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Once a controversial genre of Victorian fiction that produced the major best sellers of its century, the now-forgotten sensation novel was a publishing phenomenon in its time. In a vivid portrait of this subversive and discomfiting popular literature, Winifred Hughes identifies its ingredients, its practitioners, and its implications, and reveals i

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This book explores themes of consumerism, gender and sexuality, genre, popular culture, and American culture in Diamonds Are Forever, situating Ian Flemings novel and Guy Hamiltons film as important milestones in modern popular culture.

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This book explores themes of consumerism, gender and sexuality, genre, popular culture, and American culture in Diamonds Are Forever, situating Ian Flemings novel and Guy Hamiltons film as important milestones in modern popular culture.

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"Featuring contributions from a range of internationally renowned scholars, this book explores the globality of Anglophone fiction both as a conceptual framing and as a literary imaginary. It highlights the diversity of lives and worlds represented in Anglophone writing, as well as the diverse imaginations of transnational and planetary connections articulated in it"--

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Offers insights into the history of the movement and discusses the political and theoretical implications of the writing. This book providesreadings of work by Lyn Hejinian, Ron Silliman, and Charles Bernstein, among many others, and compares it to a wide range of other contemporary and modern American poetry.

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From the Middle Ages to the close of the 17th century, alchemy was fundamental to Western culture. This study examines the literary representation of alchemical theory and the metaphor of alchemical regeneration in the works of Taylor, Poe, Hawthorne and Fuller.

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Argues that tropes of eroticized domination in sentimental literature must be recognized for what they were: a double-edged sword of both oppression and empowerment. This book explores the cultural forces that created this ideology of desire, particularly Protestant discourses relating suffering to love and middle-class discourses of womanhood.

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Sanford Schwartz situates Modernist poetics in the intellectual ferment of the early twentieth century, which witnessed major developments in philosophy, science, and the arts. Beginning with the works of various philosophers--Bergson, James, Bradley, Nietzsche, and Husserl, among others--he establishes a matrix that brings together not only the pr

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By examining the relation between time and processes of figuration in James Joyce's later work, this study identifies his attempt to engage with the philosophical problem of describing time's characteristic movement whilst acknowledging the impossibility of reducing this movement to anything that can be observed, represented or even experienced.

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This book charts emergent geographical imaginaries of the Arctic in twenty-first century cultural production from literature and cinema to comics, hip hop, and cartography. It is a timely intervention into circumpolar studies at a time when Indigenous Arctic homelands have entered global media and politics to an unprecedented extent.

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Suitable for courses in medieval literature, this work offers a comprehensive introduction to literature and culture in the middle ages, focusing particularly on Middle English and the period from 1300-1500. It includes introductions to authors, texts and contexts; guides to key critics, concepts and topics.

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A resource for courses in medieval literature. It provides students with a comprehensive guide to the historical and cultural context; major texts and movements; reading primary and critical texts; key critics, concepts and topics; major critical approaches and directions of new research.

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The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare's most problematic plays, largely because of what is seen as its inherent anti-semitism. At the centre of the play is one of the most famous anti-heroes in Shakespeare: Shylock 'the Jew'. How to interpret Shylock baffles critics as they divide on whether Shakespeare is prejudiced or sympathetic.

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The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare's most frequently performed plays. This reference is a comprehensive introduction to the play, its themes and contexts, its critical reception, and its performance history.

The volume begins with a discussion of the play's creation and textual history.

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An updated edition of collected criticism offering a unique account of the critical history of one of Shakespeare's most problematic plays. This edition features a new supplementary introduction.