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This companion is the first book of its kind to focus on the whole of European Romanticism. Describes the way in which the Romantic Movement swept across Europe in the early nineteenth century. Covers the national literatures of France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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This inspiring survey challenges conventional ways of viewing the Victorian novel. Provides time maps and overviews of historical and social contexts. Considers the relationship between the Victorian novel and historical, religious and bibliographic writing. Features...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction offers an authoritative overview of contemporary British fiction in its social, political, and economic contexts. Focuses on the fiction that has emerged since the late 1970s, roughly since the start of the Thatcher...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
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Written by a leading critic, this invigorating introduction to modernist American poetry conveys the excitement that can be generated by a careful reading of modernist poems. Encourages readers to identify with the modernists’ sense of the revolutionary...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Wiley Blackwell Introductions to Literature
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This concise Companion offers an innovative approach to understanding the Modernist literary mind in Britain, focusing on the intellectual and cultural contexts, which shaped it. Offers an innovative approach to understanding the Modernist literary mind in Britain....
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
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The two plays presented in full in this volume – Wycherley'sThe Country Wife and Congreve'sThe Way of the World – illustrate the evolution of Restoration comedy between 1675 and 1700. Includes full texts of Wycherley'sThe Country Wife and Congreve'sThe Way of the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Blackwell Essential Literature
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This concise and lively survey introduces students with no prior knowledge to Chaucer, and particularly to The Canterbury Tales. Provides essential facts about Chaucer, as well as a framework for thinking about his poetry. Encourages an engaged reading of The Canterbury...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Wiley Blackwell Introductions to Literature
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Medieval Lyric is a colourful collection of lyrical poems, carols, and traditional British ballads written between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, together with some twentieth-century American versions of them. A lively and engaging collection of lyrical poems,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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A Companion to Charles Dickens concentrates on the historical, ideological, and social forces that defined Dickens’s world. Puts Dickens’s work into its literary, historical, and social contexts Traces the development of Dickens’s career as a journalist and novelist...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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This inspiring survey challenges conventional ways of viewing the Victorian novel. Provides time maps and overviews of historical and social contexts. Considers the relationship between the Victorian novel and historical, religious and bibliographic writing. Features...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature
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The Companion to the Victorian Novel provides contextual and critical information about the entire range of British fiction published between 1837 and 1901. Provides contextual and critical information about the entire range of British fiction published during the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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The Concise Companion to Feminist Theory introduces readers to the broad scope of feminist theory over the last 35 years. Introduces readers to the broad scope of feminist theory over the past 35 years. Guides students along the cutting edge of current feminist theory....
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
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Revenge Drama in European Renaissance and Japanese Theatre is a collection of essays that both explores the tradition of revenge drama in Japan and compares that tradition with that in European Renaissance drama. Why are the two great plays of each tradition, plays...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-04-14
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What happened to beauty? How did the university literature classroom turn into a seminar on politics? Focusing on such writers as Don DeLillo, Virginia Woolf, and James Merrill, this book examines what has been lost to literature as a discipline, and to literary...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-04-14
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Race and Identity in Hemingway s Fiction explores how Hemingway negotiates race as a defining element of American identity. His interest in race and racial identity emerged in his writing and his personal life, through attention to skin color, performance of racial...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-04-14
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This volume collects four sharp philosophical essays by Ilan Stavans on the acquisition of knowledge in multi-ethnic environments, the role that dictionaries play in the preservation of memory, the function of libraries in the electronic age, and the uses of censorship....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-04-14
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In early modern Europe it has been estimated that up to one in two children did not survive to the age of ten.In the light of this high mortality rate, some historians have argued that parents did not form close relationships with their children, especially the very...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-04-10
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Demosthenes' Philippic I, delivered between 351 B.C. - 350 B.C., was the first speech by a prominent politician against the growing power of Philip II of Macedon. Along with the other Philippics of Demosthenes', it is arguably one of the finest deliberative speeches...
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Oxford University Press
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2008-04-03
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Analyzing real, speculative, and imaginary schemes of migration to and from Britain, this book addresses three interrelated movements: between France and Britain after the French Revolution, between Britain and North America also after the Revolution, and between West...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-03-31
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This book draws on a range of critical approaches, including cultural anthropology, psychoanalytic theory, political justice theory, and feminist theory, to consider the ways that strategies of death denial and their compensatory consolations offer insight into the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-03-31
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