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Shakespeare’s Sonnets: Philosophical Glimpses covers all 154 of Shakespeare’s sonnets with a sonnet-by-sonnet exposition and delves into the three riddles involving the handsome young man, the dark ……続きを見る

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy presents fifty-four essays by a range of scholars from all parts of the world. Together these essays offer readers a fresh and comprehensive understandin……続きを見る

In his attitude toward religion, George Orwell has been characterised in various terms: as an agnostic, humanist, secular saint or even Christian atheist. Drawing on the full range of his public and……続きを見る

Shortlisted for the 2017 AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship Ordinary Matters is the first major interdisciplinary study of the ordinary in modernist women's literature and photography. It examines ……続きを見る

First coming to prominence as an actress and scandalous celebrity, Mary Robinson created an identity for herself as a Romantic poet and novelist in the 1790s. Through a series of literary dialogues ……続きを見る

Domestic interiors and housing environments have historically been portrayed as a framing device for the representation of individuals and social groups. Drawing together a wide and eclectic collect……続きを見る

Original essays by American and British scholars offer a reader-friendly introduction to the work of Angela Carter, Doris Lessing, and a dozen other British women writers British women in the second……続きを見る

The concept of a personal identity was a contentious issue in the early eighteenth century. John Locke’s philosophical discussion of personal identity in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding fost……続きを見る

In distracted times like the present, Shakespeare too has been driven to distraction. Shakespeare | Cut considers contemporary practices of cutting up Shakespeare in stage productions, videogames, b……続きを見る

Susan Bernstein examines the gendered power relationships embedded in confessional literature of the Victorian period. Exploring this dynamic in Charlotte Brontâ’s Villette, Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s……続きを見る

On the night of November 4th 1605, the English authorities uncovered an alleged plot by a group of discontented Catholics to blow up the Houses of Parliament with the lords, princes, queen and king ……続きを見る

Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834) was a pioneer in demography, economics and social science more generally whose ideas prompted a new 'Malthusian' way of thinking about population and the poor. On t……続きを見る

Extrait : "Il naquit, le 4 décembre 1795, à Ecclefechan, dans le Dumfries, en Ecosse. Mais il était de race anglaise et de race noble : les Carlyle, venus dans l'Annandale avec les Bruce, sous le ro……続きを見る

One day, when Mary Rose Callaghan was 13, her mother jumped into the freezing Irish Sea. Knowing that her mother was an asthmatic, the shock of seeing her dive into “the deep end” began Mary Rose’s ……続きを見る

The most complete collection of Mary Tighe’s poetry published to date. Mary Blachford Tighe (1772–1810) was a crucial force in shaping British Romanticism. Her influential six-canto epic, Psyche, or……続きを見る

How did literature shape nineteenth-century science? Erasmus Darwin and his grandson, Charles, were the two most important evolutionary theorists of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. Altho……続きを見る

The 2017 winner of the Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize Providing a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of scholarship on nineteenth-century British periodicals, this volume sur……続きを見る

Statues coming to life and lively portraits ready to breathe in Shakespeare? This new volume re-assesses the key role played by visual culture in his drama and poetry by providing readers with an up……続きを見る

I. Huck Finn se présente au lecteur II. Jim. ー La bande de Tom Sawyer III. Le père de Huck IV. La fuite V. Un compagnon d’infortune VI. La maison flottante. ー Les serpents à sonnettes VII. Mademoi……続きを見る

  Préface  I. Au soleil et à l’ombre  II. Compagnons de voyage  III. Chez soi  IV. Mme Jérémie fait un rêve  V. Affaires de famille  VI. Le père de la Maréchaussée……続きを見る

I. Les compagnons de voyage II. Mme Général III. La route IV. Une lettre de la petite Dorrit V. Il y a quelque chose qui cloche quelque part VI. Il y a quelque chose quelque part qui va bien VII. Où……続きを見る

La Célèbre Grenouille sauteuse du comté de Calaveras Histoire du méchant petit garçon Histoire du bon petit garçon L’Article de M. Bloque Comment je devins directeur d’un journal d’agriculture Sur l……続きを見る

  Tome 1 Préface  I. Au soleil et à l’ombre  II. Compagnons de voyage  III. Chez soi  IV. Mme Jérémie fait un rêve  V. Affaires de famille  VI. Le père de la Maréc……続きを見る

Préface Avant-propos I. Naissance du Prince et du Pauvre II. Enfance de Tom III. Tom rencontre le Prince IV. Premiers tourments du Prince V. Tom parvient aux honneurs VI. Tom s’instruit VII. Tom à t……続きを見る

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Aux approches du XIXe siècle commence en Europe la grande révolution moderne. Le public pensant et l’esprit humain changent, et sous ces deux chocs une littérature nouvelle jaillit. L’âge précédent……続きを見る

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948, the Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics……続きを見る

Why is it that so many of the best-loved novels of the Victorian era take place not in the steam-powered railway present in which they were published, but in the very recent past? Most works by Dick……続きを見る

Enlightenment writers fiercely debated the nature of distraction in literature. Early novel reading typically conjures images of rapt readers in quiet rooms, but commentators at the time described r……続きを見る

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment brings together 40 of the most important scholars and intellectuals writing on the subject today. Extending the purview of feminist criticism, it of……続きを見る