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The Labour of Literature in Britain and France, 1830-1910
Authorial Work Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
This volume examines the anxieties that caused many nineteenth-century writers to insist on literature as a laboured and labouring enterprise. Following Isaac D’Israeli’s gloss on Jean de La Bruyère, it asks, in particular, whether writing should be ‘called working’. Whereas previous studies...
by William Deresiewicz
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2005
This elegant and thoughtful work offers an important new way of understanding Jane Austen by defining the fundamental impact and influence of British Romanticism on her later novels. In comparing the earlier and later phases of Austen's career, Deresiewicz addresses an important yet neglected issue...
Before Victoria
Extraordinary Women of the British Romantic Era
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2005
It might not have the been the revolution that Mary Wollstonecraft called for in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), but the Romantic era did witness a dramatic change in women's lives. Combining literary and cultural history, this richly illustrated volume brings back to life a remarkable,...
Rival Queens
Actresses, Performance, and the Eighteenth-Century British Theater
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
In eighteenth-century England, actresses were frequently dismissed as mere prostitutes trading on their sexual power rather than their talents. Yet they were, Felicity Nussbaum argues, central to the success of a newly commercial theater. Urban, recently moneyed, and thoroughly engaged with their...
English Lit 101
From Jane Austen to George Orwell and the Enlightenment to Realism, an essential guide to Britain's greatest writers and works
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
A guide to the greats in British literature!
From Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Charles Dickens' Tiny Tim to Jane Austen's Mr. Darcy and Shakespeare's Juliet, British authors have created some of the most compelling characters in all of literature. But too often, textbooks reduce these vibrant...
by Michael Ferber
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
The best way to learn about Romantic poetry is to plunge in and read a few Romantic poems. This book guides the new reader through this experience, focusing on canonical authors - Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, Blake and Shelley - whilst also including less familiar figures as well. Each chapter...
Shameful Flight
The Last Years of the British Empire in India
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2006
Britain's precipitous and ill-planned disengagement from India in 1947--condemned as a "shameful flight" by Winston Churchill--had a truly catastrophic effect on South Asia, leaving hundreds of thousands of people dead in its wake and creating a legacy of chaos, hatred, and war that has...
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...
How to be a Brit
The Classic Bestselling Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 1986
The indispensable manual for everyone who longs to attain True Britishness
George Mikes's perceptive best-seller provides a complete guide to the British Way of Life. Having been born in Hungary, he eventually spent more than forty years in the field, and the fruits of his labour include insights...
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by Arthur Brown Ruhl
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Includes Gallipoli Campaign Map and Illustrations Pack -71 photos and 31 maps of the campaign spanning the entire period of hostilities.
Written in the tumultuous days of the opening months of the First World War, American writer Arthur Ruhl was one of the few English speaking journalists who saw...
Leigh Hunt
Life, Poetics, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Recent critical and scholarly interest in John Keats has encouraged a resurgence of interest in his friend and mentor, the poet and journalist Leigh Hunt. This timely collection of essays by leading British and North America romanticists explores Hunt's life, writings and cultural significance over...
by Andrew Shail
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Modernist writing has always been linked with cinema. The recent renaissance in early British film studies has allowed cinema to emerge as a major historical context for literary practice. Treating cinema as a historical rather than an aesthetic influence, this book analyzes the role of early British...
by J. Russell Perkin
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
David Lodge is a much-loved novelist and influential literary critic. Examining his career from his earliest publications in the late 1950s to his more recent works, David Lodge and the Tradition of the Modern Novel identifies Lodge's central place within the canon of twentieth-century British literature....
The History of British Women's Writing, 1920-1945
Volume Eight
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Featuring sixteen contributions from recognized authorities in their respective fields, this superb new mapping of women's writing ranges from feminine middlebrow novels to Virginia Woolf's modernist aesthetics, from women's literary journalism to crime fiction, and from West End drama to the literature of Scotland, Ireland and Wales.