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James Mussell reads nineteenth-century scientific debates in light of recent theoretical discussions of scientific writing to propose a new methodology for understanding the periodical press in terms …

Colonization, slavery, traffic in women, and connoisseurship seem to have particularly captured the imaginations of circumatlantic writers of the later eighteenth century. In this book, Nandini Bhatt …

‘Women, Genre and Circumstance brings together a series of challenging essays which explore the complex intersections of feminism, narrative and genre. Drawing on a wide range of 19th and 20th centur …

‘Eighteenth-century sensibilite has always been controversial. In fact, the term itself refers to complex forms of physical and emotional responsiveness, and Lewis»s study investigates the fictional …

‘Texts about paintings, painters and sculptors are obvious test cases for issues of representation. A significant corpus of artist stories is scattered through Honore de Balzac»s Comedie humaine whi …

‘The Second World War was a common experience of cultural and historical rupture for many European countries, but studies of this period and its after-images often remain locked in national framework …

‘Three essays on the nature of the bonds between Vita Nuova and Convivio; the nature and significance of the Donna Gentile, Dante»s »second love»; and the imaginative and intellectual coherence of …

‘These essays on representative Jewish and Irish writers are true to the form»s definition as an attempt or experiment rather than a credo. Wohlgelernter defines the author»s »excited imagination’ …

This book demonstrates the epic genre’s enduring relevance to the Global South. It identifies a contemporary avatar of classical epic, the ‘postcolonial epic’, ushered in by Herman Melville’s Moby Di …

This book offers students of Greek and scholars interested in Greek literature the first English-language commentary on the “Battle of Frogs and Mice”, a short animal epic ascribed to Homer in the an …