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Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 79.00Examines Shakespeare's influence and popularity in all aspects of eighteenth-century literature, culture and society. more...
Versions of Antihumanism
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 18.00Stanley Fish's finest published work is brought together here with brand new material. more...
The New Milton Criticism
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 22.00A collection of new essays demonstrating a wholly new approach to the complexities of Milton's work. more...
Geopolitics and the Anglophone Novel, 18902011
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 76.00Explores how literary fiction has imagined the ideal state, from Conrad and Forster to Ondaatje and Ghosh. more...
The Art of Eloquence
OUP Oxford 2010; US$ 49.99In the course of these fifty years we have become a nation of public speakers. Everyone speaks now. We are now more than ever a debating, that is, a Parliamentary people' (The Times, 1873).The Art of Eloquence considers how Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, and Joyce responded to this 'Parliamentary people', and examines the ways in which they... more...
Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough
St. Martin's Press 2012; US$ 24.99The doctor suddenly appeared beside Will, startling him. He was sleek and prosperous, with a dainty goatee. Though he smiled reassuringly, the poet noticed that he kept a safe distance. In a soothing, urbane voice, the physician explained the treatment: stewed prunes to evacuate the bowels; succulent meats to ease digestion; cinnabar and the sweating... more...
The Letters of Thomas Babington MacAulay: Volume 1, 1807February 1831
Cambridge University Press 1974; US$ 46.00Professor Pinney is editing the whole body of surviving letters by Macaulay, giving accurate texts and textual and explanatory notes. more...
Time of Beauty, Time of Fear
University of Iowa Press 2012; US$ 39.95It is now two and a half centuries since Jean-Jacques Rousseau first wrote so evocatively of natural man in Social Contract and of experiential education in Emile . His emphasis on the early years as a crucial part of life drove the Romantic reconceptualization of childhood—the idea that children have a special knowledge of nature,... more...
Romanticism and Childhood
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 72.00Explores how emerging ideas of infancy and childhood gave Romantic writers and readers new ways of understanding history and literature. more...
Terror and Reconciliation
Lexington Books 2012; US$ 59.99Terror and Reconciliation examines the response of Sri Lankan novelists, short story writers, and poets to the issues of terrorism, war, human rights, linguistic discrimination, and interethnic dialogue raised by the quarter-century long ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka and argues that their work demonstrates the potential of literature to contribute... more...









