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This lively, accessible book is the first to explore Victorian literature through scent and perfume, presenting an extensive range of well-known and unfamiliar texts in intriguing and imaginative new ways that make us re-think literature's relation with the senses....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-10-20
ePub
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38,94€
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This lively, accessible book is the first to explore Victorian literature through scent and perfume, presenting an extensive range of well-known and unfamiliar texts in intriguing and imaginative new ways that make us re-think literature's relation with the senses....
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-10-11
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38,94€
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Lying in Early Modern English Culture is a major study of ideas of truth and falsehood in early modern England from the advent of the Reformation to the aftermath of the failed Gunpowder Plot. The period is characterised by panic and chaos when few had any idea how...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-09-07
ePub
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25,55€
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Lying in Early Modern English Culture is a major study of ideas of truth and falsehood in early modern England from the advent of the Reformation to the aftermath of the failed Gunpowder Plot. The period is characterised by panic and chaos when few had any idea how...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-09-01
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27,98€
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This pioneering Handbook offers a comprehensive consideration of the dynamic relationship between English literature and religion in the early modern period. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were the most turbulent times in the history of the British church and,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-07-03
ePub
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38,94€
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This Handbook triangulates the disciplines of history, legal history, and literature to produce a new, interdisciplinary framework for the study of early modern England. Scholars of early modern English literature and history have increasingly found that an...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-06-29
ePub
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38,94€
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This pioneering Handbook offers a comprehensive consideration of the dynamic relationship between English literature and religion in the early modern period. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were the most turbulent times in the history of the British church and,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-06-22
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38,94€
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This Handbook triangulates the disciplines of history, legal history, and literature to produce a new, interdisciplinary framework for the study of early modern England. Scholars of early modern English literature and history have increasingly found that an...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-06-15
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38,94€
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Sybil, or The Two Nations is one of the finest novels to depict the social problems of class-ridden Victorian England. The book's publication in 1845 created a sensation, for its immediacy and readability brought the plight of the working classes sharply to the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-04-06
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11,15€
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Focusing on literary and cultural texts from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth, Patrick R. O'Malley argues that in order to understand both the literature and the varieties of nationalist politics in nineteenth-century Ireland, we must understand the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-03-01
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70,58€
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Focusing on literary and cultural texts from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth, Patrick R. O'Malley argues that in order to understand both the literature and the varieties of nationalist politics in nineteenth-century Ireland, we must understand the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-03-01
ePub
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-30%
57,19€
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Sybil, or The Two Nations is one of the finest novels to depict the social problems of class-ridden Victorian England. The book's publication in 1845 created a sensation, for its immediacy and readability brought the plight of the working classes sharply to the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-02-09
ePub
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-40%
11,15€
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What is modernity? Where are modernitys points of origin? Where are its boundaries? And what lies beyond those boundaries? Allegory and Enchantment explores these broad questions by considering the work of English writers at the threshold of modernity, and by...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-01-19
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63,28€
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What is modernity? Where are modernitys points of origin? Where are its boundaries? And what lies beyond those boundaries? Allegory and Enchantment explores these broad questions by considering the work of English writers at the threshold of modernity, and by...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-01-19
ePub
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54,75€
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This study focuses on Louis MacNeice's creative and critical engagement with other Irish poets during his lifetime. It draws on extensive archival research to uncover the previously unrecognised extent of the poet's contact with Irish literary mores and networks. Poetic...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-09-17
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88,84€
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Elaborate analogies between Irish and Jewish history, between Irish and Jewish subjectivities, occur with surprising frequency throughout American literature. They recall James Joyce's Leopold Bloom and episodes of Ulysses, Douglas Hyde's analogies during the Celtic...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-06-02
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Writing the Frontier: Anthony Trollope between Britain and Ireland is the first book-length study of the great Victorian novelist's relationship with Ireland, the country which became his second home and was the location of his first personal and professional success....
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-03-19
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26,77€
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'On the banks of the Thames it is a tremendous chapter of accidents'. As Henry James surveys London in 1888, he sums up what had fascinated urban observers for a century: the random and even accidental development of this unprecedented form of human settlement, the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-03-19
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19,46€
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We know that trauma can leave syndromes in its wake. But can the anticipation of violence be a form of violence as well? Tense Future argues that it can-that twentieth-century war technologies and practices, particularly the aerial bombing of population centers,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-03-02
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The Idiots was Joseph Conrad’s first short story and it was written during his honeymoon (1896).
Jean-Piere Bacadou returned from military service to find the family farm run down. He decides to take over from his aged parents… He gets married; his mother dies; and twin...
Editeur :
Atlântico Press
Parution :
2013-12-01
ePub
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