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The Manipulation of Literature (Routledge Revivals)
Studies in Literary Translation
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
First published in 1985, the essays in this edited collection offer a representative sample of the descriptive and systematic approach to the study of literary translation. The book is a reflection of the theoretical thinking and practical research carried out by an international group of scholars...
by John Rignall
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
The classic realist text has long been derided by post-structuralist critics as an unsophisticated and reactionary form. In this study, first published in 1992, John Rignall makes a powerful case for the rehabilitation of realism as a self-aware and reflexive genre. Using the novels of Scott, Balzac,...
Grub Street (Routledge Revivals)
Studies in a Subculture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
First published in 1972, this is the first detailed study of the milieu of the eighteenth-century literary hack and its significance in Augustan literature. Although the modern term ‘Grub Street’ has declined into vague metaphor, for the Augustan satirists it embodied not only an actual place...
The Byzantine Achievement (Routledge Revivals)
An Historical Perspective, A.D. 330-1453
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
First published in 1929, this highly influential study offers a historical perspective on the Byzantine Empire, from the establishment of Constantinople by Emperor Constantine around 330 AD, through to the fall of Constantinople at the hands of the Ottoman Empire in 1453 AD.
Byron’s work...
The Gothic's Gothic (Routledge Revivals)
Study Aids to the Tradition of The Tale of Terror
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
First published in 1988, this book aims to provide keys to the study of Gothicism in British and American literature. It gathers together much material that had not been cited in previous works of this kind and secondary works relevant to literary Gothicism — biographies, memoirs and graphic arts....
by Stephen Mulhall
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Heidegger is one of the most controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. A difficult and powerful philosopher, his work requires careful reading. Being and Time was his first major book and remains his most influential work.
Heidegger and Being and Time introduces and assesses: Heidegger's life...
by Kathleen Raine
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
First published in 1979, this is a very welcome reissue of Kathleen Raine's seminal study of William Blake - England’s only prophet. He challenged with extraordinary vigour the premises which now underline much of Western civilization, hitting hard at the ideas of a naive materialist philosophy...
by Mark Bould, Sherryl Vint
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
The term ‘science fiction’ has an established common usage, but close examination reveals that writers, fans, editors, scholars, and publishers often use this word in different ways for different reasons. Exploring how science fiction has emerged through competing versions and the struggle to...
Suffer and Be Still (Routledge Revivals)
Women in the Victorian Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
First published in 1972, this book contains a collection of ten essays that document the feminine stereotypes that women fought against, and only partially erased, a hundred years ago. In an introductory essay, Martha Vicinus describes the perfect Victorian lady, showing that the ideal was a combination...
Routledge Revivals: English Literature (1962)
Values and Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
First published in 1962, this book is a reflection on Sir Ifor Evans’s well-known A Short History of English Literature. In this reflective study, Evans wonders if it is possible to trace permanent elements in such a huge and varied mass of writings? As he moves from the Anglo-Saxon Caedmon to T.S...
Neill of Summerhill (Routledge Revivals)
The Permanent Rebel
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
A. S. Neill was arguably the most famous child educator of the twentieth century. He was certainly the most controversial. All over the world, countless parents and teachers have been shocked, delighted or inspired by his subversive ideas about education, or by a visit to ‘that dreadful school’...
Routledge Revivals: David Rabe (1988)
A Stage History and a Primary and Secondary Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
In the twenty years that preceded the publication of this book in 1988, David Rabe was in the vanguard of playwrights who shaped American theatre. As the first full-length work on Rabe, this book laid the groundwork for later critical and biographical studies. The first part consists of an essay that...
Carnival and Theater (Routledge Revivals)
Plebian Culture and The Structure of Authority in Renaissance England
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
In this title, first published in 1985, Michael Bristol draws on several theoretical and critical traditions to study the nature and purpose of theatre as a social institution: on Marxism, and its revisions in the work of Mikhail Bakhtin; on the theories of Emile Durkheim and their adaptations in...
Jonathan Swift (Routledge Revivals)
Political Writer
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
First published in 1984, this biography gives an account of Jonathan Swift’s political ideas and provides a critical commentary on his major works. With its emphasis on Swift as a political writer, the title offers a revision of the prevailing view of Swift’s politics and its application in the...