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(Paperback, 2nd edition)
By: Dr Neil McCaw
ISBN: 9781441190666
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: M. Thomas Inge
ISBN: 9780313270864
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 1985
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 1997
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Shakespeare later developed vernacular and street humor in his comedies, festive humor in his romances and histories, and dark humor in his tragedies. Each entry discusses the role of humor in the author's work and includes a bibliography.
The volume begins with an introductory essay on the origins of British humor in the Middle Ages.
(Hardback)
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 1998
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This reference book examines how British writers of the 18th and 19th centuries used humour in their works. An introductory chapter overviews humour in British literature of the era, and sections then treat humour in British literature of the 18th century and in three periods of the 19th century.
(Hardback)
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 1996
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Ireland has generated an inordinately large number of storytellers, and Irish short stories bear a striking resemblance to Irish jokes.
(Hardback)
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2000
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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British writers of the 20th century have used humor in various ways throughout their works. This reference surveys humor in British literature of the 20th century.
Included are authors who were active during the 20th century, ranging from Sir Arthur Wing Pinero (1855-1934) through Douglas (Noel) Adams (1952-).
(Hardback)
By: Homa Katouzian
ISBN: 9780755652129
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Dr Lesa Scholl
ISBN: 9781350237414
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Lori Ann Garner
ISBN: 9781526158499
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book works from the premise that the tremendous diversity of Old English medical texts requires an equally diverse range of interpretative methodologies. Taking a case study approach, it offers close readings tailored to individual remedies, drawing from biology, rhetoric, archaeology, folkloristics and disability studies.
(Hardback)
By: Dr Ian Kinane
ISBN: 9781350128965
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Dr Ian Kinane
ISBN: 9781350235380
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Yolanda Williams Page
ISBN: 9780313352034
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The 24 entries in this book provide extensive coverage of some of the most notable figures in African American literature, such as Alice Walker, Richard Wright, and Zora Neale Hurston.
(Hardback)
By: Professor Mikhail Epstein
ISBN: 9781501350597
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Dr Joel Merriner
ISBN: 9781350442085
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Professor Gisela Brinker-Gabler
ISBN: 9781628920178
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Robert Francis Goheen
ISBN: 9780691628677
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Robert Francis Goheen
ISBN: 9780691627335
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Jonathan Brown
ISBN: 9780691003153
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 1979
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Abba Rubin
ISBN: 9780313237799
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 1984
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Abba Rubin explores the relationship between the history of a minority--the English Jew--and its depiction in literature. Rubin looks at the relationship between the English Jew and his Christian countryman. Subsequent chapters examine the depiction of the Jew in English literature from the Restoration to the 1830s.
(Hardback)
By: Geoff Klock
ISBN: 9780826428028
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Argues that the bizarre portrayal of historical writers in post-Enlightenment English poetry constitutes a genre, a battleground for two central conflicts: the confrontation of the self-sufficient Romantic imagination with the brute fact of external precursors; and the participation in, and simultaneous deflation of, Romantic idealism.
(Hardback)
By: Yamini
ISBN: 9789356400238
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury India
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(Hardback)
By: Yasmin Arshad
ISBN: 9781350058965
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Rachael Alexander
ISBN: 9781785273476
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2021
Publisher: Anthem Press
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Offering the first comparative study of 1920s' US and Canadian print cultures, this book comparatively examines the highly influential 'Ladies' Home Journal' (1883-2014).
(Paperback)
By: Tom Sykes
ISBN: 9780755640393
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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