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What did it mean, in the rapidly changing world of Victorian
England, to 'be a man'? In essays written specially for this
volume, nine distinguished scholars from Britain and the USA show
how Victorian novelists from the Brontes to Conrad sought to
discover what made men, what broke them, and what restored them.
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Pocatello (Hardcover)
Walter P. Mallette, Lance J. Holladay
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R627
Discovery Miles 6 270
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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In Thomas Hardy: Texts and Contexts distinguished critics from Canada, Japan, the US, and the UK, offer fresh and challenging readings of Hardy's works. They also raise far wider and far-reaching questions about Hardy's attitude to his art, his relation to such contemporary forms as melodrama, and his response to the ongoing scientific debates, from Darwin to Einstein, about sexuality; personal identity; the meaning of suicide; and the nature of time.
Rudyard Kipling has been one of the most loved and the most loathed of English writers. Rudyard Kipling: A Literary Life is a study of the forces and influences that shaped his work--including his unusual family background, his role as the laureate of Empire, and the deaths of two of his children--and of his complex relations with a literary world that first embraced and then rejected him, but could never ignore him.
What did it mean, in the rapidly changing world of Victorian
England, to 'be a man'? In essays written specially for this
volume, nine distinguished scholars from Britain and the USA show
how Victorian novelists from the Brontes to Conrad sought to
discover what made men, what broke them, and what restored them.
"Palgrave Advances in Thomas Hardy Studies" explores the key issues
in the ongoing and lively debate about Thomas Hardy's work as a
novelist and poet. In twelve newly-commissioned essays,
distinguished scholars from both sides of the Atlantic review, take
issue with, and take forward the most recent and significant
research on Thomas Hardy.
This is a study of the forces and influences that shaped Kipling's
work, including his unusual family background, his role as the
laureate of empire and the deaths of two of his children, and of
his complex relations with a literary world that first embraced and
then rejected him.
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