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The influence of the salons of Paris on the thought and culture of the eighteenth century would be difficult to overstate. They were both intellectual powerhouses and also assemblies where the late...
Heftet
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Tobias Smollett"s novels are funny, fast-moving, boisterous and coarse, the fictional equivalent of Hogarth"s "Rake"s Progress" or a Rowlandson engraving. Indeed without doubt, Smollett is the most...
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This volume of essays on Bacon"s "The New Atlantis" provides a dialogue between a range of critical perspectives, encompassing cultural history, history of science, literature and politics of early...
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"The Gothic Vision" examines a broad range of tales of horror, terror, the uncanny and the supernatural, spanning the late 18th century to the present, and of related theoretical approaches to the ...
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Examines the early Gothic novels, written between 1790 and 1820, emphasizing their importance as experiments in imaginative writing. Gothic fiction embodies contemporary neuroses, and this study tr...
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This guide introduces the life and works of Jane Austen. Austens ideas and themes are outlined with reference to her major works. The book explores how to approach her novels; the influences behind...
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This text follows a chronological account of Jonathan Swift"s life. It focuses on "Gulliver"s Travels", but also discusses other works including early satires, political writings, poems and letters...
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What is the problem of sexual love? Neither inclusive of all aspects of sexuality nor fully synonomous with the idealized mythos of romantic love, sexual love as desire is marked by the highly char...
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This first English translation of a late Baroque German novel makes available one of the most interesting and entertaining works of the seventeenth century. Kuhnau, a noted musician, composer and e...
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In this new reading of Goethe"s most influential novel Blair"s close attention to the text brings startling insights to light, often taking issue with received critical opinions. He shows, for exam...
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How is it possible, after four centuries, that a major episode in Rabelais"s novels remains systematically misread? The episode, which playfully and grotesquely treats the relation of Carnival to L...
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"Tanner...demonstrates the value of close reading...he can see what has rarely been noticed." Bruce Stovel, The International Fiction Review "...characteristically witty and effective...offers fasc...