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Court Poetry in Late Medieval England and Scotland
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 75.00Explores English and Scottish court poetry written in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. more...
Modernism and Race
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 70.00Both a synthesis of critical approaches to modernism and race, and a new contribution to this growing field. more...
Romanticism and the City
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00Romanticism and the City explores how late eighteenth-and early nineteenth-century literature conceptualized urban space. Fresh readings of key texts show how Romantic concerns with urban life shaped both individual works and broader theoretical issues. more...
Transatlantic Stories and the History of Reading, 17201810
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 75.00Explores transatlantic stories about women, servants, slaves and the poor as read and rewritten in eighteenth-century Britain and America. more...
Modernist Literature: A Guide for the Perplexed
Continuum International Publishing 2011; US$ 15.95Literary modernism in the British Isles and the United States can be described as the flourishing of avant-garde literature at the start of the twentieth century but it can be difficult to understand how and why different poems, novels, and authors are considered in relation to this complex term. Modernist Literature both offers an historical overview... more...
Idleness, Contemplation and the Aesthetic, 17501830
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 70.00Traces the ways in which Romantic writers responded to a debate over the dangers and rewards of idle contemplation. more...
Empire and Pilgrimage in Conrad and Joyce
UPF 2010; US$ 69.95Empire and Pilgrimage in Conrad and Joyce offers a fresh look at these two modernist writers, revealing how their rejection of organized religion and the colonial presence in their native countries allowed them to destabilize traditional notions of power, colonialism, and individual freedom in their texts. more...
Familial Forms
University of Delaware 2010; US$ 64.99Beginning with the ascent of James I and ending with the 1701 Act of Settlement, Familial Forms: Politics and Genealogy of Seventeenth-Century English Literature is the first study to offer a comprehensive reading of literary engagements with the epistemological and political questions of family surrounding the crises of succession that defined this... more...
Scotland's Books
Penguin Books Ltd 2007; Not AvailableFrom Treasure Island to Trainspotting , Scotland's rich literary tradition has influenced writing across centuries and cultures far beyond its borders. Here, for the first time, is a single volume presenting the glories of fifteen centuries of Scottish literature. In Scotland's Books poet Robert Crawford tells the story of Scottish writing... more...
The Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature
Mainstream Publishing 2012; US$ 17.34The Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature is the most comprehensive reference guide to Scotland's literature, covering a period from the earliest times to the early 1990s. It includes over 600 essays on the lives and works of the principal poets, novelists, dramatists critics and men and women of letters who have written in English, Scots or... more...









