Автор: Musgrave P. W. Название: From Brown to Bunter: The Life and Death of the School Story ISBN: 1138946370 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138946378 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Originally published in 1985. This is a fascinating account of the life cycle of a minor literary genre, the boys` school story. It discusses in detail the two major examples of the genre - Hughes`s Tom Brown`s School Days and Farrar`s Eric.
Автор: E. Bellamy; P. Cheney; M. Schoenfeldt Название: Imagining Death in Spenser and Milton ISBN: 1349430498 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349430499 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 11179.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Imagining Death in Spenser and Milton assembles a collection of essays on the compelling topic of death in two monumental representatives of the early modern canon, Edmund Spenser and John Milton.
Автор: Hirsh Carolyn Название: Politics, Death and Addiction ISBN: 1922175455 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781922175458 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2930.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Uncovers the history and religious experiences of the first American Indian converts to Pentecostalism. Drawing on new approaches to the global history of Pentecostalism, Angela Tarango shows how converted indigenous leaders eventually transformed a standard Pentecostal theology of missions in ways that reflected their own religious struggles and advanced their sovereignty within the denomination.
Описание: Frances Smith Foster offers a groundbreaking new portrait of early African American marriage, upending the conventional wisdom that marriage was illegal for African Americans during the antebellum era, or that if people married at all, their vows were tenuous ones.
Автор: Lutz Deborah Название: Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture ISBN: 1107434394 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107434394 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Deborah Lutz investigates the high value the Victorians placed on the artefacts and personal effects of the dead. By close study of works by Emily Bronte, Charles Dickens, Alfred Lord Tennyson and Thomas Hardy, Lutz explores the ways these objects were used in creative narratives for emotional effect.
Описание: One writer, Mary Shelley, inaugurated two of the three paradigms through which human beings imagine, with panic or pleasure, the end of their species. This book deals with her work.
Автор: Wood Claire Название: Dickens and the Business of Death ISBN: 110749155X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107491557 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In this fascinating, full-length study surveying the diverse ways in which a living was made from death, Claire Wood examines Dickens`s creative works, including The Old Curiosity Shop and Our Mutual Friend, within the context of his attitude towards the Victorian commodification of death.
Автор: D. Rabey Название: Howard Barker: Ecstasy and Death ISBN: 1349544361 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349544363 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 5589.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Barker has been acclaimed as `England`s greatest living dramatist` in The Times and as `the Shakespeare of our age` by Sarah Kane. His uniquely stylish work brings together startlingly original forms of classical discipline, moral ruthlessness and catastrophic eroticism. This study considers the full range of his theatrical achievements.
Автор: A. Cutting Название: Death in Henry James ISBN: 1349543977 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349543977 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12577.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Moving beyond established ideas of haunted Henry James, this book argues that death is as important a concept for understanding James`s fiction as gender, sexuality and modernity, which have come to dominate James studies.
Автор: R. Weldon Название: Hawthorne, Gender, and Death ISBN: 1349371297 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349371297 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 9083.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book draws on a range of critical approaches, including cultural anthropology, psychoanalytic theory, political justice theory, and feminist theory, to consider the ways that strategies of death denial and their compensatory consolations offer insight into the ethical, gender, and religious questions raised by Hawthorne`s novels.
Автор: R. Stott Название: The Fabrication of the Late-Victorian Femme Fatale ISBN: 0333556127 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333556122 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 24456.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The book argues that Rider Haggard`s She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed , Bram Stoker`s female vampires and Conrad`s destructive Malayan or African women, even Hardy`s Tess , are all caught up in a series of late nineteenth-century contexts: biological determinism, imperialism, race, theories about female sexuality, degeneration and evolutionary theory.
Автор: Allan Ingram; Leigh Wetherall Dickson Название: Disease and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture ISBN: 1137597178 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137597175 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13974.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
Introduction: Fashioning the Unfashionable; Allan Ingram and Leigh Wetherall Dickson.- PART I: ENNUI.- 1. '[F]ictitious [D]istress' or Veritable Woe?: The Problem of Eighteenth-Century Ennui; Heather Meek.- 2. 'What is fashionably termed ennui': Maria Edgeworth Represents the Clinically Bored; Jane Taylor.- PART II: DISEASE OF SEXUALITY.- 3. Dean Swift on the Great Pox: or, The Satirist as Physician; Hermann J. Real.- 4. The а la Mode Disease: Syphilis and Temporality; Emily Cock.- 5. Of Fribblers and Fumblers: Fashioning Male Impotence in the Long Eighteenth Century; Kirsten Juhas.- PART III: INFECTIOUS DISEASES.- 6. Fashioning Unfashionable Plague: Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year (1722); Hйlиne Dachez.- 7. How Small is Small? Small Pox, Large Presence; Allan Ingram.- 8. 'Halfe Dead: and rotten at the Coare: my Lord!': Fashionable and Unfashionable Consumption, from Early Modern to Enlightenment; Clark Lawlor.- PART IV: FASHIONING DEATH.- 9. Death by Inoculation: The Fashioning of Mortality in Eighteenth-Century Smallpox Pamphlets; Kelly McGuire.- 10. Fashion Victim: Suicide, Sociability and High Society in Georgiana Cavendish's The Sylph; Leigh Wetherall Dickson.- 11. 'Alas, poor Yorick!': Jonathan Swift, Madness, and Fashionable Science; Helen Deutsch.- Bibliography.- Index.-
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