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  • The New Nature Writing

    Rethinking the Literature of Place

    by Dr Jos Smith ...
    Series series Environmental Cultures
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.In the last decade there has been a proliferation of landscape writing in Britain and Ireland, often referred to as 'The New Nature Writing'. Rooted in the work of an older generation of environment-focused authors and activists, this new form is both stylistically ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

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  • All Things Considered

    by G. K. Chesterton ...
    Nobody wrote like G.K. Chesterton, who (as the book title indicates) took great joy in penning intelligent, thoughtful, and witty essays on all sorts of themes and things. Chesterton's tendency to cover a vast, irregular range of essay topics began with his first book of prose, "The Defendant," which delightfully addressed a diversity of normally ho-hum subjects ranging from skeletons and Chinese ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The End of Airports

    by Dr. Christopher Schaberg ...
    If air travel was once the bold future, it has now settled into a mundane, on-going present. We no longer expect romantic experiences or sublime views, but just hope that we get from here to there with minimal hassle. In The End of Airports, Christopher Schaberg suggests that even as the epoch of flight approaches a threshold of banality, there are still mysteries to be unraveled around our ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • The Deep Zoo

    Essays

    by Rikki Ducornet ...
    Rikki Ducornet’s essays explore eros, violence, dreams, fairy tales, and art as alchemy—the Deep Zoo at the core of humanity.Within the writer’s life, words and things acquire power. For Borges it is the tiger and the color red, for Cortázar a pair of amorous lions, and for an early Egyptian scribe the monarch butterfly that metamorphosed into the Key of Life. Ducornet names these powers The Deep ... Read more

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  • Translation, Authorship and the Victorian Professional Woman

    Charlotte Brontë, Harriet Martineau and George Eliot

    by Lesa Scholl ...
    In her study of Charlotte Brontë, Harriet Martineau and George Eliot, Lesa Scholl shows how three Victorian women writers broadened their capacity for literary professionalism by participating in translation and other conventionally derivative activities such as editing and reviewing early in their careers. In the nineteenth century, a move away from translating Greek and Latin Classical texts in ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Crime Fiction as World Literature

    Edited by Dr. Louise Nilsson, Professor David Damrosch, Professor Theo D'haen ...
    While crime fiction is one of the most widespread of all literary genres, this is the first book to treat it in its full global is the first book to treat crime fiction in its full global and plurilingual dimensions, taking the genre seriously as a participant in the international sphere of world literature. In a wide-ranging panorama of the genre, twenty critics discuss crime fiction from ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Flirtations

    Rhetoric and Aesthetics This Side of Seduction

    by Barbara Natalie Nagel, Lauren Shizuko Stone ...
    Series series Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
    What is flirtation, and how does it differ from seduction?In historical terms, the particular question of flirtation has tended to be obscured by that of seduction, which has understandably been a major preoccupation for twentieth-century thought and critical theory. Both the discourse and the critique of seduction are unified by their shared obsession with a very determinate end: power. In ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • The Decolonial Abyss

    Mysticism and Cosmopolitics from the Ruins

    by An Yountae ...
    Series series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
    The Decolonial Abyss probes the ethico-political possibility harbored in Western philosophical and theological thought for addressing the collective experience of suffering, socio-political trauma, and colonial violence. In order to do so, it builds a constructive and coherent thematization of the somewhat obscurely defined and underexplored mystical figure of the abyss as it occurs in Neoplatonic ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • George Eliot, Poetess

    by Wendy S. Williams ...
    The position of George Eliot’s poetry within Victorian poetry and within her own canon is crucial for an accurate picture of the writer, as Wendy S. Williams shows in her in-depth examination of Eliot’s poetry and her role as poetess. Williams argues that even more clearly than her fiction, Eliot’s poetry reveals the development of her belief in sympathy as a replacement for orthodox religious ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • First-Person Anonymous

    Women Writers and Victorian Print Media, 1830–1870

    by Alexis Easley ...
    Series series The Nineteenth Century Series
    First-Person Anonymous revises previous histories of Victorian women's writing by examining the importance of both anonymous periodical journalism and signed book authorship in women’s literary careers. Alexis Easley demonstrates how women writers capitalized on the publishing conventions associated with signed and unsigned print media in order to create their own spaces of agency and meaning ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Studio Shakespeare

    The Royal Shakespeare Company at The Other Place

    by Alycia Smith-Howard ...
    An extensive history of The Royal Shakespeare Company's studio theatre, Studio Shakespeare: The Royal Shakespeare Company at The Other Place also includes a biography of its founder and first artistic director, Mary Ann 'Buzz' Goodbody (1947-75). Alycia Smith-Howard reveals how, as a socialist, feminist, and the RSC's first female director, Goodbody sought to invigorate classical theatre and its ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Disguise on the Early Modern English Stage

    by Peter Hyland ...
    Series series Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
    Disguise devices figure in many early modern English plays, and an examination of them clearly affords an important reflection on the growth of early theatre as well as on important aspects of the developing nation. In this study Peter Hyland considers a range of practical issues related to the performance of disguise. He goes on to examine various conceptual issues that provide a background to ... Read more

    $73.99 USD