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Dennis Denisoff
Decadent Ecology in British Literature and Art, 1860-1910

Casting fresh light on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British art, literature, ecological science and paganism, Decadent Ecology reveals the pervasive influence of decadence and paganism on …

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Douglas Clark
The Will in English Renaissance Drama

Douglas Clark reveals how moments of willing and will-making pervade English Renaissance drama and play a crucial role in the depiction of selfhood, sin, sociality, and succession. Exploring the dramatic …

lieferbar ab 31.8.2025.

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Eavan Boland,
Citizen Poet

Eavan Boland was a trailblazing poet, critic, teacher, and essayist. Carving a path for the next generation, she broke open the male-dominated canon of Irish literature and mapped her poetic journey throu…

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Paul Joseph Zajac
Emotion and the Self in English Renaissance Literature

This book offers the first full-length study of early modern contentment, the emotional and ethical principle that became the gold standard of English Protestant psychology and an abiding concern of Engli…

lieferbar ab 19.6.2025.

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Kylie M. Murray
The Making of the Scottish Dream Vision

This book covers dreams and visions in prose, poetry, Scots, Latin, and English, plus works that do not explicitly contain dreams or visions alongside those that do. It shows how Scotland made its own dre…

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The Cambridge History of the British Essay

"This book provides multiple perspectives on a key form of public discourse, addressing the essay's postcolonial (Irish, Indian, African, American) and gendered contexts, its material manifestations in pr…

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Lee M Jenkins,
Great War Modernists

"Contesting the binaries that still exist between modernist and First World War writing, this critical group study of D.H. Lawrence, H.D. and Richard Aldington offers a fresh perspective on the relationsh…

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Danielle A St Hilaire
The Art of Pity

"The late 16th and early 17th centuries in England were a time of substantial anxiety over the value of reading and writing literature. The Art of Pity argues that English early modern literature made a p…

lieferbar ab 28.5.2025.

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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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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…

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The Cambridge Guide to Global Medieval Travel Writing

The Middle Ages laid the foundations for the long European and Middle Eastern history of voyaging, colonialism, and expansion: the Papal embassies that took over a year of overland travel to reach Mongoli…

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Nicola Kirkby
Railway Infrastructure and the Victorian Novel

From 1830 onwards, railway infrastructure and novel infrastructure worked together to set nineteenth-century British society moving in new directions. At the same time, they introduced new periods of rela…

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Northrop Frye
Fearful Symmetry

The landmark book that situates Blake’s poetry within the intellectual movements of his day and unlocks his symbolism for modern readers Since it was first published, Northrop Frye’s Fearful Symmetry has…

lieferbar ab 23.9.2025.

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Emma Parker,
Life Writing and the End of Empire

The dismantlement of the British Empire had a profound impact on many celebrated white Anglophone writers of the twentieth century, particularly those who were raised in former British colonial territorie…

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Leith Davis
Jacobitism and Cultural Memory, 1688-1820

This Element has three objectives. First, it highlights the diversity of the nature of Jacobitism in the long eighteenth century by drawing attention to multi-media representations of Jacobitism and also …

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Simon Goldhill
Queer Cambridge

Queer Cambridge recounts the untold story of a gay community living, for many decades, at the very heart of the British Establishment. Making effective use of chiefly forgotten archival sources - includin…

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Harry R McCarthy
Boy Actors in Early Modern England

Boy Actors in Early Modern England: Skill and Stagecraft in the Theatre provides a new approach to the study of early modern boy actors, offering a historical re-appraisal of these performers' physical sk…

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Ulrika Maude
Samuel Beckett and Medicine

"Offers the first sustained analysis of Beckett's abiding interest in medicine and its impact on the form and content of his work. The book advances new readings of Beckett's poetry, prose and drama, draw…

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Leith Davis
Jacobitism and Cultural Memory, 1688-1820

This Element has three objectives. First, it highlights the diversity of the nature of Jacobitism in the long eighteenth century by drawing attention to multi-media representations of Jacobitism and also …

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Mary Going
The Eternal Wanderer

The Eternal Wanderer: Christian Negotiations in the Gothic Mode provides new ways of reading the Gothicisation of the Wandering Jew. It argues that early Gothic writing conjured iterations of this figure …

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