Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
This study looks at J.K. Rowling's books and considers some of the reasons for their phenomenal success. This is done against a backdrop of how Harry Potter relates to other contemporary children's books so that students and teachers can place them in the context for which they were written.
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Semicolonial Joyce brings together leading commentators on the Irish dimension of Joyce's writing, such as Vincent J. Cheng, Seamus Deane, Enda Duffy, Luke Gibbons, David Lloyd, and Emer Nolan, to present a range of voices rather than a single position on a topic which has had a major impact on Joyce criticism […]
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Publisher: State University of New York Press
Although romantic science may sound like a paradox, much of the romance surrounding modern science - the mad scientist, the intuitive genius, the utopian transformation of nature - originated in the Romantic period. Romantic Science traces the literary and cultural politics surrounding the formation of the modern scientific disciplines […]
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
James Joyce's Dubliners and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Publisher: Four Courts Press Ltd
Young scholars present 29 papers from the 1991 fifth annual meeting of the New Voices conference. Using postmodern, postcolonial, Derridean deconstructionist, feminist, and other approaches, they consider such topics as the new Northern Irish literature exemplified by Glann Patterson and Ciaran Carson, the plurality of gay identity in Fran McGuines
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Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
This work proposes that women writing in the 19th century were more willing to embrace industrialism than their male counterparts. It shows that although these women's responses to industrialism differed widely, they saw the Industrial Revolution in ways unique to their gender.
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Publisher: Manchester University Press
Conrad's Marlow offers a comprehensive account and critical analysis of one of Conrad's most celebrated creations, asking both who and what is Marlow: a character or a narrator; a biographer or an autobiographical screen; a messenger or an interpreter; a bearer of truth or a misguided liar?Reading Conrad's fiction alongside the work […]
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Publisher: Northcote House Publishers Ltd
Sir John Betjeman remains the most popular English poet of today. He has been termed a 'national teddy bear', and some commentary has addressed his work in rather such terms. However, it is evident that most of his key themes - the spirit of place (or 'place-myth'), mundane lives ('petit recits'), […]
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Through scholarly analysis of Hardy's notebooks, letters and contemporary periodicals, this book explores Hardy's engagement with the Victorian intellectual world, particularly the debates concerning evolution, free will and determinism, mesmerism and musical aesthetics. The 1870s witnessed an enormous interest in musical theory: it was during this period that the ideas of Arthur Schopenhaur […]
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Palgrave Advances in William Blake Studies is a comprehensive guide to recent critical approaches to the author. Topics covered include Blake and Gender Studies, Blake and Radical History, Blake and Queer Studies and Blake and Postmodernism. The collection also provides a helpful chronology and detailed bibliography.
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