English Literary Classics – Bücher, Blu-ray Discs, CDs und mehr, Seite 7

Helen Vendler
Inhabit the Poem: Last Essays

In 13 essays, the great poetry critic offers her final word on the poets who have meant the most to her, from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson to Wallace Stevens and Sylvia PlathHelen Vendler was our grea…

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Seamus Heaney,
The Letters of Seamus Heaney

The letters provide us with an intimate, multilayered understanding of this extraordinary poet's life and mind. Every now and again I need to get down here, to get into the Diogenes tub, as it were, or th…

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Julia Ditter,
Scottish Literature, Borders and the Environmental Imagination

Bringing together concerns in border studies, the environmental humanities and Scottish literary studies, this open access book examines the relationship between borders and the environment in Scottish li…

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Julianne Sandberg,
Early Modern Literature and the Bodies of a Reformed Eucharist

Choice 2025 Outstanding Academic Title Examining what the eucharist taught early modern writers about their bodies and how it shaped the bodies they wrote about, this book shows how the exegetical roots o…

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Gerry Smyth
Englishness and Environment in Genre Fiction, 1890-1940

In this moment of growing anxiety about the environment and the fate of humanity, literature continues its vital role of articulating dynamic new ways of thinking about the relations between humanity, env…

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Gerry Smyth
Englishness and Environment in Genre Fiction, 1890-1940

In this moment of growing anxiety about the environment and the fate of humanity, literature continues its vital role of articulating dynamic new ways of thinking about the relations between humanity, env…

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William Casey Caldwell,
Urban Citizenship in Early Modern Drama

Citizenship in Shakespeare's England was not attached to nationality but rather to one's city and employment. In this study of urban citizenship, William Casey Caldwell explores the range of economic rela…

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Alexis Chema
Adorned

Ornamental verses abound in Romantic-era commonplace books, albums, epitaphs, pamphlets, personal and commercial anthologies, newspapers, magazines, and periodicals -- that is, in the repositories where h…

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Anne Enright
Attention

For thirty years Anne Enright-one of our greatest living novelists (Times)-has been paying attention: casting her lucid and distinctive gaze across the world, literature, and her own life, and gifting us …

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Patrick Jones
Henry James and the Question of Living

A bold reinterpretation of Henry James's fictional universe that shows how characters who desire to "live" but struggle to translate that desire into reality actually have much to teach us about…

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Simon Jackson
George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture

"Described by one contemporary as the 'sweet singer of The Temple', George Herbert has long been recognised as a lover of music. Nevertheless, Herbert's own participation in seventeenth-century music…

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Alexis Chema
Adorned

Ornamental verses abound in Romantic-era commonplace books, albums, epitaphs, pamphlets, personal and commercial anthologies, newspapers, magazines, and periodicals -- that is, in the repositories where h…

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Jeffrey F Keuss,
Activism and the Literary Self in 20th- And 21st-Century Literature

Exploring how Shusaku Endo, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Thomas Merton, Marilynne Robinson, Cormac McCarthy, and Octavia E. Butler engage with social justice and activism, this book explores the significant role tha…

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Michael Dirda
The Great Age of Storytelling

With infectious enthusiasm, "the best read person in America"---as Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Dirda has been called---aims to rekindle our passion for classic works of adventure, mystery, fan…

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Claudia Olk
Shakespeare and Beckett

"The danger is in the neatness of identifications", Samuel Beckett famously stated, and, at first glance, no two authors could be further distant from one another than William Shakespeare and Sa…

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Brad Kent
Censorship and the Irish Writer

Censorship affected the careers of many Irish writers and transformed the trajectory of modern Irish literature. Although some authors were reluctant to defend themselves and their art, others strenuously…

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Günter Leypoldt
Literature's Social Lives

This book draws from literary sociology to look at literature in a longue durée (from Romantic poetry to the Toni-Morrison novel). It proposes a new value theory, and sketches an institutional history of …

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Heidi Craig
Theatre Closure and the Paradoxical Rise of English Renaissance Drama in the Civil Wars

"Focusing on the production and reception of drama during the theatre closures of 1642 to 1660, Heidi Craig shows how the "death" of contemporary theatre in fact gave birth to English Renai…

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Michael Chapman
Literary Transactions in South Africa

A representative overview of some of the most pressing concerns in contemporary literary criticism in South Africa, demonstrating literary form's shaping power in the interpretation of politically content…

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Spencer Jordan,
Metamodernism and the Postdigital in the Contemporary Novel

Drawing on a range of authors that includes Zadie Smith, Sally Rooney, Ben Lerner, Ali Smith, Tom McCarthy, Jennifer Egan and Kazuo Ishiguro, this book provides an innovative and original analysis of the …

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