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The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett: A Reader's Guide to His Works, Life, and Thought

The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett: A Reader's Guide to His Works, Life, and Thought


C. J. Ackerly, S. E. Gontarski



From A to Z, this is an indispensable guide to the works, life, and thought of one of the most important writers of our time. The ...
Dickenss England

Dickenss England


R. E. Pritchard



Dickens's England was a time of unprecedented energy and change which laid the foundations of our own modern society. There was a ...
The Greenblatt Reader

The Greenblatt Reader


Michael Payne



“As a founder of the ‘new historicism’, Stephen Greenblatt has done more than e...
The Case for Shakespeare: The End of the Authorship Question

The Case for Shakespeare: The End of the Authorship Question


Scott Mccrea



- - The Case for Shakespeare gives reliable and well argued accounts of both sides, bringing out t...
Mistress of the Monarchy: The Life of Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster

Mistress of the Monarchy: The Life of Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster


Alison Weir



Veteran royal biographer Weir (Eleanor of Aquitaine) resurrects the life and times of the remarkable...
The Lotus and the Lion: Buddhism and the British Empire

The Lotus and the Lion: Buddhism and the British Empire


Jeffrey Franklin



"Whereas most Victorianists are aware of such bestsellers as Edwin Arnold's poem about the Buddha, '...
William Empson: Against the Christians Volume II

William Empson: Against the Christians Volume II


John Haffenden



"John Haffenden has told us more bout William than any biographer as done, or I dare say ever will d...
Orwell in Spain: The Full Text of Homage to Catalonia, with Associated Articles, Reviews and Letters from the Complete Works of George

Orwell in Spain: The Full Text of Homage to Catalonia, with Associated Articles, Reviews and Letters from the Complete Works of George


George Orwell



Born in India in 1903 George Orwell moved to England with his family in 1907. He was educated at Eto...
The Queen's Conjurer: The Science and Magic of Dr. John Dee, Advisor to Queen Elizabeth I

The Queen's Conjurer: The Science and Magic of Dr. John Dee, Advisor to Queen Elizabeth I


Benjamin Woolley



British broadcaster and writer Woolley's (The Bride of Science) biography of John Dee is an enchanti...
Literature, Commerce, and the Spectacle of Modernity, 1750-1800

Literature, Commerce, and the Spectacle of Modernity, 1750-1800


Paul Keen



This book explores the ways that authors responded to a sense of unprecedented cultural and technolo...
Literature, Travel, and Colonial Writing in the English Renaissance 1545-1625

Literature, Travel, and Colonial Writing in the English Renaissance 1545-1625


Andrew Hadfield



"Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty will all benefit from this well-writt...
Excavating Victorians

Excavating Victorians


Virginia Zimmerman



Excavating Victorians examines nineteenth-century Britain's reaction to the revelations about time a...
Victorian Fetishism: Intellectuals and Primitives

Victorian Fetishism: Intellectuals and Primitives


Peter Melville Logan



Victorian Fetishism argues that fetishism was central to the development of cultural theory in the n...
C. S. Lewis: A Guide to His Theology (Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion)

C. S. Lewis: A Guide to His Theology (Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion)


David G. Clark



“C. S. Lewis once suggested that it would be a boon to be able to have a real live Epicurean a...
Strange Fits of Passion: Epistemologies of Emotion, Hume to Austen

Strange Fits of Passion: Epistemologies of Emotion, Hume to Austen


Adela Pinch



"Superbly researched and conceptualized, Strange Fits of Passion is cogently argued, beautifully wri...
The Irish Ulysses

The Irish Ulysses


Maria Tymoczko



"Adds to the English-speaking and pan-European Joyce so familiar to us the Irish Joyce steeped in th...
The Lays of Beleriand (The History of Middle-Earth, Vol. 3)

The Lays of Beleriand (The History of Middle-Earth, Vol. 3)


J. R. R. Tolkien



This is the third volume culled from Tolkien's unpublished manuscripts. Two tales from the Silmarill...
Sources and Analogues of the Canterbury Tales (I) (Chaucer Studies)

Sources and Analogues of the Canterbury Tales (I) (Chaucer Studies)


Mary Hamel, Robert M. Correale



The evolution of Chaucer study has made the advent of Sources and Analogues as necessary as it is de...
As You Like It (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)

As You Like It (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)


Michael Hattaway, William Shakespeare



"Of particular interest is Hattaway's thorough discussion of stage history, complete with critically...
The Rhetoric of Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century Culture

The Rhetoric of Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century Culture


Paul Goring



"An original, wide-ranging, and informative study." Choice"...distinguishes between polite bodily...
After Dickens: Reading, Adaptation and Performance (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)

After Dickens: Reading, Adaptation and Performance (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)


John Glavin



"...this is a title that serious students of Dickens need to read." Choice"After Dickens is a sel...
The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter: Perspectives on a Literary Phenomenon

The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter: Perspectives on a Literary Phenomenon


Lana A. Whited



"[Whited] has brought together an impressive array of scholarship to address the phenomenon that is ...
The Song of the Earth

The Song of the Earth


Jonathan Bate



This ambitious, erudite critical study from University of Liverpool English literature professor Bat...
Literary Research and British Modernism: Strategies and Sources (Literary Research: Strategies and Sources, Volume 7)

Literary Research and British Modernism: Strategies and Sources (Literary Research: Strategies and Sources, Volume 7)


Alison M. Lewis



Highly recommended. (P. Kujoory CHOICE, July 2010 )An admirably clear explanation of the basics of o...
The Post-Historical Middle Ages (The New Middle Ages)

The Post-Historical Middle Ages (The New Middle Ages)


Elizabeth Scala, Sylvia Federico



Post-Historical Middle Ages—but also the end of attempts to shape medieval studies to fit cons...
Jane Austen Miscellany

Jane Austen Miscellany


Lesley Bolton



Lesley Bolton is a writer from the Midwest who would, if she could, spend all her time reading Jane ...