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Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
This open access book investigates imaginaries of artificial limbs, eyes, hair, and teeth in British and American literary and cultural sources from the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture shows how depictions of prostheses complicated the contemporary bodily status quo, which increasingly demanded an appearance of physical …
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- 9783030785895
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- xv, 283p. : ill.
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- 810.93561 SWE p
American cities in post-apocalyptic science fiction
Visions of the American city in post-apocalyptic ruin permeate literary and popular fiction, across print, visual, audio and digital media. American Cities in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction explores the prevalence of these representations in American culture, drawing from a wide range of primary and critical works from the early-twentieth century to today. Beginning with science fiction in li…
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- 9781800080980
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- ix, 201 p. : ill
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- 810.9321732 YEA a
The juggler of Notre Dame and the medievalizing of modernity : volume 6 war a…
This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the M…
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- 9781783745418
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- 324 p. : ill. ; 25.4 cm.
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- 841.109 ZIO t
DiverCity - global cities as a literary phenomenon : Toronto, New York, and L…
Based on the structured analysis of selected North American novels, this work examines global cities as a literary phenomenon (»DiverCity«). By analyzing Dionne Brand's Toronto, »What We All Long For« (2005), Chang-rae Lee's New York, »Native Speaker« (1995), and Karen Tei Yamashita's Los Angeles, »Tropic of Orange« (1997), Melanie U. Pooch provides the connecting link f…
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- 20
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- 9783839435410
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- 241 p. : ill.
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- 810.9 POO d
South Asian Atlantic literature, 1970-2010
The first major interpretation of recent South Asian diasporic writing in specifically transatlantic terms.The book is organised around four key themes: home and nation; travel and return; racial mixing; and food and eating. Ruth Maxey offers readings of canonical and less well-known South Asian American and British Asian writers and texts and of key cinematic works. She explores the formal and…
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- 9780748641888
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- viii, 256p.
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- Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures
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- 820.900914 MAX s
Literary culture in early modern England, 1630–1700 : angles of contingency
This book explores literary culture in England between 1630 and 1700, focusing on connections between material, epistemic, and political conditions of literary writing and reading. In a number of case studies and close readings, it presents the seventeenth century as a period of change that saw a fundamental shift towards a new cultural configuration: neoclassicism. This shift affected a wide a…
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- 9783110691375
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- XII, 282 p.
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- 810.90 BER l
Images of Women in 20th-Century American Literature and Culture : Female eman…
What do The Age of Innocence, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and Sex and the City have in common? Strong women ahead of their time! Being part of New York’s middle and upper class, Ellen Olenska, Holly Golightly and Carrie Bradshaw & Co. cherish their otherness and strive for personal freedom and gender equality, thereby trying to combine traditional longings and modern beliefs. However, though si…
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- 9783828836808
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- 119 p.
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- 810.9005 COR i
Proofs of genius : collected editions from the American Revolution to the Dig…
Proofs of Genius: Collected Editions from the American Revolution to the Digital Age is the first extensive study of the collected edition as an editorial genre within American literary history. Unlike editions of an author’s “selected works” or thematic anthologies, which clearly indicate the presence of non-authorial editorial intervention, collected editions have typically been arrange…
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- 9780472072750
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- viii, 162p. : ill.
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- 810.9 GAI p
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