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Modernist art and literature sought to engage with the ideas of different cultures without eradicating the differences between them. In Modernism, Imperialism and the Historical Sense, Paul Stasi ex……続きを見る

The widespread view that 'mystical' activity in the Middle Ages was a rarefied enterprise of a privileged spiritual elite has led to isolation of the medieval 'mystics' into a separate, narrowly def……続きを見る

Here, the author focuses on what he terms ‘the vernacular arts' and examines their history, their function, and their continuing role in twenty-first century Ireland, in depth. This book won first p……続きを見る

Shakespeare's history plays have been performed more in recent years than ever before, in Britain, North America, and in Europe. This 2002 volume provides an accessible, wide-ranging and informed in……続きを見る

Are you studying Shakespeare and looking for a handy summary of plots, characters and interpretations? Or are you a keen theatregoer wanting essential background on the Shakespeare plays you see on ……続きを見る

'He who remembers or recollects, thinks' declared Francis Bacon, drawing attention to the absolute centrality of the question of memory in early modern Britain's cultural life. The vigorous debate s……続きを見る

Joseph Conrad's centrality to modern literature is well established. The New Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad provides essential guidance to varied developments in the field of Conrad studies si……続きを見る

This highly acclaimed volume contains thirty essays by such leading literary critics as A.O. Lovejoy, Lionel Trilling, C.S. Lewis, F.R. Leavis, Northrop Frye, Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, Jonatha……続きを見る

Jane Eyre (Ou les Mémoires d'une institutrice) est un roman de la romancière anglaise Charlotte Brontë (1816 - 1855). Ce livre numérique comporte une table des matières dynamique. Il est parfaitemen……続きを見る

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition)" is formatted for your……続きを見る

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Illustrated Edition)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ……続きを見る

To gain an understanding of any literary era, one should be exposed to the language of its time and place in history. This is especially critical when considering the innovations in creativity intro……続きを見る

Originally published in 1993. Presenting excerpts and articles on the themes and characters from the most famous story of young lovers, this collection brings together scholarship relating to the la……続きを見る

Shirley (Intégrale - Volumes 1 et 2) est un roman de la romancière anglaise Charlotte Brontë (1816 - 1855). Ce livre numérique comporte une table des matières dynamique. Il est parfaitement mise en ……続きを見る

Agnès Grey est le premier roman de l'écrivaine anglaise Anne Brontë (1820 - 1849). Le roman est fondé sur la propre expérience de l'auteur comme gouvernante. Le livre décrit la position précaire des……続きを見る

John Keats (1795–1821), one of the best-loved poets of the Romantic period, is ever alive to words, discovering his purposes as he reads - not only books but also the world around him. Leading Keats……続きを見る

This book's underlying claim is that English Renaissance tragedy addresses live issues in the experience of readers and spectators today: it is not a genre to be studied only for aesthetic or “herit……続きを見る

Although psychoanalytic criticism of Shakespeare is a prominent and prolific field of scholarship, the analytic methods and tools, theories, and critics who apply the theories have not been adequate……続きを見る

Over the last 20 years, the concept of 'economic' activity has come to seem inseparable from psychological, semiotic and ideological experiences. In fact, the notion of the 'economy' as a discrete a……続きを見る

A History of Modernist Poetry examines innovative anglophone poetries from decadence to the post-war period. The first of its three parts considers formal and contextual issues, including myth, poli……続きを見る

Early literary criticism was undisciplined. Unlike the staid essays and monographs of later academic scholarship, English criticism first appeared in the contentious world of the London theater: dra……続きを見る

The courtship plot dominates accounts of the Victorian novel, but this innovative study turns instead to a narrative phenomenon that upends its familiar conventions: the bigamy plot. In hundreds of ……続きを見る

Mistress Amadroz, femme de Bernard Amadroz de Belton et mère de Charles et de Clara, mourut quand ses enfants avaient huit et six ans, leur faisant ainsi éprouver le plus grand malheur qui puisse at……続きを見る

Il y a, dans la situation actuelle du savoir humain, une circonstance bien remarquable, bien inattendue, et surtout bien caractéristique de l’état de certaines grandes et importan……続きを見る

Dans l’automne de l’année 1816, John Melmoth, élève du collège de la Trinité, à Dublin, suspendit momentanément ses études pour visiter u……続きを見る

Dans certaine ville de certain comté vivait, il y a quelque quarante ans, un jurisconsulte nommé Wilkins. Il y exerçait cette profession spéciale qui est désignée sous le nom de conveyancing attorne……続きを見る

« Cette affaire, dis-je, est mieux réglée en France. » Vous avez été en France ? me dit le plus poliment du monde, et avec un air de triomphe, la personne ave……続きを見る

Vous chercheriez en vain sur la carte d’Europe l’État de Grunewald. Principauté indépendante et membre  infinitésimal de l’Empire d’Allemagne, ayant joué pend……続きを見る

Je suis commissionnaire en cafés, et je demeure, Canal des Lauriers, n°. 37. Il n’est pas dans mes habitudes d’écrire des romans ou autres choses de la même farine. J’ai donc longuement réfléchi, av……続きを見る

Despite the brevity of its run and the diminutive size of its audience, The English Intelligencer is a key publication in the history of literary modernism in the British Isles. Emerging in the mid-……続きを見る