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The Literature of Wales
The Literature of Wales provides a concise and informative guide to Welsh literature from the earliest surviving poetry of Taliesin and Aneirin in the sixth century – the oldest attested…
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THE NOVEL AND THE MENAGERIE
The first comprehensive account of the relation of collections of imperial beasts to narrative practices in England, The Novel and the Menagerie explores an array of imaginative responses to the…
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THE NOVEL AND THE MENAGERIE
“While there have been many recent studies of the emergence of the exhibitionary complex in nineteenth-century Britain, and while the studies relate this complex to empire, none more closely tracks…
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The Rhetoric of Blair, Campbell, and Whately, Revised Edition
Hugh Blair, George Campbell, and Richard Whately, whose works were first published in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, constituted the great triumvirate of British Rhetoricians. For 20 years,…
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The Romantics and the British Landscape
The melancholic beauty of the British landscape was a central influence on the life and work of the Romantic poets. Not content to merely depict rural life or point out…
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The Writing of Anxiety
This book is a study of wartime anxiety in the fiction, art, and psychoanalytic writings of mid-century Britain. Whereas trauma and memory have come to dominate discussions of…
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Twentieth-Century Irish Literature
This Guide surveys existing criticism and theory and enables students to understand the key critical debates, paradigms and predominant themes and issues in relation to a wide variety of Irish…