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On Sympathy (Oxford English Monographs)

📁 On Sympathy (Oxford English Monographs)

✍ Sophie Ratcliffe 📂 Library 📅 2009 🏛 Oxford University Press, USA 🌐 English

What happens when we engage with fictional characters? How do our imaginative engagements bear on our actions in the wider world? Moving between the literary and the philosophical, Sophie Ratcliffe onsiders the ways in which readers feel when they read, and how they understand ideas of feeling. <em>

On Sympathy (Oxford English Monographs)

📁 On Sympathy (Oxford English Monographs)

✍ Sophie Ratcliffe 📂 Library 📅 2009 🌐 English

What happens when we engage with fictional characters? How do our imaginative engagements bear on our actions in the wider world? Moving between the literary and the philosophical, Sophie Ratcliffe onsiders the ways in which readers feel when they read, and how they understand ideas of feeling. On S

Conrad and History (Oxford English Monog

📁 Conrad and History (Oxford English Monographs)

✍ Richard Niland 📂 Library 📅 2010 🌐 English

This book examines the philosophy of history and the subject of the nation in the literature of Joseph Conrad. It explores the importance of nineteenth-century Polish Romantic philosophy in Conrad's literary development, arguing that the Polish response to Hegelian traditions of historiography in ni

Milton and the Ineffable (Oxford English

📁 Milton and the Ineffable (Oxford English Monographs)

✍ Noam Reisner 📂 Library 📅 2010 🌐 English

Milton and the Ineffable offers a comprehensive reassessment of Milton's poetic oeuvre in light of the literary and conceptual problem posed by the poet's attempt to put into words that which is unsayable and beyond representation. The struggle with the ineffability of sacred or transcendental subje

Stevie Smith and Authorship (Oxford Engl

📁 Stevie Smith and Authorship (Oxford English Monographs)

✍ William May 📂 Library 📅 2010 🌐 English

A full-length study of the British novelist, poet, and illustrator Stevie Smith (1902-1971), this book draws on extensive archival material to offer new insights into her work, challenging conventional readings of her as an eccentric. It reveals the careful control with which she managed her public

Royalist Women Writers, 1650-1689 (Oxfor

📁 Royalist Women Writers, 1650-1689 (Oxford English Monographs)

✍ Hero Chalmers 📂 Library 📅 2004 🏛 Oxford University Press, USA 🌐 English

Royalist Women Writers aims to put women back on the map of seventeenth-century royalist literature from which they have habitually been marginalized. Looking in detail at the work of Margaret Cavendish, Katherine Philips, and Aphra Behn, it argues that their writings inaugurate a more assertive mod