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Immerse Yourself in the Timeless Elegance of Laurence Housman's **"Echo de Paris"** Step into the enchanting world of **"Echo de Paris"**, a masterful work by Laurence Housman that captures the esse……続きを見る

During the thirty years following ratification of the U.S. Constitution, the first American novelists carried on an argument with their British counterparts that pitted direct democracy against repr……続きを見る

The fraught history of England's Long Reformation is a convoluted if familiar story: in the space of twenty-five years, England changed religious identity three times. In 1534 England broke from the……続きを見る

Die jüngste Vermehrung von Krisenherden und ihren weltweiten Auswirkungen lässt Resilienz als Modewort auftreten. Damit ist keineswegs ein resignativer fatalistischer Umgang mit Krisen gemeint, sond……続きを見る

This volume presents a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the different ways in which the two terms «politics» and «translation» interact. It affords an opportunity to look at translation a……続きを見る

Les principales caractérisations de la littérature mondiale supposent, implicite-ment ou explicitement, le dessin de centres et de périphéries littéraires. Loin de tenir un tel dessin pour figé, les……続きを見る

Representations of the mind have a central place in Shakespeare's artistic imagination, as we see in Bottom struggling to articulate his dream, Macbeth reaching for a dagger that is not there, and P……続きを見る

Discover the dark allure of Emily Brontë's masterpiece that has captivated readers for generations! 〓 "A story so powerful, it will haunt your dreams long after you've turned the last page." 〓 Ste……続きを見る

discover or rediscover all the classics of literature. Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML) and in the end of book include a bonus link to the free audiobook. One of the greatest plays of all ti……続きを見る

This collection gathers together the works by William Shakespeare in a single, convenient, high quality, and extremely low priced Kindle volume! It comes with 150 original illustrations which are th……続きを見る

A prolific artist, writer, designer, and political activist, William Morris remains remarkably powerful and relevant today. But how do you teach someone like Morris who made significant contribution……続きを見る

During the thirty years following ratification of the U.S. Constitution, the first American novelists carried on an argument with their British counterparts that pitted direct democracy against repr……続きを見る

Despite the fact that William Blake summarises the plot of Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793) in just eight lines in the prefatory ‘Argument,’ there are several contentious moments in the poe……続きを見る

The influenza pandemic of 1918–1919 took the lives of between 50 and 100 million people worldwide, and the United States suffered more casualties than in all the wars of the twentieth and twenty-fir……続きを見る

Imagining Iberia in English and Castilian Medieval Romance offers a broad disciplinary, linguistic, and national focus by analyzing the literary depiction of Iberia in two European vernaculars that ……続きを見る

The first major study of Cashmere and Paisley shawls in nineteenth-century British literature, this book shows how they came to represent both high fashion and the British Empire. During the late ei……続きを見る

Women’s mythic revision is a tradition at the heart of twentieth-century literature. Medea’s Chorus explores post-WWII women’s poetry that takes Greek mythology as its central topos. The book invest……続きを見る

Samuel Johnson famously referred to his future biographer, the unsociable magistrate Sir John Hawkins, as “a most unclubbable man." Conversely, this celebratory volume gathers distinguished eighteen……続きを見る

John Rich (1692-1761) was a profoundly influential figure of the eighteenth-century London stage. As producer, manager, and performer, he transformed the urban entertainment market, creating genres ……続きを見る

This collection centers on the remarkable life and career of the writer and actor Elizabeth Inchbald (1753–1821), active in Great Britain in the late eighteenth century. Inspired by the example of I……続きを見る

First published in 1947, The Last Romantics elucidates on the major preoccupations of the leaders of thought in late Victorian times such as the arts and their relation to religion and the social or……続きを見る

The Beggar's Opera, often referred to today as the first musical comedy, was the most popular dramatic piece of the eighteenth centuryーand is the work that John Gay (1685-1732) is best remembered f……続きを見る

American literature is typically seen as something that inspired its own conception and that sprang into being as a cultural offshoot of America's desire for national identity. But what of the vast ……続きを見る

The fraught history of England's Long Reformation is a convoluted if familiar story: in the space of twenty-five years, England changed religious identity three times. In 1534 England broke from the……続きを見る

First published in 1986. **'Impressively open to the complexity of cultural discourses, to the ways in which one discursive form may function as a screen for another above all to the political entai……続きを見る

In an unprecedented phenomenon that swept across Britain at the turn of the nineteenth century, writers, advertisers, and architects began to create and sell images of an authentic cultural realm pa……続きを見る

Ithell Colquhoun (1906–1988) is remembered today as a surrealist artist, writer, and occultist. Although her paintings hang in a number of public collections and her gothic novel Goose of Hermogenes……続きを見る

During the 19th century, London was a complex, vibrant, and multi-faceted city, the first true metropolis. As such, it contained within it a widely disparate array of worlds and cultures. Representa……続きを見る

The influenza pandemic of 1918–1919 took the lives of between 50 and 100 million people worldwide, and the United States suffered more casualties than in all the wars of the twentieth and twenty-fir……続きを見る

The title Age in Love is taken from Shakespeare’s sonnet 138, a poem about an aging male speaker who, by virtue of his entanglement with the dark lady, “vainly” performs the role of “some untutor’d ……続きを見る