Alices Adventures in Lacan-Land is an accessible exploration of Lacanian psychoanalysis through the prism of Lewis Carrolls Alices Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass....Lasīt vairāk
It scrutinises the production and transnational distribution of sexological knowledge at the turn of the century. By foregrounding a culturalist approach to fiction by Wilde, Stenbock, and Prime-Stevenson, this book offers non-Anglocentric insights...Lasīt vairāk
Beyond the Shelley Circle: The Clairmont Family and Its Descendants will interest Shelleycircle researchers, life-writing scholars, and nineteenth-century historians alike....Lasīt vairāk
George Eliot thought of herself as a teacher, as did her contemporaries. Their view that her writing was a deliberate and consistent attempt to synthesize in fiction an elaborate and coherent theoretical analysis of the human situation is studied in...Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1821, Robert Southeys Expedition of Orsua and the Crimes of Aguirre is the first account in English of one of the earliest expeditions down the Amazon River, made in the years 1560-1 by a renegade band of Spanish conquistadors i...Lasīt vairāk
Although the Brontë story had been told many times, first published in 1959, this was the first book devoted entirely to the life and work of Anne. The youngest of the 3 famous sisters, Anne was too often regarded as a mere appendage to the more spe...Lasīt vairāk
Andrew Lang (1844-1912) made his name in the last quarter of the Victorian era in a remarkable number of literary and intellectual fields. This is the first annotated edition of Langs poems, bringing together his books of verse and over 150 addition...Lasīt vairāk
Using Italo Calvinos Six Memos for the Next Millennium as structure and methodology, this book conjoins literary studies with creative practice to interrogate, extend/subvert, and then reflect on the aesthetic and structural ambitions of multiple in...Lasīt vairāk
The principal aim of this collection of articles, which covers a diverse range of geographical regions, is to explore the evolving generic patterns and the modes of transnational distribution of popular narrative over the course of the nineteenth ce...Lasīt vairāk
Figures of Reality (1981) may be described as a polemic against those who feel poetry to be remote from normal life an abstruse and empty game. The author argues from a contrary perspective, shared by many poets in the Romantic and Surrealist tradi...Lasīt vairāk
This book examines the emergence of women as audiences and speakers on the British lecture circuit and in print from 1870-1910. Bringing together research on Victorian lecturing, periodicals, voice studies, and the history of feminism, it sheds new...Lasīt vairāk
The Routledge Companion to Biofiction provides readers with the history, origins, and evolution of this popular genre. Featuring contributions from leading scholars in the field, this authoritative collection foregrounds analyses of biofictions cor...Lasīt vairāk
David Copperfield Unbound is a highly original exploration of the sources and motivations underpinning this canonical work, treated here as a melting pot of ideas and a proto-modernist masterpiece....Lasīt vairāk
Bringing together the works of 19th and 20th century writers Henry David Thoreau and Anna Shepherd, the book discovers a common approach of poetic forms of writing that enact kinds of poetic environmental activism, and in doing so, re-position them...Lasīt vairāk
Fieldwork in Ukrainian Childrens Literature showcases the work of prominent scholars of childrens literature from Ukraine and the diaspora as it traces the history of books written, marketed for, and circulating among young people since the rise of...Lasīt vairāk
Oscar Wilde and Nihilism examines Wildes major works in the context of nineteenth-century philosophical nihilism and the Victorian religious unsettlement....Lasīt vairāk
Reading Oscar Wilde is a comprehensive interpretive guide designed for students and readers who come to Wildes writings for the first time, delivering a fuller understanding of the works and the background from which the canon has emerged....Lasīt vairāk
Swarnakumari Debi: Bengali Female Writer unpacks the scholarship of the 19th century Bengal luminary, and assesses her works in a contemporary context. It will benefit the researchers in Literature, Womens Studies, Gender Studies, and Culture Studie...Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1985, in this book Malcolm Barnes, the editor of Augustus Hares autobiography, tries to elucidate: a man who wrote much about others, but little of consequence about himself in spite of the longest story of my life in the English...Lasīt vairāk
This edited collection contends that the figure of the child is foundational to the workings of biopolitical power yet remains undertheorized. The collection is organized into three sections that illustrate how these qualities enable the sorting of...Lasīt vairāk
