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Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
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Nihilism and the Sublime Postmodern
This book examines the relationship between nihilism and postmodernism in relation to the sublime, and is divided into three parts: history, theory, and praxis. Arguing… read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97529-2 (Routledge)
An Ethics of Becoming
Configurations of Feminine Subjectivity in Jane Austen Charlotte Bronte, and George Eliot
In attempting to conceptualize feminine subjectivity beyond the familiar paradigm of dualism and within the parameters of ethics, this study examines the political and intellectual… read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97537-7 (Routledge)
Outsider Citizens
The Remaking of Postwar Identity in Wright, Beauvoir, and Baldwin
Outsider Citizens examines a foundational moment in the writing of race, gender, and sexuality––the decade after 1945, when Richard Wright, Simone de Beauvoir, and others…
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Vital Contact
Downclassing Journeys in American Literature from Melville to Richard Wright
The book analyzes American literature about middle or upper class characters who voluntarily descend the class ranks to experience "vital contact" by living or associating,… read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97614-5 (Routledge)
Gendered Pathologies
The Female Body and Biomedical Discourse in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel
Gendered Pathologies examines nineteenth-century literary representations of the pathologized female body in relation to biomedical discourses about gender and society in Victorian England. According… read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97526-1 (Routledge)
The Imperial Quest and Modern Memory from Conrad to Greene
The Imperial Quest and Modern Memory explores relationships between narrative and imperium in the context of Western Modernism by examining the Quest as a vexed… read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97552-0 (Routledge)
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The Ethics of Exile
Colonialism in the Fictions of Charles Brockden Brown and J.M. Coetzee
The book investigates the problem of how narrative, normally conceived of temporally, encodes its relation to space, especially the territorial space that is the subject… read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97553-7 (Routledge)
The Romantic Sublime and Middle-Class Subjectivity in the Victorian Novel
This study follows the aesthetic of the sublime from Burke and Kant, through Wordsworth and the Shelleys, into Thackeray, Dickens, Eliot and Hardy. Exploring the… read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97545-2 (Routledge)
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"Twentieth-Century Americanism"
Identity and Ideology in Depression-Era Leftist Literature
The main purpose of the book is to expand the scope of revisionary studies of the thirties by analyzing novels using recent innovations in critical… read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97538-4 (Routledge)
Poetry and Repetition
Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens, John Ashbery
This book examines the function of repetition in the work of Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens and John Ashbery. All three poets extensively employ and comment… read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97057-0 (Routledge)