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This work examines the emergence of the separate confinement penitentiary in England, the demand for autobiography that the prison imposed and the ways the prison's demand for self narrative shaped Victorian novels about the private self.

Examines the early dramatic works of Yeats, Synge, and Gregory in the context of late colonial Ireland's socio-political landscape. This book demonstrates the complex negotiation of nationalism, class, and gender identities undertaken by these authors in the years leading up to Ireland's revolution.

Looking at texts by authors such as Toomer, Morrison, Baldwin, and Kaufmann, this study describes the phenomena of haunting, displacement, and ghostliness as endemic to modern African American literature and culture.

Portrays the moral aesthetic of the culture of sensibility in Europe. This book argues that the rhetoric of ruins lends a distinctive shape to the architecture and literature of the time and requires the novel to adjust notions of authorship and narrative to accommodate the prevailing aesthetic.

A study that considers the work of two experimental British women modernists writing in the tumultuous interwar period - Virginia Woolf and Olive Moore. It examines four crucial incarnations of female embodiment and subjectivity: female bodies, geographical imagery, national ideology, and textual experimentation.

Analyzes Victorian working-class masculinity through the dual lenses of autobiography and fiction, examining the ways in which the literary marketplace helped to shape popular notions of gender, class and subjectivity. This book demonstrates that working-class masculinities differ substantially from those of the widely studied upper classes.

Undertakes a reconceptualization of the theoretical and experiential framework of the Romantic sublime by shifting the focus from Burke's and Kant's prescriptions of natural vastness and grandeur to the narrower but no less wondrous spaces, objects and experiences of everyday life.

Medical, popular, and literary understanding about the imagination converged when Thomas Willis asserted that he had discovered the area of the brain that facilitated imagining. Taking this 'discovery' as paradigmatic, this work examines the reverberations of the medical investigation of the imagination in early British novels.

Drawing on women's wills, merchants' tracts, mock testaments, mercantilist pamphlets and theatrical account books, and utilizing the work in economic theory and history, this book examines the history of economic thought as the history of discourse. It finds linguistic and generic stress placed on an ethics of credit that allows for self-interest.

Addressing the two principal literary works in which transformation in the meaning of equity in sixteenth century England becomes apparent, Thomas More's "Utopia" and Edmund Spenser's "Faerie Queene", this work sketches the history of equity to its roots in the Greek concept of "epieikeia", presenting both distinctions, and an esoteric meaning.

Working at the crossroads of contemporary geographical and cultural theories about social space and questions of modernity and modernism, this book explores how social space functions as sites which foreground DH Lawrence and Virginia Woolf's critiques of the social order and longings for change.

Drawing on critical work by D A Miller, Joseph Allen Boone, Michel Foucault, and others, as well as on cultural history, affect theory, and contemporary psychiatric literature, the author defines and explores what he calls the Victorian "conspiracy narrative tradition".

Studying the work of Richard Wright and Simone de Beauvoir, this account examines the development of social constructionist concepts of race, gender and sexuality in the decade after 1945. It examines Beauvoir's use of, and dissent from, 1940s psychoanalytic theories of femininity, and also studies the social construction of sexuality in Baldwin.

Historicizes the Tower of London's evolving meanings in English culture alongside its representations in twenty-four English history plays, 1579-c 1634, by William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe and others.

Examines the unique cultural space of Victorian cathedral towns as they appear in the literary work of Charles Dickens and Anthony Trollope, arguing that Dickens and Trollope use the cathedral town's enclosure, and its overt connections between sacred and secular as an ideal locus from which to critique Victorian religious attitudes.

Examines plays, pageants, maps, and masques. This book locates the ways in which these ephemeral events contributed to change in the spatial concepts and physical topograpy of early modern London.

Focusing on plays which appear prominently in the writing of Irish nationalist movement of early twentieth century, this book explores how Irish writers such as Sean O'Casey, Samuel Beckett, and Seamus Heaney, resisted English cultural colonization through a combination of reappropriation and critique of Shakespeare's work.

Examines the genesis of Chicago's two identified literary renaissance periods (1890-1920 and 1930-1950) through the writings of Dreiser, Hughes, Wright, and Farrell. This book shows that the relationship of these four writers demonstrates a continuity of thought between the two renaissance periods.

Using narrative theory and postcolonial theory, this study reveals the cultural changes that turned England from a nation that abstained from investing in the internationally conceived Suez Canal to an imperial power who, by 1875, owned it.

Presenting a way of reading that helps us discern some previously unnoticed or unnoticeable features of Asian diaspora poetry, this volume highlights how poetry plays a significant role in mediating and defining cross-cultural and transnational positions.

Examines twentieth-century Jewish writing that challenges imperialist ventures and calls for solidarity with the colonized, most notably the Arabs of Palestine and Africans in the Americas. This title proposes that Jewish studies and postcolonial studies have much in common.