantanamo Bay and the ‘war on terror’.Alex Murray explains Agamben’s key ideas, including:an overview of his work from first publication to the presentclear analysis of Agamben’s philosophy of language ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

    by Peter Howarth ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    Modernist poems are some of the twentieth-century's major cultural achievements, but they are also hard work to read. This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. In-depth chapters on Pound, Eliot, Yeats and the American ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • W.H. Auden

    by Tony Sharpe ...
    Series series Routledge Guides to Literature
    As both a politically engaged and stylistically versatile poet, W.H. Auden is one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. His work is not only widely studied and read, but has been used in musical scores and quoted in Hollywood films.This guide to Auden’s compelling work offers:an accessible introduction to the contexts and many interpretations of Auden’s texts, from publication ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siècle

    Edited by Gail Marshall ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Situated between the Victorians and Modernism, the fin de siècle is an exciting and rewarding period to study. In the literature and art of the 1890s, the processes of literary and cultural change can be seen in action. In this, more than any previous decade, literature was an active and controversial participant within debates over morality, aesthetics, politics and science, as Victorian ... Read more

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  • The Novel

    A Biography

    by Michael Schmidt ...
    The 700-year history of the novel in English defies straightforward telling. Geographically and culturally boundless, with contributions from Great Britain, Ireland, America, Canada, Australia, India, the Caribbean, and Southern Africa; influenced by great novelists working in other languages; and encompassing a range of genres, the story of the novel in English unfolds like a richly varied ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • W. H. Auden

    In the Autumn of the Age of Anxiety

    by Alan Levy ...
    W. H. Auden takes you to Auden’s home in Austria to ask him questions; the conversation on the lawn that one dreams of. A fine tribute.” —Bestseller ... Read more

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