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1	A Human Eye: Essays on Art in Society, 1996-2008 more books like this by Adrienne Rich add to wishlist In "A Human Eye", one of America's most distinguished poets explores the complex relationship between art and social justice. Over more than three decades Rich's essays have been praised for their lucidity, courage and range of concerns. She examines a diverse selection of writings and their place in past and present social disorders and ... see all copies from $6.10! new only from $12.45! \| SVS
2	The Proustian Quest more books like this by Professor William C Carter add to wishlist "The Proustian Quest" is a full-length study that explores the influence of social change on Proust's vision. "In Remembrance of Things Past", Proust describes how the machines of transportation and communication transformed fashion, social mores, timespace perception and the understanding of the laws of nature. Concentrating on the motif of speed ... see all copies from $2.68! new only from $4.63! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Still the New World: American Literature in a Culture of Creative Destruction more books like this by Philip Fisher add to wishlist In this reinterpretation of American culture, Philip Fisher describes generational life as a series of renewed acts of immigration into a new world. Along with the actual flood of immigrants, technological change brings about an immigration of objects an systems, ways of life and techniques for the distribution of ideas. The text argues against ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.37! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Social Criticism & Nineteenth-Century American Fictions more books like this by Robert Shulman add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Room for Maneuver: Reading (The) Oppositional (In) Narrative more books like this by Ross Chambers add to wishlist see all copies from $9.95! new only from $22.53!
6	Emotion and Reason in Social Change: Insights from Fiction more books like this by John Girling add to wishlist There is undeniable evidence of powerful emotions at work in the political and social life of even the most advanced countries of the modern world. The aim of this book is to understand this emotional involvement, not directly, but imaginatively, through fiction. Nevertheless, critical situations - in economy, politics and society - determine ... see all copies from $49.95! new only from $50.00! \| SVS
7	Wordsworth, Commodification, and Social Concern: The Poetics of Modernity more books like this by Professor David Simpson add to wishlist This new reading of Wordworth's poetry by leading critic David Simpson centers on its almost obsessive representation of spectral forms and images of death in life. Wordsworth is reacting, Simpson argues, to the massive changes in the condition of England and the modern world at the turn of the century: mass warfare; the increased scope of machine ... see all copies from $75.70! new only from $75.70! \| SVS
8	Narrative Order, 1789-1819: Life and Story in an Age of Revolution more books like this by Gavin Edwards add to wishlist In the decades immediately following the French Revolution, British writers saw the narrative ordering of experience as either superficial, dangerous or impossible. Linking storytelling to other forms of social action, including the making of contracts and promises, Gavin Edwards argues that the experience of radical social upheaval produced a ... see all copies from $3.27! new only from $84.32!
9	Around Quitting Time: Work and Middle-Class Fantasy in American Fiction more books like this by Robert Seguin add to wishlist Virtually since its inception, the United States has nurtured a dreamlike and often delirious image of itself as an essentially classless society. Given the stark levels of social inequality that have actually existed and that continue today, what sustains this at once hopelessly ideological and breathlessly utopian mirage? In "Around Quitting ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.50! \| first editions
10	The American Thriller: Generic Innovation and Social Change in the 1970s more books like this by Paul Cobley add to wishlist What is the American thriller? Has it developed over time? What was it like in the past? This is a book about thrillers and gaining knowledge of what American thrillers were like in a specific period - the 1970s. Analyzing 70s texts about crime, police, detectives, corruption, paranoia and revenge, this study aims to open debates on the genre in ... see all copies from $46.44! new only from $123.46! \| SVS
11	Where the World Is Not: Cultural Authority and Democratic Desire in Modern American Literature more books like this by Kim Savelson add to wishlist How do novels that literally discuss invention and inventors engage through such discussions an array of critically important conversations and issues beyond invention? And to where and how can we trace and follow such discourses? In "Where the World Is Not: Cultural Authority and Democratic Desire in Modern American Literature, " Kim Savelson ... see all copies from $21.00! new only from $32.86! \| SVS
12 view cover	Fatal News: Reading and Information Overload in Early Eighteenth-Century Literature more books like this by Katherine E Ellison add to wishlist Recent scholarship in eighteenth-century print culture and in twenty-first-century media studies and theory presents a unique opportunity to reconsider how and why information is figuratively imagined during the eighteenth century as an abstract yet bodily entity that can flood, suffocate and incapacitate readers. Focusing on 1678 to 1722 - a ... see all copies from $80.48! new only from $80.48!
13 view cover	History in a Grotesque Key: Russian Literature and the Idea of Revolution more books like this by Kevin M Platt add to wishlist What special possibilities for literary creation arise in periods of rapid transition from one set of social institutions to another? This book examines four such periods in Russian history: the era of Peter the Great and his successors, the epoch of the Great Reforms of the 1860's, the decades following the Russian Revolution, and the period of ... see all copies from $57.91! new only from $58.95!
14 view cover	Early Modern Civil Discourses more books like this by Professor Jennifer Richards (Editor) add to wishlist This collection explores the concept of civility in the early modern period. It addresses a range of writings in English and Scottish--among them, conduct manuals, colonial tracts, diaries, letters, dialogues, poetry, drama, chronicles--by English, Welsh and Scots men and women in and about the Atlantic archipelago. It explores the many meanings ... see all copies from $73.60! new only from $92.51!
15 view cover	Social and Political Change in Literature and Film more books like this by Richard L Chapple (Editor) add to wishlist This work examines the way literature and film can convey social and political change. Among the topics it addresses are Wim Wenders' Euro-American construction site - "Paris, Texas"; double vision in Scorsese and Hitchcock; Hare's "Wetherby"; and revolution as a theme. see all copies from $10.45!
16 view cover	Servants and Paternalism in the Works of Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Gaskell by Julie Nash add to wishlist Writing during periods of dramatic social change, Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Gaskell were both attracted to the idea of radical societal transformation at the same time that their writings express nostalgia for a traditional, paternalistic ruling class. Julie Nash shows how this tension is played out especially through the characters of ... see all copies from $82.49! new only from $82.49!
17	Shifting World: Social Change and Nostalgia in the American Novel more books like this by David C. Stineback add to wishlist In Shifting World Dr. Stineback analyzes a neglected characteristic of American novels--the Jamesian "sense of the sense of the past." He demonstrates how this motif reflects an understanding of both the processes of history and the emotional burdens that those processes entail. Ten novels are studied including The Pioneers, Democracy, The ... see all copies from $2.30! SVS
18 view cover	Texts and Cultural Change in Early Modern England more books like this by Cedric C Brown add to wishlist This is a wide-ranging, closely-researched collection, written by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic, on the cultural placement and transmission of texts between 1520 and 1750. Material and historical conditions of texts are analysed, and the range of works is wide, including plays and the Lucrece of Shakespeare (with adaptations, and a ... see all copies from $19.95! new only from $198.95! \| first editions
19	Back to the Garden: Chateaubriand, Senancour, and Constant more books like this by Michael J. Call add to wishlist see all copies from $30.50!
20	An Old Order and a New: The Split World of Liam O'Flaherty's Novels more books like this by Hedda Friberg add to wishlist see all copies from $16.10!
21 view cover	Enlightenment and Romance in James MacPherson's the Poems of Ossian: Myth, Genre and Cultural Change more books like this by Thomas C Lawton, Dafydd Moore add to wishlist This study examines the relationship between Enlightenment and romance through the work of James Macpherson and in particular his "The Poems of Ossian". By re-reading Macpherson's work in ways not restricted by the sterile and by now largely settled debates over authenticity, Moore establishes Ossian's credentials to be considered as romance, both ... see all copies from $151.33! new only from $151.33!
22	Nature's Hidden Terror: Violent Nature Imagery in 18th-Century Literature more books like this by Robert H Brown add to wishlist 'This is an intelligent, well-written, and well-edited book. It offers compelling insights and raises interesting questions.' Edward T. Larkin, MONATSHEFTE 'Interesting, imaginative, well-written...' CHOICE. see all copies from $51.60! SVS
23 view cover	Error, Misues, Failure: Object Lessons from the English Renaissance more books like this by Julian Yates add to wishlist If certain objects work well, no one notices them. As with "black boxes, " their success may be gauged by their relative invisibility -- and this was the indirect goal of the objects that Julian Yates considers here: the portrait miniature, the relic, the privy (flush toilet), the printed text, and the priest-hole (a secret hiding place for ... see all copies from $104.44! new only from $104.44!
24 view cover	Beyond Feminist Aesthetics: Feminist Literature and Social Change more books like this by Rita Felski add to wishlist see all copies from $2.42! new only from $24.99! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Imagining Apocalypse: Studies in Cultural Crisis more books like this by David Seed (Editor) add to wishlist This volume brings together essays on the cultural expression of apocalypse primarily in anglophone science fiction of the 19th and 20th centuries. Focusing on themes, writers and individual works, the contributors examine the relation between secular and spiritual apocalypse, connecting the fiction and films to their historical moment. Not ... see all copies from $50.00!

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