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  • Literary Salons Across Britain and Ireland in the Long Eighteenth Century

    de Amy Prendergast ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The eighteenth-century salon played an important role in shaping literary culture, while both creating and sustaining transnational intellectual networks. Focusing on archival materials, this book is the first detailed examination of the literary salon in Ireland, considered in the wider contexts of contemporary salon culture in Britain and France. ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

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  • Where Have You Been?

    Selected Essays

    de Michael Hofmann ...
    An adventure with a roving genius of literary criticismMichael Hofmann—poet, translator, and intellectual vagabond—has established himself as one of the keenest critics of contemporary literature. Safely nestled between the covers of Where Have You Been?, he offers a hand to guide us and an encouraging whisper in our ear, leading us on a trip through what to read, how to think, and why to like. ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Communities of Learned Experience

    Epistolary Medicine in the Renaissance

    de Nancy G. Siraisi ...
    Series series Singleton Center Books in Premodern Europe
    Sixteenth-century physicians had their letters on medical topics published in printed collections to record their exchange of ideas and make known their professional expertise.During the Renaissance, collections of letters both satisfied humanist enthusiasm for ancient literary forms and provided the flexibility of a format appropriate to many types of inquiry. The printed collections of medical ... Leer más

    $41.99 USD

  • Decadence, Degeneration, and the End

    Studies in the European Fin de Siècle

    de Marja Härmänmaa, Christopher Nissen ...
    Art and literature during the European fin-de-siècle period often manifested themes of degeneration and decay, both of bodies and civilizations, as well as illness, bizarre sexuality, and general morbidity. This collection explores these topics in relation to artists and writers as diverse as Oscar Wilde, August Strindberg, and Aubrey Beardsley. ... Leer más

    $116.99 USD

  • Irish Divorce / Joyce's Ulysses

    de Peter Kuch ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This engrossing, ground-breaking book challenges the long-held conviction that prior to the second divorce referendum of 1995 Irish people could not obtain a divorce that gave them the right to remarry. Joyce knew otherwise, as Peter Kuch reveals—obtaining a decree absolute in Edwardian Ireland, rather than separation from bed and board, was possible. Bloom’s “Divorce, not now” and Molly’s ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • The Recovery of Beauty: Arts, Culture, Medicine

    de Corinne Saunders, David Fuller ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the complex and conflicted topic of beauty in cultural, arts and medicine, looking back through the long cultural history of beauty, and asking whether it is possible to 'recover beauty'. ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Scandinavian Crime Fiction

    de Dr Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen ...
    Series series 21st Century Genre Fiction
    With its bleak urban environments, psychologically compelling heroes and socially engaged plots, Scandinavian crime writing has captured the imaginations of a global audience in the 21st century. Exploring the genre's key themes, international impact and socio-political contexts, Scandinavian Crime Fiction guides readers through such key texts as Sjöwall and Wahlöö's Novel of a Crime, Gunnar ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • Kafka’s Nonhuman Form

    Troubling the Boundaries of the Kafkaesque

    de Ted Geier ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is a compact study of Kafka’s inimitable literary style, animals, and ecological thought—his nonhuman form—that proceeds through original close readings of Kafka’s oeuvre. With select engagements of Adorno, Derrida, and the literary heritage from Romanticism to Dickens that influenced Kafka, Ted Geier discusses Kafka’s literary, “nonhuman” form and the way it unsettles the notion of a ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Why is English Literature?

    Language and Letters for the Twenty-First Century

    de T. Bonfiglio ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Why is English synonymous with literature in the United States? Bonfiglio contextualizes the rising hegemony of English within the anti-labor, anti-immigration, xenophobic, mercantile, militarist, and technocratic ideologies that arose in the US in the first half of twentieth century. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Planetary Modernisms

    Provocations on Modernity Across Time

    de Susan Stanford Friedman ...
    Series series Modernist Latitudes
    Drawing on a vast archive of world history, anthropology, geography, cultural theory, postcolonial studies, gender studies, literature, and art, Susan Stanford Friedman recasts modernity as a networked, circulating, and recurrent phenomenon producing multiple aesthetic innovations across millennia. Considering cosmopolitan as well as nomadic and oceanic worlds, she radically revises the scope of ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Boccaccio the Philosopher

    An Epistemology of the Decameron

    de Filippo Andrei ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores the tangled relationship between literary production and epistemological foundation as exemplified in one of the masterpieces of Italian literature. Filippo Andrei argues that Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron has a significant though concealed engagement with philosophy, and that the philosophical implications of its narratives can be understood through an epistemological approach ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

  • The Literary and Cultural Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe

    Edición de Professor Thomas F. Glick, Dr. Elinor Shaffer ...
    Series series The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe
    Beyond his pivotal place in the history of scientific thought, Charles Darwin's writings and his theory of evolution by natural selection have also had a profound impact on art and culture and continue to do so to this day. The Literary and Cultural Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe is a comprehensive survey of this enduring cultural impact throughout the continent.With chapters written by ... Leer más

    $356.99 USD