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Addressing the problems of critical dissent during wartime, the contemporary crisis of the humanities under neoliberalism, and the perils of consumer culture and popular taste, this book examines the ways in which modern American thinkers have intervened in the public sphere and to mediate relations between institutions and intellectual production.

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This study oilers a new definition of Shelley s place in English radical culture. Treating the poet's literary career as an active intervention in the social world, Professor Scrivener shows how Shelley designed each text to provoke different audiences in a Utopian direction, despite the political repression and other cultural limitations of which

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This unique volume examines the evolution of British historical drama from the birth of modern British drama with John Osborne's Look Back in Anger in 1956 to the establishment of the right-wing government of Margaret Thatcher during the early 1980s.

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Women playwrights speak about their art and the theatre in this collection of interviews about a key decade of British drama

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How did 'Milton the Regicide', a man often regarded in his lifetime as a dangerous traitor and heretic, become 'the Sublime Milton' This book uncovers the cultural historical background against which the Romantics and their contemporaries encountered and interacted with Milton's reputation and works.

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How did 'Milton the Regicide', a man often regarded in his lifetime as a dangerous traitor and heretic, become 'the Sublime Milton' This book uncovers the cultural historical background against which the Romantics and their contemporaries encountered and interacted with Milton's reputation and works.

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Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man is one of the most widely read works of African American literature. Included are chapters on the creation of the novel, its plot, its historical and social contexts, the themes and issues it addresses, Ellison's literary style, and the critical reception of the work.

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This bibliography lists and annotates writings about Emerson published in English between 1980 and 1991, and complements earlier Emerson bibliographies.

Because the response to Emerson has evolved greatly over the years, the contents of this bibliography are arranged in chronological order.

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Reviewers and critics have not always agreed on how well the science fiction label fit Ray Bradbury, but the immense popularity of works like The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man leaves no doubt as to the enduring status of this important writer.

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This book is about Raymond Federman and his incredible textual obsession with Samuel Beckett. Federman was a scholar of Beckett, postmodern theorist, a self-translator and avant-garde novelist.

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An analytical look at mothers and mother figures in multiple works under a feminist psychoanalytic framework

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"An investigation of Mediterranean worlds (history, literature, geography, arts) between past, present and future, in relation to the interaction among archaic cultures, sustainability and ongoing globalization"--

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A great tool for advising readers, creating reading lists for library Web sites, flyers, and newsletters, and making checklists or reading plans for adults and teens who enjoy fantasy fiction.

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A book for anyone who has ever struggled to choose what to read next. It covers 600 books ranging from "The Shock Doctrine" to "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes".

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Part recovery and part new reading method, this work locates the few kept mistresses in Victorian literature, while offering a queer way to read for their existences when less legible. This book offers a way to read old material with new eyes and a social justice ethic.