Manchester University Press, 2011. - 240 p. This comprehensive study of A. S. Byatt’s work spans virtually her entire career and offers insightful readings of all of Byatt’s works of fiction up to and including her Man-Booker-shortlisted novel The Children’s Book (2009). The authors combine an accessible overview of Byatt’s oeuvre to date with close critical analysis of all her...
The Description of the UK Climate and factors which influence the climate of Britain. The description of different seasons in classical literature and children’s books. The weather in different months and its description in classical literature and children’s books. The theme of the weather in everyday speech. Senior Project.
Hugh Seymour Walpole was an English novelist. A prolific writer, he published thirty-six novels, five volumes of short stories, two plays and three volumes of memoirs. His skill at scene-setting, his vivid plots, his high profile as a lecturer and his driving ambition brought him a large readership in the United Kingdom and North America. A best-selling author in the 1920s and...
William Somerset Maugham was born and spent his childhood in Paris. W.S. Maugham’s mastership as a short story writer is universally acknowledged. His skill in creating original human characters is combined with beauty and refinement of style and language. Yet, Maugham’s outlook is limited. His attitude towards what he describes is that of a detached observer. His best books...
The text under analysis special duties is a short piece of fiction written by Henry Graham Greene. The author investigates person’s character, his inner world. After a heavy disease he decided to engage a person who would gain indulgencies for him. As a matter of fact, he tries to delegate responsibility, and engages a woman as assistant confidential secretary, who must be...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. - 270 p. Hundreds of writers in the English-speaking world of the seventeenth century imagined alternative ideal societies. Sometimes they did so by exploring fanciful territories, such as theworld in the moon or the nations of the Antipodes; but sometimes they composed serious disquisitions about the here and now, proposing how England or its...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 253 p. — (Semiotics and Popular Culture). Introduction: The Forensic Gothic. The House of the Seven Gables: Wrongful Convictions and Secondary Deviation. Bleak House: Authorship Attribution and Suspectology. “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”: Forensic Interviewing and Crime Scene Continuity. “The Mystery of Marie Rogêt”: Holdback Evidence and the...
New York: Palgrave Pivot, 2012 — 103 p. — ISBN10: 1137311622; ISBN13: 978-1137311627. More than three centuries later, Jonathan Swift's writing remains striking and relevant. In this engaging study, Atkins brings forty-plus years of critical experience to bear on some of the greatest satires ever written, revealing new contexts for understanding post-Reformation reading...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 187 p. Post/modern Dracula explores the postmodern in Bram Stoker s Victorian novel and the Victorian in Francis Ford Coppola s postmodern film to demonstrate how the century that separates the two artists binds them more than it divides them. What are the postmodern elements of Stoker s novel? Where are the Victorian traits in...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001. — 292 p. — ISBN10: 0521006643; ISBN13: 978-0521006644. Reid Barbour's study takes a fresh look at English Protestant culture in the reign of Charles I (1625 1649). In the decades leading into the civil war and the execution of their monarch, English writers explored the experience of a Protestant life of holiness, in terms of...
Wiley, 2011. — 307 p. — (Blackwell philosophy and popculture). — ISBN: 978-0-470-62734-1, 978-0-470-39825-8, 978-0-470-62708-2, 978-0-470-62735-8. Harry Potter has been heralded as one of the most popular book series of all time and the philosophical nature of Harry, Hermione, and Ron's quest to rid the world of its ultimate evil is one of the many things that make this series...
Second Edition. Cambridge University Press, 2004. - 313 p. Gillian Beer’s landmark book demonstrates how Darwin overturned fundamental cultural assumptions by revising the stories he inherited, how George Eliot, Thomas Hardy and other writers pursued and resisted the contradictory implications of his narratives, and how the stories he produced about natural selection and the...
McFarland, 2015. — 232 p. The social relations, societal structures and existential conundrums in the world of Harry Potter novels reflect our own. When the authoritarianism of Hogwarts falls upon Harry, it is an echo of disciplinary practices in real-world high schools. The economic inequities of the wizarding world mirror those of modern societies. The art, literature and...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 286 p. This original book examines the way in which the Romantic period’s culture of posterity inaugurates a tradition of writing which demands that the poet should write for an audience of the future: the true poet, a figure of neglected genius, can only be properly appreciated after death. Andrew Bennett argues that this involves a radical...
London: Routledge, 1994 — 197 p. Elizabeth I was one of the most powerful women rulers in European history. What can feminism reveal about the attitudes of her male subjects towards this enigmatic figure? Through readings of key Elizabethan texts by Lyly, Ralegh, Chapman, Shakespeare, and Spenser, Philippa Berry shows that while Elizabeth's combination of chastity with...
Bloom’s Literary Criticism, 2011. — 109 p. J.R.R. Tolkien drew on his professorial expertise in Anglo-Saxon literature and the early mythology and folklore of Great Britain in creating this popular classic centering on the perils of Bilbo Baggins. Bilbo became one of the author's most enduring and vividly realized creations in this precursor to the legendary The Lord of the...
Routledge & Kegan Paul : London and Henley, 1979. — 256 p. — ISBN: O 7100 0436 2. The Breaking of Form. Harold Bloom Shelley Disfigured. Paul de Man Living On. Jacques Derrida Words, Wish, Worth: Wordsworth. Geoffrey H.Hartman The Critic as Host. J.Hillis Miller
Infobase Publishing, 2007. — 235 p. — (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations). Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre", published in October 1847, was an immediate success, going into second and third printings by spring of 1848. Even Queen Victoria, according to her diary, read the story to Prince Albert until midnight. The tale of the "poor, obscure, plain, and little" governess,...
2nd ed., updated. — Infobase Publishing, 2007. — 203 p. — (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations). Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights", set in the raw and frightening beauty of the English moors, is the story of two lovers drawn together from the moment they meet. Their love is consuming and destructive, forbidden and inescapable, making Bronte's tale a sweeping classic of...
Updated Edition. — Infobase Publishing, 2007. — 268 p. — (Bloom’s Modern Critical Views). My Introduction celebrates Chaucer’s powers of characterization, surpassed only by Shakespeare’s, which they influenced. The most eminent scholar-critic of Chaucer, E. Talbot Donaldson, superbly summarizes the complexities of how Troilus and Criseyde concludes. Robert Worth Frank, Jr.,...
Oxford University Press, 1997. — 198 p. — ISBN: 9780195102116. Nearly all literary criticism of the First World War contends, either directly or indirectly, with Paul Fussell's classic account in The Great War and Modern Memory (London: Oxford University Press, 1975). Indeed, the status of Fussell's thesis in studies of the war can hardly be overstated: although in rare cases...
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 299 p. A most thorough study of the Elizabethan Tragedy of Revenge, its origins, development, the ethical influence affecting it and the inter-relations of the plays. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the...
Chelsea House Pub (T)., 2008. — 281 p. Emily, Anne, and Charlotte Brontë were three sisters who left an indelible mark on the literature of their age. Collectively, their novels give voice to often-isolated individuals who struggle to be heard and reconcile their own needs and desires with the expectations and double standards of their times. Bloom's How to Write about the...
Publisher: Chelsea House Pub (T). Publication date: 2008-11. Number of pages: 281. Emily, Anne, and Charlotte Brontë were three sisters who left an indelible mark on the literature of their age. Collectively, their novels give voice to often-isolated individuals who struggle to be heard and reconcile their own needs and desires with the expectations and double standards of...
London: Bloomsbury, 2017. — 204 p. In his attitude toward religion, George Orwell has been characterised in various terms: as an agnostic, humanist, secular saint or even Christian atheist. Drawing on the full range of his public and private writings - from major works such as Keep the Aspidistra Flying, 1984 and Down and Out in Paris and London to his shorter journalism and...
372. Read and Write (Approaching Level) is an interactive worktext for students below grade level which provides additional language and concept support. It contains authentic literature and nonfiction with substantive, differentiated, and scaffolded support at point of use.
432 p. Read and Write (Approaching Level) is an interactive worktext for students below grade level which provides additional language and concept support. It contains authentic literature and nonfiction with substantive, differentiated, and scaffolded support at point of use. The Teacher Edition includes an answer key and other teacher features.
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2009. – 168 p. The Venerable Bede is a crucial figure for Anglo-Saxonists, arguably the most important, known character from the period. A scholar of international standing from an early period of the Anglo-Saxon church (c. 672-732), he was the author not only of the well-known Ecclesiastical History of the English People, but also of scriptural...
Blackwell Publishers Ltd., 2002. — 533 p. The Contributors Abbreviations of Chaucer’s Works The Idea of a Chaucer Companion Peter Brown Afterlife Carolyn Collette Authority Andrew Galloway Bodies Linda Ehrsam Voigts Chivalry Derek Brewer Christian Ideologies Nicholas Watson Comedy Laura Kendrick Contemporary English Writers James Simpson Crisis and Dissent Alcuin Blamires...
History Press, 2015. Quality: originally electronic. A biography of the real-life detective who may have inspired Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie. Who was the Victorian super-sleuth "Paddington" Pollaky? In fiction, he has featured in a Gilbert & Sullivan opera and in the bestselling novel The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher. In reality, he was a contradiction: a man of...
N.-Y.: Parkstone International, 2012. — 256 p. A major figure of the Romantic Movement, the British artist William Blake (1757-1827) was at once a painter, designer, engraver and poet. He devoted himself to the illustration of his literary works, and his texts developed following the lines of his engravings and fantastic drawings, becoming veritable illuminated manuscripts....
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 219 p. Although we have come to regard clinical and Romantic as oppositional terms, Romantic literature and clinical medicine were fed by the same cultural configurations. In the pre-Darwinian nineteenth century, writers and doctors developed an interpretive method that negotiated between literary and scientific knowledge of the natural...
New York: Oxford University Press Inc., 2008. — 1294 p. Written by two of the world's leading Milton scholars, widely praised as "illuminating" (Times Literary Supplement), "seamlessly written (Publishers Weekly), and "a book of permanent value" (Literary Review), and winner of the Milton Society's James Holly Hanford Award, this magnificent biography sheds fresh new light on...
L.: Oldcastle Books, 2013. - 160 p. With the recent successes of Robert Downey, Jr. on the big screen and Benedict Cumberbatch on TV, the popularity of Sherlock Holmes is riding high and here is the essential guide Who is Holmes? The world's most famous detective, a drug addict with a heart as cold as ice, or a millstone around the neck of his creator? He's all of these things...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 329 p. In Religion,Toleration, and British Writing, 1790–1830 Mark Canuel examines the way that Romantic poets, novelists, and political writers criticized the traditional grounding of British political unity in religious conformity. Canuel shows how a wide range of writers including Jeremy Bentham, Ann Radcliffe, Maria Edgeworth, and Lord...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. — 368 p. — ISBN ISBN 978-0-8122-4787-9. In the late eighteenth century, British print culture took a diagrammatic and accentual turn. In graphs of emphasis and tonal inflection, in signs for indicating poetic stress, and in tabulations of punctuation, elocutionists, grammarians, and prosodists deployed new typographic marks and measures...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000. — 288 p. The authorized biography of the creator of Middle-earth. In the decades since his death in September 1973, millions have read The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion and become fascinated about the very private man behind the books. Born in South Africa in January 1892, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was orphaned in...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 277 p. Kate Chedgzoy explores the ways in which women writers of the early modern British Atlantic world imagined, visited, created and haunted textual sites of memory. Asking how women’s writing from all parts of the British Isles and Britain’s Atlantic colonies employed the resources of memory to make sense of the changes that were...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 338 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-82034-9. Sixteen leading scholars provide authoritative chapters on relevant topics of Marlowe's life and works in this complete introduction to the famed pioneer of both the Elizabethan stage and modern English poetry. The essays cover his texts and style, use of classicism, and representations of sexuality and...
Manchester University Press, 2011. - 192 p. Julian Barnes is a comprehensive introductory overview of the novels that situates his work in terms of fabulation and memory, irony and comedy. It pursues a broadly chronological line through Barnes's literary career, but along the way it also shows how certain key thematic preoccupations and obsessions seem to tie Barnes's oeuvre...
USA, 2003 - 295 p. This new collection of the letters that Lewis Carroll wrote to the illustrators and prospective illustrators of his books affords fresh insights into Carroll's complex character, traces the history of the books that became great classics of the Victorian era, and charts the sometimes tempestuous seas of Carroll's relationships with his correspondents....
Fanucci , 2004. — 252 p. — ISBN: 8834710282. Da dove nasce la magia di Harry Potter? Quali sono i modelli per l'Ordine della Fenice? Dove crescono le Mandragole più ripugnanti? Le Pozioni di Piton funzionano davvero? E poi cosa rende Harry un eroe universale? E perché Voldemort ha impresso il Marchio Nero sui mangiamorte? Qual è il trucco preferito dei folletti della...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 160 p. Beloved by children and adults worldwide, the writings of C.S. Lewis have a broad and enduring appeal. Although he is best known for the iconic Chronicles of Narnia series, C. S. Lewis was actually a man of many literary parts. Already well-known as a scholar in the thirties, he became a famous broadcaster during World War Two and wrote...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 240 p. In this book, Mary Jean Corbett explores fictional and nonfictional representations of Ireland’s relationship with England throughout the nineteenth century. Through postcolonial and feminist theory, she considers how cross-cultural contact is negotiated using tropes of marriage and family, and demonstrates how familial rhetoric...
Cambridge Universsity Press 2010-03-31 ISBN: 0521199328 232 p. The late medieval Church obliged all Christians to rebuke the sins of others, especially those who had power to discipline in Church and State: priests, confessors, bishops, judges, the Pope. This practice, in which the injured party had to confront the wrong-doer directly and privately, was known as fraternal...
Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2018. — 235 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-98290-8. This book analyzes the four novels and fifty-six stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle describing the adventures and discoveries of Sherlock Holmes. Michael J. Crowe suggests that nearly all the Holmes stories exhibit the pattern known as a Gestalt shift, in which suddenly Holmes’s efforts...
Harper Collins, 2016. — ISBN: 978-0008129620. "Agatha Christie’s Complete Secret Notebooks" brings together for the first time "Secret Notebooks" and "Murder in the Making", two volumes that explore the fascinating contents of her 73 notebooks. This includes illustrations, deleted extracts, unused ideas, two unpublished Poirot stories and a lost Miss Marple. When Agatha...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007, -209 p. The political and religious upheavals of the seventeenth century forced an unprecedented number of people to flee from England or remain in internal exile. Among these exiles were some of the most important authors in the Anglo-American canon. Christopher D’Addario explores how early modern authors reacted to and wrote about...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 254 p. In Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness, Jenny Davidson considers the arguments that define hypocrisy as a moral and political virtue in its own right. She shows that these were arguments that thrived in the medium of eighteenth-century Britain’s culture of politeness. In the debate about the balance between truthfulness and...
Ed. by David Masson. — London: A. & C. Black, 1896. — 474 p. Autobiography Continued from 1803 to 1808 . Oxford. German Studies and Kant in particular. Literary and Lake Reminiscences . A Manchester Swedenborgian and a Liverpool Literary Coterie. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The Lake Poets: William Wordsworth. The Lake Poets: William Wordsworth and Robert Southey. The Lake Poets:...
Ed. by David Masson. — London: A. & C. Black, 1896. — 474 p. Autobiography Continued from 1803 to 1808 . Oxford. German Studies and Kant in particular. Literary and Lake Reminiscences . A Manchester Swedenborgian and a Liverpool Literary Coterie. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The Lake Poets: William Wordsworth. The Lake Poets: William Wordsworth and Robert Southey. The Lake Poets:...
De Agostini, 2006. — 418 p. Schemi riassuntivi e quadri d'approfondimento per memorizzare rapidamente la storia della Letteratura Inglese e americana dalle origini ai giorni nostri. Studiare in sintesi gli scrittori, le scuole, le correnti, le forme e i generi letterari.
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 259 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture). — ISBN: 978-0-521-86265-3. In the nineteenth century, epic poetry in the Homeric style was widely seen as an ancient and anachronistic genre, yet Victorian authors worked to re-create it for the modern world. Simon Dentith explores the relationship between epic and the...
University of Michigan Press, 2011. — 260 p. — ISBN: 978-0-472-02754-5. Oscar Wilde's 1891 symbolist tragedy Salomé has had a rich afterlife in literature, opera, dance, film, and popular culture. Salome's Modernity: Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Transgression is the first comprehensive scholarly exploration of that extraordinary resonance that persists to the present....
Routledge, 1996 - 404 p. The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contempoprary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read the material themselves. ISBN10: 0415134145 ISBN13: 9780415134149 (eng)
Wiley, 2010. - 360 p. Part I: Elementary Beginnings and Background. A Snapshot of Sherlock Holmes and the Stories That Made Him Famous. The Great Detective and His Life in Crime. Arthur Conan Doyle: The Doctor Who Created the Detective. Life in the Days of London Fog. Part II: What a Bunch of Characters! Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Cops, Landladies, and Others: The...
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 259 p. "The importance of Dunseath's study is that it proposes an original interpretation of the allegory of The Faerie Queene, Book V, and a fresh theory of its poetic function... It brings new material into play, and offers a sensible, integrated reading of many of the poem's most important passages, so that it may well prove a pace-setter...
Routledge / Taylor & Francis Group, 2000. — 159 p. ISBN: 0-415-19135-1 (hbk) ISBN: 0-415-19136-X (pbk). If you are studying English literature for A level, for the International Baccalaureate or on an Access course, or are starting a degree in literature, this book is for you. In fact, whatever English literature course you are taking, no matter where you are, this book is not...
288 p. Publisher: Stanford University Press (April 20, 2010) Language: English Romanticism and the Rise of English addresses a peculiar development in contemporary literary criticism: the disappearance of the history of the English language as a relevant topic. Elfenbein argues for a return not to older modes of criticism, but to questions about the relation between literature...
Amsterdam University Press, 2017. — 208 p. — (Imagination Environmental Humanities in Pre‑modern Cultures). - ISBN: 978-9048528387. Literary scholars have traditionally understood landscapes, whether natural or manmade, as metaphors for humanity instead of concrete settings for people's actions. This book accepts the natural world as such by investigating how Anglo-Saxons...
OCR, 2012. — 54 p. OCR has reproduced these exemplar candidate coursework folders to support teachers in interpreting the assessment criteria for the GCE English Literature specification. These exemplars should be read in conjunction with the assessment criteria for unit F662/ F664, and the OCR Report to Centres for unit F662/ 4 from the June 2012 exam series, also available on...
References to fairy tales in the fiction of British' writers Iris Murdoch, Margaret Drabble and A.S. Byatt highlight the importance of human connection, in a modem world where people feel increasingly alienated and alone. Characters in their fiction are continuously tempted toward solitude and withdrawal. Typically, protagonists are distanced from their families, engaged in...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016. — 265 p. — (FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures). — ISBN10: 9027201307. — ISBN13: 978-9027201300 A lively series of spatial turns in literary studies since the 1990s give rise to this engaged and practical book, devoted to the question of how to teach and study the relationship between all sorts of literature and all sorts of...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 248 p. Belief in spirits, demons and the occult was commonplace in the early modern period, as was the view that these forces could be used to manipulate nature and produce new knowledge. In this ground-breaking study, Mary Floyd-Wilson explores these beliefs in relation to women and scientific knowledge, arguing that the early modern English...
Princeton University Press, 2002. — 394 p. — ISBN: 0-691-09996-0. The Satan of Paradise Lost has fascinated generations of readers. This book attempts to explain how and why Milton's Satan is so seductive. It reasserts the importance of Satan against those who would minimize the poem's sympathy for the devil and thereby make Milton orthodox. Neil Forsyth argues that William...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 274 p. This is the first full-length study to examine the links between high Romantic literature and what has often been thought of as a merely popular genre – the Gothic. Michael Gamer offers a sharply focused analysis of how and why Romantic writers drew on Gothic conventions whilst, at the same time, denying their influence in order to...
New York: Open Road Integrated Media, 2010. — 921 p. In this exquisite biography, John Gardner brings to life Geoffrey Chaucer, illuminating his writings and their inspiration like never before. Through exhaustive research and expert storytelling, Gardner takes readers through Chaucer’s varied career - from writing The Canterbury Tales to performing diplomatic work at the...
Second Edition. — London: Yale University Press, 2000. — 719 p. The book examines Victorian literature from a feminist perspective. Authors Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar draw their title from Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, in which Rochester's wife Bertha Mason is kept locked in the attic by her husband. The text specifically examines Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Charlotte and...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 286 p. In Domesticity and Dissent Katharine Gillespie examines writings by seventeenth-century English Puritan women who fought for religious freedom. Seeking the right to preach and prophesy, women such as Katherine Childley, Anna Trapnel, Elizabeth Poole, and Anne Wentworth envisioned the modern political principles of toleration, the...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 266 p. — ISBN: 0-521-15457-X. New work on British Romanticism is often characterized as much by its conscious difference from preceding positions as it is by its approach to or choice of material. As a result, writing neglected or marginalized in one account will be restored to prominence in another, as we reconstruct the past as a history of...
Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. — ISBN: 978-1-137-49310-1 This book examines the socio-political and theatrical conditions that heralded the shift from the margins to the mainstream for black British Writers, through analysis of the social issues portrayed in plays by Kwame Kwei-Armah, debbie tucker green, Roy Williams, and Bola Agbaje
New York, Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 171 p. For students of modern literature, the works of Virginia Woolf are essential reading. In her novels, short stories, essays, polemical pamphlets and in her private letters she explored, questioned and refashioned everything about modern life: cinema, sexuality, shopping, education, feminism, politics and war. Her elegant and...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 485 p. This book explores the foundations of the intellectual renaissance in tenth-century England, including both the English Benedictine reform and the establishment by Æthelwold, Bishop of Winchester (963–84), of the most influential school in late Anglo-Saxon England. The vital early stages of Æthelwold's scholarly career are explored for...
Continuum, 2011. - 193 p. Julian Barnes: Biographical Information. Julian Barnes and the Wisdom of Uncertainty. The Flâneur and the Freeholder: Paris and London in Julian Barnes’s Metroland. Inventing a Way to the Truth: Life and Fiction in Julian Barnes’s Flaubert’s Parrot. ‘A preference for things Gallic’: Julian Barnes and the French Connection. ‘An Ordinary Piece of Magic’:...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 312 p. — ISBN10: 0521540038; ISBN13: 978-0521540032. Sixteen new essays, written by an international array of leading scholars and critics, cover Donne's poetry (erotic, satirical, devotional) and his prose (including his Sermons and occasional letters). Providing studies of his text as well as setting them in the historical...
University Press of Mississippi, 2009. - 212 p. - (Literary Conversations Series). - ISBN10: 1604732040; ISBN13: 9781604732047 Conversations with Julian Barnes collects eighteen interviews, conducted over nearly three decades, by journalists and correspondents throughout the world with the author (b. 1946) of such highly praised novels as Flaubert's Parrot and Arthur & George....
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. - 240 p. This Guide provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of the essential criticism on Julian Barnes's work, drawing from a selection of reviews, interviews, essays and books. Through the presentation and assessment of key critical interpretations and perspectives, the Guide examines the various issues in his work which have aroused...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 278 p. This book discusses the political and social presumptions ingrained in the texts of the Harry Potter series and examines the manner in which they have been received in different contexts and media. The 2nd edition also contains extensive new material which comments on the later books and examines the impact of the phenomenon across the world.
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 225 p. This wide-ranging study investigates the intersections of erotic desire and dramatic form in the early modern period, considering to what extent disruptive desires can successfully challenge, change, or undermine the structures in which they are embedded. Through close readings of texts by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Webster, Middleton,...
Cornell University Library - 404 p. The Physical Geography of Britain Pre-English Britain The Primitive Englishman Anglo-Saxon Britain Anglo-Saxon Literature Norman England Anglo-Norman Literature The Age of Chaucer The Century of Darkness The Age of the Renaissance The Renaissance of English Prose The Dawn of Lyric Poetry The Evolution of the Drama The Age of Elizabeth Sidney...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 200 p. This book examines the ways in which usury was perceived and portrayed as it rose to popularity in Renaissance England, taking into account the works of key literary figures of this period, including Milton and Shakespeare.
Palgrave, Macmillan, 2011. -253 p. History of British ghost stories (history of a literary genre). A History of the Modern British Ghost Story places the ghost story in the contexts of historical period and literary form. It reads ghost stories as continuously engaging with, or even a kind of shadow form of, the novel: as the dominant mode of novelistic writing moves, in the...
Manchester University Press, 2008. - 240 p. In this survey Ian McEwan emerges as one of those rare writers whose works have received both popular and critical acclaim. His novels grace the bestseller lists, and he is well regarded by critics, both as a stylist and as a serious thinker about the function and capacities of narrative fiction.
New York, "Cambridge University Press", 2008, -143 p. As the author of The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch, George Eliot was one of the most admired novelists of the Victorian period, and she remains a central figure in the literary canon today. She was the first woman to write the kind of political and philosophical fiction that had previously been a male preserve, combining...
Apocryphile Press, 2017. — 566 p. Will King Arthur ever return to England? He already has. In the midst of war-torn Britain, King Arthur returned in the writings of the Oxford Inklings. Learn how J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Owen Barfield brought hope to their times and our own in their Arthurian literature. Although studies of the “Oxford Inklings”...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 162 p. This introduction to one of the twentieth century’s most important writers examines Yeats’s poems, plays, and stories in relation to biographical, literary, and historical contexts. Yeats wrote with passion and eloquence about personal disappointments, Ireland’s troubled history, and the modern era’s loss of faith in...
Blackwell Publishing, 2008. — 313 p. Notes on Contributors. Nadine Holdsworth and Mary Luckhurst. National Politics and Identities. Europe in Flux: Exploring Revolution and Migration in British Plays of the 1990s. Geoff Willcocks. ‘I’ll See You Yesterday’: Brian Friel, Tom Murphy. and the Captivating Past. Claire Gleitman. Black British Drama and the Politics of Identity. D....
New York: Oxford University Press Inc., 2005. — 438 p. — ISBN 0–19–818695–9 Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy is the most thorough and detailed life of Marlowe since John Bakeless's in 1942. It has new material on Marlowe in relation to Canterbury, also on his home life, schooling, and six and a half years at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and includes fresh data on his...
Princeton University Press , 2015. — 189 p. Favorite Renaissance condiment at "the great feast of language," the epigram is here presented full-flavored and various in a brilliant study by the late Hoyt Hopewell Hudson. He considers its origins, its nature, how skillfully it was shaped to eulogy and satire alike by the lively minds of its great exponents, Sir Thomas More and...
Conduttore: Nadia Fusini. Trasmissione dall'11 febbraio 2011. Tema: Virginia Woolf e il realismo psicologico. La grande letteratura occidentale raccontata dai protagonisti della cultura contemporanea in 25 puntate. In ogni punta si ripercorrono la vita, le opere, la poetica, le scelte linguistiche e il contesto storico, politico e culturale di riferimento per ogni autore. Da...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 306 p. The past century has witnessed an extraordinary flowering of fiction, poetry and drama from countries previously colonised by Britain, an output which has changed the map of English literature. This introduction, from a leading figure in the field, explores a wide range of Anglophone postcolonial writing from Africa,...
This is a reading comprehension activity guide and answer key for James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl. It contains 28 p. of activities ( 57 total pages including the answer key, assessments, and scoring rubrics). This is one of the most comprehensive reading packets you will find directly related to this book. Included are comprehension questions for each chapter with an...
Princeton University Press , 2015. — 232 p. From a 250 year-old manuscript come these selections from the work of America's first important poet, Edward Taylor of Massachusetts. He was regarded by Mark Van Doren as the writer of "the most interesting American verse before the 19th century." Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 242 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). Ewan James Jones argues that Coleridge engaged most significantly with philosophy not through systematic argument, but in verse. Jones carries this argument through a series of sustained close readings, both of canonical texts such as Christabel and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and also of less...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 173 p. This ambitious study argues that our modern conception of the aesthetic sphere emerged during the era of British and German Romanticism from conflicts between competing models of the liberal state and the cultural nation. The aesthetic sphere is thus centrally connected to ‘‘aesthetic statism,’’ which is the theoretical project of...
Edinburgh University Press, 2009. — 207 p. — (Postcolonial literary studies). — ISBN: 978-0-7486-3455-2. Series Editors’ Preface Timeline Introduction: Towards a Postcolonial History of Eighteenth-century English Literature Postcolonial Studies and Empire Today Nation-formation and Empire in the Eighteenth Century Territory, Trade Routes, War and Great Britain Print and Public...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 216 p. Angela Keane addresses the work of five women writers of the 1790s and its problematic relationship with the canon of Romantic literature. Refining arguments that women’s writing has been overlooked, Keane examines the more complex underpinnings and exclusionary effects of the English national literary tradition. The book explores the...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 316 p. This book offers an original study of the debates which arose in the 1790s about the nature and social role of literature. Paul Keen shows how these debates were situated at the intersection of the French Revolution and a more gradual revolution in information and literacy reflecting the aspirations of the professional classes in...
New York, "Cambridge University Press", 2009, -216 p. Covering a wide variety of dramatic texts and performances from 1550 to 1600, including Shakespeare’s second tetralogy, this book explores moral, historical, and comic plays as contributions to Elizabethan debates on Anglo-foreign relations in England. The economic, social, religious, and political issues that arose from...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 288 p. — ISBN: 978-0199674947. From the early stories, to the great popular triumphs of the Sherlock Holmes tales and the Professor Challenger adventures, the ambitious historical fiction, the campaigns against injustice, and the Spiritualist writings of his later years, Conan Doyle produced a wealth of narratives. He had a worldwide reputation...
Bantam Books, 2011. - 221 p. ISBN: 1590585496 What would happen if you asked eighteen top writers who don’t normally write about Sherlock Holmes, to write about Sherlock Holmes? What if you wrote to them, saying: In 19th century England, a new kind of hero — a consulting detective — blossomed in the mind of an underemployed doctor and ignited the world’s imagination. In the...
Bantam Books, 2011. - 221 p. ISBN: 1590585496 What would happen if you asked eighteen top writers who don’t normally write about Sherlock Holmes, to write about Sherlock Holmes? What if you wrote to them, saying: In 19th century England, a new kind of hero — a consulting detective — blossomed in the mind of an underemployed doctor and ignited the world’s imagination. In the...
Burlesque-Parody-The "Splendid Shilling"-Prior-Pope-Ambrose. Philips-Parodies of Gray's Elegy-Gay. - Defoe-Irony-Ode to the Pillory-The "Comical Pilgrim"-The. "Scandalous Club"-Humorous Periodicals-Heraclitus. Ridens-The London Spy-The British Apollo. - Swift-"Tale of a Tub"-Essays-Gulliver's Travels-Variety. of Swift's Humour-Riddles-Stella's Wit-Directions. for...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 221 p. All of London exploded on the night of 18 May 1900, in the biggest West End party ever seen. The mix of media manipulation, patriotism, and class, race, and gender politics that produced the ‘‘spontaneous’’ festivities of Mafeking Night begins this analysis of the cultural politics of late-Victorian imperialism. Paula M. Krebs examines...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 255 p. In early modern England, religious sorrow was seen as a form of spiritual dialogue between the soul and God, expressing how divine grace operates at the level of human emotion. Through close readings of both Protestant and Catholic poetry, Kuchar explains how the discourses of ªdevout melancholyº helped generate some of the most...
For Continuity is a selection of critical essays by Frank Raymond Leavis, an influential British literary critic of the early-to-mid-twentieth century. prefatory: Marxism and Cultural Continuity. Mass Civilisation and Minority Culture. "The Literary Mind". What's Wrong with Criticism? Babbitt Buys the World. Arnold Bennett: American Version. John Dos Passos. D. H. Lawrence. D....
The great English novelists are Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James and Joseph Conrad.' So begins what is arguably F. R. Leavis's most controversial book, The Great Tradition, an uncompromising critical and polemical survey of English fiction that was first published in 1948. He puts a powerful case for moral seriousness as the necessary criterion for inclusion in any list...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 215 p. This innovative study examines emotional responses to socio-economic pressures as they are revealed in early modern English plays, historical narratives and biographical accounts. These texts yield fascinating insights into the various, often unpredictable, ways in which people coped with the exigencies of credit, debt, mortgaging and...
Sir Walter Scott was the first literary man of a great riding, sporting, and fighting clan. by Richard H. Hutton. Chapter I: ancestry, parentage, and childhood. Chapter II: youth-choice of a profession. Chapter III: love and marriage. Chapter IV: earliest poetry and border minstrelsy. Chapter V: Scott’s mature poems. Chapter VI: companions and friends. Chapter VII: first...
Edinburgh University Press, 2007. — ISBN: 978 0 7486 2606 9. "Walter Scott and Modernity" argues that, far from turning away from modernity to indulge a nostalgic vision of the past, Scott uses the past as means of exploring key problems in the modern world. This study includes critical introductions to some of the most widely read poems published in nineteenth-century Britain...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 248 p. — ISBN: 0-521-85861-5. Early modern literature played a key role in the formation of the legal justification for imperialism. As the English colonial enterprise developed, the existing legal tradition of common law no longer solved the moral dilemmas of the new world order, in which England had become, instead of a victim of Catholic...
Penguin Books, 1994. — 256 p. The articles with which David Lodge entertained and enlightened readers of the Independent on Sunday and The Washington Post are now revised, expanded and collected together in book form. The art of fiction is considered under a wide range of headings, such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Time-shift, Magical Realism and...
Harvard: Harvard University Press, 2018. — 465 p. Edward Lear wrote some of the best-loved poems in English, including "The Owl and the Pussycat," but the father of nonsense was far more than a poet. He was a naturalist, a brilliant landscape painter, an experimental travel writer, and an accomplished composer. Sara Lodge presents the fullest account yet of Lear's passionate...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 253 p. This study challenges critical assumptions about the role of religion in shaping women’s experiences of authorship. Feminist critics have frequently been uncomfortable with the fact that conservative religious and political beliefs created opportunities for women to write with independent agency. The seventeenth-century Protestant...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 234 p. Collaborating with the genius of C.S. Lewis, and particularly his brilliant work The Abolition of Man, the authors offer a multi-facetted, interdisciplinary investigation of perennial questions that impact human development and freedom.
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 353 p. Most of these letters are 'finds,' never previously published and serving to deepen and to give order to our awareness of Ford's literary activities and involvements. Professor Ludwig, with lucidity, exactness and wisdom, has provided us with a coherent personal documentation. Originally published in 1965. The Princeton Legacy Library...
Edinburgh University Press, 2011. — 201 p. Series Editors’ Preface Timeline Rethinking the End of Empire Beyond Bloomsbury Little England and Global Englishes Decolonisation and the Cold War: Auden’s ‘Fleet Visit’ From British to US Hegemony: Greene’s The Quiet American From ‘Civilisation’ to ‘Culture’: Churchill and Orwell Reinventing the West: T.S. Eliot The Disappearance of...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 150 p. William Blake (1757‒1827) is one of the most original and influential figures of the Romantic Age, known for his work as an artist, poet and printmaker. Grounding his ideas both in close reading and in the latest scholarship, Saree Makdisi offers an exciting and imaginative approach to reading Blake. By exploring some of the most...
University of South Carolina Press, 2002. — 216 p. — ISBN: 1-57003-436-2. This is a discussion of the work of one of Britain's most highly regarded novelists and the winner of the 1998 Booker Prize. David Malcolm places Ian McEwan's work in the context of British literature's particular dynamism in the last decades of the 20th century. He also examines McEwan's relationship to...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. — 256 p. Rudyard Kipling has been one of the most loved and the most loathed of English writers. Rudyard Kipling: A Literary Life is a study of the forces and influences that shaped his work - including his unusual family background, his role as the laureate of Empire, and the deaths of two of his children - and of his complex relations with a literary...
Palgrave, 2002. — ISBN 0–333–96871–9. This text has established itself as a successful and popular introductory student guide. This fully revised and expanded third edition offers practical help and guidance. It shows the reader how to approach novels, plays and poems, and includes chapters on themes, characters, structure, style, irony and analysis. In addition, sections on...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 235 p. — ISBN: 978-0199574773. T.S. Eliot and Early Modern Literature, for the first time, considers the full imaginative and moral engagement of one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century, T.S. Eliot, with the Early Modern period of literature in English (1580-1630). This engagement haunted Eliot's poetry and critical writing...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 204 p. Why was literature so often defended and defined in early modern England in terms of its ability to provide the Horatian ideal of both profit and pleasure? Robert Matz analyzes Renaissance literary theory in the context of social transformations of the period, focusing on conflicting ideas about gentility that emerged as the English...
British Literature is your gateway to the literature, authors, and time periods featured in your textbook. The resources and activities below will help you dive into British literature, from the earliest Anglo-Saxon poetry to the modern voices of contemporary British writers. Find links to help you with your research projects, learn more about your favorite authors, or get your...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 297 p. This book explores Romantic poetry, and the concept of poetry in the Romantic period, as a locus of debate, defense, and discursive reconfiguration. Maureen McLane shows how the discourse around poetry involved itself intimately with the problem of the human and thus with contemporary discussions and theorizations of Man proposed by...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 368 p. Witty, inspiring, and charismatic, Oscar Wilde is one of the Greats of English literature. Today, his plays and stories are beloved around the world. But it was not always so. His afterlife has given him the legitimacy that life denied him. Making Oscar Wilde reveals the untold story of young Oscar's career in Victorian England and...
Basingtoke: Palgrave Pivot, 2013 — 124 p. — ISBN10: 1137352418; ISBN13: 978-1137352415. This annotated edition of the unpublished letters that Iris Murdoch wrote to Jeffrey Meyers includes her discussion of writers from Conrad to Updike; her quarrel with Rebecca West; and her difficulty with Alzheimer's. With both scholarly insight and personal reflection, this volume will...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 292 p. This ambitious study sheds new light on the way in which the English Romantics dealt with the basic problems of knowledge, particularly as they inherited them from the philosopher David Hume. Kant complained that the failure of philosophy in the eighteenth century to answer empirical scepticism had produced a culture of...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 267 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-19807-3. Reading Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats in this way also alerts us to the fact that finding a common ground between persons, cultures, and historical eras is the precondition, not the product, of interpretation. In other words, if we are to interpret the romantics at all, we are compelled to treat...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 290 p. In Translations of Authority in Medieval English Literature, leading critic Alastair Minnis presents the fruits of a long-term engagement with the ways in which crucial ideological issues were deployed in vernacular texts. The concept of the vernacular is seen as possessing a value far beyond the category of language – as encompassing...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 187 p. — ISBN10: 140397442X; ISBN13: 978-1403974426. This study explores how fortune functions in relation to wider concerns about ethics and eventfulness in the works of Chaucer, Gower, Lydgate and Malory. Introduction: Conceptual Personae On Fortune, Philosophy, and Fidelity to the Event Love and Ethics to Come In Consolations of...
Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. — 329 p. — ISBN: 1-4438-4988-X. In The Marlowe-Shakespeare Continuum, Donna N. Murphy demonstrates how Christopher Marlowe, sometimes in co-authorship with humorist Thomas Nashe, appears to have "become" Shakespeare on a linguistic basis. She documents a sharp, upward learning curve, with the initial penning of works she examines...
London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2017. — 212 p. This book of interdisciplinary essays serves to situate the original Sherlock Holmes, and his various adaptations, in a contemporary cultural context. This collection is prompted by three main and related questions: firstly, why is Sherlock Holmes such an enduring and ubiquitous cultural icon; secondly, why is it that Sherlock...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 246 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-87031-3. A common literary language linked royal absolutism to radical religion and republicanism in seventeenth-century England. Authors from both sides of the civil wars, including Milton, Hobbes, Margaret Cavendish, and the Quakers, adapted the analogy between family and state to support radically different visions...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 290 p. Inspired by the example of his predecessors Chaucer and Gower, John Lydgate articulated in his poetry, prose, and translations many of the most serious political questions of his day. In the fifteenth century Lydgate was the most famous poet in England, filling commissions for the court, the aristocracy, and the guilds. He wrote for an...
It should not be hard for the general reader to understand that the influence which is the theme of this dissertation is real and explicable. If he will but call the roll of his favorite heroes, he will find Sigurd there. In his gallery of wondrous women, he certainly cherishes Brynhild. These poetic creations belong to the English−speaking race, because they belong to the...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan. — 1999 — 223 p. — ISBN10: 0312225237; ISBN13: 978-0312225230. Analysing Texts series. John Donne's poems are some of the most challenging and stimulating in the English literary heritage. One of the Renaissance's most human voices, his reputation as a poet has grown steadily since his death in 1631, fueled by poets like Coleridge, Browning, and...
New York, "Cambridge University Press", 2006. -244 p. In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries the Inns of Court and fashionable London taverns developed a culture of clubbing, urban sociability and wit. The convivial societies that emerged created rituals to define social identities and to engage in literary play and political discussion.Michelle O’Callaghan...
Oxford University Press, 2003. — 200 p. One of the most popular and widely known characters in all of fiction, Sherlock Holmes has an enduring appeal based largely on his uncanny ability to make the most remarkable deductions from the most mundane facts. The very first words that Sherlock Holmes ever says to Dr. Watson are, "How are you? You have been in Afghanistan, I...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 232 p. In this study, Mark Parker proposes that literary magazines should be an object of study in their own right. He argues that magazines such as the LondonMagazine, Blackwood’s EdinburghMagazine, and the New Monthly Magazine, offered an innovative and collaborative space for writers and their work – indeed, magazines became one of the...
Palgrave, 2002. — 183 p. ISBN: 0333791770 A Brief History of English Literature provides a lively introductory guide to English literature from Beowulf to the present day. The authors write in their characteristically lucid style which enables the reader to engage fully with the narrative and easily understand the texts in relation to the social, political and cultural contexts...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 339 p. For writers in the early modern period, thinking about royal favorites inevitably meant thinking about the uneasy intersection of the personal and the public in a political system traditionally organized around patronage and intimacy. Depictions of favoritism in a variety of texts including plays, poems, libels, and pamphlets explore...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012 — 170 p. — ISBN10: 1443840467; ISBN13: 978-1443840460. How can poetry embrace morality through focusing on metaphrasts? What is the relation between an allummette and the alpha rhythm? Why is it that money has turned into a metonym of goodness and success? And above all, is it still possible to think of the human subject as a...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. - 663 p. This comprehensive and accessible textbook is an essential resource and reference tool for all English Literature students. Designed to accompany students throughout their degree course, it provides a detaoled narrative survey of the diverse historical and cultural contexts that have shaped the development of English Literature
New York: Praeger Publishers, 1970. - 220 p. The mystical world of William Blake — poet, painter, and engraver — which was largely misunderstood during his lifetime, has in succeeding generations exercised a mesmeric fascination. With the ideal of Salvation implicit throughout his art, Blake's was an intensely Christian philosophy; Kathleen Raine, however, who is well known as...
USA: Oxford University Press, 2009 - 640 p. Cervantes in Seventeenth-century England garners well over a thousand English references to Cervantes and his works, thus providing the fullest and most intriguing early English picture ever made of the writings of Spain's greatest writer. Besides references to the nineteen books of Cervantes's prose available to seventeenth-century...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 484 p. Milton's Paradise Lost, the most eloquent, most intellectually daring, most learned, and most sublime poem in the English language, is a poem about angels. It is told by and of angels; it relies upon their conflicts, communications, and miscommunications. They are the creatures of Milton's narrative, through which he sets the Fall of...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 258 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). What associates fragmentation with Romanticism? In this book, Alexander Regier explains how fracture and fragmentation form a lens through which some central concerns of Romanticism can be analysed in a particularly effective way. These categories also supply a critical framework for a discussion...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 271 p. In late fourteenth-century England, the persistent question of how to live the best life preoccupied many pious Christians. One answer was provided by a new genre of prose guides that adapted professional religious rules and routines for lay audiences. These texts engaged with many of the same cultural questions as poets like Langland...
Cambridge University Press, 1996. — 298 p. In the past twenty years our understanding of the novel's emergence in eighteenth-century Britain has drastically changed. Drawing on new research in social and political history, the twelve contributors to this Companion challenge and refine the traditional view of the novel's origins and purposes. In various ways each seeks to show...
Oxford University Press. 2014. — 503 p. ISBN: 0199689547 As literary scholars have long insisted, an interdisciplinary approach is vital if modern readers are to make sense of works of medieval literature. In particular, rather than reading the works of medieval authors as addressing us across the centuries about some timeless or ahistorical 'human condition', critics from a...
Springer, 2010. — 323 p. Long confounded with a monolithic British entity or misrepresented as 'Lakers' and 'Cockneys', the diverse regional forms of 'English Romanticism' are ripe for reassessment. Ranging west of a line between the Wye at Tintern and Jane Austen's Chawton, this book offers a first reconfiguration of Romantic culture in terms of English regional identity. It...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 249 p. The Book of Common Prayer is one of the most important and influential books in English history, but it has received relatively little attention from literary scholars. This study seeks to remedy this by attending to the Prayerbook’s importance in England’s political, intellectual, religious, and literary history. The first half of the...
Cambridge University Press, 2007 - 248 p. ISBN: 0521877741 The Book of Prevalent Prayer is with essentially the most significant and influential books in English history, however it has received somewhat small attention from literary scholars. This study seeks to remedy this by attending towards the prayerbook’s significance in England’s political, intellectual, religious, and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 198 p. Iris Murdoch and Morality provides a close focus on moral issues in Murdoch's novels, philosophy and theology. It situates Murdoch within current theoretical debates and develops an understanding of her work as a crucial link between twentieth and twenty-first century writing and theory.
Dis Voir, 2008. — 111 p. Behind each children's book, behind each bestseller, a sacred text is hidden. Stevenson's novel has been scrutinized, read and re-read a thousand times. It has been used as a model for a map that leads us in search of an island where a cave that represented the sky was located. And in that sky, the stars and planets were represented by diamonds, real...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 312 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). Margaret Russett uses the example of Thomas De Quincey, the nineteenth-century essayist best remembered for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and his memoirs of Wordsworth and Coleridge, to examine the idea of the "minor" author, and how it is related to what we now call the Romantic canon....
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 241 p. The nature of Renaissance allegory has been the subject of much investigation, notably by Spenserian scholars. The subject is now enlarged through a study of the plays of the Elizabethan Court dramatists of the 1580's and early 1590's, particularly the comedies of John Lyly. Mr. Saccio rejects the older "topical readings" of Lyly; by...
New York: Columbia University Press, 2008 — 248 p. — ISBN10: 0231140053; ISBN13: 978-0231140058. Edward W. Said locates Joseph Conrad's fear of personal disintegration in his constant re-narration of the past. Using the author's personal letters as a guide to understanding his fiction, Said draws an important parallel between Conrad's view of his own life and the manner and...
Bloom’s Literary Criticism, 2009. - 232 p. Fourteenth-century author, poet, and civil servant Geoffrey Chaucer has delighted readers with his colorful tales filled with humanity, grace, and strength. He is best known for "The Canterbury Tales", a vibrant account of life in England during his own day. This book presents that canonical work along with some of Chaucer's...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. - 303 p. Introduction Absent Narratives and the Textual Culture of the Late Middle Ages. The Wanting Words of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Remembering Canacee, Forgetting Incest: Reading the “Squire’s Tale”. Chaucer’s Family Romance: The “Knight’s Tale” as Primal Scene. “Hic quasi in persona aliorum”: The Lover’s Repression and Gower’s Confessio...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. — 475 p. — ISBN: 1-4438-7185-0, 978-1-4438-7185-3, 9781322608211, 1322608210, 9781443874076, 1443874078. Passion and Precision contains twenty essays on a range of major medieval and modern English and Irish poets. The first part consists of three chapters on Chaucer, including a substantial new study of Troilus and Criseyde, four on...
Palgrave Macmillan. 2011. — 234 p. — (Early Modern Literature in History). — ISBN 978–0–230–27180–7 Leading scholars from both sides of the Atlantic explore translations as a key agent of change in the wider religious, cultural and literary developments of the early modern period, and restore translation to the centre of our understanding of the literature and history of Tudor...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 283 p. All too often, childbirth in early modern England was associated with fear, suffering, and death, and this melancholy preoccupation weighed heavily on the seventeenth century mind. This landmark study exam ines John Milton’s life and work, uncovering evidence of the poet’s engagement with maternal mortality and the dilemmas it...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 208 p. The Tudor era has long been associated with the rise of nationalism in England, yet nationalist writing in this period often involved the denigration and outright denial of Englishness. Philip Schwyzer argues that the ancient, insular, and imperial nation imagined in the works of writers such as Shakespeare and Spenser was not England...
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2004. — 224 p. Person and Persona in the Portrait of Imperialism ‘Hassan in England’: a Western Room with an Oriental View Forster’s Debate on ‘Kipling Is Not Literature’ Forster Writes to the Empire and Salutes the Orient: a Passage through Egypt Beyond the Mediterranean Human Norm: the Politics of Liberal Humanism in Retreat Burra’s Introduction and...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 375 p. Reading, Society and Politics in Early Modern England ranges over private and public reading, and over a variety of religious, social and scientific communities to locate acts of reading in specific historical moments from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. It also charts the changes in reading habits that reflect broader...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. — 1008 p. Victorian Literature is a comprehensive and fully annotated anthology with a flexible design that allows teachers and students to pursue traditional or innovative lines of inquiry, from the canon to its extensions to its contexts. Represents the period’s major writers of prose, poetry, drama, and more, including Tennyson, Arnold, the Brownings,...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 323 p. The Catholic contribution to English literary culture has been widely neglected and often misunderstood. Drawing on extensive original research, this book sets out to rehabilitate a wide range of Catholic imaginative writing, while exposing the role of anti-Catholicism as an imaginative stimulus to mainstream writers in Tudor and...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 209 p. Introduction: Decentering Transatlantic Literary Studies From English Empire to British Atlantic World The Irish Uncanny and the American Gothic Scots and Scott in the Early American Republic Wales and the American West The Literary Sketch and British Atlantic Regionalism Epilogue: British Atlantic Literatures: Anglo-American, Colonial,...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 235 p. Anna Krugovoy Silver examines the ways nineteenth-century British writers used physical states of the female body – hunger, appetite, fat, and slenderness – in the creation of female characters. Silver argues that anorexia nervosa, first diagnosed in 1873, serves asa paradigm for the cultural ideal of middle-classw omanhood in...
Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1868. — 620 p. Skane F. William (ed.) The Four Ancient Books of Wales - Writings Attributed to the Bards of the 6th Century AD. e. , volume 1 (In English) The Poems Contained in the Four Mentioned Books of Wales. The Literature of Wales subsequent to the Twelfth Century. Sources of the Early History of Wales. State of the Country in the Sixth...
Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, 1903. — 358 p. The purpose of this book is to give an account of Shakespeare's reputation during the eighteenth century, and to suggest that there are grounds for reconsidering the common opinion that the century did not give him his due. The nine Essays or Prefaces here reprinted may claim to represent the chief phases of Shakespearian study...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. — 322 p. This book is an invaluable guide to the body of criticism on Virginia Woolf. It includes comprehensive and insightful chapters on different approaches to Woolf, including feminist, historicist, postcolonial and biographical. The essays provide concise summaries of the key works in the field as well as an engaging description of the approach...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. — 207 p. In Virginia Woolf: Public and Private Negotiations, Anna Snaith explores the centrality of ideas of public and private in Woolf's life and writing. The book offers a fresh understanding of Woolf's feminism, her narrative techniques, her attitudes to publication, and her role in public debate. It draws on new manuscript material and previously...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 297 p. Katherine Snyder’s study explores the significance of the bachelor narrator, a prevalent but little-recognized figure in pre-modernist and modernist fiction by male authors, including Hawthorne, James, Conrad, Ford, and Fitzgerald. Snyder demonstrates that bachelors functioned in cultural and literary discourse as threshold figures...
Palgrave, 2001. — 192 p. This book is an attempt to put together in one place as much as I can of what I have learned in over twenty-five years of teaching J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. The book does not attempt to expound any grand theory or set of critical principles; it tries only to make clear what readers of Tolkien’s tale would want made clear for their...
New York, "Cambridge University Press", 2006, -550 p. Drawing on three decades of feminist scholarship bent on rediscovering lost and abandoned women writers, Susan Staves provides a comprehensive history of women’s writing in Britain from the Restoration to the French Revolution. This major new work of criticism also offers fresh insights about women’s writing in all literary...
Cornell University Press, 2018. — xiv, 278 p. — ISBN: 978-1501710704. True PDF From the teeming streets of Dickens’s London to the households of domestic fiction, nineteenth-century British writers constructed worlds crammed beyond capacity with human life. In Populating the Novel, Emily Steinlight contends that rather than simply reflecting demographic growth, such pervasive...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 264 p. Although theories of exploitation and subversion have radically changed our understanding of gender in Renaissance literature, to favor only those theories is to risk ignoring productive exchanges between "masculine'' and "feminine'' in Renaissance culture. "Appropriation'' is too simple a term to describe these exchanges - as when...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018. — xiv+173 p. — (Bloomsbury Studies In Classical Reception). — ISBN 978-1-3500-5490-5. True PDF Frankenstein and Its Classics is the first collection of scholarship dedicated to how Frankenstein and works inspired by it draw on ancient Greek and Roman literature, history, philosophy, and myth. Presenting twelve new essays intended for students,...
London: Routledge, 2008. — 284 p. — ISBN10: 0754663698; ISBN13: 978-0754663690 Celebrations of literary fictions as autonomous worlds appeared first in the Renaissance and were occasioned, paradoxically, by their power to remedy the ills of history. Robert E. Stillman explores this paradox in relation to Philip Sidney's Defence of Poesy, the first Renaissance text to argue for...
Tectum Verlag, 2011. - 225 p. JHauptbeschreibungEverybody knows what biographies are and many people still turn to them for truth about their subjects. But it is more obvious than ever that we can't completely trust records of the past, just as we can't always trust an eyewitness report to be true and objective. So life-stories, and particularly those with a neat narrative...
Vinnytsia: Vinnytsia newspaper, 2012. — 84 p. Educational accessory reveals new aspects of creative legacy of a famous but not enough studied English writer Emily Bronte. The attention is paid not only on lyrics and the writer’s only epic novel «Wuthering Heights but also on her main principles of modeling artistic reality. Vivid system, novel’s artistic peculiarities, role and...
Published in the UK in 2016 by Icon Books Ltd London. ISBN: — 978-178578-143-8 This book is an A to Z of the fabulous Bronte siblings - Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and Branwell and lists interesting information and trivia about them in alphabetical order. A must-read for admirers of the Brontes.
Publication details not specified. Great English writers - authors of short stories. The short-story commenced its career as a verbal utterance, or, as Robert Louis Stevenson puts it, with "the first men who told their stories round the savage camp-fire." It bears the mark of its origin, for even to-day it is true that the more it creates the illusion of the speaking-voice,...
Routledge, 2002. - 430 p. The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's...
St. Martin's Griffin, 2017. — 288 p. Goodbye Christopher Robin: A.A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh is drawn from Ann Thwaite’s Whitbread Award-winning biography of A. A. Milne, one of England’s most successful writers. After serving in the First World War, Milne wrote a number of well-received plays, but his greatest triumph came when he created Winnie-the-Pooh,...
Research indicates that a student's ability to comprehend what they read is one of the most critical pieces to success in school. This product is a ready-to-go packet of comprehension questions for the book George's Marvelous Medicine by Roald Dahl. The packet requires students to answer questions about the book - chapter by chapter.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 270 p. This exciting collection of essays explores the role of the Other in Tolkien’s fiction, his life, and the pertinent criticism. It critically examines issues of gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity, language, and identity in "The Lord of the Rings", "The Silmarillion", and lesser-known works by Tolkien. The chapters consider characters such as...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 290 p. Stories about Jewesses proliferated in nineteenth-century Britain as debates raged about the place of the Jews in the modern nation. Challenging the emphasis in previous scholarship on antisemitic stereotypes in this period, Nadia Valman argues that the literary image of the Jewess – virtuous, appealing and sacrificial – reveals how...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — xiii, 262 p. — ISBN: 978-1-137-51837-8, 978-1-137-51838-5. This book reveals the unique contribution made by the three founding fathers of British fantasy — Lord Dunsany, E. R. Eddison and J. R. R. Tolkien — to our culture’s perennial reassessment of the meanings of time, death and eternity. It traces the poetic, philosophical and theological roots...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 304 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). Through close readings of major poems, this book examines why the second-generation Romantic poets - Byron, Shelley, and Keats - stage so much of their poetry in Eastern or Orientalized settings. It argues that they do so not only to interrogate their own imaginations, but also as a way of...
Routledge, 2016. — 368 p. Between 1887 and 1927, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote sixty Sherlock Holmes stories, and his great Canon has become the most praised, most studied, and best-known chapter in the history of detective fiction. Over twenty thousand publications pertaining to the Sherlock Holmes phenomenon are known to have been published, most of them historical and...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 738 p. Until the Reformation, almost all sermons were written down in Latin. This is the first scholarly study systematically to describe and analyze the collections of Latin sermons from the golden age of medieval preaching in England, the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Basing his studies on the extant manuscripts, Siegfried Wenzel...
Second Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 138 p. For most readers the Canterbury Tales mean the General Prologue, with its gallery of portraits, and a few of the more humorous tales. What we retain is a handful of remarkable personalities, and such memorable moments as the end of the Miller’s tale. These areworth having in themselves, but it requires an extra effort...
Praeger, 1998. — 174 p. Myth, legend, and folklore have been entrenched in children's literature for several centuries and continue to be popular. Some of the most ancient traditional tales still extant come from the Celtic cultures of France and the British Isles, whose languages are among the oldest in Europe. Among these tales are four native Welsh legends collectively known...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 288 p. Religious diversity and ferment characterize the period that gave rise to Romanticism in England. It is generally known that many individuals who contributed to the new literatures of the late eighteenth century came from Dissenting backgrounds, but we nonetheless often underestimate the full significance of nonconformist beliefs and...
Cambridge University Press, 1996. — 332 p. — ISBN: 0-521-46219-3. This is the first comprehensive introduction to the works and social contexts of women writers in early modern Britain, a paradoxical period when it was considered unfeminine to write and yet women were the authors of many poems, translations, conduct books, autobiographies, plays, pamphlets and other texts....
D. S. Brewer, 2000. — 170 p. Humour is rarely seen to raise its indecorous head in the surviving corpus of Old English literature, yet the value of reading that literature with an eye to humour proves considerable when the right questions are asked. Humour in Anglo-Saxon Literature provides the first book-length treatment of the subject. In all new essays, eight scholars employ...
University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018. — viii, 176 p. : ills. This multidisciplinary volume illustrates how representations of magic in fourteenth-century romances link the supernatural, spectacle, and morality in distinctive ways. By representing supernatural marvels in vivid visual detail, these texts encourage reactions of wonder that have moral...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 110 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-539619-5. In the summer of 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church in Oxford, Charles Dodgson - better known by his pseudonym Lewis Carroll - dressed the six-year-old Alice Liddell in ragamuffin's clothes, draped the folds of cloth low enough to expose her bare chest, asked her to look deep into his eyes-and then snapped...
Open Book Publishers, 2019. — 310 p. In Tennyson’s Poems: New Textual Parallels , R. H. Winnick identifies more than a thousand previously unknown instances in which Tennyson phrases of two or three to as many as several words are similar or identical to those occurring in prior works by other hands — discoveries aided by the proliferation of digitized texts and the related...
Ohio University Press, 2016. - 241 p. In Reading for Health: Medical Narratives and the Nineteenth-Century Novel, Erika Wright argues that the emphasis in Victorian Studies on disease as the primary source of narrative conflict that must be resolved has obscured the complex reading practices that emerge around the concept of health. By shifting attention to the ways that...
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