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A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture, c.1350-c.1500 challenges readers to think beyond a narrowly defined canon and conventional disciplinary boundaries. A ground-breaking collection of newly-commissioned essays on medieval literature and culture. ...
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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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A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945-2000 serves as an extended introduction and reference guide to the British and Irish novel between the close of World War II and the turn of the millennium. Covers a wide range of authors from Samuel Beckett to Salman...
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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 concise companion provides a succinct introduction to Chaucer's major works, the contexts in which he wrote, and to medieval thought more generally. Opens with a general introductory section discussing London life and politics, books and authority, manuscripts and...
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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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A Companion to the Eighteenth-century Novel furnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral contexts. An up-to-date resource for the study of the eighteenth-century novel Furnishes readers with a...
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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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Inside Old English: Essays in Honour of Bruce Mitchell offers readers a comprehensive insight into the world of Old English. Brings together original essays written by prominent specialists in the field in honour of Bruce Mitchell, the eminent Oxford scholar and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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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...
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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
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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...
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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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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...
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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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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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In God and Mystery in Words David Brown uses the way in which poetry and drama have in the past opened people to the possibility of religious experience as a launch pad for advocating less wooden approaches to Christian worship today. So far from encouraging imagination...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-03-21
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In God and Mystery in Words David Brown uses the way in which poetry and drama have in the past opened people to the possibility of religious experience as a launch pad for advocating less wooden approaches to Christian worship today. So far from encouraging imagination...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-03-20
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This major survey of Old Norse-Icelandic literature and culture demonstrates the remarkable continuity of Icelandic language and culture from medieval to modern times. Comprises 29 chapters written by leading scholars in the field Reflects current debates among Old...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-03-11
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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