A Counter-History of Crime Fiction [[electronic resource] ] : Supernatural, Gothic, Sensational / / by Maurizio Ascari
| A Counter-History of Crime Fiction [[electronic resource] ] : Supernatural, Gothic, Sensational / / by Maurizio Ascari |
| Autore | Ascari Maurizio |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2007.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
| Disciplina | 823.087209 |
| Collana | Crime Files |
| Soggetto topico |
Fiction
Literature—Philosophy Culture—Study and teaching Literature, Modern—20th century Literature, Modern Literature, Modern—19th century Literary Theory Cultural Theory Twentieth-Century Literature Early Modern/Renaissance Literature Nineteenth-Century Literature |
| ISBN | 0-230-23453-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Revising the Canon of Crime and Detection""; ""From detective to crime fiction""; ""Blurring the boundaries""; ""A glance at the present""; ""Part I: Supernatural and Gothic""; ""2 Detection before Detection""; ""Dreams and detection""; ""Ghosts, politics and revenge""; ""'Providential fictions'""; ""Crime literature between tragedy and comedy""; ""The Newgate Calendars""; ""Towards the 'professional case'""; ""The aesthetics of murder""; ""3 Persecution and Omniscience""; ""The enlightened ideal of 'secular omniscience'""
""The dark side of omniscience""""Preternatural powers""; ""Probability vs chance""; ""Secret societies, the city and the sublime""; ""4 Victorian Ghosts and Revengers""; ""A 'ghost story' of crime and detection""; ""Dreams, dead witnesses and daring women""; ""The return of the revenger""; ""5 Pseudo-Sciences and the Occult""; ""Mesmerism, murder and mystery""; ""Mesmeric villains""; ""The 'other' Doyle""; ""Towards psychic detection""; ""Professionals of the occult""; ""Fabricated apparitions""; ""Part II: Sensational""; ""6 The Language of Auguste Dupin""; ""Narrative metamorphoses"" ""Citizens of Cosmopolis""""An American and Paris""; ""The strange case of Wilkie Collins and M. Forgues""; ""M. Gaboriau and the 'unknown public'""; ""A metropolitan genesis""; ""7 On the Sensational in Literature""; ""Between romance and journalism""; ""The sensation recipe""; ""Women as sensation writers and readers""; ""Sensationalism, degeneration and modernity""; ""Sensational canons""; ""A prophecy""; ""From amateur to professional detective""; ""Parodies and adaptations""; ""8 London as a 'Heart of Darkness'""; ""Exotic colonies""; ""The explorer""; ""The ethnologist"" ""The missionary""""The city disease""; ""Before the apocalypse""; ""9 The Rhetoric of Atavism and Degeneration""; ""Lombroso's anarchists and saints""; ""Between genius and madness""; ""The shady apostle of degeneration""; ""Decadent detectives""; ""Conclusion: the Age of Formula Fiction""; ""The Sherlock Holmes 'myth'""; ""Nightmares and orthodoxy""; ""Britain under threat""; ""Towards a conservative view of detection""; ""The role of anthologies""; ""Detection and modernism""; ""Reading in the age of Cultural Studies""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D"" ""E""""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Z"" |
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Literature and Encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain [[electronic resource] ] : The Pursuit of Complete Knowledge / / by Seth Rudy
| Literature and Encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain [[electronic resource] ] : The Pursuit of Complete Knowledge / / by Seth Rudy |
| Autore | Rudy Seth |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (262 p.) |
| Disciplina | 820.9/005 |
| Collana | Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print |
| Soggetto topico |
Literature—Philosophy
Culture—Study and teaching British literature Literature, Modern Fiction Literary Theory Cultural Theory British and Irish Literature Early Modern/Renaissance Literature |
| ISBN |
1-349-48928-X
1-137-41154-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Concepts of Completeness; 2 Complete Bodies, Whole Arts, and the Limits of Epic; 3 Worlds Apart: Epic and Encyclopedia in the Augustan Age; 4 Mid-Century Experiments in Encyclopedism; 5 Collapse and Reconstitution: Epic and Encyclopedia Revisited; Coda: The Angel and the Algorithm; Appendix; Table 1.1 English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) title searches; Table 1.2.A The Complete "X": 1600-1699; Table 1.2.B "Whole Arts": 1556-1699; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Ovidian Myth and Sexual Deviance in Early Modern English Literature [[electronic resource] /] / by S. Carter
| Ovidian Myth and Sexual Deviance in Early Modern English Literature [[electronic resource] /] / by S. Carter |
| Autore | Carter S |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2011.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (221 p.) |
| Disciplina | 820.9353809031 |
| Soggetto topico |
British literature
Literature, Modern Fiction Poetry British and Irish Literature Early Modern/Renaissance Literature Poetry and Poetics |
| ISBN |
1-283-12456-4
9786613124562 0-230-30607-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Rape, Revenge, and Verse: Philomela; 3 'Chastity's first martyr': Lucrece; 4 'That female wanton boy': Ganymede, Iphis, and Myths of Same Sex Desire; 5 'Not perfect boy nor perfect wench': Hermaphroditus; 6 Objects of Desire: Pygmalion, Myrrha, Adonis; 7 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Carter S
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The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing
| The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 |
| Disciplina | 809 |
| Soggetto topico |
Literature, Modern
British literature European literature Theater—History Early Modern/Renaissance Literature British and Irish Literature European Literature Theatre History |
| ISBN | 3-030-01537-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9911114267603321 |
| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 | ||
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The Poetics of Description : Imagined Places in European Literature / / by Janice Hewlett Koelb
| The Poetics of Description : Imagined Places in European Literature / / by Janice Hewlett Koelb |
| Autore | Koelb Janice Hewlett |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (245 p.) |
| Disciplina | 809/.93372 |
| Soggetto topico |
Poetry
Literature, Modern European literature Poetry and Poetics Early Modern/Renaissance Literature European Literature |
| ISBN |
9786611361389
9781281361387 1281361380 9780230601888 023060188X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction: Ecphrasis, Description, and the Imagined Place; 1 As if Present: Classical Ecphrasis; 2 Unity, Form, and Figuration; 3 A Sylvan Scene; 4 The Universe Dead or Alive: Gilpin, Wordsworth, and the Picturesque; 5 The Visionary Eye: Wordsworth's Antipicturesque Excursion; 6 ""Till the Place Became Religion"": Byron's Coliseum; Epilogue: Immediacy; Notes; Works Cited; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9911098520203321 |
Koelb Janice Hewlett
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The Poetics of Description : Imagined Places in European Literature / / by Janice Hewlett Koelb
| The Poetics of Description : Imagined Places in European Literature / / by Janice Hewlett Koelb |
| Autore | Koelb Janice Hewlett |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (245 p.) |
| Disciplina | 809/.93372 |
| Soggetto topico |
Poetry
Literature, Modern European literature Poetry and Poetics Early Modern/Renaissance Literature European Literature |
| ISBN |
9786611361389
9781281361387 1281361380 9780230601888 023060188X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction: Ecphrasis, Description, and the Imagined Place; 1 As if Present: Classical Ecphrasis; 2 Unity, Form, and Figuration; 3 A Sylvan Scene; 4 The Universe Dead or Alive: Gilpin, Wordsworth, and the Picturesque; 5 The Visionary Eye: Wordsworth's Antipicturesque Excursion; 6 ""Till the Place Became Religion"": Byron's Coliseum; Epilogue: Immediacy; Notes; Works Cited; Index |
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| New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2006 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Romantic Literature, Race, and Colonial Encounter [[electronic resource] /] / by P. Kitson
| Romantic Literature, Race, and Colonial Encounter [[electronic resource] /] / by P. Kitson |
| Autore | Kitson P |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2007.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (270 p.) |
| Disciplina | 809 |
| Collana | Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters |
| Soggetto topico |
Literature—Philosophy
Culture—Study and teaching British literature Literature, Modern—19th century Literature, Modern—18th century Literature, Modern Literary Theory Cultural Theory British and Irish Literature Nineteenth-Century Literature Eighteenth-Century Literature Early Modern/Renaissance Literature |
| ISBN | 1-137-10920-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Half-Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Race Idea and the Romantics: Coleridge and De Quincey; 2 Romantic Anatomies of Race: The New Comparative Anatomy and the Case of Victor Frankenstein; 3 "Candid Reflections:" The Idea of Race in the Debate over the Slave Trade and Slavery in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries; 4 Romanticism, Race, and Cannibalism in the "South Seas"; 5 Romantic Sinopolitans: Natural Philosophers, Travelers, Diplomats, and Missionaries; 6 Tartars, Monguls, Manchus, and Chinese; Notes
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Women, Beauty and Power in Early Modern England [[electronic resource] ] : A Feminist Literary History / / by Edith Snook
| Women, Beauty and Power in Early Modern England [[electronic resource] ] : A Feminist Literary History / / by Edith Snook |
| Autore | Snook Edith |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2011.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
| Disciplina |
820.9/928709031
820.9928709031 |
| Soggetto topico |
Popular culture - Study and teaching
Literature, Modern Poetry Europe—History—1492- History, Modern British literature Cultural Studies Early Modern/Renaissance Literature Poetry and Poetics History of Early Modern Europe Modern History British and Irish Literature |
| ISBN |
1-283-06754-4
9786613067548 0-230-30223-8 |
| Classificazione |
LIT004120SOC028000HIS037090
18.05 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- PART ONE: COSMETICS -- 'The Beautifying Part of Physic': Women's Cosmetic Practices in Early Modern England -- 'Soveraigne Receipts,' Fair Beauty, and Race in Stuart England -- PART TWO: CLOTHES -- The Greatness in Good Clothes: Fashioning Subjectivity in Mary Wroth's Urania and Margaret Spencer's Account Book -- What Not to Wear: Children's Clothes and the Maternal Advice of Elizabeth Jocelin and Brilliana, Lady Harley -- PART THREE: HAIR -- The Culture of the Head: Hair in Mary Wroth's Urania and Margaret Cavendish's 'Assaulted and Pursued Chastity' -- An 'absolute mistress of her self': Anne Clifford and the Luxury of Hair -- Conclusion -- Index. |
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Snook Edith
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