著者:Karen Raber
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2013年09月24日
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
出版社: Johns Hopkins University Press
発売日: 2003年05月07日
The first American edition of Shelley's complete poetry since 1892ーwith more poems, fragments, and collations than any previous collective edition.
Winner of the Richard J. Finneran Award of the So……続きを見る
Shakespeare and Cognition examines the essential relationship between vision, knowledge, and memory in Renaissance models of cognition as seen in Shakespeare's plays. Drawing on both Aristotle's Met……続きを見る
A HISTORY OF OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE
A History of Old English Literature has been significantly revised to provide an unequivocal response to the renewed historicism in medieval studies. Focusing on ……続きを見る
著者:Joshua Esty
出版社: Princeton University Press
発売日: 2009年01月10日
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 Worl……続きを見る
This Companion contains fifteen chapters by leading international scholars, who together reflect diverse but complementary approaches to the study of Ezra Pound's poetry and prose. They consider the……続きを見る
The Anglo-Saxon Literature Handbook presents an accessible introduction to the surviving works of prose and poetry produced in Anglo-Saxon England, from AD 410-1066.
Beowulf, The Battle of Mald……続きを見る
Josephine Tey's classic novel about Richard III, the hunchback king, whose remains were recently discovered. The Daughter of Time investigates his role in the death of his nephews, the princes in t……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
Controversy raged through England during the 1570-80s as Puritans denounced all manner of games & pastimes as a danger to public morals. Writers quickly turrned their attention to their own art and ……続きを見る
40 of William Shakespeare's major works in one collection with active table of contents:
All's Well That Ends Well
Antony and Cleopatra
The Comedy of Errors
The Tragedie of Coriolanus
Cymbeline
The ……続きを見る
Joseph Conrad’s novella, Heart of Darkness, has fascinated critics and readers alike, engaging them in highly controversial debate as it deals with fundamental issues of good and evil, civilisation,……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
著者:Ian Hamilton
出版社: Faber & Faber
発売日: 2011年08月18日
Literary biography is an endlessly fascinating form, not least because of the fierce controversies that attend the question of how much of a writer's real life ought to be related to readers. Ian Ha……続きを見る
The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, first published in 1997, provides an introduction to the works and intellectual life of one of the most challenging and wide-ranging writers in English lit……続きを見る
著者:Howard D. Weinbrot
出版社: Johns Hopkins University Press
発売日: 2013年05月17日
A distinguished critic traces the growing, but always threatened, trend toward political and religious tolerance from the mid-seventeenth to the late eighteenth century in Britain.
Winner of the CHO……続きを見る
著者:John Collier
出版社: eNet Press Inc.
発売日: 2013年09月30日
“What Milton had that Collier hasn't is a sense of sin, and the overwhelming power and beauty of divine order. What Collier has that Milton hadn't is a sense of humor and a delight in the variety of……続きを見る
Situated within the Oxford Handbooks to Literature series, the group of Oxford Handbooks to Shakespeare are designed to record past and present investigations and renewed and revised judgments by bo……続きを見る
著者:Tzachi Zamir
出版社: Princeton University Press
発売日: 2011年03月08日
Hamlet tells Horatio that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in his philosophy. In Double Vision, philosopher and literary critic Tzachi Zamir argues that there are more th……続きを見る
This Companion offers a multi-disciplinary approach to literature on film and television. Writers are drawn from different backgrounds to consider broad topics, such as the issue of adaptation from ……続きを見る
著者:Stacy Burton
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
Over the past century, narratives of travel changed in response to modernist and postmodernist literary innovation, world wars, the demise of European empires, and the effect of new technologies and……続きを見る
The poetry of the First World War remains a singularly popular and powerful body of work. This Companion brings together leading scholars in the field to re-examine First World War poetry in English……続きを見る
EVEN at this distance of time, the genuine devotee of Jane Austen must be conscious of a futile, but irresistible, desire to 'feel the bumps' of that Boeotian bookseller of Bath, whoーhaving bought ……続きを見る
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HERMIONE LEE
The previously uncollected occasional prose of a great English writer – full of wit, feeling and illumination.
Penelope Fitzgerald was a prolific letter writer. ……続きを見る
著者:Michael Dobson
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
From the Hamlet acted on a galleon off Africa to the countless outdoor productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream that now defy each English summer, Shakespeare and Amateur Performance explores the un……続きを見る
著者:John Beer
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
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
著者:B. I. Evans
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2013年11月05日
First published in 1952. This volume explores the function of verse in drama and the developing way in which Shakespeare controlled the rhetorical and decorative elements of speech for the dramatic ……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
FEATURES:
• Includes beautiful artworks and illustrations
• A link of a FREE audio book to download at the end of the book
• Active Table of Contents for an easy navigation within the book
• Manuall……続きを見る
Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, and shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford 'Winner of Winners' award in 2023
How did Shakespeare go from being a talented poet and playwright to become one of the g……続きを見る