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Examining the work of the Elizabethan playwright, Robert Greene, this book argues that Greene's plays are innovative in their use of spectacle. Its most striking feature is the use of the one-to-one……続きを見る

This book argues that the early modern public/private boundary was surprisingly dynamic and flexible in early modern literature, drawing upon authors including Shakespeare, Anne Lock, Mary Wroth, an……続きを見る

This lively, lucid book undertakes a detailed and provocative study of Shakespeare's fascination with clowns, fools, and fooling. Through close reading of plays over the whole course of Shakespeare'……続きを見る

Friel is recognised as Ireland's leading playwright and due to the ability of plays like Translations and Dancing at Lughnasa to translate into other cultures he has made a major impact on world the……続きを見る

avant-propos  I. Le rendez-vous  II. Éléonore  III. La caisse oblongue  IV. Le cadavre accusateur  V. Le système du docteur Goudron et du professeur Plu……続きを見る

Les facultés de l’esprit qu’on définit par le terme analytiques sont en elles-mêmes fort peu susceptibles d’analyse.   Nous ne les apprécions que par leurs rés……続きを見る

Il y a quelques années, je me liai intimement avec un M. William Legrand. Il était d’une ancienne famille protestante, et jadis il avait été riche ; mais une séri……続きを見る

J’étais à Paris en 18… Après une sombre et orageuse soirée d’automne, je jouissais de la double volupté de la méditation et d’une pipe d’écume de me……続きを見る

Nous avions atteint le sommet du rocher le plus élevé. Le vieux homme, pendant quelques minutes, sembla trop épuisé pour parler. ー Il n’y a pas encore bien longtemps, ……続きを見る

Bien que les ténèbres du doute enveloppent encore toute la théorie positive du magnétisme, ses foudroyants effets sont maintenant presque universellement admis. Ceux qui doutent de ces effets sont d……続きを見る

Extrait de la Biographie d’Edgar poe, par Rufus Griswold. Préface. Eureka. Chapitre I Chapitre II Chapitre III Chapitre IV Chapitre V Chapitre VI Chapitre VII Chapitre VIII Chapitre IX Chapitre X Ch……続きを見る

Relativement à la très étrange et pourtant très familière histoire que je vais coucher par écrit, je n’attends ni ne sollicite la créance. Vraiment,……続きを見る

Vers la fin de l’année 1827, pendant que je demeurais près de Charlottesville, dans la Virginie, je fis par hasard la connaissance de M. Auguste Bedloe. Ce jeune gentleman étai……続きを見る

Qu’il me soit permis, pour le moment, de m’appeler William Wilson. La page vierge étalée devant moi ne doit pas être souillée par mon véritable nom. Ce nom n’a &ea……続きを見る

Fifty years after Camus's untimely death, his work still has a tremendous impact on literature. From a twenty-first century vantage point, he offers us coexisting ideas and principles by which we ca……続きを見る

Geo-spatial identity and early Modern European drama come together in this study of how cultural or political attachments are actively mediated through space. Matei-Chesnoiu traces the modulated rep……続きを見る

Through a close analysis of the pamphlets, reviews, lectures, journalism, editorials, poems, and novels surrounding the introduction of the gold standard in 1816, this book examines the significance……続きを見る

Novelist and cultural commentator C.P. Snow was a large and controversial presence in his lifetime but his work has been largely neglected since his death in 1980. This is the first 21st-century boo……続きを見る

Analyzing Romantic conservative critiques of modernity found in literature, philosophy, natural history, and agricultural periodicals, this book finds a common theme in the 'intergenerational imagin……続きを見る

This is a revisionist study of the literary and visual representation of the nation in the century following the formation of the British state. It argues that the most engaging accounts of Great Br……続きを見る

This annotated edition of the unpublished letters that Iris Murdoch wrote to Jeffrey Meyers includes her discussion of writers from Conrad to Updike; her quarrel with Rebecca West; and her difficult……続きを見る

Cyber Ireland explores, for the first time, the presence and significance of cyberculture in Irish literature. Bringing together such varied themes as Celtic mythology in video games, Joycean hypert……続きを見る

The Irish New Woman explores the textual and ideological connections between feminist, nationalist and anti-imperialist writing and political activism at the fin de siècle . This is the first study ……続きを見る

As theatres expanded in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the distance between actor and audience became a telling metaphor for the distance emerging between writers and readers. Nuss explore……続きを見る

This new study of one of Britain's greatest modern playwrights represents the first major, extended discussion of Edward Bond's work in over twenty years. The book combines rigorous and stimulating ……続きを見る

Jane Austen wrote when sociology was being established as the new discipline to understand social issues such as urbanization and industrialization. Drawing on landmark sociologists such as Durkheim……続きを見る

Published in 1962, Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook merits fresh theoretical, geopolitical, autobiographical, and aesthetic approaches. Prompted by the novel's golden anniversary, the twelve essa……続きを見る

In this work, Jansen explores a recurring theme in writing by women: the dream of finding or creating a private and secluded retreat from the world of men. These imagined "women's worlds" may be ver……続きを見る

This book examines the revival of antique philosophy in the Renaissance as a literary preoccupation informed by wit. Humanists were more inspired by the fictionalized characters of certain wise fool……続きを見る

Writing Early Modern London explores how urban community in London was experienced, imagined and translated into textual form. Ranging from previously unstudied manuscripts to major works by Middlet……続きを見る