Literary studies: general

Planetary spaces such as the poles, the oceans, the atmosphere, and subterranean regions captured the British imperial imagination.

Despite Vladimir Nabokov's hostility toward literary labels, he clearly recognized his own place in cultural history.

First published in 1981, this book represents the first comprehensive examination of Victorian society's preoccupation with the 'notion of the gentleman' and how this was reflected in the literature of the time.

The first book-length study of Harper Lee's two novels, this is the ultimate reference for those interested in Harper Lee's writing, most notably as it considers race, class, and gender.

Brings together significant studies on literary, philosophical, medical and political aspects of ancient anger.

This book introduces narrative justice, a new theory of aesthetic education - the thesis that the cultivation of aesthetic or artistic sensibility can both improve moral character and achieve political justice.

Recognition and Ethics in World Literature is a critical comparative study of contemporary world literature, focusing on the importance of the ethical turn (or return) in literary theory.

Selena Daly's work is the first comprehensive study of Futurism during the First World War period.

Approaching Haitishistory and culture from a multidisciplinary perspectiveThis volume is the first to focus on teaching about Haitis complex history and culture from a multidisciplinary perspective.

A 2019 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleExploring critical legal issues and cases of the period-from Oscar Wilde's prosecution for gross indecency to legal bans on such publications as D.

Four hundred years after his birth, John Milton remains one of the greatest and most controversial figures in English literature.

Leading critic Alastair Minnis investigates the relationships between authority and the vernacular in the literature of late medieval England.

The contents of this book are the proceedings of the ACS symposium, "e;Impact of Processing on Food Safety,"e; which was held April 16-17, 1997, at the American Chemical Society National Meeting in San Francisco, CA.

This book presents the manuscript of the original poem, from the Ireland Blackburne MS.

Employing a critical and analytical method, this volume takes an innovative approach to existing anthologies of medieval texts, proposing a comprehensive methodology for examining and understanding the historical and cultural construction of the image of women in medieval literature.

An important, urgent book of essays from Britain's most challenging dramatist: ".

Criminal biographies enjoyed enormous popularity in the Eighteenth Century: today they offer us some fascinating perspectives on the period.

Romantic biography lives.

From 1923, when he emigrated from Bucharest, to his deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944, Benjamin Fondane made a unique and independent-minded contribution to the literary and intellectual life of Paris.

Including the latest reviews of the most current issues related to food and nutrition toxicity, Reviews in Food and Nutrition Toxicity, Volume 3 distills a wide range of research on food safety and food technology.

The English Jacobin Novel on Rights, Property and the Law is a study of the radical novel's critique of the evolving social contract in the 1790s.

This collection of critical essays on the American novelist Bret Easton Ellis examines the novels of his mature period: American Psycho (1991), Glamorama (1999), and Lunar Park (2005).

Diese Monographie widmet sich sprachlichen Verstärkungsprozessen, die auf schwach motivierte oder unmotivierte Lexikoneinheiten im Rahmen der Systemmöglichkeiten strukturaufbauend und bedeutungsverleihend wirken.

Author of Nazi Paris, a Choice Academic Book of the Year, Allan Mitchell has researched a companion volume concerning the acclaimed and controversial German author Ernst Junger who, if not the greatest German writer of the twentieth century, certainly was the most controversial.

For more than 50 years, it has been recognized that diet influences cancer formation both in humans and in experimental animals.

In this title, first published in 1984, Peter Morton argues that in late Victorian Britain a group of novelists and essayists quite consciously sought and found ideas in post-Darwinian biology that were susceptible to imaginative transformation.

In this bold study James M.

Who benefits and who loses when emotions are described in particular ways?

Examines the practice and purposes of presenting the small-scale in literature, material culture and theories of cognition.

'Anti-illusionism is, I suspect, only a marking of time, a phase of recuperation, in the history of the novel.

A new biography of William Shakespeare that explores his private life in Stratford-upon-Avon, his personal aspirations, his self-determination, and his relations with the members of his family and his neighbours.

Literary tourism is a nascent field in tourism studies, yet tourists often travel in the footsteps of well-known authors and stories.

This book explores the appropriation of Shakespeare by youth culture and the expropriation of youth culture in the manufacture and marketing of 'Shakespeare'.

Album of Dated Latin Inscriptions: Rome and the Neighborhood, A.

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.

Each contribution to this book discusses key issues arising from the portrayal of men and the formation of masculine identities in a range of representative and landmark texts, fictional and non-fictional, drawn from different historical periods and from various countries in the Hispanophone Americas.

In einer Zeit voller Umbrüche, politischer Instabilität und sozialer Spannungen erhebt der Prophet Habakuk seine Stimme – und ringt in einem aufrüttelnden Dialog mit Gott um Antworten.

This introduction places the fiction of Salman Rushdie in a clear historical and theoretical context.

Comprehensive and comparative, this volume investigates African American street novelists since the Chicago Black Renaissance and the semiotic strategies they employ in publication, consumption, and depiction of street life.

Das Alte Testament erzählt von Gründungsmythen, die das anfängliche Chaos bändigen, Recht und Ordnung schaffen und somit den Menschen und die ihn umgebende Welt verändern.