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Using Wordsworth as a focal point, this book describes how, in the period of Romanticism and beyond, the historical practice of pilgrimage became internalised figuratively and psychologically so as to represent Christian discourse in nineteenth-century English literature.

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Analyses the pervasive use of early American themes in contemporary culture, including literature, television series, film, theatre, graphic novels and video games.

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This selection of short, engaging essays examines and explains key terms that Jane Austen repeatedly drew on in her fiction, words which have faded from everyday use today but are vital to understanding her fiction.

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Situates the works, legend and reception of the Renaissance poet and politician John Milton within the network of disability, embodiment and care studies.

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Demonstrates how women's writing formed a crucial, if underappreciated, part of the history of sexuality in the Romantic period

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This books looks at Antony and Cleopatra in performance from 1606 to 2018, examining how actors, directors and designers pick up the play's themes of desire and delinquency, exoticism and erotic politics to locate the most ambituous love story ever told in a new present. Is the play tragedy Comedy Farce Rutter shows it's all three.

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This book offers new connections between Spenser and Shakespeare by showing how their works hone readers' and audiences' judgement about the social construction of aristocratic identity.

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This book presents a wide-ranging and original meditation on cartographies of connection in all the arts of the baroque period.

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This monograph examines the centrality of dreams and their significant transformations in British Gothic novels and in Caribbean novels. The Gothic counters the Enlightenment's internalization of dreams by reimagining dreams as social and political phenomena.

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This is an edition of Sir Philip Sidney's New Arcadia in modern spelling that makes the text accessible through an enhanced glossary and expanded commentary covering book history, reception history, and Sidney's contribution to the English language.

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This compelling book offers a fresh and insightful contribution to the interrelated fields of book history and literary studies, showing us new ways to read and write early modern lives in print.

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A gift edition of Shakespeare's famous cycle of poems.

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The second edition of Friedman's stage history of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus adds an examination of twelve major theatrical productions and one film that appeared in the years 1989-2009, identifying four lines of descent in the recent performance history of the play: the stylised, realistic, darkly comic, and political approaches. -- .

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This volume traces the evolution of the fairy tale over the period known as the long eighteenth century.

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Part of a series of volumes outlining the history and development of Welsh literature from its beginnings in the 6th century to the late 20th century. This volume provides a critical introduction to the literature of the Welsh language in the 18th century.

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Eighteenth-century English fictions are full of stereotypical images of Wales and the Welsh. This volume explores a selection of 18th-century texts that have recieved little critical attention in Wales, even as they record a part of the history of Welsh people.

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Based on extensive original research, and now available in paperback, Empire of Tea provides a rich cultural history that explores how the British `way of tea became the norm across the Anglophone world.

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The essays in this collection explore the intersection between literary and material forms of writing in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England by linking formalist analysis with the insights of book history. -- .

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This book is not a mere study of Shakespeare's debt to Montaigne. It traces the evolution of self-consciousness in literary, philosophical and religious writings from Antiquity to the Renaissance and demonstrates that its early modern forms first appeared in the Essays and in Shakespearean drama. -- .