British And Irish Literature – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Page 5

Christine Ferguson
Open Secrets

Open Secrets sheds new light on the fascinating popular fiction produced by key writers within Britain's occult revival, including Edward Bulwer Lytton, Emma Hardinge Britten, Marie Corelli, Mabel Collins…

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Joel Childers
The Historical Poem

The Historical Poem takes up Georg Lukács's classic account of the historical novel to tell the forgotten story of its precursors. For eighteenth-century and Romantic thinkers, these were poems from dista…

available from 31.3.2026.

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Simon Jackson
George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture

"Described by one contemporary as the 'sweet singer of The Temple', George Herbert has long been recognised as a lover of music. Nevertheless, Herbert's own participation in seventeenth-century music…

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Oliver Buckton
The World Is Not Enough

The definitive history of the flamboyant life of Ian Fleming and his most famous creation, James Bond.This new biography of Ian Fleming presents a fresh and illuminating portrayal of the iconic creator of…

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Oliver Rendle
Cosmic Humour and Philosophical Pessimism in Contemporary Culture

An in-depth look at the concept of cosmic humour, a politically influential, philosophically pessimistic form of humour, this book explores the popularity of this comedic form across Anglophone culture si…

available from 9.7.2026.

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Chad Schrock,
Chaucer and the Invention of Biblical Narrative

This book demonstrates how Chaucer uses the Bible in The Canterbury Tales as an authoritative literary source and model for his own literary production, his self-definition as an author, and the invention…

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Gerrit Haas
Fictocritical Strategies

Gerrit Haas re-theorises the peculiar textual conduct of ficto/critical writing, which inextricably intersects fictional with critical discourses as well as aesthetics with poetics and ethics. The slash h…

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Peter Brooks
Henry James Comes Home

In this enthralling re-creation of American novelist Henry James' famous ten-month trip around the United States, lauded critic Peter Brooks brings to life both the literary giant and America in its Gilde…

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Ives S. Loukson
Post-Apartheid Criticism

South Africa's post-apartheid narrative is one of democracy and equality - but its flaws run deep, argues Ives S. Loukson. Disclosing prejudices about whiteness, homosexuality and democracy in the 'staged…

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Michael Chapman
Literary Transactions in South Africa

A representative overview of some of the most pressing concerns in contemporary literary criticism in South Africa, demonstrating literary form's shaping power in the interpretation of politically content…

available from 23.7.2026.

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Susan J Wolfson
Romanticism's Generative Reading

In Romanticism's Generative Reading , Susan Wolfson convenes an innovative array of subjects, texts, and cultural situations: lightning, Frankenstein, textual editing, Shakespeare read by girls, and Willi…

available from 25.8.2026.

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Julie Nelson Couch, Kimberly K. Bell
Gaming in the Medieval English Text

This book innovatively combines traditional manuscript study with contemporary cultural game theory to show how the enigmatic fourteenth-century Middle English romance, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, la…

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Siobhan Morrissey
Empire and Race in Enid Blyton's Fiction

Looking into the implications of the changes made to Enid Blyton's children's stories to omit problematic passages surrounding race and imperialism, this book examines her fiction in its original and revi…

available from 25.6.2026.

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John Rieder
Truth, Lies, and Speculative Fiction

An exploration of contemporary speculative fiction's power to intervene in social, political, and environmental crises,this book demonstrates how the genre provides resources against demagogic falsehoods,…

available from 28.5.2026.

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Susan J Wolfson
Romanticism's Generative Reading

In Romanticism's Generative Reading , Susan Wolfson convenes an innovative array of subjects, texts, and cultural situations: lightning, Frankenstein, textual editing, Shakespeare read by girls, and Willi…

available from 25.8.2026.

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Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century

A guide for today's classrooms, this collection from leading Joyce scholars explores innovative pedagogical approaches to the works of this often-challenging writerTeaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First…

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Approaches to Teaching the Works of George Orwell

The author who famously warned of the surveillance state and its consequencesThough students may be familiar with the themes of Orwell's works, from colonialism and class to dystopian fascism, they often …

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Approaches to Teaching the Works of George Orwell

The author who famously warned of the surveillance state and its consequencesThough students may be familiar with the themes of Orwell's works, from colonialism and class to dystopian fascism, they often …

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Heidi Craig
Theatre Closure and the Paradoxical Rise of English Renaissance Drama in the Civil Wars

"Focusing on the production and reception of drama during the theatre closures of 1642 to 1660, Heidi Craig shows how the "death" of contemporary theatre in fact gave birth to English Renai…

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David Sergeant
The Near Future in Twenty-First-Century Fiction

A growing awareness of climate change and looming planetary crisis has put unprecedented pressure on the near future, leading to an increasing amount of fiction being set there. But what do these disparat…

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