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The Crisis of Literature in the 1790s
This book offers an original study of the debates which arose in the 1790s about the nature and social role of literature. Paul Keen shows how these...
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Sentimental Narrative and the Social Order in France, 1760–1820
In this discerning study of sentimental discourse of the late eighteenth century, David J. Denby sheds new light on Enlightenment thought and...
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Literacy in Medieval Celtic Societies
This collection of studies examines the use of the written word in Celtic-speaking regions of Europe between c. 400 and c. 1500. Building on previous...
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Ethics and Aesthetics in European Modernist Literature
David Ellison’s book is an investigation into the historical origins and textual practice of European literary Modernism. Ellison’s study traces...
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The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English
This illustrated and fully updated Third Edition of The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English is the most authoritative and international survey...
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The Poetic Art of Aldhelm
Aldhelm of Malmesbury has been described as the first English man of letters. He was the first Germanic author to compose extensively in Latin...
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Virgil on the Nature of Things
The Georgics has for many years been a source of fierce controversy among scholars of Latin literature. Is the work optimistic or pessimistic, pro-...
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The American Stage
This book focuses on the economic and social forces which shaped American theatre throughout its 250-year history. The collection of essays, written...
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The Metrical Grammar of Beowulf
This book argues that the formal art of the Old English epic Beowulf is shaped and determined by the poetic language which the poet inherited from...
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Virgil and the Augustan Reception
This book is an examination of the ideological reception of Virgil at specific moments in the last two millennia. The author focuses on the emperor...
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The Irish Tradition in Old English Literature
Irish monks and missionaries played a crucial role in the conversion of the pagan Anglo-Saxons and in the formation of Christian culture in England,...
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Shakespeare and Theatrical Patronage in Early Modern England
During the past quarter of a century, the study of patronage-theatre relations in early modern England has developed considerably. This, however, is...
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Women’s Writing in Nineteenth-Century France
This is the most complete critical survey to date of women’s literature in nineteenth-century France. Alison Finch’s wide-ranging analysis of...
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Literary Patronage in England, 1650–1800
This is the first comprehensive study of the system of literary patronage in early modern England and it demonstrates that far from declining by 1750...
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Grammars of Space
Spatial language - that is, the way languages structure the spatial domain – is an important area of research, offering insights into one of the...
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Literature and Society in Renaissance Crete
This book presents a comprehensive study of the literature of the Cretan Renaissance and relates it to the historical, social and cultural context....
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Ancient Epistolary Fictions
The first comprehensive look at fictive letters in Greek literature from Homer to Philostratus. It includes both embedded epistolary narratives in a...
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Heathen Gods in Old English Literature
Heathen gods are hard to find in Old English literature. Most Anglo-Saxon writers had no interest in them, and scholars today prefer to concentrate...
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Shakespeare Survey
Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English...
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Shakespeare Survey
Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English...
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Journal Publishing
Journal publishing involves such a variety of disciplines and types and levels of expertise, that a comprehensive professional guide is essential....
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The Cambridge Introduction to the American Short Story
This wide-ranging introduction to the short story tradition in the United States of America traces the genre from its beginnings in the early...
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Performing Shakespeare’s Tragedies Today
What does it mean to perform Shakespeare’s Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedies in the modern theatre? This book brings together the reflections of a...
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American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822–1869
Through an exploration of women authors’ engagements with copyright and married women’s property laws, American Women Authors and Literary...
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