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A Political Biography of Daniel Defoeby P.N. Furbank; W.R. Owens
Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2005; US$ 99.00This volume engages with the radical political career of Daniel Defoe, as journalist, polemicist, political theorist and secret agent, and radically rethinks it, examining the critical integration of biography with bibliography, re-examining several key texts, and reshaping the modern biographical figure of the author. more...
The Political Aesthetic of Yeats, Eliot, and Poundby Michael North
Cambridge University Press 1992; US$ 29.00The book includes accounts of the political activities of these three writers. more...
Short History of English Literatureby Harry Blamires
Routledge 1984; US$ 47.95`It is good to see a reprint and complete updating of this well-known historical tour de force, with its evidence of vast reading and literally thousands of useful facts.' - Times Educational Supplement more...
English Novel in History, 1950 to the Presentby Steven Connor
Routledge 1995; US$ 37.95Written by a foremost scholar of contemporary culture and theory, this book offers not only a survey but also a historical and cultural context to British literature produced in the second half of the twentieth century. more...
Romanticismby Aidan Day
Routledge 1995; US$ 22.95Day examines the history and usage of the term Romanticism and the changing views and debates which surround it. A range of writers - canonical and non-canonical - are included, as are today's debates such as feminism and new historicism. more...
New Bloomsday Bookby Harry Blamires
Routledge 1996; US$ 42.95An indispensable guide for anyone reading Joyce's masterpiece for the first time, provding a crystal clear, page-by-page, line-by-line running commentary on the plot of Ulysses . more...
Language and Control in Children's Literatureby Murray Knowles; Kirsten Malmkjaer
Routledge 1995; US$ 52.95In this important and timely study Murray Knowles and Kirstin Malmjkaer examine the work of some of our most popular children's writers, from this and the last century, in order to expose the persuasive power of literature. more...
Men of Letters, Writing Livesby Trev Lynn Broughton
Routledge 1998; US$ 41.95An in-depth look at developments within Victorian auto/biography, asking what we can learn about the conditions and limits of male literary authority. more...
Gender and Modern Irish Dramaby Susan Cannon Harris
Indiana University Press 2002; US$ 33.55Gender and Modern Irish Drama argues that the representations of sacrificial violence central to the work of the Abbey playwrights are intimately linked with constructions of gender and sexuality. Susan Cannon Harris goes beyond an examination of the relationship between Irish national drama and Irish nationalist politics to the larger question of the way national identity and gender identity are constructed through each other. Radically redefining the context in which the Abbey plays were performed, Harris documents the material and discursive forces that produced Irish conceptions of gender. She looks at cultural ... more...
Earl of Rochesterby David Farley-Hills
Routledge 1995; US$ 380.00The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary repsonses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves. more...









