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Gavin Hopps
At the end of 'Ode to a Nightingale', Keats's speaker famously asks of the foregoing reverie: 'Was it a vision, or a waking dream?' This book is concerned with such…
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Don Juan has been annotated afresh, allowing readers to see where Byron left open the choice of words or rhymes, and demonstrating the extraordinary breadth and depth of his literary…
The first full-length scholarly study of Morrissey’s career - as a writer, performer, and troublemaker.
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Reflecting on the poet’s claim that ‘immaterialism’s a serious matter’, this interdisciplinary collection of essays, from British and American scholars, calls into question the prevailing ‘materialist’ consensus, and offers a…
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This book explores the ways in which music can engender religious experience, by virtue of its ability to evoke the ineffable and affect how the world is open to us.
In Christian faith, the present is continuously re-shaped by ventures of hopeful and expectant living. In art, the poetic interplay between past, present and future takes specific concrete forms, furnishing…
The relationship between literature and religion is one of the most challenging areas of Romantic studies. This book explores subjects such as Romantic attitudes towards creativity and its relation to…
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This collection from the fields of literature, theology and corpus linguistics focuses on ways in which endings are formally signaled in literature, journalism and film. It is also concerned with…