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This book examines the various ways in which British fiction since the late 1960s has addressed the marginalization of anomalous identities in an era of increasing social inclusivity, and the ways i……続きを見る

Décryptez l’univers d'Oscar Wilde en moins d’une heure ! Entre le dandy amoureux du beau et défenseur du plaisir des sens, et l'écrivain provocateur et bourré d'humour, il n'y avait qu'un pas, qu'Os……続きを見る

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, Bielefeld University (Universität), course: A Survey of British Literature, 13 entri……続きを見る

Décryptez l’univers d'Agatha Christie en moins d’une heure ! « Agatha Christie ? La seule femme pour qui le crime a payé ! » Voilà ce que déclare Winston Churchill à la mort de celle que l'on surnom……続きを見る

Romantic writers responded to the challenges of reform and revolution by rethinking the scope of political reason. What role should reason play in the creation of a free and just society? Can we cla……続きを見る

One of the greatest and most compelling of all biographies in literature had its beginnings on a fateful day in London in 1763, when young James Boswell determinedly attached himself to the dominant……続きを見る

In a world of conflicting nationalist claims, mass displacements and asylum-seeking, a great many people are looking for 'home' or struggling to establish the 'nation'. These were also important pre……続きを見る

On the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, this collection opens up the social practices of commemoration to new research and analysis. An international team of leading scholars explores a bro……続きを見る

This reader remains the only major new reader of Old English prose and verse in the past forty years. The second edition is extensively revised throughout, with the addition of a new 'Beginning Old ……続きを見る

The New York Times bestselling author of A History of the World in 100 Objects brings the world of Shakespeare and the Tudor era of Elizabeth I into focus We feel we know Shakespeare’s characters. T……続きを見る

"A masterful portrait" (The Philadelphia Inquirer) from a Whitbread Award-winning biographer, and author of A Life of My Own. The novels of Thomas Hardy have a permanent place on every booklover's s……続きを見る

For centuries the most revered poem in the Western literary canon, Vergil's Aeneid celebrates the Roman virtue of pietas. In the preface to his English translation of the poem, John Dryden attempts ……続きを見る

In 1981, Norman Murphy caused a minor stir in literary circles when he published In Search of Blandings, which demonstrated that many of P.G. Wodehouse's legendary characters and settings were based……続きを見る

For a significant part of the early modern period, England was the most active site of recipe publication in Europe and the only country in which recipes were explicitly addressed to housewives. Rec……続きを見る

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Un portrait de femme, qui clôt la première veine romanesque de l’écrivain américain Henry James (1843-1916), fut écrit peu de temps a……続きを見る

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis D’abord publié aux États-Unis en 1920, avant de paraître en Angleterre l’année suivante, Femmes amoureuses est le plus ambitieux des ……続きを見る

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) est la troisième fille de Patrick Brontë, pasteur de Haworth, et de Maria Branwell, qui disparaît très t……続きを見る

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis La Foire aux vanités (Vanity Fair, a Novel without a Hero), chef-d’œuvre de l’écrivain anglais William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863……続きを見る

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Après l’échec cuisant de son premier roman, Grimus (1977), la parution des Enfants de minuit en 1981, couronnée par le Booker Prize, ……続きを見る

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Souvent considéré comme le chef-d’œuvre de Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), La Promenade au phare (1927) est également le plus autobiograp……続きを見る

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis William Wordsworth (1770-1850) travailla toute sa vie à l’écriture du Prélude, vaste œuvre autobiographique de huit mille vers, qui n……続きを見る

A Room of One's Own is an extended essay first published on 24 October 1929 based on a series of lectures Virginia Woolf delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Camb……続きを見る

The multifaceted career of John Thelwall (1764-1834)ーpoet, novelist, playwright, journalist, politician, scientistーis the lens through which we are offered here a new look at the phenomenon of Bri……続きを見る

The Gaelic Revival has long fascinated scholars of political history, nationalism, literature, and theater history, yet studies of the period have neglected a significant dimension of Ireland's evol……続きを見る

William Shakespeare, more than any other author, was able to capture the essence of human nature in all its manifestations. His political plays offer enduring insights into our humanity, our vanity,……続きを見る

The year 2003 was the 100th anniversary of the birth of George Orwell, one of the most influential authors of the twentieth century. Orwell's books are assigned today in over 60,000 classrooms annua……続きを見る

Why are certain words used as insults in Shakespeare's world and what do these words do and say? Shakespeare's plays abound with insults which are more often merely cited than thoroughly studied, qu……続きを見る

In The Victorian Novel of Adulthood, Rebecca Rainof confronts the conventional deference accorded the bildungsroman as the ultimate plot model and quintessential expression of Victorian nation build……続きを見る

This volume brings together two vibrant areas of Renaissance studies today: memory and sexuality. The contributors show that not only Shakespeare but also a broad range of his contemporaries were de……続きを見る

Eighteenth-century British literary history was long characterized by two central and seemingly discrete movementsーthe emergence of the novel and the development of Romantic lyric poetry. In fact, ……続きを見る