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  • The Irish Bildungsroman

    by Gregory Castle, Mary Mullen, Christina Morin, Lindsay Janssen, Heidi Hansson, Elizabeth Grubgeld, Julie Anne Stevens, Barry Devine0, Patrick Bixby1, Fiona McCann2, Molly Ferguson3, Ellen Scheible4, Pilar Villar-Argáiz5 ...
    Series series Irish Studies
    The classical Bildungsroman charted an idealized path of human development: the harmonizing of individual desires and societal norms in the formation of a well-rounded liberal subject. But what happens when this Enlightenment blueprint for self-cultivation runs up against the particularities of a colonial society riven by nationalism, revolution, and uneven modernization?The Irish Bildungsroman ... Read more

    $35.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Poetics of Dissensus

    Confronting Violence in Contemporary Prose Writing from the North of Ireland

    by Fiona McCann ...
    Series Book 59 - Reimagining Ireland
    Twenty years after the peace process began in the North of Ireland, many thorny political issues remain unresolved. One of the most significant questions involves the means by which acts of violence and the ideologies that subtended them can be dealt with, interrogated and questioned without rekindling conflict. This book focuses on a number of fictional and non-fictional texts published during ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The Carceral Network in Ireland

    History, Agency and Resistance

    Edited by Fiona McCann ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book examines the forms and practices of Irish confinement from the 19th century to present-day to explore the social and political failings of 20th and 21st century postcolonial Ireland. Building on an interdisciplinary conference held in the Crumlin Road Gaol, Belfast, the methodological approaches adopted across this book range from the historical and archival to the sociological, ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • International Human Rights, Social Policy and Global Development

    Critical Perspectives

    by Fred Powell, Stephen McCloskey, Shivaun Quinlivan, Charles O’Mahony, Fiona Donson, Cathal O'Connell, Joe Finnerty, Dessie Donnelly, Ann Marie Gray, Benjamin Mallon, Fiona Dukelow, Birgit Schippers, Daniel Holder, Michal Cenker, Giovanni Farese, Diana Buttu, Peter Herrmann ...
    With international human rights under challenge, this book represents a comprehensive critique that adds a social policy perspective to recent political and legalistic analysis.Expert contributors draw on local and global examples to review constructs of universal rights and their impact on social policy and human welfare. With thorough analysis of their strengths, weaknesses and enforcement, it ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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  • The Historical Novel

    by Jerome de Groot ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    The historical novel is an enduringly popular genre that raises crucial questions about key literary concepts, fact and fiction, identity, history, reading, and writing. In this comprehensive, focused guide, Jerome de Groot offers an accessible introduction to the genre and critical debates that surround it, including:the development of the historical novel from early eighteenth-century works ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Genders

    by David Glover, Cora Kaplan ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    The concept of gender continues to be a central issue in literary and cultural studies, with a significance that crosses disciplinary boundaries and provokes lively debate. In this fully revised and updated second edition, David Glover and Cora Kaplan offer a lucid and illuminating introduction to ’gender’ and its implications, including:an overview of the critical language and concepts ... Read more

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  • Rewriting the Victorians

    Modes of Literary Engagement with the 19th Century

    by Andrea Kirchknopf ...
    The 19th century has become especially relevant for the present--as one can see from, for example, large-scale adaptations of written works, as well as the explosion of commodities and even interactive theme parks. This book is an introduction to the novelistic refashionings that have come after the Victorian age with a special focus on revisions of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Charles Dickens ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • An Analysis of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own

    by Tim Smith-Laing, Fiona Robinson ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    A Room of One's Own is a very clear example of how creative thinkers connect and present things in novel ways.Based on the text of a talk given by Virginia Woolf at an all-female Cambridge college, Room considers the subject of 'women and fiction.' Woolf’s approach is to ask why, in the early 20th century, literary history presented so few examples of canonically 'great' women writers. The common ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century English Novel

    Edited by Robert L. Caserio ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The twentieth-century English novel encompasses a vast body of work, and one of the most important and most widely read genres of literature. Balancing close readings of particular novels with a comprehensive survey of the last century of published fiction, this Companion introduces readers to more than a hundred major and minor novelists. It demonstrates continuities in novel-writing that bridge ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Gender, Genre & Narrative Pleasure

    Edited by Derek Longhurst ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature
    Recent years have witnessed important new initiatives in the study of popular fictional modes of writing. At one time the field could have been described with reasonable accuracy by two traditions: one that analyzed the production and distribution of popular fiction as commodities; and one whose proponents regarded popular fiction as the negative which offered definition to the exposure of the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • A History of the Irish Novel

    by Derek Hand ...
    Derek Hand's A History of the Irish Novel is a major work of criticism on some of the greatest and most globally recognisable writers of the novel form. Writers such as Laurence Sterne, James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Samuel Beckett and John McGahern have demonstrated the extraordinary intellectual range, thematic complexity and stylistic innovation of Irish fiction. Derek Hand provides a remarkably ... Read more

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  • Murder by the Book?

    Feminism and the Crime Novel

    by Sally Rowena Munt ...
    Murder by the Book? is a thorough - and thoroughly enjoyable - look at the blossoming genre of the feminist crime novel in Britain and the United States.Sally Munt asks why the form has proved so attractive as a vehicle for oppositional politics; whether the pleasures of detective fiction can be truly transgressive; and when exactly it was that the dyke detective appeared as the new super-hero for ... Read more

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