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This book is an international collection of ecocritical essays that examine sustainability in relation to Romantic-era Britain. It examines Romantic works while interrogating issues of race, gender, religion, and identity, beginning with inspiration and creativity and ending with considerations about extinction and apocalypse.

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Explores how the publication of women's life writing influenced the reputation of its writers and of the genre itself during the long nineteenth century -- .

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Explores how the publication of women's life writing influenced the reputation of its writers and of the genre itself during the long nineteenth century -- .

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Providing an introduction to Romanticism and its contexts from 1780-1820, this work includes: an overview of the historical, cultural and intellectual background including the romantic movement in culture, political upheaval, philosophy and religion and scientific development; a survey of the developments in key genres; and more.

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Serving as an introduction to Romanticism and its contexts from 1780-1820, this title offers an overview of the historical, cultural and intellectual background including the romantic movement in culture, political upheaval, philosophy and religion and scientific development. It also has a survey of the developments in key genres.

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Claudia Moscovici asserts in Romanticism and Postromanticism that the Romantic heritage, far from being important only in a historical sense, has philosophical relevance and value for contemporary art and culture. With an emphasis on artistic tradition as a continuing source of inspiration and innovation, she touches upon each main branch of philosophy: aesthetics, epistemology, and ethics.

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"Cutting-edge essays on theory, aesthetics, and human and nonhuman ontology"--

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Despite their hopeful aspirations to wholeness in life and spirit, Thomas McFarland contends, the Romantics were ruins amidst ruins," fragments of human existence in a disintegrating world. Focusing on Wordsworth and Coleridge, Professor McFarland shows how this was true not only for each of these Romantics in particular but also for Romanticism in

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A monograph covering Romanticism and philosophy, focusing on aesthetics and reason. It proposes a radical revisioning of Romantic literature by developing a fresh insight into its philosophical importance. It challenges a number of attacks on philosophical reason, and historicist readings of Romanticism.

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Explores the ways in which philosophical discourse in the Romantic period used literature to express philosophical problems and paradoxes which philosophy found itself incapable of expressing on its own terms. This book engages with a variety of Romantic writings, including literature, philosophy and political theory.

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This book is a thorough examination and fresh interpretation of Shakespeares presentation of the final throes of republican Romes decay and demise and the rise of Caesarism. Speech by speech and line by line, it brings out Shakespeares understanding of the political substance and the historical significance of republican Romes collapse.

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"The subject matter of these essays is rich and diverse, ranging across the play's philosophical identification of sexual love with self-realization, the hermeneutic implications of an editor's textual choices, the minor characters of the play in relation to Renaissance performance traditions, Romeo and Juliet in opera and ballet, and the play's Italian sources and afterlives" --

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A study of Romeo and Juliet which examines every aspect of the play, including texts and contexts, thematic and critical issues, and performances.

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Angela Thirlwell's acclaimed biography, now in paperback. An imaginative literary portrait of the most enduring female character in the canon of English drama: Rosalind (As You Like It)

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Roth after Eighty offers a retrospective reading of the career and works of American author, Philip Roth. Drawing on eleven original essays from experts in the field of Roth studies from several national perspectives, this collection argues for a consideration of Roths retirement as another phase of his career.

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Roth after Eighty offers a retrospective reading of the career and works of American author, Philip Roth. Drawing on eleven original essays from experts in the field of Roth studies from several national perspectives, this collection argues for a consideration of Roths retirement as another phase of his career.

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Roth and Celebrity is composed of 10 original essays that consider the vexed and ambivalent relationship between Philip Roth and his own celebrity as revealed both in personal interviews as well as in the fiction that spans his publishing history.

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A close reading of Philip Roth's later works from the perspective of trauma theory in order to emphasize Roth's interest in contemporary global trauma.

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Roths Wars is an inquiry into how Roth cast himself throughout his fiction as a war writer, a teller of soldier stories, in relation to Roths and his narrators' subsidiary performances as sportswriters, crime reporters, polemicists, pundits, and movie fans.

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