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Sidney's 'The Defence of Poesy' and Selected Renaissance Literary Criticism
Penguin Books Ltd 2004; Not AvailableControversy raged through England during the 1570-80s as Puritans denounced all manner of games & pastimes as a danger to public morals. Writers quickly turrned their attention to their own art and the first & most influential response came with Philip Sidney's Defense. Here he set out to answer contemporary critics &, with reference to Classical models... more...
Vom Klassizismus bis zum 20. Jahrhundert
De Gruyter 1983; US$ 133.00Die »Geschichte der amerikanischen Literatur« von Walter F. Schirmer, die zuerst 1937 veröffentlicht wurde und 1954 in einer durch den Einschluß des amerikanischen Schrifttums erweiterten Umarbeitung erschien, liegt hier in einer Neuauflage aus dem Jahr 1983 vor. Diese Neubearbeitung wurde einem Kreis von Schülern und Freunden Schirmers übertragen,... more...
Von der altenglischen Zeit bis zum Barock
De Gruyter 1983; US$ 133.00Die »Geschichte der amerikanischen Literatur« von Walter F. Schirmer, die zuerst 1937 veröffentlicht wurde und 1954 in einer durch den Einschluß des amerikanischen Schrifttums erweiterten Umarbeitung erschien, liegt hier in einer Neuauflage aus dem Jahr 1983 vor. Diese Neubearbeitung wurde einem Kreis von Schülern und Freunden Schirmers übertragen,... more...
Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing in Wales
University of Wales Press 2010; US$ 25.00Argues that the way in which people came to perceive and to represent themselves as Welsh was profoundly affected by the gender ideologies prevalent during the Romantic and Victorian periods. This title introduces readers to a hundred Welsh women authors at work during the years 1780-1900, some writing in Welsh and some in English. more...
English Romantic Poets
Oxford University Press 1975; US$ 39.99Compiles critical essays on the Romantic Age and the individual works of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats. more...
Americanizing Britain
Oxford University Press, USA 2012; US$ 64.99How did Great Britain, which entered the twentieth century as a dominant empire, reinvent itself in reaction to its fears and fantasies about the United States? Investigating the anxieties caused by the invasion of American culture-from jazz to Ford motorcars to Hollywood films-during the first half of the twentieth century, Genevieve Abravanel theorizes... more...
Fiction of the New Statesman, 1913-1939
University of Delaware 2011; US$ 69.99Fiction of the New Statesman is the first study of the short stories published in the renowned British journal theNew Statesman. This book argues that New Statesman fiction advances a strong realist preoccupation with ordinary, everyday life, and shows how British domestic concerns have a strong hold on the working-class and lower-middle-class imaginative... more...
Rethinking Postcolonialism
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 95.00Acheraiou challenges postcolonial discourse analysis and proposes a new model of interpretation that resituates the historical, ideological and conceptual denseness of the Colonial idea. He questions key issues, including hybridity, Otherness and territoriality, and expands the postcolonial field by introducing ground-breaking theoretical concepts. more...
Joseph Conrad and the Reader
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 95.00Joseph Conrad and the Reader is the first book fully devoted to Conrad's relation to the reader, visual theory and authorship. This challenging study proposes new approaches to modern literary criticism and deftly examines the limits of deconstructionist theories, introducing groundbreaking new theoretical concepts of reading and reception. more...
Albion
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 19.95With his characteristic enthusiasm and erudition, Peter Ackroyd follows his acclaimed London: A Biography with an inspired look into the heart and the history of the English imagination. To tell the story of its evolution, Ackroyd ranges across literature and painting, philosophy and science, architecture and music, from Anglo-Saxon times to the... more...









