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Literary Research and Canadian Literature
Strategies and Sources
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Canada's rich literary heritage, dominated by a multicultural and multilingual presence, reflects the country's unique history and experience. In addition, an emerging body of new writers is redefining both the geographic and metaphorical boundaries of Canadian literature. Coupled with the propagation...
Literary / Liberal Entanglements
Toward a Literary History for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
In Literary/Liberal Entanglements, Corrinne Harol and Mark Simpson bring together ten essays by scholars from a wide range of fields in English studies in order to interrogate the complex, entangled relationship between the history of literature and the history of liberalism. The volume has three...
by Christel N. Temple
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Literary Pan-Africanism: History, Contexts, and Criticism (2005) and Literary Spaces: Introduction to Comparative Black Literature (2007),have been some of the most influential models of contemporary Africana Studies-based literary criticism, responds to the demand for a core disciplinary source that...
Literary Studies Deconstructed
A Polemic
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
Literary Studies Deconstructed critiques the state of Literary Studies in the modern university and argues for its comprehensive reconstruction. It argues that Literary Studies as currently practised avoids engaging with much of literary experience and prioritises instead the needs of critics as a...
by Samuel Graber, Coleman Hutchison, Jillian Spivey Caddell
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Addressing texts produced by writers who lived through the Civil War and wrote about it before the end of Reconstruction, this collection explores the literary cultures of that unsettled moment when memory of the war had yet to be overwritten by later impulses of reunion, reconciliation, or Lost Cause...
Transatlantic Literary Ecologies
Nature and Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Opening a dialogue between ecocriticism and transatlantic studies, this collection shows how the two fields inform, complement, and complicate each other. The editors situate the volume in its critical contexts by providing a detailed literary and historical overview of nineteenth-century transatlantic...
Untouchable Fictions
Literary Realism and the Crisis of Caste
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Untouchable Fictions considers the crisis of literary realism- progressive, rural, regionalist, experimental- in order to derive a literary genealogy for the recent explosion of Dalit (“untouchable” caste) fiction. Drawing on a wide array of fiction from Premchand and Renu in Hindi to Mulk Raj...
Sentimental Memorials
Women and the Novel in Literary History
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
During the later eighteenth century, changes in the meaning and status of literature left popular sentimental novels stranded on the margins of literary history. While critics no longer dismiss or ignore these works, recent reassessments have emphasized their interventions in various political and...
Translating the World
Toward a New History of German Literature Around 1800
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
In Translating the World, Birgit Tautz provides a new narrative of German literary history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Departing from dominant modes of thought regarding the nexus of literary and national imagination, she examines this intersection through the lens of Germany’s...
Reading for Realism
The History of a U.S. Literary Institution, 1850–1910
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 1997
Reading for Realism presents a new approach to U.S. literary history that is based on the analysis of dominant reading practices rather than on the production of texts. Nancy Glazener’s focus is the realist novel, the most influential literary form of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—a form...
The Experimental Imagination
Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Challenging the "two cultures" debate, The Experimental Imagination tells the story of how literariness came to be distinguished from its epistemological sibling, science, as a source of truth about the natural and social worlds in the British Enlightenment. Tita Chico shows that early science...
Early Postmodernism
Foundational Essays
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
In the decade that followed 1972, the journal boundary 2 consistently published many of the most distinguished and most influential statements of an emerging literary postmodernism. Recognizing postmodernism as a dominant force in culture, particularly in the literary and narrative imagination, the...
The Complete Prose Works: Literary Essays, Lectures and Letters (Unabridged Illustrated Edition)
The Complete Literary Critiques, Studies and Memoirs, including Biographia Literaria, Anima Poetae, Aids to Reflection, Bibilographia Epistolaris and A Course of Lectures
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Prose Works: Literary Essays, Lectures and Letters (Unabridged Illustrated Edition)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) was an English poet, literary critic and...
The Digital Literary Sphere
Reading, Writing, and Selling Books in the Internet Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Reports of the book’s death have been greatly exaggerated. Books are flourishing in the Internet era—widely discussed and reviewed in online readers’ forums and publicized through book trailers and author blog tours. But over the past twenty-five years, digital media platforms have undeniably...