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Memories of war in early modern England: armor and militant nostalgia in Marlowe, Sidney, and Shakespeare
eBook. English.
Published
New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016
"Memory and War in Early Modern England" examines depictions of the construction and destruction of the male body in combat in relationship to early modern...
This is Shakespeare
eBook. English.
Published
UK: Pelican, 2019
A revealing journey through Shakespeare's work and the Elizabethan world that gave rise to it. Emphasises the ongoing ambiguities and difficulties of...
The Great War, The waste land and the modernist long poem
eBook. English.
Published
London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019
The Great War, The Waste Land and the Modernist Long Poem explores how cultural responses to the trauma of the First World War found expression in the...
Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf
eBook. English.
Published
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018
These comparative essays explore the shared terrain of these modernist women writers and shed new light on their 'curious & thrilling' literary relationship...
Catholicism and anti-Catholicism in early modern English texts
eBook. English.
Published
Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999
Responding to recent historical analyses, the essays in this collection focus on polemical, devotional, political and literary texts that dramatize the...
The art of eloquence: Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, Joyce
eBook. English.
Published
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010
Bevis considers how Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, and Joyce, and their publics, conceived the relations between public speaking and literary expression. By...
Writing illness and identity in seventeenth-century Britain
eBook. English.
Published
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
This book is a survey of personal illness as described in various forms of early modern manuscript life-writing. Observing that medical explanations for...
Imagination and the contemporary novel
eBook. English.
Published
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011
John Su explores literary responses from across the Anglophone world to the profound economic, social and political shifts that have occurred since the...
Deviance in contemporary crime fiction
eBook. English.
Published
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
The author conducts case studies into crime series by James Patterson, Michael Connelly and Patricia Cornwell, and investigates the way in which these...
Women writers and detectives in nineteenth-century crime fiction: the mothers of the mystery genre
eBook. English.
Published
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, c2010
This book is a study of the 'mothers' of the mystery genre. Traditionally the invention of crime writing has been ascribed to Poe, Wilkie Collins and...
