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A short history of early modern England: British literature in context
Paperback. English.
Published
Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011
'A Short History of Early Modern England' presents the historical and cultural information necessary for a richer understanding of English Renaissance...
The late Victorian Gothic: mental science, the uncanny, and scenes of writing
Hardback. English.
Published
Farnham: Ashgate, c2011
Examining technological advances, genre, and late 19th-century mental science, Hilary Grimes shows writers' failed attempts to use technology as a way...
Fracture and fragmentation in British romanticism
Paperback. English.
Published
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012
Explains why 'fracture' and 'fragmentation' are two crucial concepts in Romanticism
Animality in British Romanticism: the aesthetics of species
eBook. English.
Published
New York; London: Routledge, 2012
The scientific, political, and industrial revolutions of the Romantic period transformed the status of humans and redefined the concept of species. This...
Women, power and politics, now
Paperback. English.
Published
London: Nick Hern, 2010
A collection of wide-ranging and ambitious short plays reflecting the complexities of women and political power in the United Kingdom.
The five plays in this volume look at the impact and influence that women have today.
Acting Leader by Joy Wilkinson
The Panel by Zinnie Harris
Women, power and politics, then
Paperback. English.
Published
London: Nick Hern, 2010
A collection of wide-ranging and ambitious short plays reflecting the complexities of women and political power in the United Kingdom.
The four plays published here look back to the moments in history when women possessed - or achieved - power, and what they did with it.
The Milliner and the W
Not black and white
Paperback. English.
Published
London: Methuen Drama, 2009
Not Black and Whitecomprises of three new plays which examine the state of modern day Britain from the perspective of three leading black contemporary...
A war imagined: the First World War and English culture
Paperback. English.
Published
London: Pimlico, 1992
Between the opulent Edwardian years and the 1920s the First World War opens like a gap in time. England after the war was a different place; the arts...
Writing the frontier: Anthony Trollope between Britain and Ireland
Hardback. English.
Published
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015
'Writing the Frontier' explores Trollope's relationship with Ireland, offering an in-depth exploration of his time there, contextualising his Irish novels...
Comedy rules: from the Cambridge Footlights to Yes Prime Minister
Paperback. English.
Published
London: Faber, 2012
Jonathan Lynn, the co-writer of 'Yes Minister', presents an insider's look at how comedy works through a collection of hilarious anecdotes
