Referred to in his time as "the Pretender" and "the sphinx of the Tuileries," Louis NapolTon Bonaparte, the nephew of Emperor Napoleon I and himself ruler of the Second Empire, managed the manufacture
This is the first major study of naturalist fiction as a distinct literary genre. It focuses mainly on French naturalist literature, analysing a number of key works in detail, but also draws examples from other national traditions, particularly from the English novel. Professor Baguley questions and revises many traditional assumptions on important theoretical issues such as the nature of literary history, the concepts of 'realism' and 'naturalism', and the relations between science and literature. He demonstrates the prevalence of certain recurrent generic patterns, themes and techniques in the general body of naturalist literature, ranging from disquieting tragic developments to the most outrageous ironic and parodic effects. He argues persuasively that, far from being a mere record of the external aspects of reality, naturalist fiction is a literature of 'scandalous' provocation which employs the strategies of realist art to convey a profoundly disturbing vision of that reality.
This volume explores the characteristics of the art and literature of the Second Empire in France; it examines the attitudes and positioning of artists and writers of the period in relation to a regim
Audiology, otolaryngology, and other specialists from Europe, North America, Brazil, and New Zealand provide 16 chapters on hyperacusis and disorders of sound intolerance. They discuss definitions,
Baguley (audiology and psychology, Manchester U., UK) and Andersson (clinical psychology, Linkoping U., Sweeden) seek to decrease a lack of clinical literature on hyperacusis (noise hypersensitivity)
Here in a single source is a complete spectrum of ideas on the development of new anticancer drugs. Containing concise reviews of multidisciplinary fields of research, this book offers a wealth of ide
