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  • Testimony on Trial

    Conrad, James, and the Contest for Modernism

    de Brian Artese ...
    Who is a more authoritative source of information — the person who experiences it firsthand, or a more ‘impartial’ authority? In the late nineteenth century, testimony became a common feature of literary works both fact and fiction. But with the rise of new journalism, the power of testimony could be undermined by anonymous, institutional voices — a Victorian subversion which continues to this day ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

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  • Investigating Italy's Past through Historical Crime Fiction, Films, and TV Series

    Murder in the Age of Chaos

    de Barbara Pezzotti ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is the first monograph in English that comprehensively examines the ways in which Italian historical crime novels, TV series, and films have become a means to intervene in the social and political changes of the country. This study explores the ways in which fictional representations of the past mirror contemporaneous anxieties within Italian society in the work of writers such as ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Rogues and Early Modern English Culture

    Edición de Craig Dionne, Steve Mentz ...
    "Those at the periphery of society often figure obsessively for those at its center, and never more so than with the rogues of early modern England. Whether as social fact or literary fiction-or both, simultaneously-the marginal rogue became ideologically central and has remained so for historians, cultural critics, and literary critics alike. In this collection, early modern rogues represent the ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Fiction and the Philosophy of Happiness

    Ethical Inquiries in the Age of Enlightenment

    de Brian Michael Norton ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    Fiction and the Philosophy of Happiness explores the novel’s participation in eighteenth-century “inquiries after happiness,” an ancient ethical project that acquired new urgency with the rise of subjective models of wellbeing in early modern and Enlightenment Europe. Combining archival research on treatises on happiness with illuminating readings of Samuel Johnson, Laurence Sterne, Denis Diderot, ... Leer más

    $48.99 USD

  • Motherhood in Literature and Culture

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Europe

    Edición de Gill Rye, Victoria Browne, Adalgisa Giorgio, Emily Jeremiah, Abigail Lee Six ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    Motherhood remains a complex and contested issue in feminist research as well as public discussion. This interdisciplinary volume explores cultural representations of motherhood in various contemporary European contexts, including France, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Spain, and the UK, and it considers how such representations affect the ways in which different individuals and groups negotiate ... Leer más

    $66.99 USD

  • Navigating Maritime Languages and Narratives

    New Perspectives in English and French

    Edición de Raffaella Antinucci, Maria Giovanna Petrillo ...
    The book collects scholarly essays in the fields of English and French maritime terminology and sea literature. It focuses on the linguistic, literary and cultural exploration of the sea, considering new directions for research in the vast domain of «thalassology». Structured into two sections, which reflect its two main areas of enquiry (terminological and literary) and cultural standpoints ... Leer más

    $90.99 USD

  • Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pictorial Text

    A Case Study in the Victorian Illustrated Novel

    de Richard J. Hill ...
    Series series Studies in Publishing History: Manuscript, Print, Digital
    Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pictorial Text explores the genesis, production and the critical appreciation of the illustrations to the fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson. Stevenson is one of the most copied and interpreted authors of the late nineteenth century, especially his novels Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. These interpretations began with the illustration of ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • The Works of Claudio Magris: Temporary Homes, Mobile Identities, European Borders

    de N. Pireddu ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Italian scholar, novelist, journalist, and philosopher Claudio Magris is among the most prominent of living European intellectuals. This study is the first comprehensive critical analysis of Magris's corpus for an English-speaking audience and addresses the crucial question of the return to humanism that is moving literature and theory forward. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Comparative Literature and the Historical Imaginary

    Reading Conrad, Weiss, Sebald

    de Kaisa Kaakinen ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book argues that increasingly transnational reading contexts of the twenty-first century place new pressures on fundamental questions about how we read literary fiction. Prompted by the stylistic strategies of three European émigré writers of the twentieth century — Conrad, Weiss and Sebald — it demonstrates the need to pose more differentiated questions about specific effects that occur when ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Art and Life in Modernist Prague

    Karel Čapek and his Generation, 1911-1938

    de T. Ort ...
    Series series History (R0)
    In most contemporary historical writing the picture of modern life in Habsburg Central Europe is a gloomy story of the failure of rationalism and the rise of protofascist movements. This book tells a different story, focusing on the Czech writers and artists distinguished by their optimistic view of the world in the years before WWI. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Fairy Tales and Fables from Weimar Days

    Collected Utopian Tales / New and Revised Edition

    Edición de Jack Zipes ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is a collection of traditional German fairy tales and fables, deliberately transformed into utopian narratives and social commentary by political activists in the Weimar Republic (1919-1933). Against a backdrop of financial and political instability, widespread homelessness, and the reformation of public institutions, numerous gifted writers such as Berta Lask, Kurt Schwitters, Hermynia ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the French Enlightenment

    Edición de Daniel Brewer ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Enlightenment has long been seen as synonymous with the beginnings of modern Western intellectual and political culture. As a set of ideas and a social movement, this historical moment, the 'age of reason' of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, is marked by attempts to place knowledge on new foundations. The Cambridge Companion to the French Enlightenment brings together essays by leading ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD