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Islam and controversy: the politics of free speech after Rushdie
eBook. English.
Published
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Was Salman Rushdie right to have written 'The Satanic Verses'? Were the protestors right to have protested? What about the Danish cartoons? This important...
Literary and linguistic approaches to feminist narratology
eBook. English.
Published
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
Ruth Page offers a critical approach to analysing the relationships between gender and narrative, proposing an integrative framework for feminist narratology...
Literary infinities: number and narrative in modern fiction
eBook. English.
Published
London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018
Today, we have forgotten that mathematics was once aligned with the arts, rather than with the sciences. 'Literary Infinities' analyses the connection...
Disease and death in eighteenth-century literature and culture: fashioning the unfashionable
eBook. English.
Published
London: Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
This collection examines different aspects of attitudes towards disease and death in writing of the long eighteenth century. Taking three conditions as...
Breeding and eugenics in the American literary imagination: heredity rules in the twentieth century
eBook. English.
Published
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
First edition
A disturbing but ultimately discredited strain in American thought, eugenics was a crucial ideological force in the early twentieth century. Luczak investigates...
The Gothic: a reader
eBook. English.
Published
Oxford: Peter Lang, [2018]
What is the Gothic? From ghosts to vampires, from ruined castles to steampunk fashion, the Gothic is a term that evokes all things strange, haunted and...
Queer Shakespeare: desire and sexuality
eBook. English.
Published
London: The Arden Shakespeare, 2019
Draws together 13 essays, which offer a major reassessment of the criticism of desire, body and sexuality in Shakespeare's drama and poetry. Bringing...
Literature's children: the critical child and the art of idealization
eBook. English.
Published
London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019
Literature's Children offers a new way of thinking about how literature for children functions didactically. It analyzes the nature of the practical critical...
From comic strips to graphic novels: contributions to the theory and history of graphic narrative
eBook. English.
Published
Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015
Second edition
This essay collection examines the theory and history of graphic narrative as one of the most interesting and versatile forms of storytelling in contemporary...
Memories of war in early modern England: armor and militant nostalgia in Marlowe, Sidney, and Shakespeare
eBook. English.
Published
New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016
"Memory and War in Early Modern England" examines depictions of the construction and destruction of the male body in combat in relationship to early modern...
