Zbirka: Od 1800 do 1900
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Sinister Histories(2019) DENT, JONATHANShowing how the Gothic can be read as a complex reaction to Enlightenment methods of historical representation, Sinister histories uncovers hitherto neglected relationships between Gothic texts and prominent works of eighteenth-century history. -- .Vezava: Mehka44,55 € -
Hartly House, Calcutta(2019)This novel represents a key document in the literary representation of India and the imperial debate, profoundly challenging pre-existent discourses of colonialism. -- .Vezava: Mehka53,46 € -
Gothic Death 1740–1914(2018) SMITH, ANDREWDrawing on a range of popular Gothic and Victorian novels, poems and short stories, this book provides the first full length study of representations of death and dying in Gothic texts between 1740 and 1914. -- .Vezava: Mehka35,63 € -
William Blake's Gothic Imagination(2018)While overlooked by extant studies of the Gothic, William Blake’s literary and visual oeuvre embodies the same obsessions and fears that inform the Gothic revival with which he was contemporary. -- .Vezava: Trda136,80 € -
Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth von Arnim(2021)By bringing the work of Mansfield and von Arnim together – including on matters of artistry, on mourning, on gardens, on female resistance – this book establishes shared preoccupations in ways that refine and extend our knowledge of writing in the period.Vezava: Mehka33,97 € -
Remapping Persian Literary History, 1700-1900(2022) SCHWARTZ, KEVIN L. (RESEARCH FELLOW, ORIENTAL INSTITUTE OF THE CZECH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES IN PRAGUE)Integrating forgotten tales of literary communities across Iran, Afghanistan and South Asia – at a time when Islamic empires were fracturing and new state formations were emerging – this book offers a more global understanding of Persian literary cultureVezava: Mehka33,97 € -
Nature Translated(2020) MARTIN, ALISON E. (PROFESSOR OF BRITISH STUDIES, JOHANNES GUTENBERG-UNIVERSITAT MAINZ (GERMERSHEIM))This book shows how Alexander von Humboldt’s British translators, now largely forgotten figures, were pivotal in moulding his prose and his public persona as they reconfigured his works for readers in Britain and beyond.Vezava: Mehka44,78 € -
Migrating Texts(2021)Provides nine detailed case studies of translation between and among European and Middle-Eastern languages and between genres.Vezava: Mehka46,32 € -
Tennyson Echoing Wordsworth(2020) THOMAS, JAYNE (INDEPENDENT SCHOLAR, INDEPENDENT SCHOLAR)This book explores Tennyson’s poetic relationship with Wordsworth through a close analysis of Tennyson’s borrowing of the earlier poet’s words and phrases, an approach that positions Wordsworth in Tennyson’s poetry in a more centralised way than previouslVezava: Mehka35,51 € -
Sculptural Body in Victorian Literature(2022) PULHAM, PATRICIA (PROFESSOR OF VICTORIAN LITERATURE, UNIVERSITY OF SURREY)This book argues that, in Victorian literature, transgressive desires that cannot be openly acknowledged are often buried and encrypted in the marble bodies of statues.Vezava: Mehka33,97 € -
Analysis of Stephen Greenblatt's Renaissance Self-Fashioning(2018) HAYDON, LIAMIn a series of brilliant readings, Greenblatt shows how identity is constructed in the work of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser and other Renaissance writers. A classic piece of literary criticism Renaissance Self-Fashioning remains a critical and challenginVezava: Mehka11,59 € -
Life Is Elsewhere(2019) LOUNSBERY, ANNEIn Life Is Elsewhere, Anne Lounsbery shows how nineteenth-century Russian literature created an imaginary place called "the provinces"—a place at once homogeneous, static, anonymous, and symbolically opposed to Petersburg and Moscow. Lounsbery looks at aVezava: Mehka57,03 € -
Populating the Novel(2018) STEINLIGHT, EMILYFrom the teeming streets of Dickens’s London to the households of domestic fiction, nineteenth-century British writers constructed worlds crammed beyond capacity with human life. In Populating the Novel, Emily Steinlight contends that rather than simply rVezava: Trda86,95 € -
Blake and the Failure of Prophecy(2021) COGAN, LUCYThis monograph reorients discussion of Blake’s prophetic mode, revealing it to be not a system in any formal sense, but a dynamic, human response to an era of momentous historical change when the future Blake had foreseen and the reality he was faced withVezava: Trda145,91 € -
Victorian Gothic(2014)The Edinburgh Companion to the Victorian Gothic is an essential resource for students and scholars working on the Gothic, Victorian literature and culture, and critical theory.Vezava: Mehka38,60 € -
Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott(2012)This is a comprehensive collection devoted to the work of Sir Walter Scott, drawing on the innovative research and scholarship which have revitalised the study of the whole range of his exceptionally diverse writing in recent years.Vezava: Mehka38,60 €
