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  1. Sexual Types
    Embodiment, Agency, and Dramatic Character from Shakespeare to Shirley
    Author: DiGangi, Mario
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, Pa

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    ISBN: 9780812205152
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    Subjects: Erotik <Motiv>; Englisch; Drama; Stereotyp <Motiv>
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (304 S.)
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    Biographical note: Mario DiGangi is Professor of English at Lehman College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of The Homoerotics of Early Modern Drama

    Main description: Sexual Types focuses on six figures from the early modern stage—the sodomite, the tribade, the narcissistic courtier, the citizen wife, the bawd, and the court favorite—that reveal in particularly compelling ways, how sexual transgressions were understood to intersect with social, gender, economic, and political transgressions
  2. Knowing Books
    The Consciousness of Mediation in Eighteenth-Century Britain
    Author: Lupton, Christina
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, Pa

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    ISBN: 9780812205213
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    Series: Material Texts
    Subjects: Wahrnehmung; Englisch; Literatur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (200 S.)
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    Biographical note: Christina Lupton teaches English at the University of Michigan

    Main description: Knowing Books examines a variety of eighteenth-century sources that deploy language to emphasize their status as physical objects and their circulation as commodities. In Lupton's account, these texts use this device to enhance their appeal as entertaining objects, making them part of an ongoing tradition of self-conscious media
  3. Desire in the Renaissance
    Psychoanalysis and Literature
    Published: 1994
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.

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    ISBN: 9781400821501
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    Subjects: Erotik <Motiv>; Lust <Motiv>; Italienisch; Literatur; Geschlechterverhältnis <Motiv>; Englisch
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    Main description: Drawing on a variety of psychoanalytic approaches, ten critics engage in exciting discussions of the ways the "inner life" is depicted in the Renaissance and the ways it is shown to interact with the "external" social and economic spheres. Spurred by the rise of capitalism and the nuclear family, Renaissance anxieties over changes in identity emerged in the period's unconscious--or, as Freud would have it, in its literature. Hence, much of Renaissance literature represents themes that have been prominent in the discourse of psychoanalysis: mistaken identity, incest, voyeurism, mourning, and the uncanny. The essays in this volume range from Spenser and Milton to Machiavelli and Ariosto, and focus on the fluidity of gender, the economics of sexual and sibling rivalry, the power of the visual, and the cultural echoes of the uncanny. The discussion of each topic highlights language as the medium of desire, transgression, or oppression. The section "Faking It: Sex, Class, and Gender Mobility" contains essays by Marjorie Garber (Middleton), Natasha Korda (Castiglione), and Valeria Finucci (Ariosto). The contributors to "Ogling: The Circulation of Power" include Harry Berger (Spenser), Lynn Enterline (Petrarch), and Regina Schwartz (Milton). "Loving and Loathing: The Economics of Subjection" includes Juliana Schiesari (Machia-velli) and William Kerrigan (Shakespeare). "Dreaming On: Uncanny Encounters" contains essays by Elizabeth J. Bellamy (Tasso) and David Lee Miller (Jonson)
  4. Solid Objects
    Modernism and the Test of Production
    Author: Mao, Douglas
    Published: 1998
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.

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    ISBN: 9781400822706
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    Subjects: Moderne; Englisch; Literatur
    Other subjects: Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955); Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941); Pound, Ezra (1885-1972); Lewis, Wyndham (1882-1957)
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    Main description: In this provocative and wide-ranging study, Douglas Mao argues that a profound tension between veneration of human production and anxiety about production's dangers lay at the heart of literary modernism. Focusing on the work of Virginia Woolf, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, and Wallace Stevens, Mao shows that modernists were captivated by physical objects, which, regarded as objects, seemed to partake of a utopian serenity beyond the reach of human ideological conflicts. Under a variety of historical pressures, Mao observes, these writers came to revere the making of such things, and especially the crafting of the work of art, as the surest guarantee of meaning for an individual life. Yet they also found troubling contradictions here, since any kind of making, be it handicraft or mass production, could also be understood as a violation of the nonhuman world by an increasingly predatory and imperialistic subjectivity. If modernists began by embracing production as a test of meaning, then they frequently ended by testing production itself and finding it wanting.To make this case, Mao interweaves social and political history with readings in literature, the visual arts, philosophy, and economics. He explores modernism's relation to aestheticism, existentialism, and the culture of consumption, joining current debates on the politics of engagement and the social meanings of art. And he shows conclusively, in this elegantly written and consistently surprising work, that we cannot understand the theories and practices of modernism without addressing the question of the object and production's ambivalent allure
  5. Out of Place
    Englishness, Empire, and the Locations of Identity
    Author: Baucom, Ian
    Published: 1999
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.

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    ISBN: 9781400823031
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    Subjects: Imperialismus; Kultur; Politische Identität; Literatur; Kolonialismus; Entkolonialisierung; Nationalbewusstsein; Englisch
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    Main description: In a 1968 speech on British immigration policy, Enoch Powell insisted that although a black man may be a British citizen, he can never be an Englishman. This book explains why such a claim was possible to advance and impossible to defend. Ian Baucom reveals how "Englishness" emerged against the institutions and experiences of the British Empire, rendering English culture subject to local determinations and global negotiations. In his view, the Empire was less a place where England exerted control than where it lost command of its own identity. Analyzing imperial crisis zones--including the Indian Mutiny of 1857, the Morant Bay uprising of 1865, the Amritsar massacre of 1919, and the Brixton riots of 1981--Baucom asks if the building of the empire completely refashioned England's narratives of national identity. To answer this question, he draws on a surprising range of sources: Victorian and imperial architectural theory, colonial tourist manuals, lexicographic treatises, domestic and imperial cricket culture, country house fetishism, and the writings of Ruskin, Kipling, Ford Maddox Ford, Forster, Rhys, C.L.R. James, Naipaul, and Rushdie--and representations of urban riot on television, in novels, and in parliamentary sessions. Emphasizing the English preoccupation with place, he discusses some crucial locations of Englishness that replaced the rural sites of Wordsworthian tradition: the Morant Bay courthouse, Bombay's Gothic railway station, the battle grounds of the 1857 uprising in India, colonial cricket fields, and, last but not least, urban riot zones
  6. Society and Sentiment
    Genres of Historical Writing in Britain, 1740-1820
    Author: Phillips, Mark Salber
    Published: 2000
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.

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    ISBN: 9781400823628
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    Subjects: Englisch; Historische Literatur; Geschichtsschreibung
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (369 S.)
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    Main description: A deepening interest in both social and interior experience was a distinguishing feature of the cultural life of eighteenth-century Britain, influencing writers in all genres from fiction to philosophy. Focusing on this interplay of ideas and genres, Mark Phillips explores the ways in which writers and readers of history, memoir, biography and related literatures responded to the social and sentimental concerns of a modern, commercial society. He shows that the writing of history, which once concentrated exclusively on political events, widened its horizons in ways that often paralleled better-known developments in the contemporary novel. Ultimately, Phillips proposes a new model for the study of historiographical narrative. Countering tropological readings identified with Hayden White, he offers a more historically nuanced approach that stresses questions of genre and reception as a guide to understanding how narratives were reshaped by new audiences and new social needs. Drawing inspiration from both the social analysis of the Scottish Enlightenment and the sentimental aesthetics of the contemporary novel, historical writing began to explore the areas of social experience and private life for which there was no place in classical historiography. The consequence, Phillips argues, was a significant reframing of historical thought that expressed itself through new themes, including the histories of commerce, manners, literature, and women, and through some lively experiments in narrative form. This book offers a rich picture of historiography that will interest students of history and fiction alike
  7. Vital Signs
    Medical Realism in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
    Author: Rothfield, Lawrence
    Published: 1995
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.

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    ISBN: 9781400820689
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    Series: Literature in History
    Subjects: Französisch; Erzähltechnik; Roman; Medizin; Englisch; Realismus; Medizin <Motiv>
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (252 S.)
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    Main description: Vital Signs offers both a compelling reinterpretation of the nineteenth-century novel and a methodological challenge to literary historians. Rejecting theories that equate realism with representation, Lawrence Rothfield argues that literary history forms a subset of the history of discourses and their attendant practices. He shows how clinical medicine provided Balzac, Flaubert, Eliot, and others with narrative strategies, epistemological assumptions, and models of professional authority. He also traces the linkages between medicine's eventual decline in scientific and social status and realism's displacement by naturalism, detective fiction, and modernism
  8. Renaissance Culture and the Everyday
    Published: [1998]

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    ISBN: 9780812291186
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    Series: New Cultural Studies
    Subjects: Geschichte Europas; Renaissance / England; Renaissance; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General; Manners and customs; Literatur; Englisch; Kunst; Gesellschaft
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (344p.)
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    52 illus

    Items as familiar as mirrors, books, horses, money, laundry baskets, graffiti, embroidery, and food look decidedly less familiar when seen through the eyes of Renaissance men and women. In Renaissance Culture and the Everyday, such scholars as Judith Brown, Frances Dolan, Richard Helgerson, Debora Shuger, Don Wayne, and Stephanie Jed illuminate the sometimes surprising issues at stake in just such common matters of daily life during the Renaissance in England and on the Continent
  9. Theater of a City
    The Places of London Comedy, 1598-1642
    Author: Howard, Jean E.
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, Pa

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    ISBN: 9780812202304
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    Subjects: Englisch; Theater; Komödie; London <Motiv>
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (288 S.)
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    Biographical note: Jean E. Howard is George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. She is the author of The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England and (with Phyllis Rackin) Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare's English Histories. She is general editor of The Bedford Texts and Contexts Shakespeare Series and coeditor (with Stephen Greenblatt, Walter Cohen, and Katharine Eisaman Maus) of The Norton Shakespeare

    Main description: Drawing on a wide range of plays, Theater of a City shows how the stage imaginatively shaped and responded to the changing face of early modern London
  10. Shades of Difference
    Mythologies of Skin Color in Early Modern England
    Author: Iyengar, Sujata
    Published: 2004
    Publisher:  University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, Pa

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    ISBN: 9780812202335
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    Subjects: Hautfarbe <Motiv>; Schwarze <Motiv>; Englisch; Literatur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (320 S.)
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    Biographical note: Sujata Iyengar teaches English at the University of Georgia

    Main description: An exploration of the cultural mythology of skin color during the English Renaissance
  11. The metrical organization of Beowulf
    prototype and isomorphism
    Author: Suzuki, Seiichi
    Published: 1996
    Publisher:  Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin ;New York

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    ISBN: 3110151340; 9783110151343; 9783110810493
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    Series: Trends in linguistics ; 95
    Subjects: Englisch; English language; English language; Epic poetry, English (Old); Metrum
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 537 p)
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    Includes bibliographical references and indexes
  12. The Return of King Arthur and the Nibelungen
    National Myth in Nineteenth-Century English and German Literature
    Author: Oergel, Maike
    Published: 1998
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin

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    ISBN: 9783110150841; 9783110812541
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    RVK Categories: GL 1411 ; GL 1461 ; HH 7680 ; HL 1101
    Series: European cultures ; 10
    Subjects: Nation <Motiv>; Deutsch; Literatur; Rezeption; Englisch; Nibelungensage; Mythos <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Artus Fiktive Gestalt; Electronic books
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 325 S.)
  13. Machine Translation
    Author: Zarechnak, Michael
    Published: 1979
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin

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    ISBN: 9789027978363; 9783110816679; 9783111773971
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    Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 11
    Subjects: Russisch; Maschinelle Übersetzung; Englisch
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 265 S.)
  14. Verbs in Medieval English
    Differences in Verb Choice in Verse and Prose
    Author: Ogura, Michiko
    Published: 1996
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin

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    ISBN: 9783110144260; 9783110823646; 9783111851013
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    RVK Categories: HE 300 ; HE 302 ; HE 740 ; HE 760 ; HE 795 ; HH 4020
    Series: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ; 17
    Subjects: Altenglisch; Prosa; Versdichtung; Verb; Literatur; Mittelenglisch; Englisch; Sprachwandel; Wortwahl
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (XXI, 260 S.)
  15. The Calvinist Temper in English Poetry
    Author: Boulger, James D.
    Published: 1980
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin

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    ISBN: 9789027979261; 9783110808728; 9783111749457
    Series: De Proprietatibus Litterarum. Series Maior ; 21
    Subjects: Geschichte; Calvinism in literature; English poetry; Puritan movements in literature; Puritans; Lyrik; Christliche Lyrik; Calvinismus; Englisch
    Other subjects: Electronic books
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 498 S.)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  16. Current English linguistics in Japan
    Published: 1991
    Publisher:  Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin ;New York

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    ISBN: 0899255051; 3110117819; 9783110117813; 9783110854213
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    RVK Categories: HF 180
    Series: Trends in linguistics ; 16
    Subjects: Englisch; Grammatik; Linguistik; English language; Linguistics; Grammatik; Englisch; Linguistik; Anglistik
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 534 p)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  17. The semiotics of consumption
    interpreting symbolic consumer behavior in popular culture and works of art
    Author: Holbrook, Morris B.
    Published: 1993
    Publisher:  Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin ;New York

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    ISBN: 3110134918; 9783110134919; 9783110854732
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    Series: Approaches to semiotics ; 110
    Subjects: Consumer behavior; Popular culture; Semiotics; Semiotik; Verbraucherverhalten; Kultur; Geschichte; Literatur; Unterhaltung; Film; Englisch
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    The Semiotics of Consumption: Interpreting Symbolic Consumer Behavior in Popular Culture and Works of Art (Approaches to Semiotics)
  18. Griechisch-deutsches Wörterbuch zu den Schriften des Neuen Testaments und der frühchristlichen Literatur
    Author: Bauer, Walter
    Published: 1988
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin

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    Language: German
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    ISBN: 9783110860269
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    Edition: 6. Aufl
    Subjects: Bibel; Greek language, Biblical; Griechisch; Bibelwissenschaft; Deutsch; Literatur; Frühchristentum; Englisch; Wörterbuch
    Other subjects: Electronic books
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (XXIV, 898 S.)
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    Bibliographies included in "Abkürzungen": pages [xi]-xxiv
  19. The Afterlife of Property
    Domestic Security and the Victorian Novel
    Author: Nunokawa, Jeff
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.

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    ISBN: 9781400824632
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    Subjects: Besitz <Motiv>; Eigentum; Familie <Motiv>; Roman; Englisch; Frau <Motiv>; Frau
    Other subjects: Eliot, George (1819-1880): Daniel Deronda; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870): Little Dorrit; Eliot, George (1819-1880): Silas Marner, the weaver of Raveloe; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870): Dombey and Son
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    Main description: In The Afterlife of Property, Jeff Nunokawa investigates the conviction passed on by the Victorian novel that a woman's love is the only fortune a man can count on to last. Taking for his example four texts, Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit and Dombey and Son, and George Eliot's Daniel Deronda and Silas Marner, Nunokawa studies the diverse ways that the Victorian novel imagines women as property removed from the uncertainties of the marketplace. Along the way, he notices how the categories of economics, gender, sexuality, race, and fiction define one another in the Victorian novel. If the novel figures women as safe property, Nunokawa argues, the novel figures safe property as a woman. And if the novel identifies the angel of the house, the desexualized subject of Victorian fantasies of ideal womanhood, as safe property, it identifies various types of fiction, illicit sexualities, and foreign races with the enemy of such property: the commodity form. Nunokawa shows how these convergences of fiction, sexuality, and race with the commodity form are part of a scapegoat scenario, in which the otherwise ubiquitous instabilities of the marketplace can be contained and expunged, clearing the way for secure possession. The Afterlife of Property addresses literary and cultural theory, gender studies, and gay and lesbian studies
  20. Excess and the Mean in Early Modern English Literature
    Author: Scodel, Joshua
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.

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    ISBN: 9781400824939
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    Series: Literature in History
    Subjects: Maß <Philosophie>; Unmäßigkeit; Englisch; Literatur
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    Main description: This book examines how English writers from the Elizabethan period to the Restoration transformed and contested the ancient ideal of the virtuous mean. As early modern authors learned at grammar school and university, Aristotle and other classical thinkers praised "golden means" balanced between extremes: courage, for example, as opposed to cowardice or recklessness. By uncovering the enormous variety of English responses to this ethical doctrine, Joshua Scodel revises our understanding of the vital interaction between classical thought and early modern literary culture. Scodel argues that English authors used the ancient schema of means and extremes in innovative and contentious ways hitherto ignored by scholars. Through close readings of diverse writers and genres, he shows that conflicting representations of means and extremes figured prominently in the emergence of a self-consciously modern English culture. Donne, for example, reshaped the classical mean to promote individual freedom, while Bacon held extremism necessary for human empowerment. Imagining a modern rival to ancient Rome, georgics from Spenser to Cowley exhorted England to embody the mean or lauded extreme paths to national greatness. Drinking poetry from Jonson to Rochester expressed opposing visions of convivial moderation and drunken excess, while erotic writing from Sidney to Dryden and Behn pitted extreme passion against the traditional mean of conjugal moderation. Challenging his predecessors in various genres, Milton celebrated golden means of restrained pleasure and self-respect. Throughout this groundbreaking study, Scodel suggests how early modern treatments of means and extremes resonate in present-day cultural debates
  21. A Shrinking Island
    Modernism and National Culture in England
    Author: Esty, Jed
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781400825745
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    Subjects: Nationalbewusstsein; Moderne; Englisch; Literatur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (304 S.)
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    Main description: This book describes a major literary culture caught in the act of becoming minor. In 1939, Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary, "Civilisation has shrunk." Her words captured not only the onset of World War II, but also a longer-term reversal of national fortune. The first comprehensive account of modernism and imperialism in England, A Shrinking Island tracks the joint eclipse of modernist aesthetics and British power from the literary experiments of the 1930s through the rise of cultural studies in the 1950s. Jed Esty explores the effects of declining empire on modernist form--and on the very meaning of Englishness. He ranges from canonical figures (T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf) to influential midcentury intellectuals (J. M. Keynes and J.R.R. Tolkien), from cultural studies pioneers (Raymond Williams and E. P. Thompson) to postwar migrant writers (George Lamming and Doris Lessing). Focusing on writing that converts the potential energy of the contracting British state into the language of insular integrity, he argues that an anthropological ethos of cultural holism came home to roost in late-imperial England. Esty's interpretation challenges popular myths about the death of English literature. It portrays the survivors of the modernist generation not as aesthetic dinosaurs, but as participants in the transition from empire to welfare state, from metropolitan art to national culture. Mixing literary criticism with postcolonial theory, his account of London modernism's end-stages and after-lives provides a fresh take on major works while redrawing the lines between modernism and postmodernism
  22. Invisible Listeners
    Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery
    Author: Vendler, Helen
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.

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    ISBN: 9781400826711
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    Subjects: Lyrisches Du; Lyrik; Intimsphäre; Englisch; Sprache; Dichtersprache; Gott
    Other subjects: Parmigianino (1504-1540); Herbert, George (1593-1633); Ashbery, John (1927-2017); Whitman, Walt (1819-1892)
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    Main description: When a poet addresses a living person--whether friend or enemy, lover or sister--we recognize the expression of intimacy. But what impels poets to leap across time and space to speak to invisible listeners, seeking an ideal intimacy--George Herbert with God, Walt Whitman with a reader in the future, John Ashbery with the Renaissance painter Francesco Parmigianino? In Invisible Listeners, Helen Vendler argues that such poets must invent the language that will enact, on the page, an intimacy they lack in life. Through brilliantly insightful and gracefully written readings of these three great poets over three different centuries, Vendler maps out their relationships with their chosen listeners. For his part, Herbert revises the usual "vertical" address to God in favor of a "horizontal" one-addressing God as a friend. Whitman hovers in a sometimes erotic, sometimes quasi-religious language in conceiving the democratic camerado, who will, following Whitman's example, find his true self. And yet the camerado will be replaced, in Whitman's verse, by the ultimate invisible listener, Death. Ashbery, seeking a fellow artist who believes that art always distorts what it represents, finds he must travel to the remote past. In tones both tender and skeptical he addresses Parmigianino, whose extraordinary self-portrait in a convex mirror furnishes the poet with both a theory and a precedent for his own inventions. By creating the forms and speech of ideal intimacy, these poets set forth the possibility of a more complete and satisfactory human interchange--an ethics of relation that is uncoerced, understanding, and free
  23. Utopian Generations
    The Political Horizon of Twentieth-Century Literature
    Author: Brown, Nicholas
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.

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    ISBN: 9781400826834
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    Series: Translation/Transnation
    Subjects: Politische Literatur; Englisch; Utopie
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    Main description: Utopian Generations develops a powerful interpretive matrix for understanding world literature--one that renders modernism and postcolonial African literature comprehensible in a single framework, within which neither will ever look the same. African literature has commonly been seen as representationally naïve vis-à-vis modernism, and canonical modernism as reactionary vis-à-vis postcolonial literature. What brings these two bodies of work together, argues Nicholas Brown, is their disposition toward Utopia or "the horizon of a radical reconfiguration of social relations." Grounded in a profound rethinking of the Hegelian Marxist tradition, this fluently written book takes as its point of departure the partial displacement during the twentieth century of capitalism's "internal limit" (classically conceived as the conflict between labor and capital) onto a geographic division of labor and wealth. Dispensing with whole genres of commonplace contemporary pieties, Brown examines works from both sides of this division to create a dialectical mapping of different modes of Utopian aesthetic practice. The theory of world literature developed in the introduction grounds the subtle and powerful readings at the heart of the book--focusing on works by James Joyce, Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Ford Madox Ford, Chinua Achebe, Wyndham Lewis, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and Pepetela. A final chapter, arguing that this literary dialectic has reached a point of exhaustion, suggests that a radically reconceived notion of musical practice may be required to discern the Utopian desire immanent in the products of contemporary culture
  24. The Body Economic
    Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel
    Author: Gallagher, Catherine
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.

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    ISBN: 9781400826841
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    Subjects: Mensch <Motiv>; Wirtschaft <Motiv>; Englisch; Roman
    Other subjects: Eliot, George (1819-1880); Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)
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    Main description: The Body Economic revises the intellectual history of nineteenth-century Britain by demonstrating that political economists and the writers who often presented themselves as their literary antagonists actually held most of their basic social assumptions in common. Catherine Gallagher demonstrates that political economists and their Romantic and early-Victorian critics jointly relocated the idea of value from the realm of transcendent spirituality to that of organic "life," making human sensations--especially pleasure and pain--the sources and signs of that value. Classical political economy, this book shows, was not a mechanical ideology but a form of nineteenth-century organicism, which put the body and its feelings at the center of its theories, and neoclassical economics built itself even more self-consciously on physiological premises. The Body Economic explains how these shared views of life, death, and sensation helped shape and were modified by the two most important Victorian novelists: Charles Dickens and George Eliot. It reveals how political economists interacted crucially with the life sciences of the nineteenth century--especially with psychophysiology and anthropology--producing the intellectual world that nurtured not only George Eliot's realism but also turn-of-the-century literary modernism
  25. Imperial Masochism
    British Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Class
    Author: Kucich, John
    Published: 2006
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.

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    ISBN: 9781400827404
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    Subjects: Soziale Klasse <Motiv>; Englisch; Imperialismus <Motiv>; Masochismus <Motiv>; Literatur
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    Main description: British imperialism's favorite literary narrative might seem to be conquest. But real British conquests also generated a surprising cultural obsession with suffering, sacrifice, defeat, and melancholia. "There was," writes John Kucich, "seemingly a different crucifixion scene marking the historical gateway to each colonial theater." In Imperial Masochism, Kucich reveals the central role masochistic forms of voluntary suffering played in late-nineteenth-century British thinking about imperial politics and class identity. Placing the colonial writers Robert Louis Stevenson, Olive Schreiner, Rudyard Kipling, and Joseph Conrad in their cultural context, Kucich shows how the ideological and psychological dynamics of empire, particularly its reorganization of class identities at the colonial periphery, depended on figurations of masochism. Drawing on recent psychoanalytic theory to define masochism in terms of narcissistic fantasies of omnipotence rather than sexual perversion, the book illuminates how masochism mediates political thought of many different kinds, not simply those that represent the social order as an opposition of mastery and submission, or an eroticized drama of power differentials. Masochism was a powerful psychosocial language that enabled colonial writers to articulate judgments about imperialism and class. The first full-length study of masochism in British colonial fiction, Imperial Masochism puts forth new readings of this literature and shows the continued relevance of psychoanalysis to historicist studies of literature and culture