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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"political literature"”.
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Political Debate in the Age of Justinian I
… begins by observing that Justinian I ruled in a political culture far more open to conflicts of views and criticism of the régime than is often appreciated. It conducts intertextual, contextualist close readings of the texts of thirteen contemporary authors to explain how this culture of debate …
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THE WRITING LIFE OF ROBERT STORY, 1795-1860: ‘THE CONSERVATIVE BARD’
… poet Robert Story (1795-1860) who, during the political turmoil of the 1830s, achieved national celebrity for writing a series of songs and poems for Peel’s Conservative party. In his unpublished autobiography (c.1853) he alludes to building an archive of his work. Drawing on these manuscripts, …
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Promoting ecological citizenship: the state, civil society and the green public sphere
… of ecological citizenship, using the tools of political theory. I examine the role of the state, the green state, the green public sphere and civil society in the articulation of ecological citizenship. The dominant position in this debate is that states should be actively involved in the …
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Fiction-criticism in interwar England: Judgment, gender, and the pluralist public sphere
… careers by giving them tools to produce topical, political literature. This study first examines the popular essays of Rose Macaulay, Aldous Huxley, and Virginia Woolf, all intellectually respected novelists in their day, to argue that their journalism crossed contentious lines in the period’s …
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Luxury Romanticism: The Quarto Book in the Romantic Period
… the chapter shows that British sentimentalism's political alignments were shaped by the formats of its major texts as much as changing political contexts. Chapter 3 argues that the Crown's refusal to prosecute quarto publications during the 1790s gave the format a protected status that was …
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Suetonius and the Politics of Private Life
… Caesars* against the backdrop of contemporary political discourse. Suetonius is (in)famous for writing more about an emperor’s love affairs, dining habits or pastimes than about speeches in the senate or military campaigns, a focus that has led many scholars to argue that he is ‘not interested …
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History, revolution and the British popular novel: historical fiction in the romantic age
… the complex intersection of the genre with the political and historical dialogue generated by the French Revolution crisis, the thesis contends that contemporary fascination with the historical episode of the Revolution, and the fundamental importance of history to the disputes which raged about …
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"You Are Safe": Black Maternal Politics Of Resistance And The Question Of Community Consensus In African American Women's Literature
… Such critical statements are inevitably political and their construction is offered in a most provocative and startling way given the choice of maternal infanticide to make the claims.</p> <p>Angelina Weld Grimke's "The Closing Door" (1919), Georgia Douglas Johnson's Safe (c.1929), …