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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780720613179Author Richard BradfordFormat HardbackPage Count 510Imprint Peter Owen PublishersPublisher Peter Owen Publishers

The Possibility of Literature is an essential collection from one of the most powerful and distinctive voices in contemporary literary studies. Bringing together key compositions from the last twenty-five years, as well as several new pieces, the book...

The fascinating history of poetry anthologies and their influence on British society and culture over the last four centuries. For hundreds of years, anthologies have shaped the way we encounter literature. Eighteenth-century children and young women...

Exploring the archives of the Man Booker prize-winning novelist Julian Barnes - including notebooks, drafts, typescripts and publishing correspondence - this book is an extraordinary in-depth study of the creative practice of a major contemporary...

In this, the last book published during his lifetime, renowned historian of the English Revolution Christopher Hill uses the literary culture of the seventeenth century to explore the immense social changes of the period as well as the expressions of...

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This book scrutinizes Heaney's language in order to examine his theory of poetry and the writer's responsibility to art and politics. The author, himself a poet, works chronologically through the poetry and discusses it in light of Heaney's writings on...

He wrote one of the most quintessentially English books, yet Kenneth Grahame (1859 -1932) was a Scot. He was four years old when his mother died and his father became an alcoholic, so Kenneth grew up with his grandmother who lived on the banks of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848408814Author Daniel MulhallFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint New Island BooksPublisher New Island BooksWeight(grams) 373gDimensions(mm) 215mm *...

Eric Warner places The Waves in the context of Virginia Woolf's career and of the 'modern' age in which it was written. He examines how she came to write the novel, what her concerns were at the time, and how it is linked both in style and theme with her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908980359Author Sheila M. KiddFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Scottish Literature InternationalPublisher Association for Scottish Literary...

Things I Don't Want to Know is a unique response to George Orwell from one of our most vital contemporary writers. Taking Orwell's famous list of motives for writing as the jumping-off point for a sequence of thrilling reflections on the writing life,...

'Not bloody likely' Ever since Pygmalion opened in London in April 1914 it has proved a very controversial play, from the (then) shocking language, to arguments about its correct ending. Critical interpretations have been similarly disputatious,...

This Companion explores the many ways in which the Gothic has dispersed in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and in particular how it has come to offer a focus for the tensions inherent in modernity. Fourteen essays by world-class experts show...

For the first time in nearly 180 years, this is a book that presents, side by side, two major versions of one of John Clare's most celebrated poems, "The Shepherd's Calendar". The final manuscripts of the poem that Clare composed are placed against the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776069Author Graham BradshawFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776625Author John CareyFormat PaperbackPage Count 117Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD

Reveals how the body in Beckett, embedded in its material environment, exhibits embodied agency Accents the importance of the body in Beckett and provides a new reading of the body in his postwar writing and experimental prose of the 60's and 80's ...

Easily adaptable as both an anthology and an insightful guide to reading and understanding Romantic Poetry, this text discusses the important elements in the works from poets such as Smith, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey, Barbauld, Byron, Shelley,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780951354247Author Martin BaxendaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Silent But Deadly PublicationsPublisher Silent But Deadly Publications

'I wish to remain single, for I have made a vow of virginity.' This is the remarkable story of the twelfth-century recluse Christina, who became prioress of Markyate, near St Albans in Hertfordshire. Determined to devote her life to God and to remain a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780852446256Author I. T. KerFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint GracewingPublisher GracewingWeight(grams) 370gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 14mm

Groundbreaking surveys of the complex interrelationship between the languages of English and French in medieval Britain. With co-editors: CAROLYN COLLETTE, MARYANNE KOWALESKI, LINNE MOONEY, AD PUTTER, and DAVID TROTTER England was more widely...

'I have read all W. Scott's novels at least fifty times,' wrote Byron. '...grand work. Scotch Fielding, as well as great English poet - wonderful man! I long to get drunk with him.' A. N. Wilson's subtle, entertaining and frequently provocative...

'It has been said by its opponents that science divorces itself from literature; but the statement, like so many others, arises from lack of knowledge.' John Tyndall, 1874 Although we are used to thinking of science and the humanities as separate...

The Remembered Dead explores the ways poets of the First World War - and later poets writing in the memory of that war - address the difficult question of how to remember, and commemorate, those killed in conflict. It looks closely at the way poets...

An ideal companion to The Canterbury Tales, this brief, accessible book introduces students to Chaucer's tales and helps them understand the language, genres, forms, historical background and critical history.About the AuthorElizabeth Scala is a...

Teaching Shakespeare through performance has a long history, and active methods of teaching and learning are a logical complement to the teaching of performance. Virtual reality ought to be the logical extension of such active learning, providing an...

The English language has changed dramatically over the past 500 years, making it increasingly difficult for students to read Chaucer's works. Assuming no previous linguistic knowledge or familiarity with Middle English, Simon Horobin introduces students...

In 1990, Robert Young's White Mythologies set out to question the very concepts of history and the West. Is it possible, he asked, to write history that avoids the trap of Eurocentrism? Is history simply a Western myth? His reflections on these topics...

Paul Murray Kendall's masterful account of the life of England's King Richard III has remained the standard biography of this controversial figure.About the AuthorPaul Murray Kendall (1911-1973) is the author of Warwick the Kingmaker, The Yorkist Age,...

A History of English Autobiography explores the genealogy of autobiographical writing in England from the medieval period to the digital era. Beginning with an extensive introduction that charts important theoretical contributions to the field, this...

This is the first edition for students and general readers of this pro-woman reply to Shakespeare's 'The Taming of the Shrew' by a playwright (John Fletcher) who was more admired than Shakespeare in the seventeenth century.Co-edited by a feminist critic...

In The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel, first published in 2000, a series of specially-commissioned essays examine the work of Charles Dickens, the Brontes, George Eliot and other canonical writers, as well as that of such writers as Olive...

Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in its field, and combines accessible style with original discussion of its...

Rhetoric and Courtliness in Early Modern Literature explores the early modern interest in conversation as a newly identified art. Conversation was widely accepted to have been inspired by the republican philosopher Cicero. Recognizing his influence on...

Shows how Shakespeare portrayed working people with insight, compassion and purpose.Book InformationISBN 9781789146615Author Stephen UnwinFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Reaktion BooksPublisher Reaktion Books

E. P. Thompson's long-awaited book on William Blake was published shortly after the historian's death in August 1993. Acclaimed as one of his best and most deeply felt works, it appears now for the first time in paperback. Written with a vivid passion,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781885048Author Jamie McKendrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 490gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm * 16mm

Tragedy, including grief, pain and suffering, is a common theme in Shakespeare's plays, often leading to the death of at least one character, if not several. Yet such themes can also be found in Shakespearian plays which are classed as comedies, or...