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Shannon Lambert,
Science and Affect in Contemporary Literature

Moving from the micro world of quantum physics to the macro scales of earth science and ecology, this book considers how, in contemporary literature, affective experiences like desire, suffering, anxiety,…

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Mary Beth Norton
I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer

"In the late seventeenth century, the bookseller John Dunton began soliciting anonymous questions for a new broadsheet periodical, The Athenian Mercury, that he hoped would provide entertainment and …

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David James
Discrepant Solace

Discrepant Solace studies some of the most challenging works of late twentieth- and twenty-first-century fiction and life-writing to consider narratives that engage with consolation as an enduring problem…

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Lucy Evans
Crime Fiction in the Caribbean

Covering novels set in Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Guyana, Barbados, Grenada, and Haiti, Lucy Evans explores how contemporary writers experiment with the crime genre in order to raise pressing questions…

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Kate Scarth
Romantic Suburbs

Drawing on novels by Jane Austen, Charlotte Smith, and their contemporaries, Romantic Suburbs argues that in an era before public health and urban planning policies, Romantic-period women took matters int…

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Nathan Waddell
The Oxford Handbook of George Orwell

This book offers a comprehensive view of Orwell's thought and writing via forty-eight chapters written by an international team of Orwell specialists. It addresses familiar topics--such as Orwell's journa…

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The Oxford Handbook of Herman Melville

This comprehensive Handbook of Melville aims to reintroduce readers to a writer whom they think they know well by re-examining his entire corpus--the novels, short prose, and poetry--in light of the diver…

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Beci Carver
Modernism's Whims

Thomas Hardy asks of the ghost stalking him: 'Whither, O whither will your whim now draw me?' Immediately tripping up on its own laid-out comma, then pausing to howl theatrically, and hedging its bets wit…

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Keru Cai
Poverty in Modern Chinese Realism

Poverty in Modern Chinese Realism shows how early twentieth-century Chinese writers drew upon Russian realist fiction to develop new types of literature in China. They used elements found in Russian ficti…

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Laurence Bergreen
Jules Verne and the Invention of the Future

From the acclaimed biographer of explorers Magellan, Columbus, and Francis Drake comes a unique exploration of life and influence of Jules Verne, the novelist whose mind spun the greatest adventures ever …

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Aaron Colton
Writing Through Writer's Block

Recent fiction is teeming with blocked writers: from John Updike's Henry Bech to Stephen King's Paul Sheldon and Mike Noonan. From David Foster Wallace's Mark Nechtr to the autofictional figures of Jordan…

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Theresa M Kenney
Last Impressions

Jane Austen’s conclusions have often perplexed her readers, who at times perceive her novels’ endings as hasty or overly simplistic. However, a closer examination reveals that her fi…

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Cather Studies,
Cather Studies, Volume 14

The essays offer compelling ways of seeing and situating Willa Cather's texts---both unsettling and advancing Cather scholarship. Cather was born and spent her first nine years in the Shenandoah Valley of…

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Daniel Cook,
Frankenstein Retold

Takes stock of the extraordinary range of book-based adaptations of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, comprising reimaginings, sequels and coquels following the novel's original publication up to the 21st cent…

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Thomas Allen
Vital Moments

The environmental and political crises humanity faces today have given rise to influential new theories of life, matter, and time. Vitalism, a controversial term describing the ideas of philosophers from …

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Nicholas Jenkins
The Island

Nicholas Jenkins explores war, love, and politics in the early works of W. H. Auden, one of the twentieth century's most controversial and moving poets. Auden's poems embraced both haunted meditations on …

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Theresa M Kenney
Last Impressions

Last Impressions critically examines the conclusions of Jane Austen's novels, uncovering intricate patterns and interconnections among the final chapters that provoke and challenge readers' interpretation…

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Laurence Bergreen
Jules Verne and the Invention of the Future

From the acclaimed biographer of explorers Magellan, Columbus, and Francis Drake comes a unique exploration of life and influence of Jules Verne, the novelist whose mind spun the greatest adventures ever …

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Emile Chabal
The Age of Hobsbawm

An intellectual biography of Eric Hobsbawm, one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century.Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) was one of the foremost European intellectuals of the twentieth century.…

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Eva Chen
The New Woman and Technologies of Speed in Fin-De- Siècle Literature

Explores the ways in which the nineteenth- and twentieth-century feminist ideal of the New Woman engaged and interacted with fin de siècle technologies of speed in order to fashion a new, dynamic identity…

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