Literary Studies: From C 1900 -

BIC code: CSBH
See also: Literary History & Criticism

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  Modernism And Magic: Experiments With Spiritualism, Theosophy And The Occult
  Leigh Wilson - Hardback - Edinburgh University Press
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  The Arab Nahdah: The Making Of The Intellectual And Humanist Movement
  Abdulrazzak Patel - Hardback - Edinburgh University Press
  This title explores the influences that triggered the Arabic awakening, the nahdah, from the 1800s onwards.
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  Haptic Modernism: Touch And The Tactile In Modernist Writing
  Abbie Garrington - Hardback - Edinburgh University Press
  This text contends that the haptic sense - combining touch, kinaesthesis and proprioception - was first fully conceptualised and explored in the modernist period, in response to radical new bodily experiences brought about by scientific, technological and psychological change.
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  The Trip To Echo Spring: Why Writers Drink
  Olivia Laing - Hardback - Canongate
  Why is it that some of the greatest works of literature have been produced by writers in the grip of alcoholism, an addiction that cost them personal happiness and caused harm to those who loved them? In 'The Trip to Echo Spring', Olivia Laing examines the link between creativity and alcohol through the work and lives of six extraordinary men: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever and Raymond Carver.
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  The Modernist Party
  - Hardback - Edinburgh University Press
  Have you ever been struck by the number of parties in Modernist literature? In this book, scholars explore the party both as a literary device and as a social setting in which the movement's creative values were developed.
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  Transatlantic Avant-Gardes: Little Magazines And Localist Modernism
  Eric White - Hardback - Edinburgh University Press
  Eric White explores new points of contact between European and American avant-gardes to place figures such as William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, Jean Toomer, and Alfred Kreymborg back into the 'global design' of literary modernism. He focuses on artist-run 'little magazines' together with fine press publications and mainstream print culture.
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  Travellers' Tales Of Wonder: Chatwin, Naipaul, Sebald
  Simon Cooke - Hardback - Edinburgh University Press
  This study challenges a sensibility of disenchantment with travel. It reassesses travel writing as an aesthetically and ethically innovative form in contemporary international literature, and demonstrates the crucial role of wonder in the travel narratives of writers such as Bruce Chatwin, V.S. Naipaul, and W.G. Sebald.
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  Literature Of The 1900s: The Great Edwardian Emporium
  Jonathan Wilde - Hardback - Edinburgh University Press
  This series of ten volumes presents a decade-by-decade account of how literature developed in Britain throughout the 20th century. Each volume offers original analyses of the literature of a single decade, and of how it was shaped by the wider history and culture of its times.
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  Literature Of The 1920s: Writers Among The Ruins
  Chris Baldick - Hardback - Edinburgh University Press
  This series of ten volumes presents a decade-by-decade account of how literature developed in Britain throughout the 20th century. Each volume offers original analyses of the literature of a single decade, and of how it was shaped by the wider history and culture of its times.
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  Literature Of The 1940s: War, Postwar And 'Peace'
  Gill Plain - Hardback - Edinburgh University Press
  This series of ten volumes presents a decade-by-decade account of how literature developed in Britain throughout the 20th century. Each volume offers original analyses of the literature of a single decade, and of how it was shaped by the wider history and culture of its times.