Temporalities presents a concise critical introduction to the treatment of time throughout
literature. Time and its passage represent one of the oldest and most complex philosophical …

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) was one of the greatest writers and German
philosophers of the nineteenth century. His work influenced figures as diverse as Wagner …

Literature has long sought to make sense of the destruction and aggression wrought by
human civilization. Yet no single literary movement was more powerfully shaped by violence …

At the end of the nineteenth century, the zenith of its imperial chauvinism and jingoistic
fervour, Britain's empire was bolstered by a surprising new ideal of manliness, one that …

By taking account of the ways in which early modern women made use of formal and
generic structures to constitute themselves in writing, the essays collected here interrogate …

In her thought-provoking study of Britain's relationship with Latin America and the Caribbean
during the Romantic and Victorian periods, Joselyn M. Almeida makes a compelling case for …

This book studies how the rhetoric of travel introduces different conceptualizations of space
and time in scenarios of war during the last decades of the 19th century, in Argentina, Brazil …

Abstract Representations of perpetual boyhood came to fascinate the late Victorians, partly
because such images could naturalize a new spirit of imperial aggression and new policies …

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Best known as the author of Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) is one of the
most widely taught writers in the English language. Conrad's work has taken on a new …