Studies in Major Literary Authors
This series examines major authors, canonical and contemporary, from Melville to Carver to show the sophisticated kinds of research these authors have generated and to indicate new lines of inquiry for scholars.
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Yeats and Theosophy
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
When H. P. Blavatsky, the controversial head of the turn of the century movement Theosophy, defined "a true Theosophist" in her book The Key to Theosophy, she could have just as easily have been describing W. B. Yeats. Blavatsky writes, "A true Theosophist must put in practice the loftiest moral...
Published July 22nd 2007 by Routledge
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Writing Out of All the Camps
J.M. Coetzee's Narratives of Displacement
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Published February 1st 2006 by Routledge
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Worlding Forster
The Passage from Pastoral
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Published January 3rd 2005 by Routledge
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Word Sightings
Visual Apparatus and Verbal Reality in Stevens, Bishop and O'Hara
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Published August 8th 2002 by Routledge
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William Dean Howells and the Ends of Realism
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Published January 3rd 2005 by Routledge
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Who Reads Ulysses?
The Common Reader and the Rhetoric of the Joyce Wars
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Published January 30th 2003 by Routledge
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Whitman's Ecstatic Union
Conversion and Ideology in Leaves of Grass
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Published June 9th 2005 by Routledge
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The Wayward Nun of Amherst
Emily Dickinson and Medieval Mystical Women
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Published June 19th 2000 by Routledge
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Wallace Stevens and the Realities of Poetic Language
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
This study examines Wallace Stevens' ideas and practice of poetic language with a focus on the 1930s, an era in which Stevens persistently thematized a keenly felt pressure for the possible social involvement and political utility of poetic language. The argument suggests how mutually implicated...
Published February 6th 2008 by Routledge
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Unnoticed in the Casual Light of Day
Phillip Larkin and the Plain Style
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Larkin's poems are often regarded as falling somewhere between the traditional 'plain' and the more contemporary 'postmodern' categories. This study undertakes a comprehensive linguistic and historical study of the plain style tradition in poetry, its relationship with so-called 'difficult' poetry,...
Published April 13th 2006 by Routledge
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Thoughts Painfully Intense
Hawthorne and the Invalid Author
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Published April 25th 2002 by Routledge
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This Composite Voice
The Role of W.B. Yeats in James Merrill's Poetry
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Published July 14th 2003 by Routledge
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The Pusher and the Sufferer
An Unsentimental Reading of "Moby Dick"
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Published August 21st 2000 by Routledge
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The Politics of Humiliation in the Novels of J.M. Coetzee
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
In this volume, Nashef looks at J.M. Coetzee's concern with universal suffering and the inevitable humiliation of the human being as manifest in his novels. Though several theorists have referred to the theme of human degradation in Coetzee’s work, no detailed study has been made of this area of...
Published March 2nd 2009 by Routledge
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The Magic Lantern
Representations of the Double in Dickens
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
The book provides an original investigation of the double trope as a central area of Dicken’s writings in their relation to Victorian culture, using this examination of the double to shed light on such issues as urban space and imperialism in the Victorian era....
Published July 12th 2007 by Routledge
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The Historical Imagination of G.K. Chesterton
Locality, Patriotism, and Nationalism
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
This study examines a selection of Chesterton’s novels, poetry, and literary criticism and outlines the distinctive philosophy of history that emerges from these writings. Looking at Chesteron's relationship with and influence upon authors including William Cobbett, Sir Walter Scott, Belloc, Shaw,...
Published February 16th 2009 by Routledge
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The Environmental Unconscious in the Fiction of Don DeLillo
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
This book presents an ecocritical reading of DeLillo’s novels in an attempt to mediate between the seemingly incompatible influences of postmodernism and environmentalism. Martucci argues that although DeLillo is responding to and engaging with a postmodern culture of simulacra and simulation,...
Published June 24th 2007 by Routledge
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The End of Learning
Milton and Education
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
This book shows that education constitutes the central metaphor of John Milton's political as well as his poetic writing. Demonstrating how Milton's theory of education emerged from his own practices as a reader and teacher, this book analyzes for the first time the relationship between Milton's...
Published June 1st 2006 by Routledge
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Technique and Sensibility in the Fiction and Poetry of Raymond Carver
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
A comprehensive examination of the fiction and poetry of Raymond Carver....
Published August 28th 2002 by Routledge
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T.S. Eliot's Civilized Savage
Religious Eroticism and Poetics
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
T. S. Eliot's Civilized Savage revisits this poet's drafts and canonical poetry in a sometimes dismissive critical arena . While contemporary readers emphasize Eliot's charged personal life, his anti-Semitism, his political conservatism, and his misogyny, Laurie MacDiarmid argues that although...
Published April 24th 2003 by Routledge
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Sports, Narrative, and Nation in the Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
This study examines the ways that F. Scott Fitzgerald portrayed organized spectator sports as working to help structure ideologies of class, community, and nationhood. Situating the study in the landscape of late nineteenth/early twentieth-century American sport culture, Chapter One shows how...
Published March 20th 2007 by Routledge
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Somewhat on the Community System
Representations of Fourierism in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Published August 29th 2005 by Routledge
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Social Dreaming
Dickens and the Fairy Tale
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Published October 3rd 2002 by Routledge
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A Singing Contest
Conventions of Sound in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney
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Published July 25th 2005 by Routledge
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Shelley's Intellectual System and its Epicurean Background
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Scholars do not agree on how best to describe Shelley’s philosophical stance. His work has been variously taken to be that of a skeptic or a skeptical and subjective idealist. The study presents a new interpretation of Shelley’s thinking – an interpretation that places ‘intellectual system’...
Published April 4th 2007 by Routledge
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Shelley's Textual Seductions
Plotting Utopia in the Erotic and Political Works
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
This book demonstrates how Percy Shelley develops strategies of textual seduction that displace political narratives into the seemingly apolitical reaches of erotic utopia....
Published February 14th 2002 by Routledge
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Shakespeare in the Victorian Periodicals
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Based on extensive archival research, Shakespeare in the Victorian Periodicals offers an entirely new perspective on popular Shakespeare reception by focusing on articles published in Victorian periodicals. Shakespeare had already reached the apex of British culture in the previous...
Published January 28th 2008 by Routledge
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Shakespeare and the Economic Imperative
“What’s aught but as ‘tis valued?”
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Despite the volume of work Shakespeare produced, surprisingly few of his plays directly concern money and the economic mindset. Shakespeare and the Economic Imperative examines the five plays that do address monetary issues (The Comedy of Errors, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Merchant of Venice,...
Published March 25th 2008 by Routledge
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Sex Theories and the Shaping of Two Moderns
Hemingway and H.D.
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
This book examines the impact of scientific and sexologic theories on the creation of character in the prose of two moderns, Hemingway and H.D....
Published June 27th 2002 by Routledge
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Ready to Trample on All Human Law
Finance Capitalism in the Fiction of Charles Dickens
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
This book explores the relationship between Dickens’s novels and the financial system. Elements of Dickens’s work form a critique of financial capitalism. This critique is rooted in the difference between use-value and exchange-value, and in the difference between productive circulations and mere...
Published June 28th 2005 by Routledge
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Reading and Mapping Hardy's Roads
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
This book examines Thomas Hardy's representations of the road and the ways the archaeological and historical record of roads inform his work. Through an analysis of the uneven and often competing road signs found within three of his major novels - The Return of the Native, Tess of the...
Published June 22nd 2006 by Routledge
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Queer Times
Christopher Isherwood's Modernity
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Published May 9th 2006 by Routledge
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Queer Impressions
Henry James' Art of Fiction
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Published August 29th 2005 by Routledge
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Pynchon and the Political
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Thomas Pynchon's writing has been widely regarded as an exemplary form of postmodern fiction. It is characterized as genre-defying and enigmatic, as a series of complex and esoteric language games. This study attempts to demonstrate, however, that an oblique yet compelling sense of the "political"...
Published September 13th 2007 by Routledge
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Pynchon and History
Metahistorical Rhetoric and Postmodern Narrative Form in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Published July 5th 2005 by Routledge
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Progress & Identity in the Plays of W.B. Yeats, 1892-1907
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Published July 2nd 2003 by Routledge
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Politics and Aesthetics in The Diary of Virginia Woolf
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
In this critical study, Tidwell examines the conflict of aesthetics and politics in The Diary of Virginia Woolf. As a modernist writer concerned with contemporary aesthetic theories, Woolf experimented with limiting the representative nature of writing. At the same time, as a feminist, Woolf wanted...
Published December 12th 2007 by Routledge
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Poetic Language and Political Engagement in the Poetry of Keats
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
In this incisive volume Siler traces the uneasy relationship between the content of Keats' poems and social history. In the process, he discovers that the early poems are linked with the mission statement of the radical journal Annals of the Fine Arts, whilst the poems after Endymion reveal a...
Published December 3rd 2007 by Routledge
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Philip Roth Considered
The Concentrationary Universe of the American Writer
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Published August 24th 2000 by Routledge
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Philip K. Dick
Canonical Writer of the Digital Age
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Kucukalic looks beyond the received criticism and stereotypes attached to Philip K. Dick and his work and shows, using a wealth of primary documents including previously unpublished letters and interviews, that Philip K. Dick is a serious and relevant philosophical and cultural...
Published December 2nd 2008 by Routledge
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Paul Auster's Postmodernity
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
This book focuses upon the literary and autobiographical writings of American novelist Paul Auster, investigating his literary postmodernity in relation to a full range of his writings. Martin addresses Auster’s evocation of a range of postmodern notions, such as the duplicitous art of...
Published August 26th 2007 by Routledge
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Patriarchy and Its Discontents
Sexual Politics in Selected Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Published November 14th 2002 by Routledge
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Our Scene is London
Ben Jonson's City and the Space of the Author
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
In this thought-provoking study Mardock looks at Ben Jonson's epigrams, prose, and verse satire in order to focus on Jonson's theatrical appropriations of London space both in and out of the playhouse. Through this critical analysis, the author argues that the strategies of...
Published November 12th 2007 by Routledge
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No Place for Home
Spatial Constraint and Character Flight in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
This book was written to venture beyond interpretations of Cormac McCarthy's characters as simple, antinomian, and non-psychological; and of his landscapes as unrelated to the violent arcs of often orphaned and always emotionally isolated and socially detached characters. As McCarthy usually...
Published July 10th 2006 by Routledge
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No Image There and the Gaze Remains
The Visual in the Work of Jorie Graham
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Published September 15th 2005 by Routledge
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A New Matrix for Modernism
A Study of the Lives and Poetry of Charlotte Mew & Anna Wickham
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Published October 24th 2002 by Routledge
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Narrative Conventions and Race in the Novels of Toni Morrison
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
This study analyzes the relationship between race and genre in four of Toni Morrison’s novels: The Bluest Eye, Tar Baby, Jazz, and Beloved. Heinert argues how Morrison’s novels revise conventional generic forms such as bildungsroman, folktales, slave narratives, and the formal realism of the...
Published August 24th 2008 by Routledge
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Naked Liberty and the World of Desire
Elements of Anarchism in the Work of D.H. Lawrence
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
In this new and original study, Simon Casey explores the long-neglected link between D. H. Lawrence and philosophical anarchism. Focusing on the writings of some of the major anarchists-with particular emphasis on Stirner, Godwin, Bakunin and Thoreau-this book argues that the conceptual parallels...
Published February 27th 2003 by Routledge
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Modernist Aesthetics and Consumer Culture in the Writings of Oscar Wilde
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Oscar Wilde was a consumer modernist. His modernist aesthetics drove him into the heart of the mass culture industries of 1890s London, particularly the journalism and popular theatre industries. Wilde was extremely active in these industries: as a journalist at the Pall Mall Gazette; as magazine...
Published April 4th 2007 by Routledge
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Milton's Uncertain Eden
Understanding Place in Paradise Lost
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
This study describes a variety of ways of thinking about place in the Renaissance and in Paradise Lost. Despite coming from different perspectives, they have in common the idea that the difficulty of the relationship of reciprocity that poetic subjects often expect from their environment...
Published May 13th 2007 by Routledge
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Milton and the Spiritual Reader
Reading and Religion in Seventeenth-Century England
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Milton and the Spiritual Reader considers how John Milton’s later works demonstrate the intensive struggle of spiritual reading. Milton presents his own rigorous process of reading in order to instruct his readers how to advance their spiritual knowledge. Recent studies of Milton’s readers neglect...
Published March 23rd 2008 by Routledge
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Melville's Monumental Imagination
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Melville's Monumental Imagination explores the connection between the contested 19th century American monument tradition and one of the nation's most revered authors, Herman Melville (1819-1891). The book was written to fill a void in recent Melville scholarship. To date, there has not been a...
Published November 16th 2005 by Routledge
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The Machine that Sings
Modernism, Hart Crane and the Culture of the Body
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Examining how Crane's corporeal aesthetic informs poems written across the span of his career, The Machine That Sings focuses on four texts in which Crane's preoccupation with the body reaches its apoge. Tapper treats Voyages, The Wine Merchant, and Possessions as a triptych of erotic poems in...
Published September 20th 2006 by Routledge
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Lost City
Fitzgerald's New York
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Published August 1st 2002 by Routledge
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Joycean Frames
Film and the Fiction of James Joyce
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Employing concepts from film theory, this much-needed study explores in-depth the "cinematic" quality of James Joyce's fiction from Dubliners to Finnegan's Wake....
Published April 30th 2001 by Routledge
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Joyce and the Perverse Ideal
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Published July 28th 2003 by Routledge
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James Merrill
Knowing Innocence
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
James Merrill: Knowing Innocence reevaluates the achievement of this important poet by showing how he takes up an old paradigm – innocence – and reinvents it in response to new historical, scientific, and cultural developments including the bomb, contemporary cosmology, and the question of agency....
Published July 12th 2007 by Routledge
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Influential Ghosts
A Study of Auden's Sources
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Influential Ghosts: A Study of Auden's Sources explores some of the most important literary and philosophical influences on W.H. Auden's poetry. The study attempts to show that Auden's poetry derives much of its interest from the vast range of authors on whom he drew for inspiration. But it also...
Published November 13th 2006 by Routledge
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In the Shadows of Divine Perfection
Derek Walcott's Omeros
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
In the Shadows of Divine Perfection provides an examination of Derek Walcott's Omeros 1990)- the St. Lucian poet's longest work, and the piece that secured his Nobel Laureate-that reveals the deep-seated bond between the root narratives of ancient Greece to the cultural products and practices of...
Published October 15th 2003 by Routledge
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Homosexuality in the Life and Work of Joseph Conrad
Love Between the Lines
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
This book analyzes the representations of homosexuality in Conrad’s fiction, beginning with Conrad’s life and letters to show that Conrad himself was, at least imaginatively, bisexual. Conrad’s recurrent bouts of neurasthenia, his difficult courtships, late marriage, and frequent expressions of...
Published February 3rd 2008 by Routledge
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Henry Miller and Religion
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
This study argues that this previously banned author devoted his entire life to articulating a religion of self-liberation in his autobiographical books, examining his life and work within the context of fringe religious movements that were linked with the avant-garde in New York City and Paris at...
Published June 6th 2007 by Routledge
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Henry James as a Biographer
A Self Among Others
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Published August 15th 2000 by Routledge
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Gertrude Stein and Wallace Stevens
The Performance of Modern Consciousness
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
This book traces the presence of the theater, both as an abstract concept and a literal space, in the plays and poetry of Gertrude Stein and Wallace Stevens as it attempts to explain the parallel depictions of consciousness that are found in both authors' work. Literary modernists inherited a self...
Published May 19th 2002 by Routledge
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Gertrude Stein and the Making of an American Celebrity
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
This book is a cultural history of Stein’s rise to fame and the function of literary celebrity in America from 1910 to 1935. By examining not the ways that Stein portrayed the popular in her work, but the ways the popular portrayed her, this study shows that there was an intimate relationship...
Published May 17th 2009 by Routledge
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Gerard Manley Hopkins and Victorian Catholicism
A Heart in Hiding
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
This book restores the poet to his full intellectual and literary context as a Victorian convert to Catholicism....
Published August 18th 2003 by Routledge
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George Orwell, Doubleness, and the Value of Decency
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Published July 28th 2003 by Routledge
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Frederick Douglass's Curious Audiences
Ethos in the Age of the Consumable Subject
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Published June 29th 2004 by Routledge
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Everybody's America
Thomas Pynchon, Race, and the Cultures of Postmodernism
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Everybody’s America reassesses Pynchon’s literary career in order to explain the central role played by the racialization of American culture in the postmodernist deconstruction of subjectivity and literary authority and in the crisis in white liberal culture. It charts the evolution of both these...
Published June 23rd 2008 by Routledge
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Elizabeth Stoddard & the Boundaries of Bourgeois Culture
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Published November 30th 2003 by Routledge
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Editing Emily Dickinson
The Production of an Author
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Editing Emily Dickinson considers the processes through which Dickinson's work has been edited in the twentieth century and how such editorial processes contribute specifically to the production of Emily Dickinson as author. The posthumous editing of her handwritten manuscripts into the...
Published October 1st 2007 by Routledge
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Edith Wharton's Evolutionary Conception
Darwinian Allegory in the Major Novels
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Edith Wharton's "Evolutionary Conception" investigates Edith Wharton's engagement with evolutionary theory in The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country, and The Age of Innocence. The book also examines The Descent of Man, The Fruit of the Tree, Twilight Sleep, and The Children to show that...
Published May 17th 2006 by Routledge
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Edith Wharton as Spatial Activist and Analyst
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Because she devoted much of her life to exploring the relationships that exist between people and their built environment, Edith Wharton developed a set of philosophies that she expressed in many arenas, including interior design, architecture, and landscaping. Her theories of space were practiced...
Published July 28th 2005 by Routledge
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Dorothy Wordsworth's Ecology
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Dorothy Wordsworth has a unique place in literary studies. Notoriously self-effacing, she assiduously eschewed publication, yet in her lifetime, her journals inspired William to write some of his best-known poems. Memorably depicting daily life in a particular environment (most famously, Grasmere),...
Published February 26th 2007 by Routledge
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Djuna Barnes, T. S. Eliot and the Gender Dynamics of Modernism
Tracing Nightwood
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
This study looks at the origins of the modernist movement, linking gender, modernism and the literary, before considering the bearing these discourses had on Djuna Barnes's writing. The main contribution of this innovative and scholarly work is the exploration of the editorial changes that T. S....
Published November 3rd 2009 by Routledge
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Dickens's Secular Gospel
Work, Gender, and Personality
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
The first full-length study on the subject of Dickens and work, this book reshapes our understanding of Dickens by challenging a critical oversimplification: that Dickens's attitude towards work reflects conventional expressions of Victorian earnestness of the sort attributed also to Thomas Carlyle...
Published April 21st 2009 by Routledge
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Dickens, Journalism, and Nationhood
Mapping the World in Household Words
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Dickens, Journalism, and Nationhood examines Charles Dickens’ weekly family magazine Household Words in order to develop a detailed picture of how the journal negotiated, asserted and simultaneously deconstructed Englishness as a unified (and sometimes unifying) mode of expression. It offers...
Published October 13th 2008 by Routledge
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Delicate Pursuit
Discretion in Henry James and Edith Wharton
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Published August 29th 2002 by Routledge
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D.H. Lawrence's Border Crossing
Colonialism in His Travel Writing and Leadership Novels
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
D.H. Lawrence's Border Crossing builds upon developments within postcolonial theory to argue for a reconsideration of the concept of "spirit of place" in D. H. Lawrence’s travel books and "leadership" novels – works that record Lawrence’s various encounters with racial and geographical "others...
Published November 26th 2006 by Routledge
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Creating Yoknapatawpha
Readers and Writers in Faulkner's Fiction
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Creating Yoknapatawpha is a study of the crucial interplay of reading and writing processes involved in constructing the textual environment of William Faulkner’s work, and the nature and significance of the world created by these many forces. Yoknapatawpha County, the author contends, is the...
Published June 28th 2006 by Routledge
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Cormac McCarthy and the Myth of American Exceptionalism
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
This overview of McCarthy’s published work to date, including: the short stories he published as a student, his novels, stage play and TV film script, locates him as a icocolastic writer, engaged in deconstructing America’s vision of itself as a nation with an exceptionalist role in the world....
Published October 7th 2007 by Routledge
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Conrad's Narratives of Difference
Not Exactly Tales for Boys
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Published September 11th 2003 by Routledge
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Colonialism and the Modernist Moment in the Early Novels of Jean Rhys
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Colonialism and the Modernist Moment in the Early Novels of Jean Rhys explores the postcolonial significance of Rhys’s modernist period work, which depicts an urban scene more varied than that found in other canonical representations of the period. Arguing against the view that Rhys comes into her...
Published September 15th 2005 by Routledge
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Cognitive Style and Perceptual Difference in Browning’s Poetry
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Current work on speech pragmatics and visual thinking calls for a radical reassessment of the problem of obscurity or difficulty in Robert Browning’s work. In this innovative study, Bailey reinterprets Browning's life and work in the context of contemporary theories of language and attention,...
Published December 22nd 2009 by Routledge
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The Carver Chronotope
Contextualizing Raymond Carver
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Raymond Carver's fiction is widely known for its careful documentation of lower-middle-class North America in the 1970s and 80s. Building upon the realist understanding of Carver's work, Raymond Carver's Chronotope uses a central concept of Bakhtin's novelistics to formulate a new context for...
Published November 11th 2003 by Routledge
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The Artistry and Tradition of Tennyson's Battle Poetry
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Published June 2nd 2003 by Routledge
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The Artist-Figure, Society, and Sexuality in Virginia Woolf's Novels
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
This book explores the relationship between aesthetic productivity and artists' degree of involvement in social and sexual life as depicted in Virginia Woolf's novels. Ann Ronchetti locates the sources of Woolf's lifelong preoccupation with the artist's relationship to society in her family...
Published August 20th 2004 by Routledge
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American Flaneur
The Cosmic Physiognomy of Edgar Allan Poe
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Published February 8th 2004 by Routledge
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'All the World's a Stage'
Dramatic Sensibility in Mary Shelley's Novels
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
This book examines the often tragic and nearly always disabling metaphor of thetheatrum mundi, world-as-stage, as it plays itself out in the characters of Mary Shelley's novels....
Published April 2nd 2002 by Routledge