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The Roxburghe Club, founded in 1812, has an unbroken publishing history from 1814 to the present day. This work offers a new narrative of the formative years of the Club and early nineteenth-century antiquarian culture and its relationship to the emergent popularity and status of English vernacular literature.

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The Roxburghe Club, founded in 1812, has an unbroken publishing history from 1814 to the present day. This work offers a new narrative of the formative years of the Club and early nineteenth-century antiquarian culture and its relationship to the emergent popularity and status of English vernacular literature.

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Brink shows that Spenser began as the protege of churchmen, who expected him to take holy orders and that the Shepheardes Calender signaled his transition from shepherd-priest to shepherd-poet. A -- .

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Brink shows that Spenser began as the protege of churchmen, who expected him to take holy orders and that the Shepheardes Calender signaled his transition from shepherd-priest to shepherd-poet. A -- .

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This book explores how the tremendous earthquake on March 11, 2011 impacted literary authors in Japan and generated issues and perspectives previously unrecognized in Japanese literary and social culture. The disaster itself caused an earthquake, tsunami, and an nuclear accident, and provided the grounds for "post 3/11" literature in Japan.

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A poet's tradition provides him with a sense of community that may be regarded as a necessary condition for poetry. Jenijoy La Belle, who studied with Roethke, here describes the cultural tradition that he defined and created for himself. In so doing, she demonstrates how an understanding of Roethke's sources and the influences on his work is essen

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Presents an introduction to literature and culture in the eighteenth century. This book includes introductions to authors, texts and contexts; guides to key critics, concepts and topics; and, an overview of major critical approaches, and changes in the canon and directions of research.

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Presents an introduction to literature and culture in the eighteenth century. This book includes introductions to authors, texts and contexts; guides to key critics, concepts and topics; and an overview of major critical approaches and changes in the canon and directions of research.

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In this short study Dr Tillyard not only elucidates such fairly familiar - though often mystifying - concepts as the four elements, the celestial harmony of 'nine enfolded Sphears', or macrocosm and microcosm;

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This book provides the latest scholarship on the various methods and approaches being used by environmental humanists to incorporate geomedia into their research and analyses, examining how these new methodologies impact the production of knowledge in this field of study and promoting the impact of First Nation people perspectives.

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Aeschylus' "Persions" is the first surviving Greek drama. This book provides aims to provide both a more satisfactory reading of the "Persians" and a richer picture of fifth-century history - the history both of events and ideology.

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In this bold reconceptualization of Shakespeare's histories as plays that ultimately generate and seek to legitimize new kings, Barbara Hodgdon examines how closure contests as well as celebrates power relations dominant in late Elizabethan and early Jacobean society--particularly those between sovereign and subjects. Taking a broad view of closure

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In The End of the Anthropocene, Michael J. Gormley examines late-stage anthropocene literature and the imagining of the astropocene. Focusing on science fiction literature, Gormley frames a changing ecoethic for the end of the anthropocene.

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Provides a critical introduction to the key theoretical developments in contemporary Irish cultural criticism since the mid-1980s. Draws on aspects of the work of all the critics considered to advance a new theory of the representation of subjectivity in Irish writing. -- .

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For a brief period of 20 years between the two World Wars, this pattern changed dramatically, with a flood of German books in translation threatening to engulf the British book market and triggering violently emotional reactions in the literary pages of the popular press.