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Jim Crace
eBook. English.
Published
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006
A study of the internationally successful author Jim Crace, this title presents a chronological treatment of Crace's novels. It is designed for undergraduates...
Sinister aesthetics: the appeal of evil in early modern English literature
eBook. English.
Published
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
This engrossing volume studies the poetics of evil in early modern English culture, reconciling the Renaissance belief that literature should uphold morality...
Lethal Performances: Women Who Kill in Modern American Drama
eBook. English.
Published
Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Edition, 2017
New edition
This book provides an in-depth analysis of representations of female murderers in modern American drama. Paying close attention to each play's plot, form...
Walter Scott and the limits of language
eBook. English.
Published
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, c2010
This text draws on Alison Lumsden's experience to suggest a reading of Scott that highlights his startlingly contemporary approach to theories of language...
How to do things with Shakespeare: new approaches, new essays
eBook. English.
Published
Maldan, MA.; Oxford: Blackwell, 2008
This collection of 12 essays uses the works of Shakespeare to show how experts in their field formulate critical positions. The text is a helpful guidebook...
Movement in Renaissance literature: exploring kinesic intelligence
eBook. English.
Published
Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
This book investigates how writers and readers of Renaissance literature deployed `kinesic intelligence', a combination of pre-reflective bodily response...
Shakesqueer: a queer companion to the complete works of Shakespeare
eBook. English.
Published
Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press; Chesham: Combined Academic [distributor], 2011
'Shakesqueer' puts the most exciting queer theorists in conversation with the complete works of William Shakespeare. Exploring what is odd, eccentric,...
Playing indoors: staging early modern drama in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
eBook. English.
Published
London: Arden Shakespeare, [2018]
What have we discovered about performance practice in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse since the opening of the intimate candlelit theatre at Shakespeare's...
A companion to literary biography
eBook. English.
Published
Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley Blackwell, 2019
An authoritative review of literary biography covering the 17th century to the 20th century. 'A Companion to Literary Biography' offers a comprehensive...
Emergent nation: early modern British literature in transition, 1660-1714
Hardback. English.
Published
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019
Offers penetrating, original analyses of the literature of 1660-1714 in relation to generic, ideological, cultural, and local transitions
