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A ground-breaking contribution that broadens our understanding of the history of prints, this edited volume assembles international senior and rising scholars and showcases an array of exciting new ……続きを見る

This carefully crafted ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents of the complete works of Oscar Wilde, containing more than 150 works. Oscar Fingal O'Flahe……続きを見る

In 'A Paladin of Philanthropy and Other Papers' by Henry Austin Dobson, readers are treated to a collection of witty and insightful essays that highlight the author's keen observations on society an……続きを見る

In 'Rousseau and Romanticism' by Irving Babbitt, the author delves into the influence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau on the Romantic movement. Babbitt's scholarly analysis dissects Rousseau's philosophy a……続きを見る

In William Hazlitt's 'Winterslow', readers are taken on a contemplative journey through the author's observations on life, love, and nature. Written in a thoughtful and introspective style, the book……続きを見る

William Blake's 'Songs of Innocence, and Songs of Experience' is a collection of poems that explore the contrasting states of innocence and experience. Through his poetic style characterized by lyri……続きを見る

J. B. Priestley's 'Papers from Lilliput' is a collection of essays that offer a fascinating insight into the social, political, and cultural issues of Britain during the mid-20th century. Priestley'……続きを見る

Samuel Johnson's 'Lives of the English Poets: Waller, Milton, Cowley' is a seminal work in literary criticism, focusing on detailed biographies of three prominent poets from the 17th century. Johnso……続きを見る

In 'Books and Bookmen' by Andrew Lang, the author explores the world of literature through a series of essays that touch on various aspects of books and their creators. Lang's literary style is insi……続きを見る

In this book Craig, Kinney and their collaborators confront the main unsolved mysteries in Shakespeare's canon through computer analysis of Shakespeare's and other writers' styles. In some cases the……続きを見る

George Saintsbury's 'The English Novel' is a comprehensive and insightful exploration of the development and evolution of the English novel. Written in a scholarly and engaging style, the book exami……続きを見る

Ford Madox Ford's book 'Joseph Conrad' is an in-depth analysis of the life and works of the renowned author Joseph Conrad. Ford delves into Conrad's literary style, exploring the themes of coloniali……続きを見る

"The Pilgrim's Progress" by John Bunyan is a timeless allegorical tale that takes readers on an allegorical journey through the trials and triumphs of the human soul. Written in the 17th century, th……続きを見る

Forensic Shakespeare illustrates Shakespeare's creative processes by revealing the intellectual materials out of which some of his most famous works were composed. Focusing on the narrative poem Luc……続きを見る

One of The Tablet'sBooks of the Year 2021 Portraits of Wollstonecraft collects and introduces 102 texts and artifacts that document Mary Wollstonecraft's public reception in art, literature, philoso……続きを見る

Textiles have long provided metaphors for storytelling: a compelling novel “weaves a tapestry” and we enjoy hearing someone “spin” a tale. To what extent, however, should we take these metaphors ser……続きを見る

This volume collects the complete novels of Henry James (in the chronological order of their original publication): - Watch and Ward - Roderick Hudson - The American - The Europeans - Confidence - W……続きを見る

This volume takes a deep dive into the philosophical hermeneutics of Shakespearean tradition, providing insight into the foundations, theories, and methodologies of hermeneutics in Shakespeare. Cent……続きを見る

Gillian Beer's classic Darwin's Plots, one of the most influential works of literary criticism and cultural history of the last quarter century, is here reissued in an updated edition to coincide wi……続きを見る

This book combines the theory of intertextuality and intermediality with imagological reflections. These are understood as a way of intercultural, hermeneutically oriented secondary communication in……続きを見る

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,……続きを見る

Agnès, 19 ans, est fille de pasteur, et vit dans un village au nord de l'Angleterre. Sa mère est issue d'une famille riche qui l’a déshéritée quand elle a choisi d’épouser par amour Richard Grey d’u……続きを見る

The foolish constable Dogberry and his watchmen overhear Borachio boasting of his exploit and the plot is exposed. Claudio promises to make amends to Leonato: he is required to marry a cousin of Her……続きを見る

Did James Joyce, that icon of modernity, spearhead the dismantling of the Cartesian subject? Or was he a supreme example of a modern man forever divided and never fully known to himself? This volume……続きを見る

The egotism that fuels the desire for greatness has been associated exclusively with men, according to one feminist view; yet many women cannot suppress the need to strive for greatness. In this for……続きを見る

As Samuel Richardson's 'exemplar to her sex,’ Clarissa in the eponymous novel published in 1748 is the paradigmatic female victim. In Clarissa’s Ciphers, Terry Castle delineates the ways in which, i……続きを見る

Harry Shaw’s aim is to promote a fuller understanding of nineteenth-century historical fiction by revealing its formal possibilities and limitations. His wide-ranging book establishes a typology of ……続きを見る

The Challenge of Bewilderment treats the epistemology of representation in major works by Henry James, Joseph Conrad, and Ford Madox Ford, attempting to explain how the novel turned away from its tr……続きを見る

Marc Redfield maintains that the literary genre of the Bildungsroman brings into sharp focus the contradictions of aesthetics, and also that aesthetics exemplifies what is called ideology. He combin……続きを見る

Tilottama Rajan illuminates a crisis of representation within romanticism, evident in the proliferation of stylistically and structurally unsettled literary texts that resist interpretation in terms……続きを見る