When Novels Perform History: Dramatizing the Past in Australian and Canadian Literature (Cultural History and Literary Imagination) 9781787078338, 9781906165840, 9781787078321, 9781787078345, 190616584X

When Novels Perform History: Dramatizing the Past in Australian and Canadian Literature (Cultural History and Literary Imagination) 9781906165840, 9781787078321, 9781787078338, 9781787078345, 190616584X

How do you bring history alive? This book explores the use of dramatic modes – such as melodrama, metatheatre, and immer

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Constructions of Melancholy in Contemporary German and Austrian Literature (Cultural History and Literary Imagination) [New ed.] 9783034307338, 9783035303940, 3034307330

Melancholy has become a central theme of German literature since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The rapidly changi

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Biological Discourses: The Language of Science and Literature Around 1900 (Cultural History and Literary Imagination) 9781906165789, 9781787077607, 9781787077614, 9781787077621, 1906165785

The relationship between biological thought and literature, and between science and culture, has long been an area of in

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The Black Atlantic Reconsidered: Black Canadian Writing, Cultural History, and the Presence of the Past 9780773581876

A survey of English and French black Canadian writing and its transnational connections from the eighteenth century to t

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Sephardism: Spanish Jewish History and the Modern Literary Imagination 9780804781718

Arguing that the Sephardic experience played a much more vital role in the development of modern nationalism and literar

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San Francisco: A Cultural and Literary History (Cities of the Imagination Series) 1566564891, 9781566564892

Within a generation San Francisco grew from an isolated Mexican trading post with more hills than people into America�

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Virginia Woolf's Novels and the Literary Past 9780748626359

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748623495); It analyses Woolf's reading and writing practices via her

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Cultural Transformations of the Public Sphere: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives (Cultural History and Literary Imagination) 9783035307412, 9783034309912

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Vladimir Nabokov and the Ideological Aesthetic: A Study of his Novels and Plays, 1926–1939 (Cultural History and Literary Imagination) [New ed.] 9781787072893, 9781787072909, 9781787072916, 9781787072923, 1787072894

This book argues that ideology is a prism through which the work of Vladimir Nabokov needs to be considered. It is thus

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Cannibal Angels (Cultural History and Literary Imagination) 9781788740388, 9781788740395, 9781788740401, 9781788740418, 1788740386

In the first three decades of the twentieth century, artists, writers, musicians, and architects from both sides of the

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