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Idioms of Self Interest

Credit, Identity, and Property in English Renaissance Literature

By Jill Phillips Ingram

Idioms of Self-Interest uncovers an emerging social integration of economic self-interest in early modern England by examining literary representations of credit relationships in which individuals…

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2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97842-2 (Routledge)

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Envisaging Heaven in the Middle Ages

Edited by Carolyn Muessig, Ad Putter

Envisaging Heaven in the Middle Ages deals with medieval notions of heaven in theological and mystical writings, in visions of the Otherworld, and in medieval…

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2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-38383-7 (Routledge)

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The Machine that Sings

Modernism, Hart Crane and the Culture of the Body

By Gordon A. Tapper

Examining how Crane's corporeal aesthetic informs poems written across the span of his career, The Machine That Sings focuses on four texts in which Crane's…

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2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96591-0 (Routledge)

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Postcolonial Conrad

Paradoxes of Empire

By Terry Collits

Winner of the 2006 NSW Prize for Literary Scholarship.

The work of Joseph Conrad has been read so disparately that it is tempting to talk of…

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2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-41860-7 (Routledge)

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Visionary Dreariness

Readings in Romanticism's Quotidian Sublime

By Markus Poetzsch

Visionary Dreariness: Readings in Romanticism’s Quotidian Sublime undertakes a reconceptualization of the theoretical and experiential framework of the Romantic sublime by shifting the focus from…

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2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97896-5 (Routledge)

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Joseph Conrad

By Tim Middleton

The popular yet complex work of Joseph Conrad has attracted much critical attention over the years, from the perspectives of postcolonial, modernist, cultural and gender…

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2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-26852-3 (Routledge)

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Twentieth-Century American Drama

Edited by Brenda Murphy

There was a vast array of activity in American theatre during the twentieth century, when work produced in the United States reached the height of…

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2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-34270-4 (Routledge)

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Forthcoming Titles:

The Meaning of "Life" in Romantic Poetry and Poetics
By Ross Wilson
To be published December 8th 2008

Staging Early Modern Romance: Prose Fiction, Dramatic Romance, and Shakespeare
Edited by Mary Ellen Lamb, Valerie Wayne
To be published December 19th 2008

The Politics of Identity in Irish Drama: W.B. Yeats, Augusta Gregory and J.M. Synge
By George Cusack
To be published January 1st 2009

The Historical Imagination of G.K. Chesterton: Locality, Patriotism, and Nationalism
By Joseph R. McCleary
To be published January 9th 2009

Misery's Mathematics: Mourning, Compensation, and Reality in Antebellum American Literature
By Peter Balaam
To be published January 29th 2009

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