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Shakespeare Studies is an annual peer-reviewed volume featuring work of performance scholars, literary critics and cultural historians. The journal focuses primarily on Shakespeare and his contempor……続きを見る

In "A History of English Literature," Robert Huntington Fletcher meticulously traces the evolution of English literature from its earliest origins to the contemporary era. With a clear and engaging ……続きを見る

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition)" is formatted for……続きを見る

A vital resource for scholars, students and actors, this book contains glosses and quotes for over 14,000 words that could be misunderstood by or are unknown to a modern audience. Displayed panels l……続きを見る

This book contains the works below arranged alphabetically by authors last names Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen) Peter Pan (J. M. Barrie) Cabin Fever (B. M. Bower) Agnes Grey (Anne Brontë) Fath……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

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

King Lear has ruled for many years. As age overtakes him, he divides his kingdom amongst his children. Misjudging their loyalty, he soon finds himself stripped of all the trappings of state, wealth ……続きを見る

In "The Romantic Scottish Ballads: Their Epoch and Authorship," Robert Chambers intricately explores the rich tapestry of Scottish balladry, situating these lyrical narratives within their historica……続きを見る

In The Language of Fruit, Liz Bellamy explores how poets, playwrights, and novelists from the Restoration to the Romantic era represented fruit and fruit trees in a period that saw significant chang……続きを見る

That Thomas Carlyle was influential in his own lifetime and continues to be so over 130 years after his death is a proposition with which few will disagree. His role as his generation’s foremost int……続きを見る

In "Tales From Scottish Ballads," Elizabeth W. Grierson masterfully curates a collection of traditional Scottish ballads, weaving together oral histories that span generations. Her prose is rich and……続きを見る

In "Montaigne and Shakspere," J. M. Robertson embarks on a scholarly examination of the profound connections between the philosophical musings of Michel de Montaigne and the dramatic genius of Willi……続きを見る

First published in 1990, this title provides a compendium of useful information for any reader of Donne to have at hand: crucial biographical material, historical contextualisation, and details abou……続きを見る

This is an expansion of the first dictionary of symbols to be based on literature, rather than on 'universal' psychological archetypes or myths. It explains and illustrates the literary symbols that……続きを見る

This book explores the literary culture of Britain's radical press from 1880 to 1910, a time that saw a flourishing of radical political activity as well as the emergence of a mass print industry. W……続きを見る

A prolific artist, writer, designer, and political activist, William Morris remains remarkably powerful and relevant today. But how do you teach someone like Morris who made significant contribution……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

James Joyce’s Ulysses first appeared in print in the pages of an American avant-garde magazine, The Little Review, between 1918 and 1920. The novel many consider to be the most important literary wo……続きを見る

FREE Audiobook+Author's Biography+Active Table of Contents When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move wi……続きを見る

The title of this collection, Profiling Shakespeare, is meant strongly in its double sense. These essays show the outline of a Shakespeare rather different from the man sought by biographers from hi……続きを見る

This study examines the unique cultural space of Victorian cathedral towns as they appear in the literary work of Charles Dickens and Anthony Trollope, arguing that Dickens and Trollope use the cath……続きを見る

From one of the world's premier Shakespeare scholars comes a magisterial new study whose premise is "that Shakespeare makes modern culture and that modern culture makes Shakespeare." Shakespeare has……続きを見る

First published in 1947 in the USA. This edition reprints the first UK edition of 1964. Published to critical acclaim, the central argument of this book is that the historical play must be studied a……続きを見る

Animal Bodies, Renaissance Culture examines how the shared embodied existence of early modern human and nonhuman animals challenged the establishment of species distinctions. The material conditions……続きを見る

Table of Contents The Complete Sherlock Holmes A STUDY IN SCARLET PART 1 Chapter 1 MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES Chapter 2 THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION Chapter 3 THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY Chapter 4 WHAT JOHN R……続きを見る

This book explores the ideas of children and childhood, and the construct of the ‘ideal’ Victorian child, that developed rapidly over the Victorian era along with literacy and reading material for t……続きを見る

The repercussions of the French Revolution included erosion of many previously held certainties in Britain, as in the rest of Europe. Even the authority of language as a cornerstone of knowledge was……続きを見る

From the first moment Vincentio di Vivaldi, a young nobleman, sets eyes on the veiled figure of Ellena, he is captivated by her enigmatic beauty and grace. But his haughty and manipulative mother is……続きを見る

Roderick Beaton re-examines Lord Byron's life and writing through the long trajectory of his relationship with Greece. Beginning with the poet's youthful travels in 1809–1811, Byron's War traces his……続きを見る