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Fact and Fiction explores the intersection between literature and the sciences, focusing on German and British culture between the eighteenth century and today. Observing that it was in the eighteen……続きを見る

A thrilling tale of rebellion and desire in 17th-century England. Magdalen King-Hall's Life and Death of the Wicked Lady Skelton plunges into the scandalous double life of Barbara Skelton, a woman s……続きを見る

Margot Norris' The Value of James Joyce explores the writings of James Joyce from his early poetry and short stories to his final avant-garde work, Finnegans Wake. His works include some of the most……続きを見る

This book will tell you the tragedy of the prince,Hamlet.His father got stab by his uncle because of passion.The king ghost come to command Hamlet to avenge for him.But what happen if the tragedy wa……続きを見る

We celebrate Shakespeare as a creator of plays and poems, characters and ideas, words and worlds. But so too, in the four centuries since his death in 1616, have thinkers, writers, artists and perfo……続きを見る

Samuel Beckett's work forever changed the concepts of literature and theatre. His work remains a core part of introductory courses on literary history, drama, theatre or performance and also feature……続きを見る

First published in 1957. This title explores the brief marriage of Lord Byron and his wife Annabella Millbanke, and the scandal that surrounded their relationship. The exact reason for their separat……続きを見る

The Post-Romantics, first published in 1990, provides a clear, introductory guide to the literary careers and reputations of five major Victorian poets: Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Swinburne and Clo……続きを見る

This is the most authoritative and up to date survey of contemporary British poetry 1960-1995. It is the third version but second edition published by Longman of a successful survey that first appea……続きを見る

Sheila Cordner traces a tradition of literary resistance to dominant pedagogies in nineteenth-century Britain, recovering an overlooked chapter in the history of thought about education. This book c……続きを見る

Andrew Marvell brings together ten recent and critically informed essays by leading scholars on one of the most challenging and important seventeenth-century poets. The essays examine Marvell's poem……続きを見る

Gawain: A Casebook is a collection of 12-15 classic and original essays on the hero of Arthurian legend that investigates the figure of Gawain as he appears in major medieval traditions, as well as ……続きを見る

First published in 1985. What sort of poem is Don Juan, and how does it maintain its momentum through its long and often struggling narrative? These are the questions that Bernard Beatty proposes in……続きを見る

This early work by William Lyon Phelps was originally published in the early 20th century and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Robert Browning: How to Know Him' i……続きを見る

This book brings together a variety of perspectives to explore the role of literature in the aftermath of political conflict, studying the ways in which writers approach violent conflict and the equ……続きを見る

What is the role of disgust or revulsion in early modern English literature? How did early modern English subjects experience revulsion and how did writers represent it in poetry, plays, and prose? ……続きを見る

English Fiction of the Romantic Period 1789-1830 is the first comprehensive historical survey of fiction from that period for many decades. It combines a clear awareness of the period's social histo……続きを見る

This diachronic study of Boudica serves as a sourcebook of references to Boudica in the early modern period and gives an overview of the ways in which her story was processed and exploited by the di……続きを見る

Building on current scholarly interest in the religious dimensions of the play, this study shows how Shakespeare uses Hamlet to comment on the Calvinistic Protestantism predominant around 1600. By c……続きを見る

In this study, the author offers new interpretations of Shakespeare's works in the context of two major contemporary notions of collectivity: the crowd and rumour. The plays illustrate that rumour a……続きを見る

A study of common and exotic food in Shakespeare's plays, this is the first book to explore early modern English dietary literature to understand better the significance of food in Shakespearean dra……続きを見る

An 365-day anthology of readings from one of the most influential writers of all time, George MacDonald, compiled by CS Lewis himself MacDonald was a major Christian writer of the late nineteenth, e……続きを見る

Das Leben des erfolgreichsten, wirkungsmächtigsten Dramatikers der Welt ist ein Geheimnis: Wir wissen fast nichts über William Shakespeare. Er ist ein Phantom und seine Stücke, die jeder kennt, sind……続きを見る

Bede and Aethelthryth asks why Christians in Britain around the year 700 enjoyed Latin poetry. What did they see in it? What did they get from it? This book attempts to reconstruct the horizon of ex……続きを見る

Emma written by Jane Austen.This book is about a child,the planner.She likes pairing the villagers up to the chaos.But the story continue to the end,each person got the right couple to marry with wi……続きを見る

This book radically refigures the conceptual and formal significance of childhood in nineteenth-century English poetry. By theorizing infancy as a poetics as well as a space of continual beginning, ……続きを見る

Style and the Single Girl by Hope Howell Hodgkins reveals how four very different single-girl novelists employed modern modes to re-dress the traditional English marriage plot. In the first monograp……続きを見る

When this book was published in 1945, interest in Byron’s poetry and appreciation of his titanic role in Romanticism had been steadily increasing. Of all his vast poetic production, Don Juan, the la……続きを見る

Dubliners written by James Joyce.This book is a collection of fifteen sort stories by James Joyce.This book tells you about history and social commentary. 続きを見る

First published in 1972. Browning was a keen observer and dramatic recorder of nineteenth-century European culture; his poetry reflects a wide range of intellectual, religious and artistic issues of……続きを見る