Hakutulokset: read luku
yhteensä 545 hakutulosta
Re-reading / La relecture
What happens when we re-read a familiar book? Does the second encounter turn us into experts, more knowing and confident in our relation to the text? Or conversely, does it expose …
Kate Chopin in Context
Featuring essays by scholars from around the globe, Kate Chopin in Context revitalizes discussions on the famed 19th-century author of The Awakening . Expanding the horizons of …
Retheorizing Shakespeare through Presentist Readings
This book offers a theoretical rationale for the emerging presentist movement in Shakespeare studies and goes on to show, in a series of close readings, that a presentist …
Reading Keats's Letters
John Keats's personal letters are widely considered to be some of the finest in the English language – and in any language: the most inventive, most brilliant, most moving. While …
Kate Chopin and the City
This book examines selected short stories and novels by Kate Chopin through the lens of the city of New Orleans.
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 …
Reading Literary Animals
Reading Literary Animals explores the status and representation of animals in literature from the Middle Ages to the present day. Essays by leading scholars in the field examine …
Fatherhood, Authority, and British Reading Culture, 1831-1907
During a period when the idea of fatherhood was in flux and individual fathers sought to regain a cohesive collective identity, debates related to a father’s authority were …
Reading for Liberalism
Founded in 1868, the Overland Monthly was a San Franciscobased literary magazine whose mix of humor, pathos, and romantic nostalgia for a lost frontier was an immediate sensation …
Reading, Society and Politics in Early Modern England
This book ranges over private and public reading, and over a variety of religious, social, and scientific communities to locate acts of reading in specific historical moments from …
Cambridge Readings in Italian Literature
Edward Bullough, best known for his work on physical distance in art and aesthetics, became Serena Professor of Italian at Cambridge in 1933. In this 1920 work, Bullough gives a …
Reading of Jane Austen
A Reading of Jane Austen (first published by Peter Owen in 1975) has established itself with critics and readers as an outstanding contribution to the growing literature on this …