LIBROS DEL AUTOR: joseph kestner

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  • Protest and Reform
    Joseph Kestner
    The social novel in 19th-century Britain has been considered the effort of a mostly male canon of writers. In this study, first published in 1985, Kestner challenges that assumption, arguing that it was female writers who initiated and advanced the tradition of using narrative fiction to register protest, expose abuses, and promote reform. ...
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    59,69 €

  • Opera Encore
    Joseph A. Kestner
    For over twenty years, Joseph A. Kestner wrote for Opera News and other publications. Collected for the first time, Kestner’s essays explore the creation, influence, context, and meaning of the world’s most famous operas as well as hidden gems. For those new to opera, Opera Encore provides the perfect introduction; for longtime opera fans, these articles will deepen your unders...
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    20,07 €

  • Sherlock’s Sisters
    Joseph A. Kestner
    Sherlock’s Sisters: The British Female Detective, 1864-1913 examines the fictional female detective in Victorian and Edwardian literature. This book considers a range of literary texts by both female and male writers which concentrate on detection by women, particularly those which followed the creation of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1 ...
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    82,58 €

  • Masculinities in Victorian Painting
    Joseph A. Kestner
    This fully illustrated study examines the construction of masculinity in culture based on an analysis of pictorial representations of the male in a wide range of contexts: social, historical, legal, literary, institutional, anthropological, educational, marital, imperial and aesthetic. ...
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    98,50 €

  • Masculinities in British Adventure Fiction, 1880-1915
    Joseph A. Kestner
    Making use of recent masculinity theories, Joseph A. Kestner sheds new light on Victorian and Edwardian adventure fiction. Beginning with works published in the 1880s, when writers like H. Rider Haggard took inspiration from the First Boer War and the Zulu War, Kestner engages tales involving initiation and rites of passage, experiences with the non-Western Other, colonial cont...
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    99,05 €