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Radically revises the idea of a gothic tradition and traverses two centuries of Irish literary history to give a fluent and detailed account of the emerging relation between Irish culture, modernism and politics. -- .

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The closely related problems of creativity and freedom have long been seen as emblematic of the Renaissance. Ullrich Langer, however, argues that French and Italian Renaissance literature can be profitably reconceived in terms of the way these problems are treated in late medieval scholasticism in general and nominalist theology in particular. Look

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Using selections by American, British, French, German, Russian, Scandinavian, Spanish, Portuguese, and South American critics and authors, Professor Becker illustrates how realism arose as a reaction to romanticism, and how the practitioners of realism developed conflicting ideas about the means they should use and the ends toward which they should

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This annotated bibliography provides the first comprehensive listing of the works of Donald Davie, an internationally known British poet and critic who has become a part of America's academic and literary scene. The final section covers commercially produced recordings and a videotape of Davie reading from his work.

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Addresses the question of how identity is formed as a result of corporeal and cultural positioning, by mapping Dorothy Richardson's early modernist text, Pilgrimage, against our postmodern interest in real and imagined geographies. -- .

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A reference source for Dostoevskii scholars, which charts the great novelist's relationship to, and reception in, Britain. This book brings together the material on Dostoevskii's visit to Britain, the extent to which he drew inspiration from British writers and thinkers, and the impact he made on the culture.

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A classic reissue of Richard Holmess brilliant book on Samuel Johnsons friendship with the poet Richard Savage, which won the James Tait Black Prize for Biography.

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This work explores Dr Johnson's relationships with six remarkable and successful female authors: Elizabeth Carter; Hannah More; Charlotte Lennox; Hester Thrale; Fanney Burney; and Elizabeth Montagu. These women's characters and achievements are also chronicled.

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This volume, the final one in a three-part series on the Jewish presence in twentieth-century American literature, first examines the special literary relationship of Blacks and Jews as exemplified in the writings of the two groups.

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Rooney explores the history and sources of utopian writing in America, as reflected in the attitudes and values of the utopian writers, the problems they were most concerned with, and the types of solutions they offered.

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Traces the deployment of dress in fictional texts of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, from "Roxana" to "Middlemarch", and "The House of Mirth". A study of the history of clothing, this book explores the growth of the middle classes and the association of luxury with vice, and the reasons why wedding dresses rarely ever symbolize happiness.

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Traces the deployment of dress in fictional texts of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, from "Roxana" to "Middlemarch", and "The House of Mirth". A study of the history of clothing, this book explores the growth of the middle classes and the association of luxury with vice, and the reasons why wedding dresses rarely ever symbolize happiness.

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Discusses Drrenmatt's major works - novels, stories, radio-plays, stage-plays, essays, lectures, speeches and artworks. This book places him in context as a major contributor to the European cultural scene. It charts and reinterprets the genesis and fortunes of each work, with quotations from the original texts.

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Examines the position of Dutch literature within world literature: how it refracts major literary traditions as well as how it contributes to them.