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Material Readings of Early Modern Culture
This book explores the significance of the physicality of manuscripts and printed early modern texts. Focusing on the material aspects and social practices of texts as a new way of …
Linguistic and Literary Theories in Reading
The purpose of this book is to present to scholars, students and enthusiasts in the fields of literature and linguistics a way to study a text analytically. Reading is …
Racine: A Theatrical Reading
This original and innovative study is the first systematic exploration of Racine's theatricality. It is based on a close examination of all Racine's plays and on evidence for …
Commonplace Reading and Writing in Early Modern England and Beyond
Approaching from bibliographical, literary, cultural, and intercultural perspectives, this book establishes the importance of Hesperides, or the Muses’ Garden, a largely unexplored …
Reading the Modern British and Irish Novel 1890 - 1930
Daniel R. Schwarz has studied and taught the modern British novel for decades and now brings his impressive erudition and critical acuity to this insightful study of the major …
Reading Mahler
Examines literary, philosophical, and cultural influences on Mahler's thought and work from the standpoint of the composer's position in German-Jewish culture.Gustav Mahler's music …
Reading Performance: Spanish Golden-Age Theatre and Shakespeare on the Modern Stage
Spanish Golden-Age plays take their place at the forefront of world theatre.Oscar Wilde once observed that `it is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors'. This …
Reading Sympathy in Romantic Literature
When two people read together, what do they stand to learn not just about the book, but about each other? Representations of people reading together in Romantic literature often …
Reading Gothic Fiction
This is the first full-length study of Gothic to be written from the perspective of Bakhtinian theory. Dr Howard uses Bakhtin's concepts of heteroglossia and dialogism in specific …
Moby-Dick and Melville’s Anti-Slavery Allegory
After clarifying the hidden allegory interconnecting black slaves and black whales, this book carefully sheds the layers of a hidden meaning that will be too convincing to ignore …
Commonplace Books and Reading in Georgian England
This pioneering exploration of Georgian men and women's experiences as readers explores their use of commonplace books for recording favourite passages and reflecting upon what …
Reading on the Middle Border
Reading is an everyday activity so taken for granted that it seems virtually invisible. In spite of its ubiquity in modern life (or perhaps because of its familiarity), scholars …