Victorian Afterlives: The Shaping of Influence in Nineteenth-Century Literature
by R Douglas Fairhurst
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Questions of survival were much discussed during the nineteenth century, ranging from debates over the likelihood of a personal immortality, to anxieties over the more dispersed and unpredictable aftermath of particular acts and utterances. Victorian...
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Trapped in Thought: A Study of the Beckettian Mentality
by Eric P Levy
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To some critics, to describe certain passages by Beckett as empty
pits would be to assign them too much space and air. Levy (English,
U. of British Columbia) understands well that critics have difficulty
interpreting what may appear to be nothing but...
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The Forger's Tale: The Search for Odeziaku (New African Histories)
by Stephanie Newell
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Between 1905 and 1939 a conspicuously tall white man with a shock of red hair, dressed in a silk shirt and white linen trousers, could be seen on the streets of Onitsha, in Eastern Nigeria. How was it possible for an unconventional, boy-loving Englishman...
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Victorian Culture and Society: The Essential Glossary (Arnold Publication)
by Adam C Roberts
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This glossary offers an introduction to Victorian culture and society and a route-map to further study. Designed specifically with undergraduates in mind, it contains around 400 short and accessible explanations of key words, events, figures and concepts...
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The Slaying of Meghanada: A Ramayana from Colonial Bengal
by Michael Madhu Datta
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"The poem is rising into splendid popularity. Some say it is better than Milton-but that is all bosh-nothing can be better than Milton; many say it licks Kalidasa; I have no objection to that. I don't think it impossible to equal Virgil, Kalidasa, and...
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