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Freewomen and Supermen adds to the comparatively recent body of research which has sought to re-evaluate the literature and culture of the 'long' Edwardian period (1900-1914). It singles out the editors of two of the most important magazines for the...

This book examines writing in English, Irish, and Spanish by women living in Ireland and by Irish women living on the continent between the years 1574 and 1676. This was a tumultuous period of political, religious, and linguistic contestation that...

C. Day-Lewis was a major figure in British poetry and culture from the 1930s until his death in 1972. The Golden Bridle: Selected Prose takes its title from the myth of Bellerophon and the golden bridle of Pegasus, which Day-Lewis invoked on several...

A scholarly edition of the poems and songs of Robert Burns. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.Book InformationISBN 9780198701118Author BurnsFormat HardbackPage Count...

A scholarly edition of poems by Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.Book InformationISBN 9780198118473Author Lord Edward HerbertFormat...

A scholarly edition of letters by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.Book InformationISBN 9780198114550Author Lady Mary Wortley MontaguFormat...

This book brings to life the growth of the socialist movement among men and women artists and writers in late nineteenth-century Britain. For these campaigners, socialism was inseparable from a desire for a new beauty of life; beauty that also, for many,...

Noted for its literary legacy, Ireland has long been a top travel destination. This latest in the "Whereabouts Press Traveler's Literary Companions" series features Ireland's top writers as guides to the natural beauties and cultural nuances of the...

In seventeen volumes, copublished with Baylor University, this acclaimed series features annotated texts of all of Robert Browning's known writing. The series encompasses autobiography as well as influences bearing on Browning's life and career and...

The third edition of the Victorian Era volume of The Broadview Anthology of British Literature includes a number of changes and new additions, including the complete texts of In Memoriam A.H.H., The Importance of Being Earnest, Carmilla, and Strange Case...

Focusing on literary and cultural texts from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth, Patrick R. O'Malley argues that in order to understand both the literature and the varieties of nationalist politics in nineteenth-century Ireland, we must...

'On the banks of the Thames it is a tremendous chapter of accidents'. As Henry James surveys London in 1888, he sums up what had fascinated urban observers for a century: the random and even accidental development of this unprecedented form of human...

Jane Austen left an indelible mark on the world of literature. Her novels set a benchmark for her era and have entranced readers ever since. In "Jane Austen on Love and Romance", Constance Moore proves how well Austen understood the human heart...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474454438Author Gerri KimberFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

The first major study of the relationship between Scottish Romanticism and medical culture In the early nineteenth century, Edinburgh was the leading centre of medical education and research in Britain. It also laid claim to a thriving periodical culture...

OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS General Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley Wells 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...

Lying in Early Modern English Culture is a major study of ideas of truth and falsehood in early modern England from the advent of the Reformation to the aftermath of the failed Gunpowder Plot. The period is characterised by panic and chaos when few had...

A scholarly edition of a work by Jane Austen. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.Book InformationISBN 9780198728375Author Jane AustenFormat HardbackPage Count 556Imprint...

A scholarly edition of a work by Jane Austen. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.Book InformationISBN 9780198728368Author Jane AustenFormat HardbackPage Count 600Imprint...

Cleanness, both in the sense of a neoclassical stylistic purity and of an individual moral and political probity, was centrally important to Walter Savage Landor's writing, both in his prose and poetry. At the same time, this commitment to purity was...

A scholarly edition of the poems and songs of Robert Burns. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.Book InformationISBN 9780198701132Author BurnsFormat HardbackPage Count...

A scholarly edition of the poems and songs of Robert Burns. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.Book InformationISBN 9780198701125Author BurnsFormat HardbackPage Count...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949979251Author Eibhear WalsheFormat HardbackPage Count 282Imprint Clemson University Digital PressPublisher Clemson University Digital Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781442639904Author Earl of Beaconsfield Benjamin DisraeliFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399512299Author Marcus WaitheFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 626g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399509947Author Gerri KimberFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800859548Author Anderson AraujoFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Clemson University Digital PressPublisher Clemson University Digital Press

Lying in Early Modern English Culture is a major study of ideas of truth and falsehood in early modern England from the advent of the Reformation to the aftermath of the failed Gunpowder Plot. The period is characterised by panic and chaos when few had...

Treacherous Faith offers a new and ambitious cross-disciplinary account of the ways writers from the early English Reformation to the Restoration generated, sustained, or questioned cultural anxieties about heresy and heretics. This book examines the...

In the summer of 1923 Virginia Woolf's nephews, Quentin and Julian Bell, started a family newspaper, The Charleston Bulletin. Quentin decided to ask his aunt Virginia for a contribution: 'it seemed stupid to have a real author so close at hand and not...

This Norton Critical Edition includes: The first edition of the novel (1859) accompanied by twenty-seven illustrations, from original images by Halbot Knight Browne ("Phiz") to cartoons from The Simpsons.An expansive introduction and detailed explanatory...

Written by his trusted friend and companion, Dr John Watson, The Return of Sherlock Holmes: The Case Notes chronicles nine of the most fascinating cases solved by the world's most famous detective. Based on the many notes and evidence gathered during the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905881611Author John FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 145mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781889503Author Natalia I PetrovskaiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth deploys its forty-seven original essays to present a stimulating account of Wordsworth's life and achievement and to map new directions in criticism. In addition to twenty-two essays wholly on Wordsworth's...

Great Shakespeare Actors offers a series of essays on great Shakespeare actors from his time to ours, starting by asking whether Shakespeare himself was the first--the answer is No--and continuing with essays on the men and women who have given great...

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) was one of the major poets of the English Romantic period. This is the final volume of a six-volume edition of The Poems of Shelley, which aims to present all of Shelley’s poems in chronological order and with full...

During the early days of the professional English theatre, dramatists including Dekker, Greene, Heywood, Jonson, Marlowe, Middleton, and Shakespeare wrote for playhouses that, though enclosed by surrounding walls, remained open to the ambient air and the...

Headstrong heroines and hot-tempered chieftains, loch monsters and hill fairies, cattle raids and clan feuds, wise animals and foolish saints: the Scottish Highlands' folktales date back centuries and preserve the history and beliefs of a people deeply...

The visual images of Queen Elizabeth I displayed in contemporary portraits and perpetuated and developed in more recent media, such as film and television, make her one of the most familiar and popular of all British monarchs. This collection of essays...