This book tells the story of Derrida’s skepticism, which proved so influential in the American academy. But it also pays close attention to Derrida’s even more influential departure from his rigorous method of doubting everything: the prophetic tone he assumed when he evoked the revolutionary properties of writing or, in later years, of justice. This tone was an attempt to reach outside the enclosure of skepticism, to proclaim the emergence of a world that would not be merely linguistic.
A definitive introduction to the English language through the medium of English literature. Through the use of illustrations from poetry, prose and drama, it offers a lively and accessible guide to concepts and techniques in English language study.
The largest collection of Rossetti's letters ever to be published, it features all known surviving letters, a total of almost 5,800 to over 330 recipients, and includes 2,000 previously unpublished letters by Rossetti and selected letters to him. In addition to this, about 100 drawings taken from within letter texts are also reproduced. In its entirety the collection will give an invaluable and unparalleled insight into Rossetti's character and art, and will form a rich resource for students and scholars studying all aspects of his life and work.
Modernism and the Women's Popular Romance in Britain, 1885-1925
Today’s mass-market romances have their precursors in late Victorian popular novels written by and for women. In Modernism and the Women’s Popular Romance Martin Hipsky scrutinizes some of the best-selling British fiction from the period 1885 to 1925, the era when romances, especially those by British women, were sold and read more widely than ever before or since. Recent scholarship has explored the desires and anxieties addressed by both “low modern” and “high modernist” British culture in the decades straddling the turn of the twentieth century.
