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Romantic Satanism: Myth and the Historical Moment in Blake, Shelley, and Byron
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ISBN: 9781349510856 Year: 2003 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.,


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Edmund Spenser and Animal Life
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ISBN: 303142641X Year: 2024 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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This book is the first extended critical study of the early modern poet Edmund Spenser from the perspective of animal studies. With an introduction situating Spenser in current discussions of animal life and literary form, and early modern animal studies, the book proceeds in four sections: “Animals and Cultural Practices”; “Animals, Slavery, and Race”; “Animals in Complaints”; “Readers and Poetics in The Faerie Queene”. Contributors discuss a broad range of Spenser’s work, putting it into dialogue with a number of early modern discourses, including politics, poetics, and natural history.


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Disability in comic books and graphic narratives
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ISBN: 1349698989 1137501103 1137501111 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan,

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Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives invites readers to consider both canonical and alternative graphic representations of disability. Some chapters focus on comic superheroes, from lesser-known protagonists like Cyborg and Helen Killer to classics such as Batgirl and Batman; many more explore the amazing range of graphic narratives revolving around disability, covering famous names such as Alison Bechdel and Chris Ware, as well as less familiar artists like Keiko Tobe and Georgia Webber. The volume also offers a broad spectrum of represented disabilities: amputation, autism, blindness, deafness, depression, Huntington's, multiple sclerosis, obsessive-compulsive disorder, speech impairment, and spinal injury. A number of the essays collected here show how comics continue to implicate themselves in the objectification and marginalization of persons with disabilities, perpetuating stale stereotypes and stigmas. At the same time, others stress how this medium simultaneously offers unique potential for transforming our understanding of disability in truly profound ways.

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Comic books, strips, etc --- Graphic novels --- People with disabilities in literature --- Languages & Literatures --- Literature - General --- History and criticism --- Comic books, strips, etc. --- People with disabilities in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Handicapped in literature --- Physically handicapped in literature --- Comic book novels --- Fiction graphic novels --- Fictive graphic novels --- Graphic albums --- Graphic fiction --- Graphic nonfiction --- Graphic novellas --- Nonfiction graphic novels --- Fiction --- Popular literature --- America-Literatures. --- Social policy. --- Arts. --- Literature, Modern-20th century. --- North American Literature. --- Social Policy. --- Sociology, general. --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- Social Structure, Social Inequality. --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Occidental --- Arts, Western --- Fine arts --- Humanities --- National planning --- State planning --- Economic policy --- Family policy --- Social history --- America—Literatures. --- Sociology. --- Literature, Modern—20th century. --- Social structure. --- Social inequality. --- Egalitarianism --- Inequality --- Social equality --- Social inequality --- Political science --- Sociology --- Democracy --- Liberty --- Organization, Social --- Social organization --- Anthropology --- Social institutions --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Arts, Primitive --- America --- Literature, Modern --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Comics & Graphic Novels. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies --- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. --- Literature --- Literatures.


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The Last Utopians
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ISBN: 140088960X 9781400889600 9780691154169 0691154163 0691202869 Year: 2018 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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The entertaining story of four utopian writers-Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman-and their continuing influence todayFor readers reared on the dystopian visions of Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Handmaid's Tale, the idea of a perfect society may sound more sinister than enticing. In this lively literary history of a time before "Orwellian" entered the cultural lexicon, Michael Robertson reintroduces us to a vital strain of utopianism that seized the imaginations of late nineteenth-century American and British writers.The Last Utopians delves into the biographies of four key figures--Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman-who lived during an extraordinary period of literary and social experimentation. The publication of Bellamy's Looking Backward in 1888 opened the floodgates of an unprecedented wave of utopian writing. Morris, the Arts and Crafts pioneer, was a committed socialist whose News from Nowhere envisions a workers' Arcadia. Carpenter boldly argued that homosexuals constitute a utopian vanguard. Gilman, a women's rights activist and the author of "The Yellow Wallpaper," wrote numerous utopian fictions, including Herland, a visionary tale of an all-female society.These writers, Robertson shows, shared a belief in radical equality, imagining an end to class and gender hierarchies and envisioning new forms of familial and romantic relationships. They held liberal religious beliefs about a universal spirit uniting humanity. They believed in social transformation through nonviolent means and were committed to living a simple life rooted in a restored natural world. And their legacy remains with us today, as Robertson describes in entertaining firsthand accounts of contemporary utopianism, ranging from Occupy Wall Street to a Radical Faerie retreat.

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Utopias in literature. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General . --- Utopian literature --- Bellamy, Edward, --- Morris, William, --- Carpenter, Edward, --- Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Moris, V., --- Morisu, Wiriamu, --- Morris, Uilʹi͡am, --- Morris, William M., --- Gilman, Charlotte Perkins Stetson, --- Perkins, Charlotte Anna, --- Stetson, Charles Walter, --- Stetson, Charlotte Perkins, --- Karpenter, Ėduard, --- Bellamy, Edvard, --- Beramī, Edowādo, --- Morris, Uilʹi︠a︡m, --- Морис, В., --- Bellamy, Edward --- Bellamy, Edvard --- Beramī, Edowādo --- בעלאמי, ע. --- בעללאמי, א. --- Charles Fourier. --- Charlotte Perkins Gilman. --- Edward Bellamy. --- Edward Carpenter. --- Equality. --- Henri de Saint-Simon. --- Henry George. --- Herland. --- John Ruskin. --- Looking Backward. --- Nationalism. --- News from Nowhere. --- Progress and Poverty. --- Radical Faeries. --- Robert Owen. --- The Nature of Gothic. --- Thomas More. --- Towards Democracy. --- Uranians. --- Urning. --- Utopia. --- Walt Whitman. --- William Morris. --- World's Mother. --- community. --- economic equality. --- education. --- egalitarianism. --- everyday utopias. --- homogenic love. --- homosexuality. --- industrial capitalism. --- intermediate sex. --- labor. --- last utopians. --- literary dystopia. --- motherhood. --- mothers. --- progress. --- radical equality. --- religion. --- social thought. --- social transformation. --- socialism. --- sustainability. --- technology. --- transatlantic utopianism. --- universal spirit. --- utopia. --- utopian literature. --- utopianism. --- women.


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The Routledge Introduction to American Postmodernism
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ISBN: 1351719319 131518043X Year: 2018 Publisher: Boca Raton, FL : Routledge,

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The Routledge Introduction to American Postmodernism offers readers a fresh, insightful overview to all genres of postmodern writing. Drawing on a variety of works from not only mainstream authors but also those that are arguably unconventional, renowned scholar LindaWagner-Martin gives the reader a solid framework and foundation to reading, understanding, and appreciating postmodern literature since its inception through the present day.

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