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American Literature Before 1880

by Robert Lawson-Peebles

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 An accessible introduction to the richness and variety of American Literature up to 1880. This includes the early work of James and Twain, as well as Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, Poe, Cooper, Melville and Irving.
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English Drama Before Shakespeare

by Peter Happe

70,21€ + 10% CARD

 English Drama before Shakespeare surveys the range of dramatic activity in English up to 1590. The book challenges the traditional divisions between Medieval and Renaissance literature by showing that there was much continuity throughout this period, in spite of many innovations. The range of dramatic activity includes well-known features such as mystery cycles and the interludes, as well as comedy and tragedy. Para-dramatic activity such as the liturgical drama, royal entries and localised or parish drama is also covered. Many of the plays considered are anonymous, but a coherent, biographical view can be taken of the work of known dramatists such as John Heywood, John Bale, and Christopher Marlowe. Peter Happé''s study is based upon close reading of selected plays, especially from the mystery cycles and such Elizabethan works as Thomas Kyd''s The Spanish Tragedy. It takes account of contemporary research into dramatic form, performance (including some important recent revivals), dramatic sites and early theatre buildings, and the nature of early dramatic texts. Recent changes in outlook generated by the publication of the written records of early drama form part of the book''s focus. There is an extensive bibliography covering social and political background, the lives and works of individual authors, and the development of theatrical ideas through the period. The book is aimed at undergraduates, as well as offering an overview for more advanced students and researchers in drama and in related fields of literature and cultural studies.
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English Drama Before Shakespeare

by Peter Happe

70,21€ + 10% CARD

 English Drama before Shakespeare surveys the range of dramatic activity in English up to 1590. The book challenges the traditional divisions between Medieval and Renaissance literature by showing that there was much continuity throughout this period, in spite of many innovations. The range of dramatic activity includes well-known features such as mystery cycles and the interludes, as well as comedy and tragedy. Para-dramatic activity such as the liturgical drama, royal entries and localised or parish drama is also covered. Many of the plays considered are anonymous, but a coherent, biographical view can be taken of the work of known dramatists such as John Heywood, John Bale, and Christopher Marlowe. Peter Happé''s study is based upon close reading of selected plays, especially from the mystery cycles and such Elizabethan works as Thomas Kyd''s The Spanish Tragedy. It takes account of contemporary research into dramatic form, performance (including some important recent revivals), dramatic sites and early theatre buildings, and the nature of early dramatic texts. Recent changes in outlook generated by the publication of the written records of early drama form part of the book''s focus. There is an extensive bibliography covering social and political background, the lives and works of individual authors, and the development of theatrical ideas through the period. The book is aimed at undergraduates, as well as offering an overview for more advanced students and researchers in drama and in related fields of literature and cultural studies.
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American Fiction 1865 - 1940

by Brian Lee

70,21€ + 10% CARD

 Brian Lee''s study of American fiction from 1865 to 1940 draws on a wealth of material by, amongst others, Twain, James, Dreiser, Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Faulkner. Though the works of these writers have been closely scrutinised by postwar critics in Europe and America, few attempts have yet been made to utilise the new critical approaches and theories in the service of literary history. Brian Lee does so in this book, relating the writers of the period - both major and minor - to its patterns of immense economic, social and intellectual change.
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American Fiction 1865 - 1940

by Brian Lee

70,21€ + 10% CARD

 Brian Lee''s study of American fiction from 1865 to 1940 draws on a wealth of material by, amongst others, Twain, James, Dreiser, Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Faulkner. Though the works of these writers have been closely scrutinised by postwar critics in Europe and America, few attempts have yet been made to utilise the new critical approaches and theories in the service of literary history. Brian Lee does so in this book, relating the writers of the period - both major and minor - to its patterns of immense economic, social and intellectual change.
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English Fiction Of The Romantic Period 1789-1830

by Gary Kelly

80,81€ + 10% CARD

 English Fiction of the Romantic Period 1789-1830 is the first comprehensive historical survey of fiction from that period for many decades. It combines a clear awareness of the period''s social history with recent developments in literary criticism, theory and history, and explains the astounding variety of forms in Romantic fiction in terms of the various cultural, political, social, regional and gender conflicts of the time. It provides a broad-ranging survey from the major authors and works through to the sub-genres of the period. Jan Austin and Sir Alter Scott are discussed alongside the Gothic Romance, political and feminist fiction, social satire and regional, rural and historical novels. It also provides a comparison of the methods of distribution and marketing and the availability of books then and now; examines cheap popular fiction and children''s fiction, and considers the recent debate about the place of prose fiction in a Romantic literature hitherto dominated by poetry.
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English Fiction Of The Romantic Period 1789-1830

by Gary Kelly

80,81€ + 10% CARD

 English Fiction of the Romantic Period 1789-1830 is the first comprehensive historical survey of fiction from that period for many decades. It combines a clear awareness of the period''s social history with recent developments in literary criticism, theory and history, and explains the astounding variety of forms in Romantic fiction in terms of the various cultural, political, social, regional and gender conflicts of the time. It provides a broad-ranging survey from the major authors and works through to the sub-genres of the period. Jan Austin and Sir Alter Scott are discussed alongside the Gothic Romance, political and feminist fiction, social satire and regional, rural and historical novels. It also provides a comparison of the methods of distribution and marketing and the availability of books then and now; examines cheap popular fiction and children''s fiction, and considers the recent debate about the place of prose fiction in a Romantic literature hitherto dominated by poetry.
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English Drama Since 1940

by David Ian Rabey

79,49€ + 10% CARD

 English Drama Since 1940 considers the bids of successive post-war dramatists to find language and images of remorseless disclosure, appropriate to the public manifestation of sensed crisis and the interrogation of the ideal of renewal. This book introduces the period and its discourse whilst redefining them, to give proper consideration to developments of themes, styles, concerns and contexts from the 80s to the present. The book offers succinct and analytical introductions to the work of 60 dramatists, whilst arguing for (re)appraisal of many dates critical perspectives, in order to stimulate further argument in the field.
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English Drama Since 1940

by David Ian Rabey

79,49€ + 10% CARD

 English Drama Since 1940 considers the bids of successive post-war dramatists to find language and images of remorseless disclosure, appropriate to the public manifestation of sensed crisis and the interrogation of the ideal of renewal. This book introduces the period and its discourse whilst redefining them, to give proper consideration to developments of themes, styles, concerns and contexts from the 80s to the present. The book offers succinct and analytical introductions to the work of 60 dramatists, whilst arguing for (re)appraisal of many dates critical perspectives, in order to stimulate further argument in the field.
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Scottish Literature Since 1707

by Marshall Walker

80,81€ + 10% CARD

 This study offers a critical interpretation of Scottish literature as well as an introduction to Scottish culture. It covers the Scottish enlightenment and the world of Adam Smith and David Hume, and the "Scottish Renaissance" associated with Hugh MacDiarmid.
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Scottish Literature Since 1707

by Marshall Walker

80,81€ + 10% CARD

 This study offers a critical interpretation of Scottish literature as well as an introduction to Scottish culture. It covers the Scottish enlightenment and the world of Adam Smith and David Hume, and the "Scottish Renaissance" associated with Hugh MacDiarmid.
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English Prose Of The Nineteenth Century

by Daniel Brown e Hilary Fraser

50,34€ + 10% CARD

 Providing a comprehensive survey of English prose in the 19th century, this volume draws material from a wide variety of fields including art, literary theory and criticism, biography, letters, journals, sermons, and travel reportage.
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English Prose Of The Nineteenth Century

by Daniel Brown e Hilary Fraser

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 Providing a comprehensive survey of English prose in the 19th century, this volume draws material from a wide variety of fields including art, literary theory and criticism, biography, letters, journals, sermons, and travel reportage.
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English Prose Of The Nineteenth Century

by Daniel Brown e Hilary Fraser

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 Providing a comprehensive survey of English prose in the 19th century, this volume draws material from a wide variety of fields including art, literary theory and criticism, biography, letters, journals, sermons, and travel reportage.
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Scottish Literature Since 1707

by Marshall Walker

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 This study offers a critical interpretation of Scottish literature as well as an introduction to Scottish culture. It covers the Scottish enlightenment and the world of Adam Smith and David Hume, and the "Scottish Renaissance" associated with Hugh MacDiarmid.
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English Prose Of The Seventeenth Century 1590-1700

by Roger Pooley

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 Part of the Longman Literature in English series which aims to provide students of literature with a critical introduction to the major genres in their historical and cultural context. This volume considers English prose during the 17th-century.
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English Literature In The Age Of Chaucer

by Dieter Mehl

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 This book presents a full account of Chaucer's achievements and explores in what ways Chaucer is at the same time typical and atypical of his age.
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English Drama Of The Early Modern Period 1890-1940

by Jean Chothia

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 The period 1890-1940 was a particularly rich and influential phase in the development of modern English theatre: the age of Wilde and Shaw and a generation of influential actors and managers from Irving and Terry to Guilgud and Olivier.
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English Poetry Of The Eighteenth Century, 1700-1789

by David Fairer

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 In recent years the canon of eighteenth-century poetry has greatly expanded to include women poets, labouring-class and provincial poets, and many previously unheard voices.This book questions some of the structures, categories, and labels that have given the age its reassuring shape in literary history. In doing so it offers a fresh and detailed look at a wide range of material.
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English Poetry Of The Sixteenth Century

by Gary F. Waller

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 Explores the poetry of the Renaissance, from Dunbar in the late 15th century to the Songs and Sonnets of John Donne in the early 17th. The book offers more than the wealth of literature discussed: it is a pioneering work in its own right, bringing the insights of contemporary literary and cultural theory to an overview of the period.
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American Drama Of The Twentieth Century

by Gerald M. Berkowitz

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 This study charts the remarkable development of American drama in the twentieth century. It defines the variety of themes, genres and styles the drama produced, discussing both individual works and dramatic oeuvres whilst placing them in their cultural context.
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African Literatures In English - East And West

by Gareth Griffiths

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 This text provides students with a fascinating historical and sociological overview of the literature in English from East and West Africa, introducing a wide range of writers, genres and individual works and also providing an overview of the main events and forces which have shaped the writing.
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Twentieth-Century America - The Intellectual And Cultural Context

by Douglas Tallack

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 The multi-volume Longman literature in English series aims to provide students of literature with a critical introduction to the major genres in their historical and cultural context. This book looks at cinema, painting and architecture in 20th-century America, as well as the culture of politics.
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English Fiction Of The Romantic Period 1789-1830

by Gary Kelly

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 A comprehensive historical survey of the period 1789xxx;1830. Will aid the reader in assessing the role of prose fiction in a period hitherto dominated by poetry.
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