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The Letters of Thomas Babington MacAulay, Volume 6
Cambridge University Press 1981; US$ 50.00The last four years of Macaulay's life, documented in this final volume of the Letters, began as an agreeable coda to the rest. more...
Sterne: Tristram Shandy
Cambridge University Press 1988; US$ 29.00Without a beginning and without an end, Tristram Shandy moves in many different directions, defying the conventional expectations of its readers. more...
The Ethics of Romanticism
Cambridge University Press 1989; US$ 60.00In The Ethics of Romanticism Laurence Lockridge vigorously revives ethical criticism and at the same time brings to light the Romantics' profound engagement with ethical questions. more...
Literature, Modernism and Myth
Cambridge University Press 1997; US$ 46.00A study of the use of myth by modernists, and its relationship to contemporary notions of postmodernity. more...
Politics and Value in English Studies
Cambridge University Press 1993; US$ 29.00The impact of the 'theory industry' on English studies, and its implications for the future. more...
Literary Englands
Cambridge University Press 1993; US$ 30.00The influence of 'Englishness' - loss, nostalgia and exile - on the work of twentieth-century writers. more...
Constructions of 'the Jew' in English Literature and Society
Cambridge University Press 1993; US$ 35.00Bryan Cheyette argues that 'the Jew' lies at the heart of modern English literature and society: not as a fixed stereotype, but as the embodiment of confusion and indeterminacy. more...
Old Icelandic Literature and Society
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 34.00The first comprehensive account of Old Icelandic literature set within its social and cultural context. more...
Joyce's Kaleidoscope
Oxford University Press, USA 2007; US$ 20.99James Joyce's Ulysses, once regarded as obscure and obscene, is now viewed as one of the masterpieces of world literature. Yet Joyce's final novel, Finnegans Wake, to which he devoted seventeen years, remains virtually unread, except by scholarly specialists. Its linguistic novelties, apparently based on an immense learning that few can share,... more...
The Rise Of The Novel
Random House 2011; US$ 14.67In this influential study, Ian Watt traces the genesis and development of the most popular of all literary forms, the novel. In his penetrating and original readings of Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding, he investigates the reasons why the three main eighteenth-century novelist wrote in the way they did - a way resulting ultimately... more...









