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An insular turn in late medieval and early modern culture central to the emergence of modern fiction.

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In this analysis of twentieth-century lesbian writing, Julie Abraham offers new readings of pulp novelists alongside high modernistauthors as various as Gertrude Stein, Willa Cather, Mary Renault, and Virginia Woolfto examine how these writers created new lesbian narratives.

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Compares the texts and obsessions of the Romantic and postmodern periods.

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Memorialises the epic Philadelphia Yellow Fever epidemic of 1793 and connects it to the upheavals of the revolutionary era and the murderous financial networks of Atlantic slavery. This work offers selections from key contemporary texts.

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Memorialises the epic Philadelphia Yellow Fever epidemic of 1793 and connects it to the upheavals of the revolutionary era and the murderous financial networks of Atlantic slavery. This work offers selections from key contemporary texts.

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Examines the work produced in exile by writers of African descent. The author suggests that in the absence of a recoverable land of origin, the idea of diaspora comes to represent a home that is not singular or exclusionary. In this book, he investigates the work of Himes, Cliff, and three other twentieth-century black international writers.

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Vitriolic and incisive, Douglas Glover's newest essays defend literature against the assaults of a post-literate age.

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Combining literary criticism with book history, Carter and Osborne explore how Australian authors and their books fared in the US market from the 1840s through to the 1940s, most notably in the 1880s and 1890s and then between the two World Wars.

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Tracing the transformation of storytelling in the digital age, this work examines electronic narrative forms. It reveals how digital media convey meaning and create stories. It stresses the difficulty of reconciling narrativity with interactivity and anticipates the time when media will provide fresh ways to experience stories.

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No cycle of historical legends has enjoyed greater or more enduring popularity in China than that of the Three Kingdoms, which recounts the dramatic story of the civil wars (c. AD 180220) that divided the old Han empire into the Shu-Han, Wei, and Wu states, and the eventual reunification of the realm under the Western Jin in AD 280.

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No cycle of historical legends has enjoyed greater or more enduring popularity in China than that of the Three Kingdoms, which recounts the dramatic story of the civil wars (c. AD 180220) that divided the old Han empire into the Shu-Han, Wei, and Wu states, and the eventual reunification of the realm under the Western Jin in AD 280.

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During the nineteenth century, women authors for the first time achieved professional status, secure income, and public fame. This book examines the various ways women writers negotiated the market realities of authorship, and looks at the myths and models women writers constructed to elevate their place in the profession.

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Provides a reexamination of early modern sexuality. The author examines sixteenth-century English literary concepts of sexuality, and shows how these works of early modern literature provide a discourse of sexuality that strives to understand status differences in erotic contexts, and thereby question key assumptions of modernity.

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Provides a reexamination of early modern sexuality. The author examines sixteenth-century English literary concepts of sexuality, and shows how these works of early modern literature provide a discourse of sexuality that strives to understand status differences in erotic contexts, and thereby question key assumptions of modernity.

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This work considers the role literature played in the construction of a national culture - that sphere of shared sentiments, values, and beliefs that define the nation-state in Greece during the last two centuries.

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"Bourgeois in the Flesh examines how late 20th and early 21st century African American literary texts grapple with the dilemma of black bourgeois subjectivity"--