Female Performers in British and American Fiction 9783110561043, 9783110558425

Female Performers in British and American Fiction 9783110558425, 9783110561043, 9783110558661, 2018941732

The female performer with a public voice constitutes a remarkably vibrant theme in British and American narratives of th

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Subversive Spirits: The Female Ghost in British and American Popular Culture 9781496815569, 9781496815576, 9781496815583, 9781496815590, 9781496815606

The supernatural has become extraordinarily popular in literature, television, and film. Vampires, zombies, werewolves,

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Maritime Fiction: Sailors and the Sea in British and American Novels, 1719-1917 9780333793572, 0333793579

In this important new study, John Peck examines the cultural significance of maritime novels from Defoe to Conrad. Focus

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Philanthropy in British and American Fiction: Dickens, Hawthorne, Eliot and Howells 9780748630745

During the 19th century the U.S. and Britain came to share an economic profile unparalleled in their respective historie

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Death-Facing Ecology in Contemporary British and North American Environmental Crisis Fiction 9781138304680, 9780203729861

Recent years have seen a burgeoning of novels that respond to the environmental issues we currently face. Among these, L

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Contemporary British Fiction 9780748630370

This critical guide introduces major novelists and themes in British fiction from 1975 to 2005. It engages with concepts

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Eventfulness in British Fiction 9783110213652, 9783110213645

An event, defined as the decisive turn, the surprising point in the plot of a narrative, constitutes its tellability, th

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The grotesque in contemporary British fiction 9781526112057

This book shows how the grotesque continues to be a powerful force in contemporary British writing and provides an illum

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Postwar British Fiction New Accents And Attitudes

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Race Riots: Comedy and Ethnicity in Modern British Fiction 9780773560130

From Black Mischief to The Buddha of Suburbia, twentieth-century British fiction is rife with racial humour. Challenging

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