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Catherine Packham
Mary Wollstonecraft and Political Economy

Why was Wollstonecraft's landmark feminist work, the Vindication of the Rights of Woman, categorised as a work of political economy when it was first published? Taking this question as a starting point, M…

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Henry James,
The Aspern Papers and Other Tales, 1884-1888

The nine tales in this collection, published between 1884 and 1888, exemplify James' continuing interest in the art of short fiction. This first scholarly edition provides extensive annotations, a detaile…

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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…

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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…

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John Claiborne Isbell
Staël, Romanticism and Revolution

"Two centuries of sexism obscured Staèel's legacy. John Isbell here restores her reputation as historian, theorist of Romanticism, and Revolutionary, revealing her abolitionist and anti-imperialist c…

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Humour in Verse

Originally published in 1937, this anthology of humorous poems for the younger reader supplements the more serious material found in school anthologies.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Jenny C Mann
The Trials of Orpheus

A revealing look at how the Orpheus myth helped Renaissance writers and thinkers understand the force of eloquence In ancient Greek mythology, the lyrical songs of Orpheus charmed the gods, and compelled…

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Caleb D Molstad
Tasting Religious Thought and Experience in Late-Medieval English Literature

Through an analysis of vernacular metaphors of food and consumption for religious experience and theology in late-fourteenth and early fifteenth century England, Caleb D. Molstad explores what that langua…

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The Bloomsbury Handbook to D. H. Lawrence

"Serving as an overview of Lawrence Studies at present as well as an examination of new approaches and directions, this handbook features essays on interdisciplinary topics like animal studies and me…

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The 1930s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction

With austerity biting hard and fascism on the march at home and abroad, the Britain of the 1930s grappled with many problems familiar to us today. Moving beyond the traditional focus on 'the Auden generat…

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The 1960s

How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during and leading up to the 1960s shape modern British fiction?The 1960s were the "swinging decade": a newly energised youth culture wen…

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The 1950s

How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1950s shape modern British fiction?As Britain emerged from the shadow of war into the new decade of the 1950s, the seeds of profound soc…

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Joseph Conrad's Cultural Legacy

"In 2024 the literary community commemorates the 100th anniversary of the death of Joseph Conrad. This volume of collected essays by leading critics and scholars in the field of Conrad studies as wel…

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British Writing, Propaganda and Cultural Diplomacy in the Second World War and Beyond

This book offers the first sustained analysis of the interactions between British writers, propaganda and culture from the Second World War to the Cold War. It traces the involvement of a series of major …

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Peter Brown
Readers History of English Literature

Presents a personal and thematic journey through English literature from Chaucer to the presentChapter and Verse: A Reader's History of English Literature offers a compelling reimagining of literary histo…

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Alex Johnson
My Year of Reading Welshly

A year's worth of recommendations for reading both classic and new literature from Wales, with discussion questions for book clubs included.Alex Johnson invites you to join him on his year of reading Wels…

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