Filter by

  • Publication Year
    To
  • Availability
  • Attachment
  • Collection Type
  • General Material Designation
    See More
  • Location
  • Language
Found 4 from your keywords: subject="Nineteenth-century"
cover
Writing manuals for the masses
Masschelein, AnneleenDe Geest, Dirk

This open access collection of essays examines the literary advice industry since its emergence in Anglo-American literary culture in the mid-nineteenth century within the context of the professionalization of the literary field and the continued debate on creative writing as art and craft. Often dismissed as commercial and stereotypical by authors and specialists alike, literary advice has non…

Edition
-
ISBN/ISSN
9783030536145
Collation
xxii; 412 PG; ill.
Series Title
-
Call Number
808.0209 WRI w
cover
Empire Under the Microscope : Parasitology and the British Literary Imaginati…
Taylor-Pirie, Emilie

This open access book considers science and empire, and the stories we tell ourselves about them. Using British Nobel laureate Ronald Ross (1857-1932) and his colleagues as access points to a wider professional culture, Empire Under the Microscope explores the cultural history of parasitology and its relationships with the literary and historical imagination between 1885 and 1935. Emilie Taylor…

Edition
-
ISBN/ISSN
9783030847173
Collation
xiii, 294 p.
Series Title
-
Call Number
823.8093561 EMP E
cover
On the literature and thought of the German Classical Era : collected essays
Nisbet, Hugh Barr

Das vorliegende Buch ist das wissenschaftliche Vermächtnis von Hugh Barr Nisbet (1940–2021), Emeritus des Sidney Sussex College und Nestor der britischen Aufklärungsfor-schung. Nisbet schloss die Arbeit an diesem Band im Dezember 2020 ab, wenige Wochen vor seinem Tod am 6. Februar 2021. Seine Absicht war es, so der Verfasser und zugleich Herausgeber in seinem konzisen Vorwort, einige der ze…

Edition
-
ISBN/ISSN
9781783747719
Collation
viii, 336 p. : ill.
Series Title
-
Call Number
830.9006 NIS o
cover
Reading backwards: an advance retrospective on Russian literature
Langen, TimothyMaguire, Muireann

"This edited volume employs the paradoxical notion of ‘anticipatory plagiarism’—developed in the 1960s by the ‘Oulipo’ group of French writers and thinkers—as a mode for reading Russian literature. Reversing established critical approaches to the canon and literary influence, its contributors ask us to consider how reading against linear chronologies can elicit fascinating new patte…

Edition
-
ISBN/ISSN
9781800641211
Collation
302 p.: colour, ill.
Series Title
-
Call Number
891.709 MAG r