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    Collections series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection of essays explores the life and works of the British poet and author of short stories Charlotte Mew (1869-1928). It represents the first volume dedicated solely to critical engagement with the full range of Mew’s poetry, fiction and essays. Mew moved within a remarkable range of literary and intellectual circles, from The Yellow Book in the 1890s to Bloomsbury’s Poetry Bookshop in ... En savoir plus

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  • Music and the Queer Body in English Literature at the Fin de Siècle

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    Collections Livre 137 - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
    Drawing on an ambitious range of interdisciplinary material, including literature, musical treatises and theoretical texts, Music and the Queer Body explores the central place music held for emergent queer identities in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Canonical writers such as Walter Pater, E. M. Forster and Virginia Woolf are discussed alongside lesser-known figures such as ... En savoir plus

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    Collections series Routledge Studies in Romanticism
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  • Virginia Woolf

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    Collections series The Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life and Literature Series
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