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  • Proust's Cup of Tea

    Homoeroticism and Victorian Culture

    by Emily Eells ...
    Series series Studies in European Cultural Transition
    Proust's Cup of Tea analyzes Proust's reading of various Victorian authors and shows how they contributed to A la recherche du temps perdu. This book proves that British literature and art played a fundamental role in Proust's writing process by citing from the manuscript versions of his novel, as well as from his correspondence, essays and the lengthy critical appartus accompanying his ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • How to Read Novels Like a Professor

    A Jaunty Exploration of the World’s Favorite Literary Form

    by Thomas C. Foster ...
    The follow-up and companion volume to the New York Times bestselling How to Read Literature Like a Professor—a lively and entertaining guide to understanding and dissecting novels to make everyday reading more enriching, satisfying, and funOf all the literary forms, the novel is arguably the most discussed . . . and fretted over. From Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote to the works of Jane Austen, ... Read more

    $9.49 USD

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  • Castaway Tales

    From Robinson Crusoe to Life of Pi

    by Christopher Palmer ...
    A wide-ranging and appreciative literary history of the castaway tale from Defoe to the presentEver since Robinson Crusoe washed ashore, the castaway story has survived and prospered, inspiring a multitude of writers of adventure fiction to imitate and adapt its mythic elements. In his brilliant critical study of this popular genre, Christopher Palmer traces the castaway tales' history and changes ... Read more

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  • Katherine Philips (1631/2–1664): Printed Letters 1697–1729

    Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part Three, Volume 3

    by Paula Loscocco ...
    Series Book 3 - The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works & Printed Writings, 1641-1700: Series II
    Katherine Philips was a major seventeenth-century poet and playwright who became widely known for her innovative use of Donnean poetics to express passionate female friendship, her occasional verses on private friends and public figures, and her moral and political acuity. She had the mixed fortune of being enshrined in posthumous volumes that both celebrated and misrepresented her achievement. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Pause and Effect

    An Introduction to the History of Punctuation in the West

    by M.B. Parkes ...
    From its publication in 1992 Pause and Effect has become a cornerstone of the study of punctuation across the world. Described as 'magisterial' by Lynne Truss in her best-selling Eats, Shoots and Leaves, this book has stimulated interest and scholarly debates among writers, literary critics, philosophers, linguists, rhetoricians, palaeographers and all those who study the use of language. To ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Publishing Women's Life Stories in France, 1647-1720

    From Voice to Print

    by Elizabeth C. Goldsmith ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    In this new study, Elizabeth Goldsmith continues her pursuit of issues treated in her earlier books on conversation, epistolary writing, and the female voice in literature. She examines how French women in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries first came to publish their private life stories; in doing so, she explores what the writers have to say about why they decide to write about ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Anthony Munday and the Catholics, 1560–1633

    by Donna B. Hamilton ...
    In this new study, Donna B. Hamilton offers a major revisionist reading of the works of Anthony Munday, one of the most prolific authors of his time, who wrote and translated in many genres, including polemical religious and political tracts, poetry, chivalric romances, history of Britain, history of London, drama, and city entertainments. Long dismissed as a hack who wrote only for money, Munday ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Women's Letters Across Europe, 1400–1700

    Form and Persuasion

    by Jane Couchman ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    In response to a growing interest, among historians as well as literary critics, in women's use of the epistolary genre, Women's Letters Across Europe, 1400-1700: Form and Persuasion analyzes persuasive techniques in the personal correspondence of late medieval and early modern women. It includes studies of well-known women (Isabella d'Este, Teresa of Avila, Marguerite de Navarre, Catherine de ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Angela Carter: Surrealist, Psychologist, Moral Pornographer

    by Scott Dimovitz ...
    Contributing to the conversation regarding Angela Carter's problematic relationship with what she viewed as the interrelated traditions of surrealism and psychoanalysis, Scott Dimovitz explores the intricate connections between Carter's private life and her public writing. He begins with Carter's assertion that it was through her "sexual and emotional life" that she was radicalized, drawing ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Narratives of Difference in Globalized Cultures

    Reading Transnational Cultural Commodities

    Edited by Andrea Ruthven, Belén Martín-Lucas ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is about how the marketing of transnational cultural commodities capitalizes on difference and its appeal for cosmopolitan consumers in our postmodern globalized world. At what price? What ethical and political conundrums does the artist/writer/reader confront when going global? This volume analyzes why difference - whether gender, sexual, racial, ethnic, or linguistic - has become such ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Ghostwriting

    W. G. Sebald’s Poetics of History

    by Dr. Richard T. Gray ...
    Series series New Directions in German Studies
    Ghostwriting provides the first comprehensive analysis of the fictional prose narratives of one of contemporary Germany's most recognized authors, the émigré writer W. G. Sebald. Examining Sebald's well-known published texts in the context of largely unknown unpublished works, and informed by documents and information from Sebald's literary estate, this book offers a detailed portrait of his ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Intertextuality and Victorian Studies

    by Sudha Shastri ...
    This book explores the recall of the Victorians, displayed by select novels ranging in time from Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1996) to A. S. Byatt’s Possession: A Romance (1990). These Victorianist novels are complex studies of Victorian literature, society and modes of representation. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD