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Women’s Writing, Englishness and National and Cultural Identity
The Mobile Woman and the Migrant Voice, 1938-62
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
An original mapping of women's writing in the 1940s and 1950s, this book looks at Englishness and national identity in women's writing and includes writing from Scotland, Wales, Ireland the Indian subcontinent and Africa. The authors discussed include Virginia Woolf, Daphne Du Maurier, Doris Lessing and Muriel Spark.
Women's Life Writing, 1700-1850
Gender, Genre and Authorship
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
This collection discusses British and Irish life writings by women in the period 1700-1850. It argues for the importance of women's life writing as part of the culture and practice of eighteenth-century and Romantic auto/biography, exploring the complex relationships between constructions of femininity, life writing forms and models of authorship.
Jane Austen's Possessions and Dispossessions
The Significance of Objects
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Who owns, who buys, who gives, and who notices objects is always significant in Austen's writing, placing characters socially and characterizing them symbolically. Jane Austen's Possessions and Dispossessions looks at the significance of objects in Austen's major novels, fragments, and juvenilia.
by J. Darcy
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
This book traces the development of literary biography in the eighteenth century; how writers' melancholy was probed to explore the inner life. Case studies of a number of significant authors reveal the 1790s as a time of biographical experimentation. Reaction against philosophical biography led to a nineteenth-century taste for romanticized lives.
by Dr Jane Stabler
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2001
Definitions of the Romantic period have undergone considerable change in the last few years. Beyond the careers of the 'Big Six' (Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Coleridge, Shelley and Keats), critics have begun to recognise a much fuller range of writers flourishing in the second half of the eighteenth century...
by R. Terry
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
Contributing to the growth in plagiarism studies, this timely new book highlights the impact of the allegation of plagiarism on the working lives of some of the major writers of the period, and considers plagiarism in relation to the emergence of literary copyright and the aesthetic of originality.
The Foundations of Anti-Apartheid
Liberal Humanitarians and Transnational Activists in Britain and the United States, c.1919-64
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
Anti-apartheid was one of the most significant international causes of the late twentieth century. The book provides the first detailed history of the emergence of anti-apartheid activism in Britain and the USA, tracing the network of individuals and groups who shaped the moral and political character of the movement.
by A. Biney
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Inspired by Gandhi's non-violent campaign of civil disobedience to achieve political ends, Kwame Nkrumah led present-day Ghana to independence. This analysis of his political, social and economic thought centres on his own writings, and re-examines his life and thought by focusing on the political discourse and controversies surrounding him.
Social Theory of Fear
Terror, Torture, and Death in a Post-Capitalist World
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. In the current crisis of the capitalist world system, elites promote fear of crime and terrorism to keep and expand their privileges and control the masses. This book offers an analysis of the crisis and strategies for rebellion.
Jewish Representation in British Literature 1780-1840
After Shylock
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Describing Jewish representation by Jews and Gentiles in the British Romantic era from the Old Bailey courtroom and popular songs to novels, poetry, and political pamphlets, Scrivener integrates popular culture with belletristic writing to explore the wildly varying treatments of stereotypical Jewish figures.
by J. Barry
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Using south-western England as a focus for considering the continued place of witchcraft and demonology in provincial culture in the period between the English and French revolutions, Barry shows how witch-beliefs were intricately woven into the fabric of daily life, even at a time when they arguably ceased to be of interest to the educated.
Romanticism and Blackwood's Magazine
'An Unprecedented Phenomenon'
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
This collection of essays throws vast new light on the most significant literary-political journal of the Romantic age. Its chapters analyze Blackwood's wide-ranging contributions on some of the most topical issues in Romantic studies, including celebrity, British versus Scottish nationalism, and the rise of terror and detective fiction.
Poetry and Popular Protest
Peterloo, Cato Street and the Queen Caroline Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
This book provides provocative information on poetry written in response to the most revolutionary set of events seen in Britain since the 1640s: 'Peterloo', a peaceful protest that became a massacre; 'Cato Street', a government scripted rebellion; and the 'Queen Caroline Controversy', when the estranged wife of George IV tried to claim her crown.
The Celtic Revival in Shakespeare's Wake
Appropriation and Cultural Politics in Ireland, 1867-1922
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
This book reconsiders the Celtic Revival by examining appropriations of Shakespeare, using close readings of works by Arnold, Dowden, Yeats and Joyce to reveal the pernicious manner in which the discourse of Anglo-Irish cultural politics informed the critical paradigms that mediated the reading of Shakespeare in Ireland for a generation.