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Franco-British Cultural Exchanges, 1880-1940
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 85.00This volume focuses on the literary connotations of the 'Channel Packet' and sets forth lively dialogues between French and British culture at a key period of artistic innovation and exchange between 'high' and popular art forms. more...
Studies in the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Sixteenth Century
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 204.00Published in 1966, "Studies in the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Sixteenth Century" is an important contribution to the field of history. more...
National Theatre Connections 2013
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 23.99Drawing together the work of ten leading playwrights - a mixture of established and current writers - National Theatre Connections 2013 offers young performers between the ages of thirteen and nineteen everywhere an engaging selection of plays to perform, read or study. Each play is specifically commissioned by the National Theatres literary... more...
The Sultan Speaks
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 90.00This book is the first study of English historical plays about the Turks in relation to their sources and analogues, including works originating in Greek, Arabic, and Turkish. 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...
Colonial Narratives/Cultural Dialogues
Taylor and Francis 1996; US$ 39.95Colonial Narratives/Cultural Dialogues demonstrates the continuing validity of the colonial paradigm as it maps the geographical, political, and imaginative space of 'India/Indies' from the seventeenth century to the present. Breaking new ground in postcolonial studies, Jyotsna Singh highlights the interconnections among early modern colonial encounters,... more...
Language and Conquest in Early Modern Ireland
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 34.00The Elizabethan conquest of Ireland sparked off two linguistic events: it initiated the language shift from Irish to English, which constitutes the great drama of Irish cultural history, and it marked the beginnings of English linguistic expansion. Palmer explores the role of language in shaping colonial ideology and English identity. more...
British Women Writers and the French Revolution
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 100.00British Women Writers and the French Revolution provides an overview of a wide range of British women's writings on the French Revolution, from writers sympathetic to the Revolution like Mary Robinson, Helen Maria Williams, and Charlotte Smith, to anti-revolutionary writers like Hannah More and Jane West. Based on new research in French and British... more...
Romanticism and War
Palgrave Macmillan 2003; US$ 145.00This book is a study of war and the perceptions of war. It deals specifically with the British Romantic period writers who lived through the Napoleonic wars, and the way in which those wars affected the writing of Scott, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron and many of their contemporaries. Watson discusses the particular fascination of those wars,... more...









