Hakutulokset: read luku
yhteensä 545 hakutulosta
Feminist Conversations
In a new account of the relationship between Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Christina Zwarg recreates a feminist conversation that has gone unheard. In Zwarg's view, the …
Reading the Sphinx
Reading the Sphinx unearths buried conflicts in religion, myth, and the memory of Egypt in the West, illuminating issues of identity, inheritance, gender, and sexuality through …
Reading Holinshed's Chronicles
This volume provides a study of the 16th-century Elizabethan text, Holinshed's "Chronicles" - a history of England, Scotland and Ireland which has traditionally been read as the …
Privacy, Playreading, and Women's Closet Drama, 1550–1700
Marta Straznicky offers a detailed historical analysis of early modern women's closet plays: plays explicitly written for reading, rather than public performance. She reveals that …
Reading Memory in Early Modern Literature
'He who remembers or recollects, thinks' declared Francis Bacon, drawing attention to the absolute centrality of the question of memory in early modern Britain's cultural life. The …
Isabelle de Montolieu reads Jane Austen's Fictional Minds
The hallmark technique of Jane Austen's mature writing - known as free indirect discourse (FID) - is responsible for what has become known as the inward interest of Austen's …
Transnational Crusoe, Illustration and Reading History, 1719–1722
Bringing illustration studies, the history of reading and transnational book history together, the Element offers an original micro-history of illustrated editions and iconic …
Dear Mr. Shakespeare
A wonderful book for aficionados, actors, academics, and audiences alike. This is a unique introduction and guide to Shakespeare’s life and times, a uniquely modern take on …
Reading Mansfield and Metaphors of Form
Taking an innovative approach to criticism, Reading Mansfield and Metaphors of Form demonstrates how Mansfield's stylistic practice both embodies and conveys her analysis of social …
Reading Renaissance Ethics
Bringing together some of the best current practitioners of historical and formal criticism, Reading Renaissance Ethics assesses the ethical performance of renaissance texts as …
Reading Victorian Fiction
A study of the interrelationship of the Victorian novel with other forms of writings, arguing that the whole literary culture was concerned with the production of Victorian values, …
Railway Reading and Late-Victorian Literary Series
The railway was one of the principal Victorian spaces of reading. This book spotlights one of the leading audience demographics in this late-Victorian market: the newly empowered …