English Literary Classics – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 7

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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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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James Aaron Green,
Fictions of Radical Life Extension

The first book-length study of fictions of radical life extension, this book recovers a major but as-yet unrecognized trend in literature and culture from 1878-1918, taking the form of literary thought ex…

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Tobias William Harris,
Flann O'Brien and the European Avant-Garde, 1934-45

Crossing the boundaries of a single-author study, this book uncovers Flann O'Brien's attempt to forge a commercially successful Irish literary project from international avant-garde influences.Situating O…

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Colette Nic Aodha
David Jones, Disability and Modernist Form

Employing a fresh theoretical approach to David Jones' work, this is the first book to use disability studies as a lens through which to consider his post-war work.

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Teaching the Arthurian Tradition

Essays on teaching medieval Arthurian literature and modern adaptationsFrom the Middle Ages to the present, legends of King Arthur and his court have fascinated readers, inviting contemplation of leadersh…

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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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Angela Carter's Futures

This book explores Angela Carter's creative and critical afterlives as well as the multiple ways in which her work is amenable to being read through current critical and cultural theories.Examining topics…

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Teaching the Arthurian Tradition

Essays on teaching medieval Arthurian literature and modern adaptationsFrom the Middle Ages to the present, legends of King Arthur and his court have fascinated readers, inviting contemplation of leadersh…

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Jesse Molesworth
Forms of Time, Newton to Austen

Between 1700 and 1800, the English-speaking world came to terms with one of modernity's most fundamental ideas: the separation of time from its measure, or what Newton described as the distinction between…

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Jesse Molesworth
Forms of Time, Newton to Austen

Between 1700 and 1800, the English-speaking world came to terms with one of modernity's most fundamental ideas: the separation of time from its measure, or what Newton described as the distinction between…

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Gabriele Lazzari,
New Global Realism

A comparative study of contemporary realist novels that employ totality as a method and a formal principle to represent the social and economic inequalities of the present, this book studies writing in En…

lieferbar ab 19.3.2026.

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Sophie Gee
Making Waste

The obsession with waste in eighteenth-century English literatureWhy was eighteenth-century English culture so fascinated with the things its society discarded? Why did Restoration and Augustan writers su…

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Matthias Stephan,
Anglophone Literature and the Fight Against Climate Change

Offering a methodology for identifying particularly impactful literary narratives of climate change, this open access book examines a range of Anglophone fiction authors such as Margaret Atwood, Paolo Bac…

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Amy L Montz
Dressing for England

Illuminates the interplay of gender, fashion, and nationalism in Victorian literature and culture.Dressing for England argues that women's interest in fashionable clothing--in dress that appealed to a sop…

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Decoding Anne Lister

"The first edited collection of essays on the nineteenth-century diarist Anne Lister, this interdisciplinary collection highlights how her five-million-word diaries shifted paradigms and created awar…

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Ann C Hall
Ronald Harwood's Tragic Vision

"Ronald Harwood's Tragic Vision: A Critical Analysis of His Novels, Plays, and Screenplays offers the first critical analysis of prolific and award-winning British author, Ronald Harwood. The title i…

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

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 of the Eucharistic controversy in 16th c…

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Female Printmakers, Printsellers, and Print Publishers in the Eighteenth Century

"Sixteen international scholars uncover neglected histories about the contributions of eighteenth-century women to making, selling and publishing prints and emphasise the creativity and acumen they d…

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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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