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Michèle Roberts
Colette

The power of Colette's work comes from its modernist storytelling. Colette was a pioneering, ground-breaking modernist writer, but has not always had her originality and worth recognized in Britain. Her w…

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Marianne Noble
Rethinking Sympathy and Human Contact in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

In accessible and impassioned discussions of literature and philosophy, this book reveals a surprising approach to the intractable problem of human contact. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frederick Douglass, Harrie…

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Ryan M. Brooks
Liberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era

Liberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era argues that a new, post-postmodern aesthetic emerges in the 1990s as a group of American writers - including Mary Gaitskill, George Saunders, Richard …

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Andrew Kopec
Sink or Swim

People living in the nineteenth-century United States saw shocking upheavals in both the economy and in ideas of selfhood in a commercial society. Narratives such as Horatio Alger's rags-to-riches tales a…

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Violence and Postcolonial Marginalities in South Asian Literature

Violence and Postcolonial Marginalities in South Asian Literature explores the multifaceted dimensions of violence represented in the literature of South Asia.The book sheds light on the relationships bet…

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Stephen Orgel
The Texts of Shakespeare

How did plays from the popular theatre, written by an author better known as a poet, become the greatest literary monument in English? Renowned Shakespearean Stephen Orgel reveals how the transformation o…

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Ágota Márton
Geometries of Empathy

What does it mean to empathize today?Virginia Woolf was convinced that 'the form of the novel, so clumsy, verbose, and undramatic, so rich, elastic, and alive, has been evolved', first and foremost, to 'e…

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Theodore Dalrymple
Agatha Christie and the Metaphysics of Murder

The twentieth-century literary critic Edmund Wilson chided Agatha Christie for her "mawkishness and banality" and declared her work "literally impossible to read." Even if this were so…

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Antonio Sergio Bessa
Noigandres

The Noigandres group was one of the key movements in Brazilian modernism. Bessa's account works through the specific poetic innovations that are the hallmark of the concrete poetics the group developed. T…

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Louis Klee
The Constellational Novel

A constellational novel is a novel that has an associative, essayistic, digressive, and densely patterned prose form. The Constellational Novel aims to shed light on the field of contemporary literature b…

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Antonio Sergio Bessa
Noigandres

The Noigandres group was one of the key movements in Brazilian modernism. Bessa's account works through the specific poetic innovations that are the hallmark of the concrete poetics the group developed. T…

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Emmy Waldman
Filial Lines

This is the first book to place the autobiographical projects of canonical comics authors Art Spiegelman and Alison Bechdel alongside each other, focusing on new and neglected works (and with an epilogue …

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Caroline Rody
Writing the Great House

The great house is renowned as the setting for countless English novels and films. But Writing the Great House shows it to be not only an influential icon in the history of the European novel but also a t…

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Global King Lear

Global King Lear provides a kaleidoscopic view of multinational adaptations of King Lear with a focus on productions across Asia and Eastern Europe. By approaching Shakespeare's great tragedy as a global …

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Clare Egan
Performing Libel in the Provinces

A study of the dramatic traditions and literary features of private libel occurring in the provinces during the reign of James I. The book focuses on the libel cases between private individuals tried in t…

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Michael Wood
Marcel Proust

A witty, refreshing, and fun book on the experience of reading Marcel Proust.What would the world be like without this work? Where would we be if it hadn't happened? This is how Michael Wood found himself…

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Gabrielle Ponce-Hegenauer
Cervantes the Poet

Cervantes the Poet travels from the court of Isabel de Valois to Rome, Naples, Palermo, Algiers, and Madrid's barrio de las letras. Recovering Cervantes' nearly forty-year literary career before the publi…

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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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Richard Fallon
Contesting Earth's History in Transatlantic Literary Culture, 1860-1935

Explores the ways in which nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers engaged with the scientific description of Earth's deep history that geologists of the period had presented.

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James Metcalf
Churchyard Poetics

The churchyard is a familiar but little-understood literary landscape in eighteenth-century scholarship. This book recovers work by women and labouring-class poets to argue that the churchyard was an impo…

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