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Examines the theory and practice of the historical novel in 20th century German and Austrian literature. This volume aims to work against the conventional view of the historical novel as an antiquated and escapist genre, remote from contemporary problems. It seeks to show that the historical novel is always a response to contemporary history.

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Gives a comprehensive introduction to British Modernism as a literary movement. Suitable for literature students, this title includes: introductions to authors, texts and contexts; guides to key critics, concepts and topics; and an overview of major critical approaches, case studies in reading primary and secondary texts.

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Gives an accessible and comprehensive introduction to British Modernism as a literary movement. This resource offers literature students with information and guidance needed at the beginning of a course through to developing more advanced knowledge and skills. It includes: introductions to authors, texts and contexts; and guides to key critics.

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Focuses on the meaning and importance of the act of child murder in literary treatments of the myth.

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The narrative grotesque introduces a new framework for reading medieval texts that rupture conventional poetic boundaries and create unsettling fusions of poetic forms and narratological subjectivities.

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This bibliography is a starting point for those interested in researching the American Indian in literature or American Indian literature. Designed to augment other major bibliographies, it classifies all relevant bibliographies and critical works and supplies listings not cited by them.

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A guide to the life and works of Ayn Rand, chronicling and summarizing her writings, presenting information about her national and global impact - and the response to it - and providing a comprehensive bibliography. This edition contains summaries of books and articles about Rand.

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Sexually transgressive, politically astute and determined to claim rights equal to those enjoyed by men, the New Woman took centre stage in the cultural landscape of late-Victorian Britain. By comparing the fictional representations with the lived experience of the New Woman, Ledger's book studies the 'Woman question' at the fin de sicle.

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"Explores the history, ambitions, and impact of the Nobel Prize in literature as it gained a central position in 20th-century global literary culture"--

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Explores the history, ambitions, and impact of the Nobel Prize in literature as it gained a central position in 20th-century global literary culture.

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This final volume of Bollingen Series L covers the material Coleridge wrote in his notebooks between January 1827 and his death in 1834. In these years, Coleridge made use of the notebooks for his most sustained and far-reaching inquiries, very little of which resulted in publication in any form during his lifetime.

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Once upon a time there were good American novels and bad ones, but none was thought of as a work of art. This title tells the story of how, beginning with Henry James, this began to change. It examines the late-nineteenth century movement to elevate the status of the novel, its sources, paradoxes, and reverberations into the twentieth century.

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Benito Perez Galdos (1843-1920) occupies a position in Spanish literature surpassed only by Cervantes, and, like him, made a major contribution to the European novel that is now becoming widely recognized. In a semiological approach to the second period of Episodios Nacionales, Diane Urey demonstrates the relevance of these twenty-six novels, the l

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"Examines a history of reading practices in 19th-century Bengal at the intersection of Sanskrit and Perso-Arabic aesthetics, British colonial pedagogy, and the rise of Bengali novels"--