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In this compelling first volume in the Blackwell Introductions to Literature series, Roy Flannagan, editor of The Milton Quarterly, provides a readable and uncluttered critical account of a complicated and sophisticated author, and his poetry and prose. Puts John...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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This timely introduction to Old English literature focuses on the production and reception of Old English texts, and on their relation to Anglo-Saxon history and culture. Introduces Old English texts and considers their relation to Anglo-Saxon culture. Responds to...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Blackwell History of Literature
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Designed as both a contribution to original research and as a stimulating and accessible text, this volume is a helpful, reliable, responsive and adaptable resource for students of Chaucer at all levels.
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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This innovative book puts modernist literature in its cultural, intellectual, and global context, within the framework of the year 1913. Broadens the analysis of canonical texts and artistic events by showing their cultural and global parallels Examines a number of...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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A Companion to Charles Dickens concentrates on the historical, ideological, and social forces that defined Dickens’s world. Puts Dickens’s work into its literary, historical, and social contexts Traces the development of Dickens’s career as a journalist and novelist...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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This welcome addition to the Blackwell Guides to Criticism series provides students with an invaluable survey of the critical reception of the Romantic poets. Guides readers through the wealth of critical material available on the Romantic poets and directs them to...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Blackwell Guides to Criticism
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This volume presents fresh approaches to classic Victorian fiction from 1830-1900. Opens up for the reader the cultural world in which the Victorian novel was written and read. Crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries. Provides fresh perspectives on how Victorian...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
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This Concise Companion presents fresh perspectives on eighteenth-century literature. Contributes to current debates in the field on subjects such as the public sphere, travel and exploration, scientific rhetoric, gender and the book trade, and historical versus...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
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Medieval Lyric is a colourful collection of lyrical poems, carols, and traditional British ballads written between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, together with some twentieth-century American versions of them. A lively and engaging collection of lyrical...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Middle English is a student guide to the most influential critical writing onMiddle English literature. A student guide to the most influential critical writing onMiddle English literature. Brings together extracts from some of the major authorities in the field....
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Blackwell Guides to Criticism
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This collection of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century documents is designed for students of Chaucer and Middle English literature. It makes readily available accounts of key historical events and descriptions of pertinent cultural phenomena. Brings together in one...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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This wide-ranging Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama offers challenging analyses of a range of plays in their political contexts. It explores the cultural, social, economic and institutional agendas that readers need to engage with in order to appreciate modern...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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This is a one volume, up-to-date collection of more than fifty wide-ranging essays which will inspire and guide students of the Renaissance and provide course leaders with a substantial and helpful frame of reference. Provides new perspectives on established texts....
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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This expansive, inter-disciplinary guide to Renaissance plays and the world they played to gives readers a colorful overview of England's great dramatic age. Provides an expansive and inter-disciplinary approach to Renaissance plays and the world they played to. Offers...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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The diverse and controversial world of contemporary Milton studies is brought alive in this stimulating Companion. Winner of the Milton Society of America's Irene Samuels Book Award in 2002. Invites readers to explore and enjoy Milton's rich and fascinating work....
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Reading the Novel in English 1950–2000; “This is an excellent introductory study. The selection of texts is intriguing. The volume is well-informed by criticism of the field and Shaffer’s close reading is exemplary. His interpretations cast fresh light on some novels...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Reading the Novel
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The Companion to the Victorian Novel provides contextual and critical information about the entire range of British fiction published between 1837 and 1901. Provides contextual and critical information about the entire range of British fiction published during the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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This fully-annotated anthology of sixteenth-century English verse features generous selections from the canonical poets, alongside judicious selections from lesser-known authors. Includes complete works or substantial extracts of longer poems wherever possible,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Blackwell Annotated Anthologies
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A Companion to Science Fiction assembles essays by an international range of scholars which discuss the contexts, themes and methods used by science fiction writers. This Companion conveys the scale and variety of science fiction. Shows how science fiction has been...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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This Companion brings together specially commissioned essays by distinguished international scholars that reflect both the diversity of Victorian poetry and the variety of critical approaches that illuminate it. Approaches Victorian poetry by way of genre, production...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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