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By: Norma Clarke
ISBN: 9781852852542
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This work explores Dr Johnson's relationships with six remarkable and successful female authors: Elizabeth Carter; Hannah More; Charlotte Lennox; Hester Thrale; Fanney Burney; and Elizabeth Montagu. These women's characters and achievements are also chronicled.
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By: Greg Miller
ISBN: 9781526164094
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The Anglo-Welsh aristocrats George Herbert (15931633) and Edward Herbert (15831648) are striking examples of an early European republic of letters. This volume argues that in their lives and works, a cosmopolitanism born of warfare and strife imagined a radical communion and openness.
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By: Dr Paul Goring
ISBN: 9780826485656
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Provides an introduction to literature and its context from 1688-1789. This guide includes: the historical, cultural and intellectual background including the expansion of cultural production and the growth of 'print culture'; major writers, genres and groups; and explanations of key terms needed to understand the literature and criticism.
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By: Dr Paul Goring
ISBN: 9780826485649
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Provides students with an introduction to literature and its context from 1688-1789. This guide provides: explanations of terms needed to understand the literature and criticism; an overview of key critical approaches; and a chronology mapping historical events and literary works and further reading including websites and electronic resources.
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By: Mark A. Graves
ISBN: 9780313306488
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2000
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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It also includes topical entries that survey the literature of America's major wars as well as such subjects as Indian captivity narratives, women's diaries of the Civil War, the literature of the Spanish-American War, and African American war literature.
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By: Louis A. Landa
ISBN: 9780691629797
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Louis A. Landa
ISBN: 9780691615660
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Annaliese Connolly
ISBN: 9780719084942
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2013
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Collection of new essays about the earl of Essex, one of the most important figures of the Elizabethan court -- .
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By: Annaliese Connolly
ISBN: 9781784993542
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Collection of new essays about the earl of Essex, one of the most important figures of the Elizabethan court -- .
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By: Malcolm Cook
ISBN: 9780854967650
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An analysis of the presentation of social reality in France during the final years of the ancien regime and the Revolution.
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By: James William Johnson
ISBN: 9780691623559
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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This book reexamines some of the prevalent critical assumptions about English Neo-Classical thought and literature and tests them by viewing Neo-Classicism within its intellectual tradition and its self-defined limits. Originally published in 1967. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available pre
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By: James William Johnson
ISBN: 9780691650197
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: E. J. Clery
ISBN: 9780719040276
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2000
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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In the 1790s, Britain was struck by a reading revolution, a taste for terror fiction that seemed to know no bounds. How is it that the age of Enlightenment gave rise to the genre of the literary ghost story "Gothic Documents" seeks to answer this and other questions.
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By: Yasmin Arshad
ISBN: 9781350058965
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Yasmin Arshad
ISBN: 9781350248878
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Jarlath Killeen
ISBN: 9781526161970
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Examines changing ideas about childhood and Ireland in Irish Anglican writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in a wide variety of genres, including novels, sermons, political pamphlets, letters, educational treatises, histories, catechisms and childrens bibles.
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By: Christine Kenyon Jones
ISBN: 9781350381391
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Christine Kenyon Jones
ISBN: 9781350381407
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Andrew Hartley
ISBN: 9780719079191
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2014
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Presents a performance history of a controversial play, moving from its 1599 opening all the way into the new millennium with particular emphasis on its twentieth- and twenty-first-century incarnations on stage and screen -- .
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By: Barbara M. Benedict
ISBN: 9780691602059
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Barbara M. Benedict
ISBN: 9780691656434
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Stephanie M. Hilger
ISBN: 9781350374928
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Dr. Deborah Cartmell
ISBN: 9781474284370
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Laura L. Runge
ISBN: 9781839982002
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2023
Publisher: Anthem Press
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This book explores the works of Aphra Behn (16401689) synchronically through word counts and statistical measures. It analyzes, by genre, poetry, drama, and prose, examining the quantification of Behns literary style. The conclusion applies thematic questions to the full corpus for an innovative and comprehensive assessment of Behns writing.
