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Taylor & Francis Ltd Walter Pater an Imaginative Sense of Fact A Collection of Essays
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Spy Fiction Spy Films and Real Intelligence Studies in Intelligence
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sex In The Head Visions of Femininity and Film in DH Lawrence
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sherlocks Sisters The British Female Detective 18641913 The Nineteenth Century Series
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Publishing History of Uncle Toms Cabin 18522002
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Taylor & Francis Pinocchio Goes Postmodern
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Taylor & Francis Painting the Novel
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Taylor & Francis Virginia Woolf and the Poetry of Fiction
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Taylor & Francis Virginia Woolf and the Poetry of Fiction Routledge Library Editions Virginia Woolf
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Taylor & Francis Jane Austens Geographies Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
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Taylor & Francis Nonlinear Temporality in Joyce and Walcott
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Taylor & Francis Transcendent Writers in Stephen Kings Fiction
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Disenchantment Skepticism and the Early Modern
Book SynopsisThis volume examines five early modern novels from the seventeenth century in Spain and France as examples of literature as a form of skeptical inquiry: Cervantes's Don Quijote, Zayas's Desengaños amorosos, Scarron's Roman comique, Cyrano de Bergerac's L'Autre Monde, and Mme. de Lafayette's Zayde.These early modern novels encourage readers to take a critical stance toward accepted beliefs, through content that stages multiple encounters with the shockingly unfamiliar as well as through experiments in literary form, especially the interpolated story. At its broadest reach, this study asserts the fundamental value of literature as a means of encouraging discernment, recognizing the illusory, and honing critical acuity. In terms of the particularity of the historical moment, the volume also identifies the early modern novel as uniquely able to represent the conflicting value spheres of early modernity because of its ability to present multiple Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. "Don Quijote and the Lessons of Shock" 2. "Interrogating Social Categories in María de Zayas’s Desengaños amorosos" 3. "Scarron’s Roman comique and the Dangers of Undifferentiability" 4. "Cyrano de Bergerac’s L’Autre Monde and the Critique of Fixity" 5. "Madame de Lafayette’s Zayde and the Insuperability of Alienation" 6. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The William Makepeace Thackeray Library
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1996, The William Makepeace Thackeray Library is a collection of works written by and about the novelist. This first volume contains extracts of William Makepeace Thackeray's early fiction and journalism in the 1830s and 1840s. In his early career, Thackeray worked as an editor, sub-editor, writer, reviewer, foreign journalist, illustrator, versifier, and hack reporter, and by 1847 had managed to maintain an unbroken and multi-faceted literary output through magazines, journals and newspapers for fourteen years. With an introduction by Richard Pearson, this book reveals some of Thackeray's early and lesser-known work. This book will be of interest to those studying Thackeray and nineteenth-century literature. Table of ContentsIntroduction Richard Pearson; ‘Half-a-Crown’s Worth of Cheap Knowledge’, Fraser’s Magazine, March 1838; ‘Horae Catnachianae’, Fraser’s Magazine, April 1839; ‘Catherine: A Story’, Works, vol. 20 and Fraser’s Magazine, February 1840; ‘The Ravenswing’, Works, vol. 20; ‘May Gambols; or, Titmarsh in the Picture Galleries’, Works, vol. 25; ‘The Fat Contributor Papers’, Works, vol. 26; ‘The Diary of C. Jeames de la Pluche’, Works, vol. 15
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The William Makepeace Thackeray Library
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1996, The William Makepeace Thackeray Library is a collection of works written by and about the novelist. This third volume contains Anthony Trollope's volume on Thackeray from John Morley's series entitled The English Men of Letters. The work signifies Thackeray's move to perceived respectability, placing him as part of the literary establishment, alongside writers such as Spenser, Johnson, Milton, Chaucer, Pope and Wordsworth. The introduction by Richard Pearson outlines the context in which the volume was written and received, including Trollope and Thackeray's relationship and the book's critical reception.This book will be of interest to those studying Thackeray and nineteenth-century literature. Table of ContentsIntroduction Richard Pearson; Thackeray Anthony Trollope
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The William Makepeace Thackeray Library
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1996, The William Makepeace Thackeray Library is a collection of works written by and about the novelist. This fourth volume contains Charles Plumptre Johnson's The Early Writings of William Makepeace Thackeray and Adolphus Alfred Jack's Thackeray: A Study. While Johnson's work signifies a landmark in Thackeray scholarship, recognizing his lesser-known work for magazines and newspapers, A. A. Jack's text marks a major reassessment of Thackeray's work in light of the debate on the moral intentionality of fiction. Richard Pearson's introduction guides the reader through the context of each publication, providing a helpful explanation of how and why these works were written. This book will be of interest to those studying Thackeray and nineteenth-century literature.Table of ContentsIntroduction Richard Pearson; The Early Writings of William Makepeace Thackeray Charles Plumptre Johnson; Thackeray: A Study Adolphus Alfred Jack.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The William Makepeace Thackeray Library
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1996, The William Makepeace Thackeray Library is a collection of works written by and about the novelist. This sixth volume contains the work of Lewis Melville, one of the most productive biographers and critics of Thackeray at the turn of the 20th century. Richard Pearson's helpful introduction not only provides additional information on the biographer himself, but also analyses the text and tracks its development over time. This book will be of interest to those studying Thackeray and nineteenth-century literature. Table of ContentsIntroduction Richard Pearson; The Life of William Makepeace Thackeray Lewis Melville
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Terror and CounterTerror in Contemporary British
Book SynopsisThe widespread threat of terrorist and counter-terrorist violence in the twenty-first century has created a globalized context for social interactions, transforming the ways in which young people relate to the world around them and to one another. This is the first study that reads post-9/11 and 7/7 British writing for the young as a response to this contemporary predicament, exploring how children's writers find the means to express the local conditions and different facets of the global wars around terror. The texts examined in this book reveal a preoccupation with overcoming various forms of violence and prejudice faced by certain groups within post-terror Britain, as well as a concern with mapping out their social relations with other groups, and those concerns are set against the recurring themes of racist paranoia, anti-immigrant hostility, politicized identities, and growing up in countries transformed by the effects of terror and counter-terror. The book concentrates on the Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1 Unhealed Wounds Chapter 2 Precarious Lives Chapter 3 Subcultural Spaces Chapter 4 The Reluctant Terrorist Chapter 5 At Home in Wonderland ConclusionIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Peter Pans Shadows in the Literary Imagination
Book SynopsisThis book is a literary analysis of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan in all its different versions -- key rewritings, dramatisations, prequels, and sequels -- and includes a synthesis of the main critical interpretations of the text over its history. A comprehensive and intelligent study of the Peter Pan phenomenon, this study discusses the book's complicated textual history, exploring its origins in the Harlequinade theatrical tradition and British pantomime in the nineteenth century. Stirling investigates potential textual and extra-textual sources for Peter Pan, the critical tendency to seek sources in Barrie's own biography, and the proliferation of prequels and sequels aiming to explain, contextualize, or close off, Barrie's exploration of the imagination. The sources considered include Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson's Starcatchers trilogy, Régis Loisel's six-part Peter Pan graphic novel in French (1990-2004), Andrew Birkin's The Lost Boys serTrade Review'This excellent book is an important contribution to the documentation and critical interpretation of a literary myth, text and character that has transcended its authorial and textual origins and, as the author states, 'taken on a life of its own'.- Scottish Literary Review"Her analysis is compelling... [An] interesting and highly readable text." - Kayla McKinney Wiggins, Mythlore"Stirling's bibliography is a model of thorough research and her analysis offers fresh ideas for Peter Pan Studies." - Children's Literature Assocation Quarterly.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations and References Introduction: The Shadow of Peter Pan 1. Origins and Storytelling 2. Peter and Pantomime 3. Wendy and Peter 4. Before Peter Pan: Loisel 5. Imagining Barrie 6. Ending Peter Pan 7. Sequels Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Womens Court and Society Memoirs Part II
Book SynopsisEach of the works in this collection documents the extraodinary fortunes of women whose real lives read like fiction.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Bi-sexuality of Daniel Defoe: A
Book SynopsisDaniel Defoe (1660-1731) is known to many only by his first novel, "Robinson Crusoe", astonishingly written as he approached his sixtieth year. Acknowledged as the first of English novelists, he has also been awarded accolades for being the 'Father of Journalism', the most successful spy in British history, the precursor to contemporary depth psychologists, the most daring of early feminists, the most devious of confidence tricksters and fraudulent entrepreneurs, the unsurpassed travelogue presenter, the first spin-doctor and speech-writer to a king. Hurling his defiances against the Established Church and Roman Catholicism, he was also the intrepid upholder of dissenting beliefs. Leo Abse deploys his forensic skills as a distinguished criminal lawyer and reforming parliamentarian to present an intriguing and novel Freudian overview of all Defoe's major works. Weaving the anecdotal and the personal with profound revelatory explorations of the psychodynamics and psychopathology of Defoe, his conclusions, strikingly relevant to today's political dilemmas, will precipitate debate in university English departments, startle many literary critics and be of absorbing interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, criminologists and all working in the field of mental health.Trade Review'Don't miss Leo Abse's Daniel Defoe. He's as original as Defoe himself.' - Michael Foot 'Leo Abse is always brave, always perceptive and usually right; doubters will be wise to hesitate before pronouncing; over the last half-century, time has been in the habit of vindicating his judgement.' - Matthew Parris 'This book presents its subject in an entirelyfresh light, making it an exhilarating and enthralling read. I was gripped from beginning to end.' - Anthony Howard 'With wit, insight and erudition, Leo Abse illuminates hidden corners of the too-often overlooked Defoe, and casts a contemporary eye on Defoe's prodigious achievement, not least his bold eighteenth-century view of marriage as licensed whoredom. A riveting read.' - Brenda Maddox 'Leo Abse, perhaps the most humane and significant back-bench MP from any political party in the twentieth century, civilised Britain by forcing through a series of historic changes on the laws on homosexuality and divorce... now, ever indefatigable, his latest book gives a new dimension to the understanding of Defoe. Abse shows how Defoe transcended his private agonies to become a great public man.' - Peter OborneTable of ContentsThe genius of Daniel Defoe -- The Historical Collections -- The negative Oedipus complex -- The thrills of risk-taking -- Cannibalism -- The plague: defying Thanatos -- The storm -- The voyeur -- The spy -- Coprophilia and creativity -- Captain Singleton: the ablation of Alice Defoe -- The birth traumas of Sheppard, Wild and Defoe -- The preacher -- The feminist -- Crusoe's island -- Moll Flanders -- Roxana -- Apocalypse: The Political History of the Devil -- Epilogue
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Oxford University Press The Invention of Prose
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Lacan Cambridge Companions to Literature
Book SynopsisThis collection of specially commissioned essays by academics and practising psychoanalysts, first published in 2003, explores key dimensions of Jacques Lacan's life and works. Lacan is renowned as a theoretician of psychoanalysis whose work is still influential in many countries. He refashioned psychoanalysis in the name of philosophy and linguistics at the time when it underwent a certain intellectual decline. Advocating a 'return to Freud', by which he meant a close reading in the original of Freud's works, he stressed the idea that the unconscious functions 'like a language'. All essays in this Companion focus on key terms in Lacan's often difficult and idiosyncratic developments of psychoanalysis. This volume will bring fresh, accessible perspectives to the work of this formidable and influential thinker. These essays, supported by a useful chronology and guide to further reading will prove invaluable to students and teachers alike.Trade Review"Superb... this book shoud appeal to anyone interested in the development of Freudian thought and the history of ideas concerning human subjectivity. Highly recommended." ChoiceTable of ContentsChronology; 1. Lacan's turns to Freud Jean-Michel Rabaté; 2. The mirror-stage: an obliterated archive Elisabeth Roudinesco; 3. Lacan's myths Darian Leader; 4. Lacan's science of the subject: between linguistics and topology Danny Nobus; 5. From the letter to the matheme: Lacan's scientific models Bernard Burgoyne; 6. The paradoxes of the symptom in psychoanalysis Colette Soler; 7. Desire and jouissance in the teachings of Lacan Nestor Braunstein; 8. Lacan and philosophy Charles Shepherdson; 9. Lacan's Marxism, Marxism's Lacan (from Zizek to Althusser) Joe Valente; 10. Ethics and tragedy in Lacan Alenka Zupancic; 11. A Lacanian approach to the logic of perversion Judith Feher-Gurewich; 12. What is a Lacanian clinic? Diana Rabinovitch; 13. Beyond the phallus: Lacan and feminism Deborah Luepnitz; 14. Lacan and queer theory Tim Dean; 15. Lacan's afterlife: Jacques Lacan meets Andy Warhol Catherine Liu; Further Reading.
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Cambridge University Press Recreating Jane Austen
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Cambridge University Press The Letters of D. H. Lawrence
Book SynopsisVolume I of the Letters, edited by James T. Boulton, gives the first 580 letters in the series, covering the period September 1901 to May 1913. Professor Boulton's discreet annotation conceals an enormous labour of patient detection. There are over thirty photographs of his friends and correspondents.Trade Review'The splendid Cambridge Edition of the Letters of D. H. Lawrence is most welcome. It has all the virtues of a good modern scholarly edition of a writer's letters. Though one has already been familiar with many aspects of Lawrence's personality in his other writings, this comprehensive edition of his letters projects a cohesive self-portriat of the living artist.' English Studies: A Journal of English Language and LiteratureTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Rules of transcription; Lawrence: a genealogy; Lawrence: a chronology, 1885–1913; Maps showing places visited by Lawrence, 1885–1913; Introduction; Letters 1-579; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Letters of D H Lawrence Volume 8 The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of D H Lawrence
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Cambridge University Press Kangaroo The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D H Lawrence
Book SynopsisKangaroo is D. H. Lawrence's eighth novel, set in Australia. He wrote the first draft in just forty-five days while living south of Sydney, in 1922, and revised it three months later in New Mexico. The descriptions of the country are vivid and sympathetic and the book fuses lightly disguised autobiography with an exploration of political ideas at an immensely personal level. Based on a collation of the manuscript, typescripts and first editions, this text of Kangaroo is closest to what Lawrence would have expected to see in print. There is a full textual apparatus of variants, a comprehensive introduction giving the background and history of composition and publication and a summary of contemporary reviewers' opinions. Explanatory notes elucidate the many geographical, political and literary allusions in the text; there are three maps and an appendix detailing Australian locations.Table of ContentsGeneral editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Cue-titles; Introduction; Kangaroo; Explanatory notes; Textual apparatus; Appendix; A note on pounds, shillings and pence.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel
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Cambridge University Press Commerce Morality and the EighteenthCentury Novel
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Cambridge University Press Modern Romance the Transformation The Gothic Scott Dickens
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Cambridge University Press Dickens and the Politics of the Family
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Cambridge University Press Finance and Fictionality in the Early Eighteenth Century
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Cambridge University Press Conrad in Perspective
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Cambridge University Press readingdaughtersfictions17091834
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Cambridge University Press Myth and Archive
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Cambridge University Press Dostoevsky and English Modernism 1900 1930
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Cambridge University Press Defoe and the New Sciences
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Cambridge University Press Jane Austen and the Body
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Cambridge University Press Epistolary Fiction in Europe 1500 1850
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Cambridge University Press From the Idyll to the Novel
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Cambridge University Press Conrad on Film
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Cambridge University Press The Fictions of James Joyce and Wyndham Lewis
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Cambridge University Press Petronius the Poet
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Cambridge University Press Literary Magazines Brit Romanticism 45 Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Series Number 45
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Cambridge University Press Subjectivity and Subjugation in SeventeenthCentury Drama and Prose
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Cambridge University Press Joyce Derrida Lacan and the Trauma of History
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Cambridge University Press Fictions of Labor William Faulkner and the Souths Long Revolution 108 Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series Number 108
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