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Analyses the continuities and discontinuities in textual transmission as we move from a print paradigm into an increasingly digital world. This title conceptualises the transition van analogue to digital both in factual terms and in terms of its social significance.

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Isaac Asimov and Frank Herbert remain two of the most popular and influential science fiction writers of the 20th century.

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This book, new in paperback, offers new readings of novels by major British and American postwar novelists.

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Analyses the use of caricature as one of the key strategies in narrative fiction since the war. This monograph also analyses some of the best known postwar novelists including Toni Morrison, Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, Angela Carter and Will Self, reveals how they use caricature to express postmodern conceptions of the self.

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Reconnaissance au Maroc is Charles de Foucauld's adventurous memoir of exploring Morocco. For eleven months in 1883-84, Foucauld travelled incognito through a country then off-limits to Europeans, mapping its waterways.

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Part of a series, which provides concise introductions to major writers focusing equally on their life and works. Often seen as the quintessential Victorian novelist, Charles Dickens is without doubt a literary giant. This book provides a short introduction to Dickens's work and the personal and social context in which it was written.

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Part of a series, which provides concise introductions to major writers focusing equally on their life and works. Often seen as the quintessential Victorian novelist, Charles Dickens is without doubt a literary giant. This book provide a short introduction to Dickens's work and the personal and social context in which it was written.

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This stimulating study takes a fresh look at two of Dickens' most widely-studied texts. Part I uses carefully selected short extracts for close textual analysis, while Part II examines the historical and literary contexts and key criticism. The volume is an ideal introductory guide for those who are studying Dickens' novels for the first time.

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This thought-provoking study takes a fresh look at two of Dickens' most popular texts. Part I uses carefully selected short extracts for close textual analysis, while Part II examines the historical and literary contexts and key criticism. The volume is an ideal introductory guide for those who are studying Dickens' novels for the first time.

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Selections from the master of the essay, with essays on him by Hazlitt and De Quincey.

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Charlotte Bront: legacies and afterlives is a timely reflection on the persistent fascination and creative engagement with Charlotte Bronts life and work. The new essays in this volume, which cover the period from Bronts first publication to the twenty-first century, explain why her work has endured in so many different forms and contexts.

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Charlotte Bront: legacies and afterlives is a timely reflection on the persistent fascination and creative engagement with Charlotte Bronts life and work. The new essays in this volume, which cover the period from Bronts first publication to the twenty-first century, explain why her work has endured in so many different forms and contexts.

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This book offers a thorough and complete reading of Charlotte Smith's poetry, arguing that we need to engage more directly with historical ideas of gender. -- .

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Challenges the view that the fifteenth century was the 'Drab Age' of English literary history. This book seeks to recover the late-medieval literary system that defined the canon of Chaucer's work and the canonical approaches to its understanding. It shows how the poets, and scribes constructed Chaucer as the 'poet laureate'

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Professor Wood examines in detail the astrological references in The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, and The Complaint of Mars, using mediaeval source materials not only to elucidate the technicalities of the imagery but also to analyze its poetic function. Originally published in 1970. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-o

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The author's aim is to "restore to the reading of the poem a background of medieval meanings familiar enough to Chaucer's contemporary reader but almost lost to the modem." Mr. Koonce believes that fame was a clearly defined Christian concept in the Middle Ages, and his interpretation of Chaucer's allegory proceeds from that central focus. Origina

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