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Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

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Nihilism and the Sublime Postmodern

By William Slocombe

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…

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2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97529-2 (Routledge)

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An Ethics of Becoming

Configurations of Feminine Subjectivity in Jane Austen Charlotte Bronte, and George Eliot

By San Jeong Cho

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…

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2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97537-7 (Routledge)

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Outsider Citizens

The Remaking of Postwar Identity in Wright, Beauvoir, and Baldwin

By Sarah Relyea

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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2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97527-8 (Routledge)

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Vital Contact

Downclassing Journeys in American Literature from Melville to Richard Wright

By Patrick Chura

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,…

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2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97614-5 (Routledge)

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Gendered Pathologies

The Female Body and Biomedical Discourse in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel

By Sondra Archimedes

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…

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2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97526-1 (Routledge)

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The Imperial Quest and Modern Memory from Conrad to Greene

By Julia Rawa

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…

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2005 | 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

By Timothy Strode

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…

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2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97553-7 (Routledge)

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The Romantic Sublime and Middle-Class Subjectivity in the Victorian Novel

By Stephen Hancock

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…

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2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97545-2 (Routledge)

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"Twentieth-Century Americanism"

Identity and Ideology in Depression-Era Leftist Literature

By Andrew Yerkes

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…

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2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97538-4 (Routledge)

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Poetry and Repetition

Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens, John Ashbery

By Krystyna Mazur

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…

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2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97057-0 (Routledge)

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