Articulating Bodies: The Narrative Form of Disability and Illness in Victorian Fiction (Hingston Kylee-Anne)(Pevná vazba)

Articulating Bodies: The Narrative Form of Disability and Illness in Victorian Fiction (Hingston Kylee-Anne)(Pevná vazba)

Articulating Bodies investigates the contemporaneous developments of Victorian fiction and disability's medicalization by focusing on the intersection between narrative form and body. The book examines texts from across the century, from Frederic Shoberl's 1833 English translation of Victor Hugo's

Illness and Authority: Disability in the Life and Lives of Francis of Assisi (Trembinski Donna)(Pevná vazba)

Fathers in Victorian Fiction (McKnight Natalie)(Pevná vazba)

This book examines the changing roles of fathers in the nineteenth century as seen in the lives and fiction of Victorian authors. Fatherhood underwent unprecedented change during this period. The Industrial Revolution moved work out of the home for many men, diminishing contact between fathers and

Nox (Carson Anne)(Pevná vazba)

Nox is an epitaph in the form of a book, a facsimile of a handmade book Anne Carson wrote and created after the death of her brother. The poem describes coming to terms with his loss through the lens of her translation of Poem 101 by Catullus 'for his brother who died in the Troad.' Nox is a work

The Penny Politics of Victorian Popular Fiction (Breton Rob)(Pevná vazba)

Penny politics examines the way Victorian popular literature from the 1830s and 1840s attempted to appeal to working-class audiences by including overtures to radical and at times explicitly Chartist politics.The book challenges the approach to 'low life' or crime literature that sees it as merely

Narrative in Performance (Sellers-Young Barbara)(Pevná vazba)

A far-reaching and engaging overview of the role of narrative in dance and theatre performance, bringing together chapters written by an international range of scholars and subsequently creating a critical dialogue for approaching this fundamental topic within performance studies. Drawing on

Leda and the Swan (Caritj Anna)(Pevná vazba)

'Affecting narrative about consent, power and loneliness.'--TIME 'Intoxicatingly ominous.'--Kirkus In a hothouse of collegiate sex and ambition, one young woman mysteriously disappears after a wild campus party, and another becomes obsessed with finding her. It's Halloween night on a pastoral

The Split Subject of Narration in Elizabeth Gaskell's First Person Fiction (Koustinoudi Anna)(Pevná vazba)

The Split Subject of Narration in Elizabeth Gaskell's First-Person Fiction analyzes a number of Elizabeth Gaskell's first-person works through a post-modern perspective employing such theoretical frameworks as psychoanalytic theory, narratology, and gender theory. It attempts to explore the

Extreme Fabulations: Science Fictions of Life (Shaviro Steven)(Pevná vazba)

An examination of science fiction narratives and the light they shed on human life, the unknowable future, and the vagaries of unforeseeable change. With this book, Steven Shaviro offers a thought experiment. He discusses a number of science fiction narratives: three novels, one novella, three

Sport, Mental Illness and Sociology (Atkinson Michael)(Pevná vazba)

This book approaches the study of mental illness in sport cultures from a variety of social scientific perspectives. Contributions focus on the multiple manifestations of mental illness within sport cultures, and the degree to which sport may be utilized as a means of helping people who struggle

Michael Borremans: Fire from the Sun (Borremans Michael)(Pevná vazba)

The first in a series of small-format publications devoted to single bodies of work, Fire from the Sun highlights Micha l Borremans' (born 1963) new paintings, which feature toddlers engaged in playful but mysterious acts with sinister overtones and insinuations of violence. Borremans' depiction of

The Gift of Narrative in Medieval England (Perkins Nicholas)(Pevná vazba)

This invigorating study places medieval romance narrative in dialogue with theories and practices of gift and exchange, opening new approaches to questions of storytelling, agency, gender and materiality in some of the most engaging literature from the Middle Ages. It argues that the dynamics of

Medieval Crime Fiction: A Critical Overview (McKendry Anne)(Paperback)

Combining elements of medievalism, the historical novel and the detective narrative, medieval crime fiction capitalizes upon the appeal of all three--the most famous examples being Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose (one of the best-selling books ever published) and Ellis Peters' endearing Brother

Meta-Narrative in the Movies: Tell Me a Story (Kupfer J.)(Pevná vazba)

Meta-Narrative in the Movies investigates narrative theory through close analysis of films featuring stories and storytelling. The cinematic interpretations investigate the role of story creation in knowing ourselves and planning our future, in structuring social relationships, and in sharpening

The Pre-Raphaelites (Petiot Aurlie)(Pevná vazba)

Meet the renegades of Victorian art in this gorgeously illustrated exploration of their work and influence In the revolutionary year of 1848, a group of young British artists set out to return a lost vibrancy to European art. Calling themselves the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, they mounted an

Postmodernism and Narratives of Erasure in Culture, Literature, and Language (Zriba Hassen)(Pevná vazba)

Edited by rising Tunisian literary scholar Hassen Zriba, Postmodernism and Narratives of Erasure in Culture, Literature, and Language is a collection of interdisciplinary essays arguing that the concept of 'erasure' is an essential analytical tool/mode of thought in shaping conceptualizations of

Sex and Sexuality in Victorian Britain (Fenn Violet)(Pevná vazba)

Peek beneath the bedsheets of nineteenth-century Britain in this affectionate, informative and fascinating look at sex and sexuality during the reign of Queen Victoria. It examines the prevailing attitudes towards male and female sexual behavior, and the ways in which these attitudes were often

A Matter of Obscenity: The Politics of Censorship in Modern England (Hilliard Christopher)(Pevná vazba)

A comprehensive history of censorship in modern Britain For Victorian lawmakers and judges, the question of whether a book should be allowed to circulate freely depended on whether it was sold to readers whose mental and moral capacities were in doubt, by which they meant the increasingly literate

Staging Trauma: Bodies in Shadow (Haughton Miriam)(Pevná vazba)

Explores a range of performances in Ireland and the UK that engage with trauma and sufferingFocuses on figures who have previously been marginalised by dominant patriarchal theatrical and historical canonsConsiders the staging of a range of traumatic episodes, including sexual violence, terminal

Essays in Narrative and Fictionality: Reassessing Nine Central Concepts (Richardson Brian)(Pevná vazba)

This book brings together several major essays on foundational topics of narrative studies and the theory of fictionality by one of the preeminent figures of postclassical narrative

Biographic Dickens: Great Lives in Graphic Form (Robb Michael)(Pevná vazba)

Most people know that Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was one of the greatest novelists of the Victorian era, whose works include David Copperfield and Great Expectations. What, perhaps, they don't know is that he invented more than 200 original words and phrases; that he always slept facing north, in

Nightshade (Thomson E. S.)(Pevná vazba)

A chilling and atmospheric thriller set in a crumbling Victorian asylum, perfect for fans of The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, The Silent Companions and The Strangers

Winston Churchill's Illnesses, 1886-1965 (Vale Allister)(Pevná vazba)

Allister Vale and John Scadding have written the definitive account of Churchill's illnesses and document all Churchill's major illnesses, from an episode of childhood pneumonia in 1886 until his death in 1965. They have adopted a thorough approach in gaining access to numerous sources of medical

Warren the 13th and the Thirteen-Year Curse (Del Rio Tania)(Pevná vazba)

An illustrated middle-grade fiction series with Gothic and Victorian overtones featuring the misadventures of a cursed 12-year-old bellhop trying to save his family's hotel from the clutches of evil. At the conclusion of the second book in the Warren the 13th series, The Warren Hotel had