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As a specific category, London Gothic is becoming as important for understanding ourselves today as it has been for thinking about the cultural productions of the late-nineteenth century. This book focuses on Gothic representations of London, and also includes essays from scholars reading London Gothic as it is manifested in a variety of media.

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Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist offers the first critical appraisal of the work of Marie Duval 18471890), one of the most unusual, pioneering and visionary cartoonists of the later nineteenth century, focusing on new types of cultural work by women and establishing Duval as a unique but exemplary figure in a transformational period of the nineteenth century.

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Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist offers the first critical appraisal of the work of Marie Duval 18471890), one of the most unusual, pioneering and visionary cartoonists of the later nineteenth century, focusing on new types of cultural work by women and establishing Duval as a unique but exemplary figure in a transformational period of the nineteenth century.

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A collection of essays on the theme of youth in Mark Twain's work and life.

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A collection of essays on the theme of youth in Mark Twain's work and life.

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"Revised with a new preface by the author for a new edition and annotated by Lady Byron, John Cam Hobhouse, Sir Walter Scott, Sir Charles Napier, John Murray, John Galt, William Harness, Robert Southey, Lady Caroline Lamb, Leigh Hunt, Mary Shelley, E.J. Trelawny, William Fletcher, Countess Teresa Guiccioli, and others who knew the poet personally."

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In this radical reinterpretation, Mr. Thompson argues that Melville, seeking to disguise his agonized conviction of the cruelty and malice of God, consistently satirized Christian doctrine. He endeavors to show that Melville resorted to literary deceptions that could simultaneously hoodwink and satirize the point of view of his orthodox readers. Th

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Even if [Bentham and Coleridge] had had no great influence they would still have been the classical examples they are of two great opposing types of mind. . . . And as we follow Mill's analysis, exposition and evaluation of this pair of opposites we are at the same time, we realize, forming a close acquaintance with a mind different from either.

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An examination of some of the canonical works of modern literature in English and German with regard to masculinity, relations between men, national identity and patriarchy. The book identifies five leitmotifs which serve to characterize the period between 1880 and 1930.

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The first book to explore the relationship between literary modernism and the British Empire -- .

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Luiz Carlos Martins Penna was a formative figure in Brazilian theater, creating the comedy of manners in the period after the country gained its independence in 1822. This book examines the interactions of music, theater, and society in Martins Pennas body of work, exploring music theater, music history, and theater history in the Americas.

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This book discusses the various cultural forms and literary works by which information, myth and misinformation on medical practices and personages were spread during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and some of the reasons for this, from authorial self-interest to scientific ignorance.

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This literary and critical approach to Wagner's Ring provides an original interpretation of the Ring tetralogy and challenges the standard political analyses of the work. The Ring is examined in the tradition of romantic drama as a reworking of Greek tragedy, theoretically expressed in the second part of Oper und Drama.

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This is the first time these essays have been collected and identified as De Quincey's. Each essay or article is reprinted with full annotation and the author's reasons for attributing it to De Quincey. The essays vary in length and in subject matter: some are addressed to "The Editor"; some are critical reviews of contemporary magazines; some are

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But despite the resurgence of interest in American women writers of the nineteenth century, resources for readers have remained widely scattered.

This reference book is the first work of its kind to offer comprehensive entries on more than 70 American women writers who published during the nineteenth century.