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ISBN: 9780199574773 - T.S. Eliot and Early Modern Literature T.S. Eliot and Early Modern Literature
Steven Matthews

ISBN10: 0199574774  ISBN13: 9780199574773
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 15 May 2013
T.S. Eliot and Early Modern Literature provides a comprehensive discussion of the engagement of Eliot with that earlier English literary period which he declared to be his favourite. It offers a full sense of the critical and literary context... More

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ISBN: 9780708326084 - Welsh Gothic Welsh Gothic
Jane Aaron

ISBN10: 0708326080  ISBN13: 9780708326084
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 15 May 2013
Drawing upon both Welsh- and English-language materials, Welsh Gothic explores the diverse ways in which Wales has been represented in Gothic literature from the late eighteenth century to the present day. Welsh Gothic, the first study of its... More

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ISBN: 9781137290106 - Visions of Britain, 1730-1830 Visions of Britain, 1730-1830
Sebastian Mitchell

ISBN10: 1137290102  ISBN13: 9781137290106
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 14 May 2013
This is a revisionist study of the literary and visual representation of the nation in the century following the formation of the British state. It argues that the most engaging accounts of Great Britain subject their imagery to sustained artistic... More

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ISBN: 9781137027658 - The Celtic Revival in Shakespeare's Wake The Celtic Revival in Shakespeare's Wake
Adam Putz

ISBN10: 1137027657  ISBN13: 9781137027658
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 14 May 2013
This book reconsiders the Celtic Revival by examining appropriations of Shakespeare, using close readings of works by Arnold, Dowden, Yeats and Joyce to reveal the pernicious manner in which the discourse of Anglo-Irish cultural politics informed... More

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ISBN: 9780199861125 - Fictions of Autonomy Fictions of Autonomy
Andrew Goldstone

ISBN10: 0199861129  ISBN13: 9780199861125
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 10 May 2013
Fictions of Autonomy presents a revisionary account of aesthetic autonomy and transnational modernism with a range of readings that includes works by Wilde, Eliot, Joyce, Barnes, and Stevens alongside writings by theorists like Adorno and de Man. More

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ISBN: 9780226015842 - Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages
Eleanor Johnson

ISBN10: 022601584X  ISBN13: 9780226015842
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 10 May 2013
Literary scholars often avoid category of aesthetic in discussions of ethics, believing that aesthetic judgments can vitiate analyses of a literary work's sociopolitical heft. This title reveals that aesthetics formal aspects of literary language... More

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ISBN: 9781118492130 - A Concise Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Drama A Concise Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Drama
Nadine Holdsworth Nadine Holdsworth, Mary Luckhurst

ISBN10: 1118492137  ISBN13: 9781118492130
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 10 May 2013
Focusing on major and emerging playwrights, institutions, and various theatre practices this Concise Companion examines the key issues in British and Irish theatre since 1979. Focusing on major and emerging playwrights, institutions... More

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ISBN: 9780521687836 - Reading 'Piers Plowman' Reading 'Piers Plowman'
Emily Steiner

ISBN10: 0521687837  ISBN13: 9780521687836
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 09 May 2013
A lucid and comprehensive study of 'Piers Plowman', one of the most magnificent literary works of the Middle Ages. Reading 'Piers Plowman' is an indispensable scholarly guide to a magnificent - and notoriously difficult - medieval poem. More

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ISBN: 9781603849388 - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft Philip Barnard

ISBN10: 1603849386  ISBN13: 9781603849388
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 08 May 2013
This edition features a shrewd, annotated abridgment of Mary Wollstonecrafts A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) accompanied by an array of texts that help situate the Vindication in its political, historical, and intellectual contexts. More

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ISBN: 9780230391468 - Literature, Journalism and Liberal Culture, 1886-1916 Literature, Journalism and Liberal Culture, 1886-1916
Jock Macleod

ISBN10: 023039146X  ISBN13: 9780230391468
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 07 May 2013
This book examines the impact of the new liberalism on English literary discourse from the fin-de-siecle to World War One. It maps out an extensive network of journalists, men of letters and political theorists, showing how their shared political... More