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Women editing modernism : "little" magazines & literary history /
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Mind, Body, Motion, Matter : Eighteenth-Century British and French Literary Perspectives /
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…Hogarth's practical aesthetics / Ruth Mack -- Presence of mind : an ecology of perception in eighteenth-century England / Jonathan Kramnick -- Reading Locke after Shaftesbury : feeling our way towards a postsecular genealogy of religious tolerance / David Alvarez -- Rethinking superstition : Pagan ritual in Lafitau's Moeurs des sauvages / Mary Helen McMurran -- Defoe on spiritual communication, action at a distance, and the mind in motion / Sara Landreth -- The persistence of Clarissa / Sarah Ellenzweig -- The early-modern embodied mind and the entomological imaginary / Kate E. …”
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Victorian Noon : English Literature in 1850 /
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Modernist Heresies : British Literary History, 1883-1924 /
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Cross-cultural encounters between the Mediterranean and the English-speaking worlds
Published 2011“…Transatlantic aesthetics and culture ;…”
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Colonial voices the discourses of empire /
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Introducing: colonial discourse -- Travel, exploration and discovery: from imagination to inquiry -- The discourse of difference: constructing the colonial exotic -- Empire management: from domestication to spectacle -- Civilizing the empire: colonialism and the ideology of moral-material progress -- Aesthetic understanding: from colonial English to imperial cosmopolitans.…”
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Critical Alliances : Economics and Feminism in English Women’s Writing, 1880–1914 /
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Educating new women for feminist futures -- Sisterly kinship and the modern sexual contract -- Cosmopolitan communities of female professionals -- Women's artistic connoisseurship and the pleasures of a lesbian aesthetic -- Virginia Woolf's post-Victorian feminism -- Coda : The post-Victorian legacy of women's work.…”
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Victorian Art Criticism and the Woman Writer
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Art criticism and mid-Victorian exhibitions -- Interpreting Cleopatra : aesthetic guidance in Charlotte Brontë's Villette and George Eliot's Middlemarch -- Sensational sentiments : impressionism and the protection of difficulty in late-Victorian art criticism -- Conclusion : "An astonishingly tasteless idea"? …”
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Victorian Art Criticism and the Woman Writer /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Art criticism and mid-Victorian exhibitions -- Interpreting Cleopatra : aesthetic guidance in Charlotte Brontë's Villette and George Eliot's Middlemarch -- Sensational sentiments : impressionism and the protection of difficulty in late-Victorian art criticism -- Conclusion : "An astonishingly tasteless idea"? …”
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Increase and multiply governing cultural reproduction in early modern England /
Published 2003Table of Contents: “…"Making up people" : the English Commonwealth and the writing of populations -- Defending poetic generation : Sir Philip Sidney and the aesthetics of educational reproduction -- Staging government : Shakespearean theater and the government of cultural reproduction -- The educational genesis of men : puritan reform and John Milton's Of education -- Paradisal arithmetic : Paradise Lost and the genesis of populations.…”
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Empire's wake postcolonial Irish writing and the politics of modern literary form /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Rerouting Irish modernism: postcolonial aesthetics and the imperative of cosmopolitanism -- Modernity's edge: speaking silence on the blaskets -- Seán O'Faoláin and the end of republican realism -- Unnaming the subject: Samuel Beckett and postcolonial absence -- Postmodern blaguardry: Frank McCourt, the celtic tiger, and the ashes of history -- Conclusion. …”
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Literature and Architecture in Early Modern England
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Helen's Bishopsgate: antiquarianism and aesthetics in modern London.…”
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Victorian Women Writiers, Radical Grandmothers, and the Gendering of God
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Introduction : antecedents of the Victorian "goddess story" -- "Gods of the old mythology arise" : Charlotte Brontë's vision of the "goddess story" -- Feminist reincarnations of the Madonna : Anna Jameson and ecclesiastical debates on the immaculate conception -- Invoking "all the godheads" : Elizabeth Barrett Browning's polytheistic aesthetic -- Eve, the female messiah, and the Virgin in Florence Nightingale's personal and public papers -- Ariadne and the Madonna : the hermeneutics of the goddess in George Eliot's Romola.…”
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Victorian Women Writiers, Radical Grandmothers, and the Gendering of God /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Introduction : antecedents of the Victorian "goddess story" -- "Gods of the old mythology arise" : Charlotte Brontë's vision of the "goddess story" -- Feminist reincarnations of the Madonna : Anna Jameson and ecclesiastical debates on the immaculate conception -- Invoking "all the godheads" : Elizabeth Barrett Browning's polytheistic aesthetic -- Eve, the female messiah, and the Virgin in Florence Nightingale's personal and public papers -- Ariadne and the Madonna : the hermeneutics of the goddess in George Eliot's Romola.…”
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Answerable Style The Idea of the Literary in Medieval England /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Horace's Ars poetica in the medieval classroom and beyond : the horizons of ancient precept / Rita Copeland -- Latin composition lessons, Piers Plowman, and the Piers Plowman tradition / Wendy Scase -- Langland translating / Traugott Lawler -- Escaping the whirling wicker : Ricardian poetics and narrative voice in the Canterbury tales / Katherine Zieman -- Langland's literary syntax, or Anima as an alternative to Latin grammar / Katharine Breen -- Speculum vitae and the form of Piers Plowman / Ralph Hanna -- Petrarch's pleasures, Chaucer's revulsions, and the aesthetics of renunciation in late-medieval culture / Andrew Galloway -- Chaucer's history-effect / Steven Justice -- Seigneurial poetics, or the poacher, the prikasour, the hunt and its oeuvre / Frank Grady -- Agency and the poetics of sensation in Gower's Mirour de l'omme / Maura Nolan -- Genre and source in Troilus and Criseyde / Lee Patterson -- The silence of Langland's study : matter, invisibility, instruction / D. …”
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Experiencing Fiction : Judgments, Progressions, and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…Judgments, progressions, and the rhetorical experience of narrative -- Jane Austen's experiment in narrative comedy : the beginning and early middle of Persuasion -- Sethe's choice and Toni Morrison's strategies : the beginning and middle of Beloved -- Chicago criticism, new criticism, cultural thematics, and rhetorical poetics -- Progressing toward surprise : Edith Wharton's "Roman fever" -- Delayed disclosure and the problem of other minds : Ian McEwan's Atonement -- Rhetorical aesthetics within rhetorical poetics -- Interlacings of narrative and lyric : Ernest Hemingway's "A clean, well-lighted place" and Sandra Cisneros's "Woman Hollering Creek" -- Narrative in the service of portraiture : Alice Munro's "Prue" and Ann Beattie's "Janus" -- Dramatic dialogue as lyric narrative : Robert Frost's "Home burial" -- Experiencing fiction and its corpus : extensions to nonfiction narrative and synthetic fiction.…”
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Recovering Disability in Early Modern England
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Hobgood and David Houston Wood -- Dwarf aesthetics in Spenser's Faerie queene and the early modern court / Sara van den Berg -- Maternal culpability in fetal defects : Aphra Behn's satiric interrogations of medical models / Emily Bowles -- Disability humor and the meanings of impairment in early modern England / David M. …”
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Answerable Style : The Idea of the Literary in Medieval England /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Horace's Ars poetica in the medieval classroom and beyond : the horizons of ancient precept / Rita Copeland -- Latin composition lessons, Piers Plowman, and the Piers Plowman tradition / Wendy Scase -- Langland translating / Traugott Lawler -- Escaping the whirling wicker : Ricardian poetics and narrative voice in the Canterbury tales / Katherine Zieman -- Langland's literary syntax, or Anima as an alternative to Latin grammar / Katharine Breen -- Speculum vitae and the form of Piers Plowman / Ralph Hanna -- Petrarch's pleasures, Chaucer's revulsions, and the aesthetics of renunciation in late-medieval culture / Andrew Galloway -- Chaucer's history-effect / Steven Justice -- Seigneurial poetics, or the poacher, the prikasour, the hunt and its oeuvre / Frank Grady -- Agency and the poetics of sensation in Gower's Mirour de l'omme / Maura Nolan -- Genre and source in Troilus and Criseyde / Lee Patterson -- The silence of Langland's study : matter, invisibility, instruction / D. …”
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Recovering Disability in Early Modern England /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Hobgood and David Houston Wood -- Dwarf aesthetics in Spenser's Faerie queene and the early modern court / Sara van den Berg -- Maternal culpability in fetal defects : Aphra Behn's satiric interrogations of medical models / Emily Bowles -- Disability humor and the meanings of impairment in early modern England / David M. …”
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Fact and Fiction : Literary and Scientific Cultures in Germany and Britain /
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…Noyes -- Fictional feedback : empirical souls and self-deception in the Magazine for empirical psychology and beyond / Michael House -- Fictional feelings : psychological aesthetics and the paradox of tragic pleasure / Tobias Wilke -- Coining a discipline : Lessing, Reimarus, and a science of religion / Stefani Engelstein -- Kin selection, Mendel's "Salutary Principle," and the fate of characters in Forster's The longest journey / Daniel Aureliano Newman -- Anatomy collections in and of the mind : science, the body and language in the writings of Durs Grünbein and Thomas Hettche / Peter M. …”
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