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Presents a cultural-materialist assessment of the after-effects of the French Revolution on English culture, using Coleridge as a case study. Using the works of Coleridge as a case study and the afterlife of the French Revolution as the main theme, this monograph lays out the methodology for a multi-layered analysis.

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A cultural-materialist assessment of the after-effects of the French Revolution on English culture, using Coleridge as a case study.

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Taking as its point of departure the notion of community in mid-twentieth century French literature and thought, this study seeks to uncover the ways in which Breton, Bataille, Sartre and Barthes used literature and art to engage with the question of reconceptualizing society.

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Monograph analyzing the relationship between literature, thought and community in mid-20th century France.

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Explains the interface between landscape and style and form in contemporary British fiction. This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with aesthetic form, offering an account of how British writers over the years have engaged with landscape depiction as a catalyst for stylistic innovation.

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Provides an exploration of the spiritual and religious contexts and subtexts of contemporary fiction. This title argues against the idea that the 'postmodern condition' of late twentieth and early twenty-first century culture has undermined the close and creative association between religious practice and literature.

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Argues against the idea that the 'postmodern condition' of late twentieth and early twenty-first century culture has undermined the close and creative association between religious practice and literature. This study suggests that the novel has become an increasingly vital, dynamic and problematic space for engaging with the sacred.

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Uses close analysis of key African-American literary texts to investigate the links between the development of blues and jazz and the development of modern African-American literature. This study also examines the highly varied manifestations of a jazz aesthetic as possibly the fundamental common demoninator which links these writers.

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This work uses close analysis of key African-American literary texts to investigate the links between the development of blues and jazz and the development of modern African-American literature.

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"The Life of Our Lord" is a life of Jesus written by Dickens for his children in the 1840s but not published until 1934. Using "The Life of Our Lord" as a source for our understanding of Dickens' Christian worldview, this book explores Dickens' Christian voice in his fiction, journalism, and letters. It presents an insight into his churchmanship.

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The Life of our Lord is a life of Jesus written by Dickens for his children in the 1840s but not published intil 1934. This is the first major study to carefully and seriously consider the work and its place in the Dickens corpus.

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Explores the coverage of music in the journals edited by Dickens and how they reflect Dickens' own attitude to music and its social role. This title presents the full analysis of the articles on music published in the journals conducted by Charles Dickens.

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Despite winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, Doris Lessing has received relatively little critical attention. This essay collection reflects and explores the incredible variety of Lessing's border crossings and positions her writing in its various social and cultural contexts.

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An edited collection offering up-to-date critical coverage of a wide range of Lessing's work.

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Contributes to the understanding of an important but overlooked aspect of modern poetry, offering a comparative approach to the topic. This collection of research explores the interaction of religious awareness and literary expression in English poetry in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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For most of the twentieth century the exuberant fluency of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's art was not regarded as worthy of serious attention. This title offers an examination of the work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning that connects her creative disposition, mind and mode to Shakespeare.

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Approaches the fiction of the 1930s through critical debates about genre, language and history, setting these in their original context, and discussing the generic forms most favoured by novelists at the time. This work uses a series of case studies of texts to draw on, develop or explore the complexities of particular prose genres.

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Introducing the work of 6 contemporary satiric novelists through contemporary theory, this book explores the possibility of reading and criticism after postmodernism. It delivers a series of interventions into six key areas of contemporary debate: fear, nihilism, revolution, ethics, enjoyment and feminism.

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The globalization debate has become a dominant question in many disciplines but has only tended to be covered within literary studies in the context of postcolonial literature. This book focuses on reading contemporary novels in relation to globalization.

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Offers an analysis of the philosophical connection between Hopkins and Heidegger. This monograph argues that the work of Hopkins does no less than propose solutions to a number of hitherto unresolved questions regarding Heidegger's later writings, vitalizing the concepts of both writers beyond their local contexts.