Metaphors We Live by
George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
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People use metaphors every time they speak. Some of those metaphors are literary - devices for...
Modernist Voyages: Colonial Women Writers in London, 1890-1945
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London's literary and cultural scene fostered newly configured forms of feminist anticolonialism...
Monstrous Media/Spectral Subjects: Imaging Gothic from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
Fred Botting and Catherine Spooner
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Monstrous media/spectral subjects explores the intersection of monsters, ghosts, representation and...
Object Lessons: The Novel as a Theory of Reference
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Object Lessons explores a fundamental question about literary realism: How can language evoke that...
Poets, Players, and Preachers: Remembering the Gunpowder Plot in Seventeenth-Century England
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On the night of November 4th 1605, the English authorities uncovered an alleged plot by a group of...
Sacramental Shopping: Louisa May Alcott, Edith Wharton, and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism
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Written a generation apart and rarely treated together by scholars, Little Women (1868) and The...
Sense and Sensibility
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"Pray, pray be composed," cried Elinor, "and do not betray what you feel to every body present....
Shakespeare's London 1613: Whitehall to Guildhall
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Shakespeare's London 1613 offers for the first time a comprehensive 'biography' of this crucial year...
Staging the Trials of Modernism: Testimony and the British Modern Literary Consciousness
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In Staging the Trials of Modernism, Dale Barleben explores the interactions among literature,...
The Blue Riband: The Piccadilly Line
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Peter York, co-author of the 80s bestseller, The Sloane Ranger Handbook, charts the progress of the...