Author: Rabate, Jean-Michael Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This innovative book puts modernist literature in its cultural, intellectual, and global context, within the framework of the year 1913.Broadens the analysis of canonical texts and artistic events by ...
Author: Barnard, Robert / Barnard, Louise Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Brontë Encyclopedia is an A- Z encyclopedia of the most notable literary family of the 19th century highlighting original literary insights and the significant people and places that influenced...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Designed as both a contribution to original research and as a stimulating and accessible text, this volume is a helpful, reliable, responsive and adaptable resource for students of Chaucer at all leve...
Author: Hattaway, Michael Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is a one volume, up-to-date collection of more than fifty wide-ranging essays which will inspire and guide students of the Renaissance and provide course leaders with a substantial and helpful fr...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This companion is the first book of its kind to focus on the whole of European Romanticism. Describes the way in which the Romantic Movement swept across Europe in the early nineteenth century.Covers ...
Author: Wright, Julia M. Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Featuring new essays by international literary scholars, the two-volume Companion to Irish Literature encompasses the full breadth of Ireland's literary tradition from the Middle Ages to the present d...
Author: Wright, Julia M. Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Featuring new essays by international literary scholars, the two-volume Companion to Irish Literature encompasses the full breadth of Ireland's literary tradition from the Middle Ages to the present d...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture, c.1350-c.1500 challenges readers to think beyond a narrowly defined canon and conventional disciplinary boundaries.A ground-breaking collection ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Companion to Medieval Poetry presents a series of original essays from leading literary scholars that explore English poetry from the Anglo-Saxon period up to the 15th century. Organised into t...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The diverse and controversial world of contemporary Milton studies is brought alive in this stimulating Companion. Winner of the Milton Society of America's Irene Samuels Book Award in 2002. Invites r...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This wide-ranging Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama offers challenging analyses of a range of plays in their political contexts. It explores the cultural, social, economic and institutional ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Companion combines a broad grounding in the essential texts and contexts of the modernist movement with the unique insights of scholars whose careers have been devoted to the study of modernism.An...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This expansive, inter-disciplinary guide to Renaissance plays and the world they played to gives readers a colorful overview of England's great dramatic age.Provides an expansive and inter-disciplinar...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Companion to Science Fiction assembles essays by an international range of scholars which discuss the contexts, themes and methods used by science fiction writers. This Companion conveys the scale a...
Description: Reflecting the surge of critical interest in Eliot renewed in recent years, A Companion to T.S. Eliot introduces the 'new' Eliot to readers and educators by examining the full body of his works and ca...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945-2000 serves as an extended introduction and reference guide to the British and Irish novel between the close of World War II and the turn of the millenn...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Companion to the Eighteenth-century Novel furnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral contexts. An up-to-date resource for th...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Companion to the Victorian Novel provides contextual and critical information about the entire range of British fiction published between 1837 and 1901. Provides contextual and critical informatio...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Through original essays from a distinguished team of international scholars and Hardy specialists, A Companion to Thomas Hardy provides a unique, one-volume resource, which encompasses all aspects of ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Companion to Tudor Literature presents a collection of thirty-one newly commissioned essays focusing on English literature and culture from the reign of Henry VII in 1485 to the death of Elizabeth I...
Author: Cronin, Ciaran Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This Companion brings together specially commissioned essays by distinguished international scholars that reflect both the diversity of Victorian poetry and the variety of critical approaches that ill...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction offers an authoritative overview of contemporary British fiction in its social, political, and economic contexts. Focuses on the fiction that has em...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This Concise Companion launches students into the study of English Renaissance literature through the central contexts that informed it.Places the poetry within contexts such as: economics; religion; ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: With brevity, depth, and accessibility, this book helps readers to appreciate the works of John Milton, and to understand the great influence they have had on literature and other disciplines.Presents...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This concise Companion offers an innovative approach to understanding the Modernist literary mind in Britain, focusing on the intellectual and cultural contexts, which shaped it. Offers an innovative ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This volume introduces students to the most important figures, movements and trends in post-war British and Irish poetry. An historical overview and critical introduction to the poetry published in Br...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This Concise Companion presents fresh perspectives on eighteenth-century literature. Contributes to current debates in the field on subjects such as the public sphere, travel and exploration, scientif...
Author: O'Gorman, Francis Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This volume presents fresh approaches to classic Victorian fiction from 1830-1900. Opens up for the reader the cultural world in which the Victorian novel was written and read. Crosses traditional dis...
Author: Dolin,Kieran Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Law and literature have been closely linked fields throughout history. Linguistic creativity is central to the law, with literary modes such as narrative and metaphor infiltrating legal texts. Equally...
Author: Connolly, Claire Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Claire Connolly offers a cultural history of the Irish novel in the period between the radical decade of the 1790s and the gaining of Catholic Emancipation in 1829. These decades saw the emergence of ...
Description: A brilliant piece of philosophical discussion that displays Shelley's intellect and imagination. The book asserts the "ideal nature and essential value" of poetry and is Shelley's most important prose...
Author: Ferber, Michael Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is the first dictionary of symbols to be based on literature, rather than 'universal' psychological archetypes or myths. It explains and illustrates the literary symbols that we all frequently en...
Author: Bland, Mark Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Guide to Early Printed Books and Manuscripts provides an introduction to the language and concepts employed in bibliographical studies and textual scholarship as they pertain to early modern manuscr...
Author: Mitchell, Bruce / Robinson, Fred C. Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: A comprehensive introduction to Old English, combining simple, clear philology with the best literary works to provide a compelling and accessible beginners’ guide.Provides a comprehensive intro...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Handbook to Romanticism Studies is an accessible and indispensible resource providing students and scholars with a rich array of historical and up-to-date critical and theoretical contexts for the...
Description: The Handbook to Romanticism Studies is an accessible and indispensible resource providing students and scholars with a rich array of historical and up-to-date critical and theoretical contexts for the...
Author: Fulk, R. D. Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This timely introduction to Old English literature focuses on the production and reception of Old English texts, and on their relation to Anglo-Saxon history and culture. Introduces Old English texts...
Author: Corns, Thomas N. Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A History of Seventeenth-century Literature outlines significant developments in the English literary tradition between the years 1603 and 1690. An energetic and provocative history of English literat...
Author: Norton, David Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Revised and condensed from David Norton's acclaimed A History of the Bible as Literature, this book tells the story of English literary attitudes to the Bible. At first jeered at and mocked as English...
Author: Hand, Derek Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Derek Hand's A History of the Irish Novel is a major work of criticism on some of the greatest and most globally recognisable writers of the novel form. Writers such as Laurence Sterne, James Joyce, E...
Author: Ingman, Heather Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Though the short story is often regarded as central to the Irish canon, this is the first comprehensive study of the genre for many years. Heather Ingman traces the development of the modern short sto...
Author: Adams, James Eli Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Incorporating a broad range of contemporary scholarship, A History of Victorian Literature presents an overview of the literature produced in Great Britain between 1830 and 1900, with fresh considerat...
Author: Staves, Susan Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: 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 Restoratio...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this revised and greatly expanded edition of the Companion, 80 scholars come together to offer an original and far-reaching assessment of English Renaissance literature and culture.A new edition of...
Description: The thoroughly expanded and updated New Companion to the Gothic, provides a series of stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy. The addition of 12 new essays and a sect...
Author: Herman, Peter C. Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: A Short History of Early Modern England presents the historical and cultural information necessary for a richer understanding of English Renaissance literature. Written in a clear and accessible style...
Author: Esty, Jed Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book describes a major literary culture caught in the act of becoming minor. In 1939, Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary, "Civilisation has shrunk." Her words captured not only the onset of World ...
Author: Beerbohm, Max Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Max Beerbohm (1872 - 1956) was a British caricaturist and parodist. As a young man he was considered quite the wit and spent much time in London society. By 35 he was middle aged and a bit dull. Be...
