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Romanticism
Wiley 2012; US$ 51.95This new edition of the groundbreaking Romanticism: An Anthology is the only book of its kind to contain complete texts of a wide range of Romantic works, including Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience , The Marriage of Heaven and Hell , and Urizen ; Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads (1798); Wordsworth's Two-Part Prelude ;... more...
Women?s Writing, Englishness and National and Cultural Identity
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 80.00An original mapping of women's writing in the 1940s and 1950s, this book looks at Englishness and national identity in women's writing and includes writing from Scotland, Wales, Ireland the Indian subcontinent and Africa. The authors discussed include Virginia Woolf, Daphne Du Maurier, Doris Lessing and Muriel Spark. more...
The English Language Poetry of South Asians
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2013; US$ 55.00In this study, ten independent critical essays and a coda explore the English-language poetry of South Asians in terms of time, place, themes and poetic methodologies. The transnational perspective taken establishes connections between colonial and postcolonial South Asian poetry in English as well as the poetry of the old and new diaspora and the... more...
Royalist Women Writers, 1650-1689
Oxford University Press, UK 2004; US$ 124.99Looking in detail at the work of Margaret Cavendish, Katherine Philips, and Aphra Behn, Royalist Women Writers argues that their writings inaugurate a more assertive model of the Englishwoman as literary author, which is crucially enabled by their royalist affiliations. Chalmers reveals new political sub-texts in the three writers' work and shows... more...
African-British Writings in the Eighteenth Century
ABC-CLIO 1999; US$ 115.00The eighteenth century was a time of great cultural change in Britain. It was a period marked by expeditions to the New World, Africa, and the Orient, and these voyages were reflected in the travel literature of the era. It was also a period in which seventeenth-century empiricism and the scientific method became dominant, and in which society became... more...
Moult a sans et vallour
Editions Rodopi 2012; US$ 112.00William W. Kibler is one of the most productive and versatile medievalists of his generation. Some scholars and students think of him primarily as a specialist in the medieval epic, whereas others consider him to be an Arthurian scholar. He is of course both, but he is also much more: a consummate philologist and editor of texts and also a prolific... more...
Women, Texts and Histories 1575-1760
Taylor and Francis 1992; US$ 45.95The essays offer new feminist analysis of the early modern period and show how women's writing may undermine many of the received assumptions on which the history of the period has depended. more...
Medieval Anchoritisms
Boydell & Brewer 2011; US$ 99.00An examination of the importance of anchoritism to social, cultural and religious life in the middle ages. more...
Women Writers and Familial Discourse in the English Renaissance
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 100.00This book explores the development of familial discourse within a chronological frame, commencing with the More family and concluding with the Cavendish group. It explores the way in which the support of family groups enabled women to participate in literary production, whilst closeting them within a form of writing that encompassed style or theme. more...
Things Can Only Get Bitter
Aurum Press 2012; US$ 3.49?It is a great night. It is the end of socialism.? Margaret Thatcher, 10 April 1992 Twenty years on from 1992and the effects are still being felt. Some of these are so global in their scale that they can not be ignored. It was, for example, the year when the Maastricht Treaty was signed, setting in train the process of creating a single European currency,... more...









