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For Was I Not Born Here?
Editions Rodopi 2010; US$ 52.00This study centres on the fiction of the New Zealand writer Yvonne du Fresne, the descendant of Danish and Danish-Huguenot families who emigrated to New Zealand in the late-nineteenth century and settled in the Manawatu area. It explores how memories of the past haunt generations of immigrants, and how issues of language, politics, and social norms... more...
Pierre Loti and the Theatricality of Desire
Editions Rodopi 2008; US$ 74.20Pierre Loti and the Theatricality of Desire offers an original analysis of patterns of unconscious desire observable in the life and work of the French orientalist writer Pierre Loti. It aims to reconcile attitudes and conduct that have been regarded as contradictory and not amenable to analysis by locating the unconscious urges that motivate them.... more...
Joie de vivre in French Literature and Culture
Editions Rodopi 2009; US$ 89.60The apparent self-sufficiency of joie de vivre means that, despite the widespread use of the phrase since the late nineteenth century, the concept has rarely been explored critically. Joie de vivre does not readily surrender itself to examination, for it is in a sense too busy being what it is. However, as the essays in this collection reveal, joie... more...
Thinking about Other People in Nineteenth-Century British Writing
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 82.00Explores a common concern among Victorian writers about the power of one person thinking about another. more...
Encyclopedia of Literary Romanticism
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 90.00The Romantics valued nature, spontaneity, visionary experience, powerful feeling, and the artist's individual response to the experience of life. Encyclopedia of Literary Romanticism provides a comprehensive A-to-Z guide to the Romantic movement, including such great writers as William Wordsworth, John Keats, and Mary Shelley. Entries in this new... more...
Man Walks Into A Bar
Ebury Publishing 2010; US$ 10.67Man Walks Into A Bar is a one-stop shop for anyone who likes to hear and tell jokes. The jokes are ordered thematically - wives, husbands, doctors, lawyers, the French, the Germans, jokes about nuns, jokes about monkeys, the lot. There are also regular panels which group jokes by type too - Essex girls, changing a lightbulb etc. Our material will... more...
Pluralisierungen
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 126.00The contributions of this volume discuss the usability of the concept of ?pluralization? as the guiding concept for analyzing the early modern era. The first meaning of pluralization is the increase of the representations of reality which are relevant in an area of life and culture; furthermore this term expresses the emergence of ?new? and/or alternative... more...
Dr Johnson's Dictionary of Modern Life
Random House 2010; US$ 13.34In 2009 Dr Samuel Johnson made a surprise re-emergence from eighteenth century retirement and began Twittering. It proved the perfect vehicle for his acerbic, aphoristic wit and he has quickly become the darling of the site. The Guardian calls him the 'greatest' thing on Twitter and the Telegraph dubs him its 'star'. Our gouty man of letters... more...
Arms and the Imagination
Hamilton Books 2009; US$ 53.99From the time of John Milton to that of William Blake, the literature of Britain absorbed the impact of two major military developments. more...
Why You Should Read Kafka Before You Waste Your Life
St. Martin's Press 2008; US$ 7.99Everybody knows the face of Franz Kafka, whether they have read any of his works or not. And that brooding face carries instant images: bleak and threatening visions of an inescapable bureaucracy, nightmarish transformations, uncanny predictions of the Holocaust. But while Kafka?s genius is beyond question, the image of a mysterious, sickly, shadowy... more...









