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"In the past seven centuries Dante has become world renowned, with his works translated into multiple languages and read by people of all ages and cultural backgrounds. This volume brings together interdisciplinary essays by leading, international scholars to provide a comprehensive account of the historical, cultural and intellectual context in which Dante lived and worked: from the economic, social and political scene to the feel of daily life;...
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Uses maps, essays, and photographs to explore the connection between writers and place, looking at houses and communities where authors lived and worked, places they frequented, and the impact of their writings on those places, and visiting some of the settings and scenes from the books themselves.
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"Don Juan is one of the intriguing creations of Western literature. A subject of countless revisions, he seems a perpetual source of fascination. In the popular imagination he exists as the legendary seducer of women, charismatic rogue and trickster. A potent icon of male sexual energy, he crosses cultures, from east to west." "The twentieth-century has viewed the figure afresh through the prism of its own cultural terms of reference and social concerns....
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"Despite the vigorous study of modern American fiction, today's readers are only familiar with a partial shelf of a vast library. Gordon Hutner describes the distorted, canonized history of the twentieth-century American novel as a record of modern classics insufficiently appreciated in their day but recuperated by scholars in order to shape the grand tradition of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner. In presenting literary history this way, Hutner...
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"London has provided the setting and inspiration for a host of literary works in English, from canonical masterpieces to the popular and ephemeral. Drawing upon a variety of methods and materials, the essays in this volume explore the London of Langland and the Peasants' Rebellion, of Shakespeare and the Elizabethan stage, of Pepys and the Restoration coffee house, of Dickens and Victorian wealth and poverty, of Conrad and the Empire, of Woolf and...
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"This volume highlights the development of the American novel within the context of global networks of influence and will cover topics like Reconstruction and the novel, the immigrant bildungsroman, early cinema and the novel, religious narratives, the innovations of Henry James, comics and the novel, and hardboiled detective fiction, among many others"--
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"In the Roman republic, only the People could pass laws, only the People could elect politicians to office, and the very word republica meant 'the People's business'. So why is it always assumed that the republic was an oligarchy? The main reason is that most of what we know about it we know from Cicero, a great man and a great writer, but also an active right-wing politician who took it for granted that what was good for a small minority of self-styled...
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The author analyzes how the reading of Uncle Tom's Cabin, changed over its first fifty years. It was extremely popular when it came out, fueling the abolitionist cause. After the war, however, views on the novel began to change, and by the 1890s and the Jim Crow era, it was regarded differently. Illustrations and abridged versions of the text began to change in ways that de-emphasized the intelligence, literacy, and empathetic qualities of the black...
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"Exploring poetry scrapbooks, old-time radio show recording, advertising verse, corporate archives, and Hallmark greeting cards, among other unconventional sources, Mike Chasar casts American poetry as an everyday phenomenon consumed and created by a vast range of readers."--Back cover.
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"This is a book about the biographical afterlives of the Romantic poets and the creation of literary biography as a popular form. Julian North focuses on the first published biographies of six major poets of the period: Byron, Shelley, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Felicia Hemans, and Letitia Landon, in the context of the development of biography as a genre from the 1780s to the 1840s. Biographers such as Thomas Moore, Mary Shelley, and Thomas De Quincey,...
14) Salonnières, furies, and fairies: the politics of gender and cultural change in absolutist France
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"Salonnieres, Furies, and Fairies is a study of the works of two of the most prolific seventeenth-century women writers, Madeleine de Scudery and Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy. Analyzing their use of the novel, the chronicle, and the fairy tale, Duggan examines how Scudery and d'Aulnoy responded to and participated in the changes of their society, but from different generational and ideological positions. As both Scudery and d'Aulnoy wrote from within...
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"How to Read the Victorian Novel provides a unique introduction to the genre. Using examples from the classics, like The Pickwick Papers, David Copperfield, Jane Eyre, The Woman in White, and Middlemarch, it demonstrates just how unfamiliar their familiarity is. The book attempts to break free of the sense that the Victorian novel is somehow old-fashioned, moralizing, and formally careless by emphasizing the complexity, difficulty, and rare pleasures...
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"Alternating chapters of historical background and literary analysis, this study argues that postbellum series books inspired young women by illustrating the ways in which girls could participate in social change. The book adds to the existing scholarship on girls' culture by tracing the shifting social ideologies of girlhood throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries"--Provided by publisher.
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