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For students in a survey course or one focusing on the Renaissance, the guide alphabetically lists authors typically studied; sites on the World Wide Web with information about them; and print biography, criticism, and bibliography. Most entries include a brief descriptive annotation.

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The Vagrant Mood is a brilliantly varied and colourful collection of essays. From Kant to Raymond Chandler; from the legend of Zurbaran to the art of the detective story; from Burke to Augustus Hare, Somerset Maugham brings his inimitable mastery of the incisive character sketch to the genre of literary criticism.

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Through the analysis of a wide range of sources, which include aquarium manuals, articles and fictional works, The Victorian aquarium investigates the nineteenth-century vogue for home tanks; the book retraces the development and decline of the aquarium mania, exploring both its historical specificity and its far-ranging cultural resonance.

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Offers an introduction to literature and culture in the Victorian period. This textbook provides a one-stop resource for literature students, presenting the information and guidance needed from introducing the historical and cultural context to key authors, texts and genres. It includes case studies for reading literary and critical texts.

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Offers an introduction to literature and culture in the Victorian period. This textbook provides a one-stop resource for literature students, presenting the information and guidance needed from introducing the historical and cultural context to key authors, texts and genres. It includes case studies for reading literary and critical texts.

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An indispensable resource for readers investigating Victorian literature and culture, this book offers a comprehensive summary of the historical, social, political, and cultural contexts of Victorian England.

The Victorian era was a time of great social, scientific, and cultural change.

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An encyclopedia of American literature, songs, and films.

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In laying the groundwork for a fresh and challenging reading of Roman satire, Kirk Freudenburg explores the literary precedents behind the situations and characters created by Horace, one of Rome's earliest and most influential satirists. Critics tend to think that his two books of Satires are but trite sermons of moral reform--which the poems supe

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* Big, bold, revisionist book which plausibly challenges gender stereotypes about women and Islam * Makes sparkling tales and stories accessible for the first time to an English-speaking readership * Wide appeal to a variety of readers, in Middle East studies, comparative literature & medieval history

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From Shakespeare's plays and contemporary verse to modern novels, this annotated bibliography covers fiction written about the Wars of the Roses since 1440.

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The Who's Who of Nobel Prize Winners is a one-stop source of detailed information on the men and women who earned the Nobel Prize during the 20th century.

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An excellent study of the performance of one of Shakespeare's perceived 'problem plays', complete with interview material with actors and directors, an awareness of global productions and an insight to theatrical art. -- .

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The Woman in the Moon is the last of Lyly's plays and the only one of his works to be written primarily in verse. Newly edited from the first edition of 1597, this latest contribution to the prestigious Revels Plays series is the first fully annotated, modern-spelling edition of the play. -- .

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Part meditation, part manifesto, this book spurs us--in a climate of so-called post-truth--to consider and value the importance of the humanities and the training in rigorous thinking it provides.

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Part meditation, part manifesto, this book spurs us--in a climate of so-called post-truth--to consider and value the importance of the humanities and the training in rigorous thinking it provides.

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