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Cultural Transformations in the English-Speaking World
Editor: Cécile Cottenet, Jean-Christophe Murat and Nathalie Vanfasse
Date Of Publication: Jan 2010
Isbn13: 978-1-4438-1642-7
Isbn: 1-4438-1642-6
In a context where cultural transformations have become a basic feature of modern life as people and nations are brought closer together, this book tackles transformations occurring within and across cultures of the English-speaking world in the fields of literature, painting, architecture, photography and film. It helps readers decipher these dynamic phenomena and situate them in a historical perspective. The articles move within and across cultures and mirror the broad range of approaches to cultural practices that have appeared in the past few decades. They provide readers with tools to work out the transformations these practices undergo and the new life and meaning this process infuses into cultures of the English-speaking world. This book will be useful to graduate and doctoral students as well as post-doctoral researchers working in film studies, cultural studies, art history, literature and creative writing. Its clear language and pedagogical approaches will also make it accessible to the general public.
Cécile Cottenet is Senior Lecturer at Aix-Marseille Université in France. She is a specialist in African-American studies and book and publishing history in the United States. She is currently working on a book on the publication history of the works of Afro-American writer Charles W. Chesnutt.
Jean-Christophe Murat is Senior Lecturer at Aix-Marseille Université in France. His main research area is the literature of the 1940s and early ’50s in Britain, and its relationships with the social, political and philosophical issues of the time. He is the author of many articles on the subject, published in E-rea, Etudes Britanniques Contemporaines, The Space Between and in the volume Right/Left/Right. Revolving Commitments, France and Britain 1929-1950 (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008). Nathalie VANFASSE is Senior Lecturer at Aix-Marseille Université in France. She is the author of Charles Dickens, entre normes et déviance (Publications de l’Université de Provence, 2007) and has published articles on Dickens’s work in Les Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, E-rea, The Dickens Magazine and in a number of edited volumes.
Price Uk Gbp: 39.99
Price Us Usd: 59.99
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