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  1. War of No Pity
    The Indian Mutiny and Victorian Trauma
    Author: Herbert, Christopher
    Published: [2007]; ©2007
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ ; Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin

    On May 11, 1857, Hindu and Muslim sepoys massacred British residents and native Christians in Delhi, setting off both the whirlwind of similar violence that engulfed Bengal in the following months and an answering wave of rhetorical violence in... more

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    Universitätsbibliothek Gießen
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    Universitätsbibliothek Kassel, Landesbibliothek und Murhardsche Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel
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    Universität Mainz, Zentralbibliothek
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    Universität Marburg, Universitätsbibliothek
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    On May 11, 1857, Hindu and Muslim sepoys massacred British residents and native Christians in Delhi, setting off both the whirlwind of similar violence that engulfed Bengal in the following months and an answering wave of rhetorical violence in Britain, where the uprising against British rule in India was often portrayed as a clash of civilization and barbarity demanding merciless retribution. Although by twentieth-century standards the number of victims was small, the Victorian public saw "the Indian Mutiny" of 1857-59 as an epochal event. In this provocative book, Christopher Herbert seeks to discover why. He offers a view of this episode--and of Victorian imperialist culture more generally--sharply at odds with the standard formulations of postcolonial scholarship. Drawing on a wealth of largely overlooked and often mesmerizing nineteenth-century texts, including memoirs, histories, letters, works of journalism, and novels, War of No Pity shows that the startling ferocity of the conflict in India provoked a crisis of national conscience and a series of searing if often painfully ambivalent condemnations of British actions in India both prior to and during the war. Bringing to light the dissident, disillusioned, antipatriotic strain of Victorian "mutiny writing," Herbert locates in it key forerunners of modern-day antiwar literature and the modern critique of racism.

     
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  2. Sunstroke = Insolación :
    (a love story) = historia amorosa /
    Author: Pardo Bazán, Emilia,
    Published: [2020]; ©2020
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press,, Liverpool :

    Emilia Pardo Bazán, the most prolific and influential Spanish female writer of the nineteenth century, was a very controversial figure, vilified for her embracement of naturalism and her robust feminist stance.When Insolación was published in 1889 it... more

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    Emilia Pardo Bazán, the most prolific and influential Spanish female writer of the nineteenth century, was a very controversial figure, vilified for her embracement of naturalism and her robust feminist stance.When Insolación was published in 1889 it provoked a litany of negative comments and personal insults. This subtle, psychological novel, drawing on many aspects of its author's personal life, deals with the relationship between Asís, a respectable Galician widow, and Pacheco, a feckless womaniser from Andalucía. Although they scarcely know each other, Asís accepts Pacheco's invitation to visit the San Isidro Fair, where a heady cocktail of sun, alcohol and revelry causes her to behave in an uncharacteristic manner.Insolación explores the conflict between Asís's self-recrimination and concern for the 'qué dirán' and her nascent sexuality. Finally, despite her determination to banish Pacheco from her mind and her intention to go back to Galicia, the couple sleep together and decide to marry.The perceived promiscuity of this work of fiction scandalised the reading public as well as many leading critics. Pereda considered Asís's behaviour reprehensible and Clarín dismissed the novel as a pseudo-erotic boutade. Nowadays, Insolación is recognised as an important novel.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Contributor: Whittaker, Graham, (translator.)
    Language: English; Spanish
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1-80034-530-5
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    Series: Aris & Phillips Hispanic classics
    Subjects: Man-woman relationships
    Other subjects: reputation; gender inequality; heredity; feminism; jealousy; naturalism; determinism; psychological; hypocrisy; nineteenth-century feminism; catholicism; regional differences; environmental determinism
    Scope: 1 online resource (309 pages).
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    Includes bibliographical references.
  3. Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Timeless Tragedy of Man
    Author: Kareem, Haidar
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, Saarbrücken

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783330078741; 333007874X
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    9783330078741
    Edition: 1. Auflage
    Other subjects: (Produktform)Electronic book text; Chance; HAp; Consciousness; determinism; fatalism; Will; crass casualty; Timelessness; (VLB-WN)1520: Philosophie
    Scope: Online-Ressourcen, 52 Seiten
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    Lizenzpflichtig. - Vom Verlag als Druckwerk on demand und/oder als E-Book angeboten
  4. Determinism, Fate, and Tragedy in Alex La Guma's Fiction
    Author: d'Almeida, Kokouvi Mawulé
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, Saarbrücken

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783330029194; 3330029196
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    9783330029194
    Edition: 1. Auflage
    Other subjects: (Produktform)Electronic book text; Alex La Guma; apartheid; Chronotope; determinism; Fate; Racism; South Africa; tragedy; (VLB-WN)1560: Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft
    Scope: Online-Ressourcen, 304 Seiten
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    Lizenzpflichtig. - Vom Verlag als Druckwerk on demand und/oder als E-Book angeboten