English Literary Classics – Bücher, CDs, Blu-ray Discs und mehr, Seite 2

Sarah Coogan
Nostalgia and National Identity in the British and Irish Modernist Epic

This book focuses on the modernist epic, analyzing the intricate manifestations of nostalgia in these texts in order to provide a new perspective on the emotion's political ramifications. It argues that t…

lieferbar ab 31.1.2026.

Buch

Religion in Irish Literature and Culture

Contrary to the widespread belief in Ireland's rapid secularisation, religion continues to play a significant role in 21st-century Irish culture, though not in the familiar forms of Catholicism and Protes…

lieferbar ab 31.3.2026.

Buch

Gillian Moore
Contemporary American Fiction and Cultures of Self-Help

This is a book about the encounters that contemporary North American fiction stages with distinct strands of self-help. Its central argument is that the varied practices of ever-expanding and diversifying…

lieferbar ab 30.11.2025.

Buch

The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature and Culture Since 1945

This Companion presents an authoritative study of British utopian literature and culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Written by leading scholars, it offers a wide-ranging account of utopi…

lieferbar ab 31.12.2025.

Buch

The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature and Culture Since 1945

This Companion presents an authoritative study of British utopian literature and culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Written by leading scholars, it offers a wide-ranging account of utopi…

lieferbar ab 31.12.2025.

Buch

Liliane Campos
Entangled Life in Twenty-First-Century Fiction

Liliane Campos argues that contemporary fiction is shaping a new, multi-scalar view of life. In the early twenty-first century, humans face complex relations of dependency with the invisibly small and the…

lieferbar ab 31.3.2026.

Buch

The Cambridge Companion to Walter Pater

This is the first and only comprehensive introductory study of Walter Pater, novelist, short story writer, literary critic, and philosopher. One of the late nineteenth century's most important and least u…

lieferbar ab 31.3.2026.

Buch

'The People' and British Literature

Why do invocations of 'the people' carry such force in current political discourse and public debate? This book offers an ambitiously transhistorical account of the ways that 'the people' has figured in B…

lieferbar ab 31.12.2025.

Buch

Luisa Calè
The Book Unbound

How does our understanding of Romantic literature change when we shift the focus from bound books to unbound forms? Assumptions about the book as a bound object have isolated literature from overlapping m…

lieferbar ab 30.11.2025.

Buch

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature and Empire

The volume outlines modern British literature's relation to global empire from the 16th century to the present. Spanning the interactions between Britain, Europe, and the world outside, in Asia, Africa, A…

lieferbar ab 4.12.2025.

Buch

The Cambridge Companion to Walter Pater

This is the first and only comprehensive introductory study of Walter Pater, novelist, short story writer, literary critic, and philosopher. One of the late nineteenth century's most important and least u…

lieferbar ab 31.3.2026.

Buch

Kristen Abbott Bennett
Teaching Shakespeare's Theatre of the World

This Element engages Shakespeare's greatest thought-experiment: how does one navigate the 'theatre of the world'? Throughout, it examines how Shakespeare challenges this metaphor's vertical hierarchies in…

lieferbar ab 30.11.2025.

Buch

Céline Sabiron
Unveiling Lady Scott

This Element sheds new light on Walter Scott's work by investigating the French influence of his wife, Charlotte Charpentier, later Lady Scott, through her transcultural upbringing and international conne…

lieferbar ab 30.11.2025.

Buch

A History of Modern Hebrew Literature

This book is a new and comprehensive history of modern Hebrew literature that revitalizes older histories while integrating contemporary theories on literature, culture, identity, and canon formation. The…

lieferbar ab 31.12.2025.

Buch

E K Myerson
The Desire for Syria in Medieval England

In June 1458, two boats were cornered by pirates off the coast of Malta. Their captain - Robert Sturmy - proved no match for the notorious Genoese freebooter Giuliano Gattilusio and was summarily killed b…

lieferbar ab 31.12.2025.

Buch

Aphra Behn,
Plays 1676-1678: Volume 2, Plays 1676-1678

Aphra Behn's career in the Restoration theatre extended over nearly two full decades, and encompassed a remarkable generic range and diversity. The plays in this volume, published and performed between 16…

lieferbar ab 30.11.2025.

Buch

The Cambridge History of Australian Poetry

The Cambridge History of Australian Poetry offers an authoritative and comprehensive engagement with poetries that range from some of the world's oldest to significant innovations of the twenty-first cent…

lieferbar ab 31.1.2026.

Buch

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature and Empire

The volume outlines modern British literature's relation to global empire from the 16th century to the present. Spanning the interactions between Britain, Europe, and the world outside, in Asia, Africa, A…

lieferbar ab 4.12.2025.

Buch

Céline Sabiron
Unveiling Lady Scott

This Element sheds new light on Walter Scott's work by investigating the French influence of his wife, Charlotte Charpentier, later Lady Scott, through her transcultural upbringing and international conne…

lieferbar ab 30.11.2025.

Buch

John Havard
Late Romanticism and the End of Politics

In the late Romantic age, demands for political change converged with thinking about the end of the world. This book examines writings by Lord Byron, Mary Shelley and their circle that imagined the end, f…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch