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This book establishes an argument for deeper attention to the aesthetic qualities of literature, to the question of the relation between the aesthetic and more immediate, practical, and urgent social and political matters. It attempts to establish the intrinsic value of...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-06-16
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The stanzas beginning, 'And did those feet' are among the most famous works written by the Romantic poet and artist, William Blake. Set to music by Hubert Parry in 1916 and renamed, 'Jerusalem', this hymn has become an emblem of Englishness in the past century, and is...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-06-16
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Considers George Orwell's writing about the East, and the presence of the East in his writing.
George Orwell was born in India and served in the Imperial Police in Burma as a young man. Orwell and Empire is a study of his writing about the East and the East in his...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-06-16
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This volume is a study of how the poetry of Chaucer continued to give pleasure in the eighteenth century despite the immense linguistic, literary, and cultural shifts that had occurred in the intervening centuries. It explores translations and imitations of Chaucer's...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-06-16
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Mastering the Revels traces the measures taken by the governments of Elizabeth I, James I, and Charles I to regulate the new phenomenon of fixed playhouses and resident playing companies in London, and to censor their plays. It focuses on the Masters of the Revels,...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-06-16
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What Rosalind Likes begins with the strange ferocity of Elizabethan responses to poetry: a woman named Rosalind expresses scorn for a shepherd's poems, and a character in a play loses his temper and storms off stage at the sound of a blank verse line.What are these...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-06-16
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Mastering the Revels traces the measures taken by the governments of Elizabeth I, James I, and Charles I to regulate the new phenomenon of fixed playhouses and resident playing companies in London, and to censor their plays. It focuses on the Masters of the Revels,...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-06-16
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The meaning of decadence varies with context, depending on what (or who) is understood to have declined, decayed, or degenerated. These negative meanings are familiar from history (the decline and fall of Rome), sociology (the decay of communities), morality (the...
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Oxford University Press
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2022-06-10
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Heinrich von Kleists politische Texte aus den Jahren 1808/1809 werden in der Forschung oft als Ausdruck des bedenklichen Nationalismus gelesen, der an den rassistischen Chauvinismus angrenze. Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht dieses kontrovers diskutierte Problem aus...
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J.B. Metzler
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2022-06-07
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This Pivot book provides a wide-ranging and diverse commentary on issues of legibility (and illegibility) around poetry, antifascist pacifist activism, environmentalism and the language of protest. A timely meditation from poet John Kinsella, the book focuses on...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2022-06-07
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The idea of freedom, changed and contested throughout the ages, has become the staple of liberal democracies and a beacon of hope amidst dark tendencies that endanger the future. This books offers an analysis of freedom in the context of its historical significance for...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2022-06-07
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English Women’s Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700: New Kingdoms of Womanhood uncovers a tradition of women’s utopianism that extends back to medieval women’s monasticism, overturning accounts of utopia that trace its origins solely to Thomas More. As enclosed...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2022-06-06
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A COMPANION TO CHILDREN'S LITERATUREA collection of international, up-to-date, and diverse perspectives on children's literary criticismA Companion to Children's Literature offers students and scholars studying children's literature, education, and youth librarianship...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2022-06-06
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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This collection of essays by leading scholars in Burney studies provides an innovative, interdisciplinary critical consideration of the relationship of one of the major authors of the long English Romantic period with the arts. The encounter was not devoid of tensions...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2022-06-06
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Gothic Romanticism: Wordsworth, Architecture, Politics, Form offers a revisionist account of both Wordsworth and the politics of antiquarianism in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. As a historically-driven study that develops a significant...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2022-06-03
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The second volume of Robert Crawford's magisterial biography of the revolutionary modernist, visionary poet and troubled man, drawing on extensive new sources.In this compelling and meticulous portrait of the twentieth century's most important poet, Robert Crawford...
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Vintage Digital
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2022-06-02
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Das Strafrecht der frühen Neuzeit erfährt zwischen dem beginnenden 17. und dem späten 18. Jahrhundert in Theorie und Praxis grundstürzende Veränderungen. Vor allem im Zuge der Aufklärung wird es entschärft, rationalisiert und teilweise humanisiert. Diese Prozesse werden...
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J.B. Metzler
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2022-06-02
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A broad-based and accessible anthology of travel and colonial writing in the English Renaissance, selected to represent the world-picture of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century readers in England. It includes not just the narratives of discovery of the New World but also...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-06-02
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A broad-based and accessible anthology of travel and colonial writing in the English Renaissance, selected to represent the world-picture of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century readers in England. It includes not just the narratives of discovery of the New World but also...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-06-02
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The aim of this book is to restore to the story of Englishness the lively material interactions between words, bodies, plants, stones, metals, and soil, among other things, that would have characterized it for the early medieval English themselves. In particular, each...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-06-02
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