Writings that shed new light on one of the most gifted, if reclusive, poets of the fin-de-siecle.
A lost poet of the decadent era, Lionel Johnson is the shadow man of the 1890s, an enigma "pale as wasted golden hair." History has all but forgotten Johnson, except as a footnote to the lives of more celebrated characters like W. B. Yeats and Oscar Wilde.
Johnson should have been one of the great poets of the age but was already drinking eau-de-cologne for kicks while a teenager at Winchester College. His attraction to absinthe damaged his fragile health and cast him forever into a waking dream of haunted rooms and spectral poetry. A habitual insomniac, he haunted medieval burial grounds after dark, jotting down the epitaphs of the gone-too-young, as if anticipating his own early demise at the age of 35 -- falling from a bar stool in a Fleet Street pub.
It was rumored that Johnson performed "strange religious rites" in his rooms at Oxford and experimented with hashish in the company of fellow poet Ernest Dowson. Moving to London, he fell in with Simeon Solomon, Oscar Wilde, and Aubrey Beardsley, and would contribute to the leading decadent publications of the day, including The Chameleon, The Yellow Book, and The Savoy.
Like a glimmering of a votive candle in one of Johnson's dream churches, Incurable sheds new light on one of the most gifted, if reclusive, poets of the fin-de-siecle. Containing a detailed biography, illustrations, rare and unusual material including previously unseen letters, poetry, and essays, Incurable pays tribute to this enchanting and eccentric poet while providing fresh insight into an era that continues to fascinate.
Автор: Alston Charlotte Название: Tolstoy and his Disciples ISBN: 178076118X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781780761183 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 137280.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: As the vast empire of Imperial Russia struggled with the emancipation of the serfs after 1861 and creeped inexorably towards revolution, Leo Tolstoy underwent what he termed a `spiritual awakening`. Advocating an extreme internationalism and the principles of non-violence, Tolstoy inspired a legion of followers.
Автор: Bingham, Adam Название: Directory of world cinema: east europe ISBN: 1841504645 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781841504643 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 49580.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: Part of the "Directory of World Cinema" series, this title includes contributions from some of the leading academics in the field. It features film recommendations from a range of genres for those interested in watching more cinema from Eastern Europe. It also features comprehensive filmography as an index.
Автор: Gibson, Marion Название: Rediscovering renaissance witchcraft ISBN: 1138025453 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138025455 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 40820.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Rediscovering Renaissance Witchcraft traces witchcraft from the 16th century through to today, exploring material across `Witchcraft studies`, covering literature, politics and journalism to investigate the fascination with witchcraft through history. This book is essential reading for students of witchcraft, early modern history and literature.
Автор: Sue Brunning Название: The Sword in Early Medieval Northern Europe: Experience, Identity, Representation ISBN: 1783274069 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781783274062 Издательство: Boydell & Brewer Рейтинг: Цена: 73920.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A wide-ranging study of the significance of swords throughout the whole Anglo-Saxon period, offering valuable insights into the meaning of and attitude towards swords.
Автор: Maura E. Hametz, Heidi Schlipphacke Название: Sissi`s World: The Empress Elisabeth in Memory and Myth ISBN: 1501313444 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501313448 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 137280.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Sissi’s World offers a transdisciplinary approach to the study of the Habsburg Empress Elisabeth of Austria. It investigates the myths, legends, and representations across literature, art, film, and other media of one of the most popular, revered, and misunderstood female figures in European cultural history. Sissi’s World explores the cultural foundations for the endurance of the Sissi legends and the continuing fascination with the beautiful empress: a Bavarian duchess born in 1837, the longest-serving Austrian empress, and the queen of Hungary who died in 1898 at the hands of a crazed anarchist. Despite the continuing fascination with “the beloved Sissi," the Habsburg empress, her impact, and legacy have received scant attention from scholars. This collection will go beyond the popular biographical accounts, recountings of her mythic beauty, and scattered studies of her well-known eccentricities to offer transdisciplinary cultural perspectives across art, film, fashion, history, literature, and media.
Автор: Sarkisova, Oksana Название: Screening soviet nationalities ISBN: 1784535737 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784535735 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 126720.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Soviet expedition films from between 1925-1940 are examined as early forms of documentaries with both ideological and educational agendas
Автор: Wood, Ralph C. Название: Flannery o`connor and the christ-haunted south ISBN: 0802829996 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780802829993 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 28500.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Full title: `Flannery O`Connor and the Christ-Haunted South`.
Автор: Siegel, Jonah Название: Haunted museum ISBN: 0691120870 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691120874 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 47520.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Offers a look at Italy from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries focusing on a literary tradition. This book moves from a reframing of literature from the first half of the nineteenth century - including readings of works by Byron, de Stael, Barrett Browning, and others - to an examination of Henry James`s engagement with Europe.
Автор: Railo, Eino Название: The Haunted Castle ISBN: 0367177595 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367177591 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 34700.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Published in 1927: The purpose of the present work is consequently to serve as a guide to English horror-romanticism and by presenting the chief materials used by it and grouping them according to the various themes employed, to show how the main romantic movement is represented in all shorter expositions of the subject.
Автор: Armstrong Название: Haunted Hardy ISBN: 0333597915 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333597910 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 125770.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Hardy was a poet of ghosts. and as haunted by ghosts, particularly the spectre of the lost child (as in the rumour that he fathered a child in the 1860s). Using Derrida, Abraham and Torok and other theorists, and referring to Victorian debates on materialism, this book investigates ghostliness, historicity and memory in Hardy`s poetry.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, celebrated in his own day for sketches that now seem sentimental, came only gradually to be fully appreciated for what his friend Herman Melville diagnosed as the "power of blackness" in his fiction - the complex moral grappling with sin and guilt. By the 1850s, Hawthorne had already been accepted into the American canon, and since then, his works - especially The Scarlet Letter -- have remained ubiquitous in American culture. Along with this has come an explosion of Hawthorne criticism, from New Criticism, New Historicism, and Cultural Studies to queer theory, feminist scholarship, and transatlantic criticism, that shows no signs of slowing.
This book charts Hawthorne's canonization and the ongoing critical discourse, drawing on two senses of "entanglement." First the sense from quantum physics, which allows us to see what were once seen as strict dualisms in Hawthorne as more complex relations where the poles of the would-be dualities play off of and affect each other; second, the sense of critics being tangled up in, caught up in, Hawthorne the man and his work and in previous critics' views of him. Charting the course of Hawthorne criticism as well as his place in popular culture, this book sheds light also on the culture in which his reception has occurred.
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