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Examines changing ideas about childhood and Ireland in Irish Anglican writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in a wide variety of genres, including novels, sermons, political pamphlets, letters, educational treatises, histories, catechisms and childrens bibles.

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Stephen King has been hailed as a writer of the late 20th century Everyman, yet his representations of women remain debatable. These essays not only explore his portrayal of female characters, they illuminate Stephen King's own psychology and that of our culture's fears, anxieties, and feminine obsessions.

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From the turbulent years following the French Revolution to the fiction of Jane Austen, this book charts the rise of a self-regulating reader, who possesses both moral and cultural authority.

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An examination of the experience of immigration as represented by authors who moved to France from the Caribbean, the Maghreb, sub-Saharan Africa and Asia after World War II. Essays by expert contributors address the literary productions of different ethnic groups.

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Links serious fiction such as Moby-Dick and Grendel with popular works such as Jaws and King Kong to reveal how the monstrous image functions as an icon of human evolution.

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Why do we hate Milton's God The author reengages with a perennial problem in Milton studies, one whose genealogy dates back at least to the Romantics, but which finds its most cogent modern expression in William Empson's revulsion at Milton's God and Stanley Fish's defense.

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An examination of how Russian literature reflects Russia's history of territorial expansion. It argues that expansion is a form of colonialization, and places Russian literature within the context of postcolonial theory and discourse.

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Reveals the role masochistic forms of voluntary suffering played in late-nineteenth-century British thinking about imperial politics and class identity. This book shows how the ideological and psychological dynamics of empire, particularly its reorganization of class identities at the colonial periphery, depended on figurations of masochism.

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This is the story of the Cottesloe Company of actors, operating from the National Theatre, told by two of its leading members. It includes accounts of all the major productions including The Mysteries and Larkrise to Candleford.

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This book studies how Jewish and Catholic practices of giving structure to religious mystery are embodied in the works of Bernard Malamud, Walker Percy, Cynthia Ozick, and Flannery O'Connor.

The volume links Malamud with Percy and Ozick with O'Connor because these Jewish and Catholic authors depict religious mystery in similar ways.

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Improvisation, despite its almost ubiquitous presence in many art forms, is notoriously misunderstood and mysterious. This book explores the concept and practice of improvisation in literary modernism and the interconnections between American literature and music.

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Explores the concept and practice of improvisation in literary modernism and the interconnections between American literature and music. >

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A story of love and grief. I became a widower and a father on the same day says Joseph Luzzi. His book tells how Dantes The Divine Comedy helped him to endure his grief, raise their infant daughter, and rediscover love.

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Illuminates Virginia Woolf and several contemporary writers and artists through new research and discoveries.

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Explores Greek conceptions of human innerness and the way in which Greek tragedy shaped European notions of mind and self. Arguing that Greek poetic language connects images of consciousness, with the darkness attributed to Hades and to women, this title analyzes tragedy's biological and daemonological metaphors for what is within.

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