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  • Literary Bric-à-Brac and the Victorians

    From Commodities to Oddities

    by Jen Harrison ...
    Series series The Nineteenth Century Series
    What are we to make of the Victorians’ fascination with collecting? What effect did their encounters with the curious, exotic and downright odd have on Victorian writers and their works? The essays in this collection take up these questions by examining the phenomenon of bric-Ã -brac in Victorian literature. The contributors to Literary Bric-Ã -Brac and the Victorians: From Commodities to Oddities ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • Self and Soul

    A Defense of Ideals

    by Mark Edmundson ...
    An ARTery Best Book of the YearAn Art of Manliness Best Book of the YearIn a culture that has become progressively more skeptical and materialistic, the desires of the individual self stand supreme, Mark Edmundson says. We spare little thought for the great ideals that once gave life meaning and worth. Self and Soul is an impassioned effort to defend the values of the Soul.“An impassioned critique ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Distant Reading

    by Franco Moretti ...
    WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDHow does a literary historian end up thinking in terms of z-scores, principal component analysis, and clustering coefficients? The essays in Distant Reading led to a new and often contested paradigm of literary analysis. In presenting them here Franco Moretti reconstructs his intellectual trajectory, the theoretical influences over his work, and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Science Fiction Criticism

    An Anthology of Essential Writings

    by Professor Rob Latham ...
    Including more than 30 essential works of science fiction criticism in a single volume, this is a comprehensive introduction to the study of this enduringly popular genre. Science Fiction Criticism: An Anthology of Essential Writings covers such topics as:·Definitions and boundaries of the genre·The many forms of science fiction, from time travel to 'inner space'·Ideology and identity: from ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Nerd Ecology: Defending the Earth with Unpopular Culture

    by Dr Anthony Lioi ...
    Series series Environmental Cultures
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.Drawing on a wide range of examples from literature, comics, film, television and digital media, Nerd Ecology is the first substantial ecocritical study of nerd culture's engagement with environmental issues. Exploring such works as Star Trek, Tolkien's Lord of the ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • The Posthumous Voice in Women's Writing from Mary Shelley to Sylvia Plath

    by Claire Raymond ...
    This provocative book posits a new theory of women's writing characterized by what Claire Raymond calls 'the posthumous voice.'This suggestive term evokes the way that women's writing both forefronts and hides the author's implied body within and behind the written work. Tracing the use of the disembodied posthumous voice in fiction and poetry by Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, Emily Dickinson, and ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Persophilia

    Persian Culture on the Global Scene

    by Hamid Dabashi ...
    From the Biblical period and Classical Antiquity to the rise of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, aspects of Persian culture have been integral to European history. A diverse constellation of European artists, poets, and thinkers have looked to Persia for inspiration, finding there a rich cultural counterpoint and frame of reference. Interest in all things Persian was no passing fancy but an ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • The Fetish

    Literature, Cinema, Visual Art

    by Professor Massimo Fusillo ...
    Object fetishism is becoming a more and more pervasive phenomenon. Focusing on literature and the visual arts, including cinema, this book suggests a parallelism between fetishism and artistic creativity, based on a poetics of detail, which has been brilliantly exemplified by Flaubert's style. After exploring canonical accounts of fetishism (Marx, Freud, Benjamin), by combining a historicist ... Read more

    $129.99 USD

  • German Literature and the First World War: The Anti-War Tradition

    Collected Essays by Brian Murdoch

    by Brian Murdoch ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in First World War History
    The period immediately following the end of the First World War witnessed an outpouring of artistic and literary creativity, as those that had lived through the war years sought to communicate their experiences and opinions. In Germany this manifested itself broadly into two camps, one condemning the war outright; the other condemning the defeat. Of the former, Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Making India: Colonialism, National Culture, and the Afterlife of Indian English Authority

    by Makarand R. Paranjape ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Compared to how it looked 150 years ago at the eve of the colonial conquest, today’s India is almost completely unrecognizable. A sovereign nation, with a teeming, industrious population, it is an economic powerhouse and the world’s largest democracy. It can boast of robust legal institutions and a dizzying plurality of cultures, in addition to a lively and unrestricted print and electronic media. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Comic Sense

    Reading Robert Coover, Stanley Elkin, Philip Roth

    by Thomas Pughe ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The idea for this study came to me in the course of my reading of innova tive US-American! fiction of the last three decades. I observed that much of it is cast in the comic mode - or, more precisely, that there seems to be in contemporary fiction an affinity between 'innovation' and 'the comic' and that this affinity, furthermore, appears to be characteristic of postmo dernism. It is obvious, at ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • 1590s Drama and Militarism

    Portrayals of War in Marlowe, Chapman and Shakespeare's Henry V

    by Nina Taunton ...
    1590s Drama and Militarism is a fascinating interdisciplinary study of various textual interventions into the military realities of the late Elizabethan period. Its major strength is its insistence on the discursive nature of militarism, and the author convincingly uses literary and non-literary texts-including manuals and contemporary military correspondence-to reconstruct the particular ... Read more

    $61.99 USD