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81. The Romantic Sublime and Middle-Class Subjectivity in the Victorian Novel

    By Stephen Hancock

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    Published August 15th 2005 by Routledge
82. Twentieth-Century Americanism

    Identity and Ideology in Depression-Era Leftist Literature

    By Andrew Yerkes

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    Published August 11th 2005 by Routledge
83. Poetry and Repetition

    Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens, John Ashbery

    By Krystyna Mazur

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    Published June 23rd 2005 by Routledge
84. Authoring the Self

    Self-Representation, Authorship, and the Print Market in British Poetry from Pope through Wordsworth

    By Scott Hess

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    Drawing upon historicist and cultural studies approaches to literature, this book argues that the Romantic construction of the self emerged out of the growth of commercial print culture and the expansion and fragmentation of the reading public beginning in eighteenth-century Britain. Arguing for...

    Published December 31st 2004 by Routledge
85. The End of the Mind

    The Edge of the Intelligible in Hardy, Stevens, Larking, Plath, and Gluck

    By DeSales Harrison

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    Published December 25th 2004 by Routledge
86. Narrative Mutations

    Discourses of Heredity and Caribbean Literature

    By Rudyard Alcocer

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    Given the welcomed shift throughout the academy away from essentialist and biologically fixed understandings of "race" and the body, it is a curiosity worth exploring that so many sophisticated-and even radical-narratives retain physical and behavioral heredity as a guiding trope. The persistence...

    Published December 20th 2004 by Routledge
87. Ethical Diversions

    The Post-Holocaust Narratives of Pynchon, Abish, DeLillo, and Spiegelman

    By Katalin Orban

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    First published in 2005...

    Published December 19th 2004 by Routledge
88. The Slave in the Swamp

    Disrupting the Plantation Narrative

    By William Tynes Cowa

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    First published in 2005...

    Published December 12th 2004 by Routledge
89. Racial Blasphemies

    Religious Irreverence and Race in American Literature

    By Michael L. Cobb

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    Racial Blasphemies, using critical race theory and literary analysis, charts the tense, frustrated religious language that saturates much twentieth-century American literature. Michael Cobb argues that we should consider religious language as a special kind of language - a language of curse words -...

    Published December 12th 2004 by Routledge
90. Reading the Text That Isn't There

    Paranoia in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

    By Mike Davis

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    Published December 12th 2004 by Routledge