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Beginning in the mid-1950s, scholars proposed that the Inklings were a unified group centered on fantasy, imagination, and Christianity. Scholars and a few Inklings themselves supported the premise ……続きを見る

Bringing together heritage studies and literary studies, this book examines heritage as a ubiquitous trope in contemporary Britain, a seemingly inescapable figure for relations to the past. Inherita……続きを見る

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0 ('sehr gut'), Free University of Berlin (Institute of English Language and Literatu……続きを見る

A Psychoanalytic Study of Lawrence Durrell’s The Alexandria Quartet*: Exile and Return* focuses on the dialogue created by literature and psychoanalysis in an individual’s quest to explore existenti……続きを見る

What work did physically disabled characters do for the early modern theatre? Through a consideration of a range of plays, including Doctor Faustus and Richard III, Genevieve Love argues that the fi……続きを見る

Originally published in 1959, this book has long been out of print and largely neglected by Shakespearean scholars. It offers a viewpoint seldom considered: an unusual and exceptionally clear insigh……続きを見る

Diamonds Are Foreverーthe fourth James Bond novel by Ian Fleming, published in 1956ーis widely recognized as one of the most intriguing and original works in the 007 series. With its exciting settin……続きを見る

Literary historians have tended to associate the eighteenth century with the rise of the tyranny of the clockーthe notion of time as ruled by mechanical chronometry. The transition to standardized s……続きを見る

Working with the technologies of pen and paper, scissors and glue, naturalists in early modern England, Scotland, and Wales wrote, revised, and recombined their words, sometimes over a period of man……続きを見る

Suzy Anger investigates the relationship of Victorian interpretation to the ways in which literary criticism is practiced today. Her primary focus is literary interpretation, but she also considers ……続きを見る

Shakespeare's characterization of Cleopatra may dominate the collective consciousness, but he was only one of several 16th-century writers fascinated by the enigmatic queen of Egypt. Early modern co……続きを見る

From the ghosts which reside in Midlands council houses in Every Day is Mother's Day to the resurrected historical dead of the Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies, the writings of……続きを見る

This book reveals the unique contribution made by the three founding fathers of British fantasyーLord Dunsany, E. R. Eddison and J. R. R. Tolkienーto our culture’s perennial reassessment of the mean……続きを見る

Supernatural elements are of central significance in many of Shakespeare's plays, contributing to their dramatic power and intrigue. Ghosts haunt political spaces and internal psyches, witches fores……続きを見る

This article, "The Wives of the Poets," from the February 1861 issue of The Knickerbocker magazine, tells anecdotes and stories of the the wives of poets and authors of classical literary fame. 続きを見る

If material bodies have inherent, animating powersーor virtues, in the premodern senseーthen those bodies typically and most insistently associated in the premodern period with matterーnamely, women……続きを見る

In a work of stunning archival recovery and interpretive virtuosity, Priya Joshi illuminates the cultural work performed by two kinds of English novels in India during the colonial and postcolonial ……続きを見る

Winner, 2021 Perkins Prize from the International Society for the Study of Narrative Natalya Bekhta’s We-Narratives: Collective Storytelling in Contemporary Fiction analyzes a storytelling form shap……続きを見る

This study of tragic fiction in European modernism brings together novelists who espoused, in their view, a Greek vision of tragedy and a Darwinian vision of nature. To their minds, both tragedy and……続きを見る

Originally published by Chatto & Windus in 1959, this book has long been out of print and largely neglected by Shakespearean scholars. It offers a viewpoint seldom considered: an unusual and excepti……続きを見る

In this study of three of Barbara Pym’s novels, Naghmeh Varghaiyan, drawing on examinations of women’s humour by Eileen Gillooly, Regina Barreca, and others, shows how the humorous female discourse ……続きを見る

A User's Guide to Melancholy takes Robert Burton's encyclopaedic masterpiece The Anatomy of Melancholy (first published in 1621) as a guide to one of the most perplexing, elusive, attractive, and af……続きを見る

"Is it not monstrous, that our Seducers should be our Accusers? Will they not employ Fraud, nay often Force to gain us? What various Arts, what Stratagems, what Wiles will they use for our Destructi……続きを見る

Scholars have already demonstrated that Shakespeare 's language abounds in Biblical allusions and references, but Mr. Bryant now undertakes to show us how such details may bear on the full meaning o……続きを見る

This ground-breaking book reveals the prophetic, revolutionary vision that drives Shakespeare's tragedies, tracing its unbroken development from its beginnings in the Henry VI plays and Shakespeare'……続きを見る

A reexamination of Austen’s unpublished writings that uncovers their continuity with her celebrated novelsーand that challenges distinctions between her “early” and “late” work Jane Austen’s six nov……続きを見る

Dans le livre "Chez les bêtes" de Jeanne Leroy-Allais, l'auteur nous plonge dans un monde mystérieux où les animaux parlent et échangent des idées. Avec un style littéraire envoûtant, l'Suvre explor……続きを見る

Scholars have already demonstrated that Shakespeare 's language abounds in Biblical allusions and references, but Mr. Bryant now undertakes to show us how such details may bear on the full meaning o……続きを見る

"Is it not monstrous, that our Seducers should be our Accusers? Will they not employ Fraud, nay often Force to gain us? What various Arts, what Stratagems, what Wiles will they use for our Destructi……続きを見る

Narratives of a descent to the underworld, of the sights to be seen and the punishments meted out there, have kept a hold on the popular imagination for millennia. The legacy from doctrinal warnings……続きを見る