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Kevin Ohi
Narrative Personae and Desire in Modernist Fiction

Narrative Personae and Desire in Modernist Fiction explores how narrative language renders subjective states of interiority and desire. Its detailed readings consider seminal modernists-Ford, Woolf, Faulk…

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Sarah Mesle
Reasons and Feelings

This book of practical writing and publishing advice celebrates the creative, community-building pleasures of humanist expertise.Humanities experts today are embattled. In a world of crises undermining hi…

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Evelyn Gajowski,
Shakespeare and Presentist Theory

Why do Shakespeare's texts resonate so powerfully for us in the 21st century, 400 years after he wrote and produced them? Why is he more popular today than ever before? Why is that popularity now occurrin…

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Joseph Acquisto
Baudelaire's Objects

Examines Baudelaire's multifaceted use of natural, domestic, urban, and esthetic objects in his verse and prose poetry, as well as the ways his poems reshape our understanding of objects and how those obj…

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Duncan Bell, Douglas Mao
Utopia

Ideal societies, better worlds, more just and peaceful ways of living: these have long been the stuff of human beings' social dreaming. In this compact volume, two leading scholars from different discipli…

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Duncan Bell, Douglas Mao
Utopia

Ideal societies, better worlds, more just and peaceful ways of living: these have long been the stuff of human beings' social dreaming. In this compact volume, two leading scholars from different discipli…

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K G Subramanyan
Letters

A collection of letters discussing the role of the state in the preservation and promotion of art and culture, by one of India's greatest artists. The seventeen letters in this collection were written by …

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Ecologies of Writing

Uses case studies from 20th-century German literature and theory to explore the material, social, economic, and environmental bases of writing and its craft.

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Robert Harvey
The Rhetoric of Manipulation

A provocative and timely look at how language is used to manipulate the truth, how our gullibility leaves us susceptible to manipulation, and what we can do to reverse these trends.The Rhetoric of Manipul…

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Understanding Sade, Understanding Modernism

The most current multidisciplinary and multivocal engagement with Sade's enduring influences on modernism and the philosophical need for continued analysis of his work and the questions it raises.From Lac…

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William S Allen
Kant, Adorno, and the Forms of History

Kant, Adorno, and the Forms of Historysets the works of Theodor Adorno, Immanuel Kant and Peter Weiss in dialogue, revealing how an interrogation of the aesthetics of 'the whole' and the conception of his…

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Courtney Weikle-Mills
Sugarcoated Ethics

Unearthing the ethical entanglements of early children's books with the Atlantic slave economy.What ethical lessons are children taught when their books are funded by enslavement and their childhoods swee…

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Ian Duncan
Human Forms

The 120 years between Henry Fielding's 'Tom Jones' (1749) and George Eliot's 'Middlemarch' (1871) marked both the rise of the novel and the shift from the presumption of a stable, universal human nature t…

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Short Story as World Literature

Global in scope, this volume uncovers the deep history of the short story as an "impure" genre by challenging the commonplace understanding in contemporary literary studies that the short story …

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Stephen Frosh,
Freud Explained

Psychoanalytic Horizons

An engaging biographical introduction to Sigmund Freud, contextualizing the evolution of his theories within the vibrant and tumultuous climate of early-20th-century Vienna.Freud Explained presents Freud'…

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Life Writing as World Literature

A global array of contributors explore the interplay between translation and circulation, mediums and materialities, and aesthetics and politics in how life writing is shaped by and becomes world literatu…

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Giovanni Aloi,
Lawn

Object Lessons

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.A quintessential feature in Western gardens and landscaping, the lawn is now at the center of a cl…

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Rose Casey
Aesthetic Impropriety

"Aesthetic Impropriety reconceives the aesthetic force of literature to theorize justice. Casey's gorgeous close readings and keen attention to the histories of English-derived property law generate …

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Linda Freedman
The Myth of the Fall in Nineteenth-Century Literature

The Myth of the Fall in Nineteenth-Century Literature offers fresh close readings of both canonical and less well-known works and is divided into two parts, fiction-making and nation-building, addressing …

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Steven Connor
Exorbitance

Although modern life provides many examples of exorbitance -- of wealth, growth, information, ambition, consumption, violence -- preoccupation with what is 'over the top' is not new. What is it about the …

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