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London Writing
Oldcastle Books 2012; US$ 8.74What do writers such as Charles Dickens and Peter Ackroyd, Iain Sinclair and Robert Louis Stevenson have in common? The answer lies in the use these authors make of London as a fictional setting. Yet in these works and in those of other London writers the city is much more than merely a backdrop, instead becoming a character in its own right and creating... more...
The Bruce
Canongate Books 2010; US$ 18.33Edited and introduced by A.A.M. Duncan. A! Fredome is a noble thing Fredome mays man to haiff liking Fredome all solace to man giffis He levys at es that frely levys These are some of the most famous lines in Scottish literature. They were written c.1375 by John Barbour, Archdeacon of Aberdeen, as a celebration of the Age of Chivalry ? an age of... more...
Heresy Trials and English Women Writers, 14001670
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 76.00Charts the emergence of women's writing from the procedures of heresy trials and recovers a tradition of women's trial narratives. more...
Continuity and Change in Irish Poetry, 19662010
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 72.00This work reshapes our understanding of contemporary Irish poetry and offers a new account of poetic form. more...
Modernism, Imperialism and the Historical Sense
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 72.00This book provides a re-reading of canonical modernism, connecting it to imperialism without conflating it with imperialist practices. more...
Lesbian Scandal and the Culture of Modernism
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 72.00This text analyzes the legal, social and literary impact of lesbian scandal on early twentieth-century British and Anglo-American culture. more...
Literature, Immigration, and Diaspora in Fin-de-Siècle England
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 79.00Provides an in-depth history of the 1905 Aliens Act, from its late Victorian cultural origins to its early-twentieth-century aftermath. more...
Oscar Wilde and Ancient Greece
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 76.00Oscar Wilde's imagination was haunted by ancient Greece; this book traces its presence in his life and works. more...
Rethinking Historicism from Shakespeare to Milton
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 79.00This volume explores the history and practice of historicism and its present usefulness for literary criticism, its limitations and its future. more...
D.H. Lawrence: The Thinker as Poet
Palgrave Macmillan 1997; US$ 185.00D.H. Lawrence: The Thinker as Poet addresses a particular body of language and thought within Lawrence's oeuvre where the metaphorical, the poetic and the philosophical are intricately enmeshed. Lawrence emerges as a writer who pulls metaphor away from its merely rhetorical moorings: his distinctive style is the hallmark of one who thinks not analytically... more...









