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Contradance
University of Chicago Press 2011; US$ 18.00In a country where much of the prominent poetry seeks to affirm the fleeting present and its changing values, John Peck’s poetry comes as an important, if unlikely, gift. Peck’s verse deals the cards of the fragmentary, ideogramic, juxtapositional, and elliptical through the deck of normally discursive syntax. Echoing late high Modernism,... more...
Maritime Fiction
Palgrave Macmillan 2001; US$ 145.00In this important new study, John Peck examines the cultural significance of maritime novels from Defoe through to Conrad. Focusing in particular on the image of the body, he illustrates how these works are built around the disparity between the masculine and often brutal regime of the ship and the civilised values of those who remain on the shore.... more...
War, the Army and Victorian Literature
Palgrave Macmillan 1998; US$ 192.00A ground-breaking study of how literature both reflected and contributed to the eclipse and subsequent revival of militarism in the nineteenth century. Focusing on four major disputes in the Crimea, India, the Sudan, and South Africa as well as the role of the army in Britain, John Peck examines how Victorian writers responded to military issues. At... more...
Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticism
Routledge 1990; US$ 475.00This Encyclopaedia is the indispensable handbook for all students and teachers of English literature, as well as all readers who want to know what is happening in the interpretation and understanding of literature today. more...
Handbook of Communication History
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 100.00The Handbook of Communication History addresses central ideas, social practices, and media of communication as they have developed across time, cultures, and world geographical regions. It attends to both the varieties of communication in world history and the historical investigation of those forms in communication and media studies. The Handbook... more...
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