English Literary Classics – Bücher, CDs, Blu-ray Discs und mehr, Seite 8

Elizabeth Scott-Baumann
Sex and Style

A new literary history that places women writers at the center of poetic theory and practice in English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuriesMany of the terms we use today to describe poet…

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Alexis Chema
Adorned

Ornamental verses abound in Romantic-era commonplace books, albums, epitaphs, pamphlets, personal and commercial anthologies, newspapers, magazines, and periodicals--that is, in the repositories where his…

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Abigail Williams
Reading It Wrong

"How eighteenth-century literature depended on misinterpretation--and how this still shapes the way we read. Reading It Wrong is a new history of eighteenth-century English literature that explores w…

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Alexis Chema
Adorned

Ornamental verses abound in Romantic-era commonplace books, albums, epitaphs, pamphlets, personal and commercial anthologies, newspapers, magazines, and periodicals--that is, in the repositories where his…

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Jeffrey F Keuss,
Activism and the Literary Self in 20th- And 21st-Century Literature

Exploring how Shusaku Endo, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Thomas Merton, Marilynne Robinson, Cormac McCarthy, and Octavia E. Butler engage with social justice and activism, this book explores the significant role tha…

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Rachel Cusk

Rachel Cusk is one of the most critically acclaimed and controversial contemporary British authors. Her diverse body of work offers a striking portrait of trends in 21st-century literature, and the histor…

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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…

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Kate Loveman
The Strange History of Samuel Pepys's Diary

"Kate Loveman explores the creation of the most famous English diary, how it came to be published, and the many remarkable roles it has since played in British culture. In so doing, she shows how Pep…

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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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Megan Peiser
British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical

How did book reviews shape the fate of novels and their authors during the height of women's literary influence?At the turn of the nineteenth century, British women novelists were publishing more fiction …

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Dion Dobrzynski,
Forest Ecology and Fantasy Fiction

Examining books by William Morris, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Ursula K. Le Guin, three of the most influential writers of the modern fantasy tradition, this book explores how fantasy writers engage with forest…

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Spencer Jordan,
Metamodernism and the Postdigital in the Contemporary Novel

Drawing on a range of authors that includes Zadie Smith, Sally Rooney, Ben Lerner, Ali Smith, Tom McCarthy, Jennifer Egan and Kazuo Ishiguro, this book provides an innovative and original analysis of the …

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Ellen Scheible,
Body Politics in Contemporary Irish Women's Fiction

Exploring twentieth- and twenty-first century texts that wrestle with the Irish domestic interior as a sexualized and commodified space, this book provides readings of the power and authority of the femin…

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Joel Merriner,
Illustrating the Lord of the Rings in the Soviet Bloc

"A comprehensive history and analysis of the Soviet illustrated editions of The Lord of the Rings published 1981 - 1993, this book explores these works against a backdrop of state censorship, restric…

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David Macgregor
Sherlock Holmes

New Edition with index added.Picking up the trail with the incredibly influential films of Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, Volume II goes on to explore the antiheroic Sherlock Holmes films of the 1970s, a…

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James A W Heffernan
Politics and Literature at the Dawn of World War II

"The first comprehensive study of how the outbreak of the Second World War shaped the literary work of American, English, and European writers during the first years of the war, before its outcome wa…

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Elizabeth Ludlow,
Prayer and Embodiment in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing

In the 19th century, an era that saw a reconfiguration of the relationship between the self, the world and the divine, women writers probed the theological depths of embodied faith in new ways through poe…

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Penny Bradshaw
An A-Z of Beatrix Potter

A lively way into the works of beloved children's author Beatrix Potter, this book provides fresh understanding of her writing and its legacies via twenty six alphabetically arranged and interlinked essay…

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Nicholas Jenkins
The Island

Nicholas Jenkins explores war, love, and politics in the early works of W. H. Auden, one of the twentieth century's most controversial and moving poets. Auden's poems embraced both haunted meditations on …

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Penny Bradshaw
An A-Z of Beatrix Potter

A lively way into the works of beloved children's author Beatrix Potter, this book provides fresh understanding of her writing and its legacies via twenty six alphabetically arranged and interlinked essay…

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