Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Britain's Bloodless Revolutions explores the relationship of the emerging category of Literature to the emerging threat of popular violence after the Bloodless Revolution. The book argues that at a time when the political nature of the Bloodless Revolution became a subject of debate–in the period defined by France's famously bloody revolution–Literature emerged as […]
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Publisher: Anova Books
This is the definitive account of the literary phenomenon that was the Angry Young Men, from one of the first writers to be hailed as such - Colin Wilson, whose groundbreaking work The Outsider, along with John Osborne's Look Back in Anger, marked its start.This is not a critic's book, but a writer's […]
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Brings together essays examining English literary culture in the Restoration and early eighteenth century, from Milton and Marvell to Pope and Montagu.
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
The first comprehensive account of English Renaissance literature and the culture which shaped it.
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
This lively and accessible Companion is an invaluable guide for students and scholars of Shelley and of Romanticism.
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Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
The Novel Now is a scrupulous and entertaining account of what has happened to British fiction since 1970. It exposes pretentious and self-indulgent writers and celebrates those novelists whose qualities are exceptional. The book will show that enjoyment and critical scrutiny are not mutually exclusive activities; it is designed to appeal both […]
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Literature, Travel, and Colonial Writing in the English Renaissance, 1545-1625
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
This essential resource for scholars and students of the Renaissance is now available in paperback for the first time.
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Many scholars have written about eighteenth-century English novels, but no one really knows who read them. Provincial Readers in Eighteenth-Century England provides historical data on the provincial reading publics for various forms of fiction - novels, plays, chapbooks, children's books, and magazines. Archival records of Midland booksellers based in five market towns […]
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Building on existing surveys of contemporary English fiction, this timely book focuses on key novels by eleven major English novelists who have broken in different ways from the realist British novel of the postwar period without losing their broad appeal among readers. These writers have reacted to the Thatcherite revolution that thrust Britain […]
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