Studies in Major Literary Authors
Studies in Major Literary Authors features outstanding scholarship on celebrated and neglected authors of both canonical and lesser-known texts.
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Editing Emily Dickinson
The Production of an Author
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Editing Emily Dickinson considers the processes through which Dickinson's work has been edited in the twentieth century and how such editorial processes contribute specifically to the production of Emily Dickinson as author. The posthumous editing of her handwritten manuscripts into the...
Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
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Yeats and Theosophy
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
When H. P. Blavatsky, the controversial head of the turn of the century movement Theosophy, defined "a true Theosophist" in her book The Key to Theosophy, she could have just as easily have been describing W. B. Yeats. Blavatsky writes, "A true Theosophist must put in practice the loftiest moral...
Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
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Poetic Language and Political Engagement in the Poetry of Keats
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
In this incisive volume Siler traces the uneasy relationship between the content of Keats' poems and social history. In the process, he discovers that the early poems are linked with the mission statement of the radical journal Annals of the Fine Arts, whilst the poems after Endymion reveal a...
Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
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Politics and Aesthetics in The Diary of Virginia Woolf
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
In this critical study, Tidwell examines the conflict of aesthetics and politics in The Diary of Virginia Woolf. As a modernist writer concerned with contemporary aesthetic theories, Woolf experimented with limiting the representative nature of writing. At the same time, as a feminist, Woolf wanted...
Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
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Shakespeare and the Economic Imperative
“What’s aught but as ‘tis valued?”
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Despite the volume of work Shakespeare produced, surprisingly few of his plays directly concern money and the economic mindset. Shakespeare and the Economic Imperative examines the five plays that do address monetary issues (The Comedy of Errors, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Merchant of Venice,...
Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
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Shakespeare in the Victorian Periodicals
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Based on extensive archival research, Shakespeare in the Victorian Periodicals offers an entirely new perspective on popular Shakespeare reception by focusing on articles published in Victorian periodicals. Shakespeare had already reached the apex of British culture in the previous...
Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
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Pynchon and the Political
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Thomas Pynchon's writing has been widely regarded as an exemplary form of postmodern fiction. It is characterized as genre-defying and enigmatic, as a series of complex and esoteric language games. This study attempts to demonstrate, however, that an oblique yet compelling sense of the "political"...
Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
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American Flaneur
The Cosmic Physiognomy of Edgar Allan Poe
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Published November 15th 2011 by Routledge
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The Artist-Figure, Society, and Sexuality in Virginia Woolf's Novels
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
This book explores the relationship between aesthetic productivity and artists' degree of involvement in social and sexual life as depicted in Virginia Woolf's novels. Ann Ronchetti locates the sources of Woolf's lifelong preoccupation with the artist's relationship to society in her family...
Published November 15th 2011 by Routledge
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Queer Impressions
Henry James' Art of Fiction
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Published November 15th 2011 by Routledge
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Dorothy Wordsworth's Ecology
To Be Published December 14th 2012
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