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La femme victorienne : roman et société 1837-1867

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The English experience : its record in early printed books published in facsimile : [an illustrated catalogue] : a catalogue of the first 143 volumes now out, reproducing all title-pages, and a list of forthcoming volumes of the 3rd group (1969).
Year: 1969 Publisher: Amsterdam ; New York : Theatrvm orbis terrarvm ; Da Capo,

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The machine in the text : science and literature in the age of Shakespeare and Galileo
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ISBN: 9780199608058 Year: 2011 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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Critical examination of the relationship between literature and science--and more broadly, art and nature--in the early modern period. Draws on major writers of the period to redefine literature and art as knowledge-producing activities and recast emerging sciences as imaginative, creative, and literary.

A.L. Kennedy.
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ISBN: 9780230007567 0230007562 9780230007574 0230007570 Year: 2008 Publisher: Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan

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Kaye Mitchell provides students with a comprehensive introduction to Kennedy's work, placing her fiction and non-fiction in a clear historical and theoretical context.


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Anonymity : A secret history of english literature
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ISBN: 9780571195145 9780691139418 0691139415 0571195148 Year: 2008 Publisher: New Jersey Princeton University Press

Medieval women's writing : works by and for women in England, 1100-1500
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ISBN: 9780745632568 9780745632551 0745632556 0745632564 Year: 2007 Publisher: Cambridge : Polity,

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"Medieval Women's Writing" is a major new contribution to our understanding of women's writing in England, 1100-1500. The most comprehensive account to date, it includes writings in Latin and French as well as English, and works for as well as by women. Marie de France, Clemence of Barking, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, and the Paston women are discussed alongside the Old English lives of women saints, The Life of Christina of Markyate, the St Albans Psalter, and the legends of women saints by Osbern Bokenham."Medieval Women's Writing" addresses these key questions: who were the first women authors in the English canon; what do we mean by women's writing in the Middle Ages; what do we mean by authorship; and, how can studying medieval writing contribute to our understanding of women's literary history. Diane Watt argues that female patrons, audiences, readers, and even subjects contributed to the production of texts and their meanings, whether written by men or women. Only an understanding of textual production as collaborative enables us to grasp fully women's engagement with literary culture. This radical rethinking of early womens literary history has major implications for all scholars working on medieval literature, on ideas of authorship, and on women's writing in later periods. The book will become standard reading for all students of these debates.


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Becoming a woman of letters : myths of authorship and facts of the Victorian market
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ISBN: 9780691140179 0691140170 Year: 2009 Publisher: Princeton, NJ [etc.] Princeton University Press

Modernism and colonialism : British and Irish literature, 1899-1939
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ISBN: 9780822340386 0822340380 0822340194 9786613035516 1283035510 0822390310 Year: 2007 Publisher: Durham London : Duke University Press,

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This collection of essays by renowned literary scholars offers a sustained and comprehensive account of the relation of British and Irish literary modernism to colonialism. Bringing postcolonial studies into dialogue with modernist studies, the contributors move beyond depoliticized appreciations of modernist aesthetics as well as the dismissal of literary modernism as irredeemably complicit in the evils of colonialism. They demonstrate that the modernists were not unapologetic supporters of empire. Many were avowedly and vociferously opposed to colonialism, and all of the writers considered in this volume were concerned with the political and cultural significance of colonialism, including its negative consequences for both the colonizer and the colonized. Ranging over poetry, fiction, and criticism, the essays provide fresh appraisals of Joseph Conrad, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Wyndham Lewis, E. M. Forster, W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Hugh MacDiarmid, and Evelyn Waugh, as well as Robert Lewis Stevenson and Rider Haggard. The essays that bookend the collection connect the modernists to their Victorian precursors, to postwar literary critics, and to postcolonial poets. The rest treat major works written or published between 1899 and 1939, the boom years of literary modernism and the period during which the British Empire reached its greatest geographic expanse. Among the essays are explorations of how British imperialism inspired Conrad, Woolf, and Eliot to seek new aesthetic forms appropriate to the sense of dislocation they associated with empire; how primitivism figured in the fiction of Lawrence and Lewis; and how, in Ulysses, Joyce used modernist techniques toward anticolonial ends.

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