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The intellectual and cultural impact of British and Irish writers cannot be assessed without reference to their reception in European countries. These essays, prepared by an international team of scholars, critics and translators, record the ways in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789361476709Author Charles William EliotPage Count 374Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781892950314Author Michael, R. CollingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 556Imprint Overlook Connection Press,USPublisher Overlook Connection Press,USWeight(grams)...

Showcases Ezra Pound's close involvement with the arts throughout his careerThe present volume of new, interdisciplinary scholarship investigates the arts with which Pound had a lifelong interaction including architecture, ballet, cinema, music,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854482306Author Stephen McNeillyPage Count 44Imprint The Swedenborg SocietyPublisher The Swedenborg SocietyWeight(grams) 220gDimensions(mm) 385mm * 275mm...

Shakespeare's Theatre consolidates the author's forty years of experience in studying and staging Shakespeare's plays. Under an alphabetical list of relevant terms, names and concepts, the book reviews current knowledge of the character and operation of...

More than just a book of definitions, the dictionary provides a comprehensive account of Shakespeare's portrayal of military life, tactics, and technology. Warfare is everywhere in Shakespeare, and the military action in many of Shakespeare's plays show...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992393489Author Matt B LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Gecko Tales PublishingPublisher Gecko Tales PublishingWeight(grams) 59g

This encyclopedia-style dicitonary explores early modern social life, legal thought, and the interactions within Shakespearean drama.Book InformationISBN 9780485115499Author B. J. SokolFormat HardbackPage Count 510Imprint Continuum International...

Shakespeare's Legal Language: A Dictionary is a comprehensive reference guide to Shakespeare's legal references. An A-Z of over 100 entries explores early modern social life, legal thought, and the interaction of these within Shakespearean drama. The law...

Brief, manageable and affordable, the books in the 'Contexts' series fill the gap in students' knowledge of the historical facts, literary associations and wider cultural climate of the main literary periods. As well as offering a background in relevant...

A reference guide to American literature, with more than four hundred entires devoted to aspects of American history, literary movements, influential writers and key texts. It is suitable for students of American literature at any level, and it is also...

Joel Chandler Harris was internationally famous in his own time and has a surprisingly broad scholarly and popular following in ours. His portraits of slaves and former slaves, particularly Uncle Remus and Free Joe, poor whites, and Brer Rabbit, the...

For what scandalous reason was the original publication of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn delayed? What were the names of Samuel Clemens pets? How are his attitudes towards politics and religion revealed in his work? Find the answers to these...

In this introduction to the life and works of John Keats, originally published in 1981, William Walsh presents a comprehensive but approachable study which illuminates first the poems, indirectly the man, and more obliquely the period. Working within a...

The Anxieties of Idleness: Idleness in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture investigates the preoccupation with idleness that haunts the British eighteenth century. Sarah Jordan argues that as Great Britain began to define itself as a nation...

A timeless classic.Book InformationISBN 9780810816978Author Gertrude JobesFormat HardbackPage Count 482Imprint Scarecrow PressPublisher Scarecrow PressWeight(grams) 880g

In this introduction to the life and works of John Keats, originally published in 1981, William Walsh presents a comprehensive but approachable study which illuminates first the poems, indirectly the man, and more obliquely the period. Working within a...

Science Fiction literature, also known as sci fi and sf, is one of the more recent genres, and also one of the more popular. It only truly emerged during the 20th century, and has not stopped growing in terms of authors, titles and readers. It has also...

To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Book InformationISBN 9780808401797Author Theodore WinthropFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman &...

This book is about Susan Howe's poetry from the perspective of space. Howe reshapes cultural configurations of space through her drive to infiltrate interstitial areas of "third" spaces: the silences of history, the margins of the page, the placeless...

To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Book InformationISBN 9780808401988Author Henry Wadsworth LongfellowFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher...

This is the first comprehensive account of Swift's engagement with the arts in Ireland and England. It both documents and reflects upon his attitudes toward music, gardening, theatre, architecture, and painting, and suggests that, despite his often...

Huckleberry Finn, Anna Karenina, Harry Potter, Hester Prynne...these are just a handful of remarkable characters to be found in literature, but of course, the list of memorable characters is virtually endless! But why ponder which of these creations are...

Katona has compiled a complete handbook for general students and readers of literature. Developed out of a thirty-one year career of teaching Introduction to Literature to community college freshmen, this book aims not just to teach how to read...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532677229Author Colin N ManloveFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947660489Author Clyde N WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Shotwell Publishing LLCPublisher Shotwell Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 127g

his study places Defoe's major fiction squarely in the emerging Whig culture of the early eighteenth century. It offers an alternative to the view that Defoe is essentially a writer of criminal or adventure fiction and to the Marxist judgment that he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935625902Author Mark HusseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Pace University PressPublisher Pace University PressWeight(grams) 304g

Balzac claimed that toilettes were the expression of society. Coiffures describes the historical and cultural practices associated with women's hairstyles, hair care, and hair art in nineteenth-century France. Hair also has profound symbolic significance...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949979220Author Wayne K. ChapmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Clemson University PressPublisher Clemson University PressWeight(grams)...

This volume is intended as an introduction of contemporary poetry by notable Uruguayan poets to the English-reading world, but also to readers of Spanish unfamiliar with them. Each poet is represented by an ample and varied selection of poems originally...

The dictionary lists each character from Pynchon's fiction up through his most recent novel, including the most likely etymology of each name. In addition, the thorough introduction examines Pynchon's character names as a part of his greater literary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532670770Author Mary RisoFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 231g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532677236Author Colin N ManloveFormat HardbackPage Count 190Imprint Resource Publications (CA)Publisher Resource Publications (CA)Weight(grams) 367g

On the Dark Side of the Archive examines nineteenth-century nation building through narratives that are not part of the romantic or realist traditions, specifically those associated with the critique of traditional ideas often portrayed in Decadentism...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532670787Author Mary RisoFormat HardbackPage Count 194Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 140g

In creating some of the most enduring characters in 20th century literature, Burroughs (1875-1950) left a complex bibliographic record of editions, and a long chain of fascinated collectors. The present reference work details all United States...

Gothic Terrors brings together two discursive fields that have had very little contact hitherto: gothic studies and Hispanism. Though widely accepted in English studies, Hispanists seldom invoke the concept of a Gothic mode existing beyond its first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789358724462Author Kaleemuddin AhmadFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Taemeer PublicationsPublisher Taemeer PublicationsWeight(grams) 41g