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A sense of shock: the impact of Impressionism on modern British and Irish writing
eBook. English.
Published
New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011
Examines the various, complex relations between impressionist texts and contexts in modern British and Irish works by Bowen Conrad, Ford, James, Wilde...
Women writing the English republic, 1625-1681
eBook. English.
Published
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017
This volume contains a study of the contributions that women writers made to the social, cultural and philosophical milieux of 17th-century English republicanism...
The Oxford handbook of Victorian literary culture
eBook. English.
Published
Oxford: Oxford University Press, [2016]
The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture brings together a team of international scholars to offer the most comprehensive interdisciplinary guide...
Off to the pictures: cinema-going, women's writing and movie culture in interwar Britain
eBook. English.
Published
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, [2016]
Using detailed case studies, this innovative book draws upon new archival research, industrial analysis and close textual readings to consider cinema'...
Science in wonderland: the scientific fairy tales of Victorian Britain
eBook. English.
Published
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015
First edition
Victorian Britain was full of excitement and debate about the new scientific ideas. In 'Science in Wonderland', Melanie Keene shows how Victorian writers...
Milton, toleration, and nationhood
eBook. English.
Published
New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2014
This study examines how Milton's polemical and imaginative prose intersects with representations of English Protestant nationhood. John Milton lived at...
Staging Beckett in Great Britain
eBook. English.
Published
London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2017
Offering a new approach to the study of Beckett by placing performance history at the centre of its analysis, the volume examines Samuel Becketts drama...
Novel science: fiction and the invention of nineteenth-century geology
eBook. English.
Published
Chicago, Illinois: The University of Chicago Press, 2013
This title provides an in-depth study of the shocking, groundbreaking, and sometimes beautiful writings of the gentlemen of the 'heroic age' of geology...
Rethinking the mind-body relationship in early modern literature, philosophy and medicine: the renaissance of the body
eBook. English.
Published
New York, New York: Routledge, 2016
This book explores a neglected feature of intellectual history and literature in the early modern period: the ways in which the body was theorized and...
Second Sight in the Nineteenth Century: Prophecy, Imagination and Nationhood
eBook. English.
Published
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
1st ed. 2017
This book explores the phenomenon of second sight in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Focusing on the nineteenth century, this book examines...
