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Taylor & Francis Ltd Rainer Maria Rilke His Life and Work
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Rainer Maria Rilke
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Selected Essays on George Gascoigne
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Solzhenitsyn
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Chekhov
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Taylor & Francis Ltd From Gorky to Pasternak Six Modern Russian Writers 5 Routledge Library Editions Russian and Soviet Literature
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Taylor & Francis Ltd From Gorky to Pasternak
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Russian Writers and Soviet Society 19171978
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Taylor & Francis Russian Writers and Society in the Nineteenth Century 13 Routledge Library Editions Russian and Soviet Literature
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Russian Writers and Society in the Nineteenth Century
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Taylor & Francis A Political Biography of Sarah Fielding
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Sea Dreamer
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Taylor & Francis Ltd F.R. Leavis
Book SynopsisEmphasising the significance of F.R. Leavis to the work of all contemporary theorists and to literature in general, this study is an invaluable guide to one of the core figures in literary and critical theory. Trade Review‘informative, succint, circumspect; an exacting introduction to Leavis as an incisive master critic. Ideal for today’s students and general readers’ – Chris Terry, Times Higher Education'Informative, succinct, circumspect; an exacting introduction to Leavis as an incisive master critic. Ideal for today's students and general readers.'- Chris Terry, Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsWhy Leavis? Key Ideas 1. ‘What is Leavis?’ 2. Literary Criticism, Theory and Philosophy 3. Culture 4. New Bearings 5. Great Traditions 6. Close Reading 7. English, Education and the University 8. ‘Life’. After Leavis. Further Reading
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Taylor & Francis Ltd F.R. Leavis
Book SynopsisEmphasising the significance of F.R. Leavis to the work of all contemporary theorists and to literature in general, this study is an invaluable guide to one of the core figures in literary and critical theory. Trade Review‘informative, succint, circumspect; an exacting introduction to Leavis as an incisive master critic. Ideal for today’s students and general readers’ – Chris Terry, Times Higher Education'Informative, succinct, circumspect; an exacting introduction to Leavis as an incisive master critic. Ideal for today's students and general readers.'- Chris Terry, Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsWhy Leavis? Key Ideas 1. ‘What is Leavis?’ 2. Literary Criticism, Theory and Philosophy 3. Culture 4. New Bearings 5. Great Traditions 6. Close Reading 7. English, Education and the University 8. ‘Life’. After Leavis. Further Reading
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Shelley Routledge Revivals The Man and the Poet
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Edmund Spenser Longman Critical Readers
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Taylor & Francis Virginia Woolf
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Taylor & Francis Virginia Woolf Routledge Library Editions Virginia Woolf
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Taylor & Francis Women of Bloomsbury
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Taylor & Francis Women of Bloomsbury Virginia Vanessa and Carrington Routledge Library Editions Virginia Woolf
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Taylor & Francis The Fictional Lives of Shakespeare
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Lives of the Great Romantics Part I
Book SynopsisThe memoirs in this collection are written by those who had personal knowledge of Shelley, Byron and Wordsworth, or who claimed to be recording the accounts of those who had such knowledge. Each volume in this set contains facsimilies of the original memoirs.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Lives of the Great Romantics Part II
Book SynopsisIn this second collection of biographical accounts of Romantic writers, the characters of Keats, Coleridge and Scott are recalled by their contemporaries, offering insights into their lives and writings, as well as into the art of 19th-century biography.
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Cambridge University Press The Life and Works of David Lindsay
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Cambridge University Press Gerald Griffin 1803 1840
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Cambridge University Press A Memoir of D H Lawrence The Betrayal G H Neville
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Cambridge University Press Frances Burney
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Cambridge University Press John Florio The Life of an Italian in Shakespeares England
Book SynopsisJohn Florio is best known to the present day for his great translation of Montaigne's Essays. To his contemporaries he was one of the most conspicuous figures of the literary and social cliques of the time. By her reconstruction of Florio's life and character, Frances Yates' 1934 text throws light upon the vexed question of his relations with Shakespeare.Table of Contents1. John Florio's father; 2. The First Fruits; 3. Early friends and acquaintances; 4. At the French Embassy; 5. Florio and Bruno; 6. The Second Fruits; 7. John Eliot's Fruits; 8. Eliot and Harvey; 9. The dictionary and 'H. S.'; 10. The translation of Montaigne; 11. At court; 12. Literary activities whilst at court; 13. Retirement and last years; 14. Torriano and Florio's manuscripts; Conclusion: Florio and Shakespeare; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Edmond Malone Shakespearean Scholar
Book SynopsisEdmond Malone (1741–1812) laid the foundations for the scholarly study of literature; yet he was also gregarious, attracting many friends and enemies among his contemporaries. This first modern full-length biography illuminates the private world of the scholar and the public world of the late eighteenth-century intellectual elite.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1. Irish beginnings; 2. 'Shakspearomania'; 3. Dr Johnson and the club; 4. Courtship, books, forgeries, and Horace Walpole; 5. Scholarship and strife; 6. 'O Brave We!': helping Boswell with the Tour of the Hebrides; 7. Deep in Shakespeare; 8. Boswell's Life of Johnson; 9. Interruptions and disappointments; 10. The club of Hercules: exposing Shakespeare forgeries; 11. Art and politics: homage to Reynolds and Burke; 12. John Dryden and the closing of the century; 13. Signs of weariness; 14. 'The last of the Shakspearians'; Epilogue: The Malone–Boswell Third Variorum Edition (1821); Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press C.S. Lewis and the Problem of God
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Cambridge University Press C. S. Lewis and the Problem of God
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Cambridge University Press Suzanne Dumesnil Suzanne Beckett
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Cambridge University Press The Life and Letters of Leslie Stephen
Book SynopsisLeslie Stephen (18321904), the founding Editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, was one of the leading literary figures of the nineteenth century. This extensive biography, published in 1906, draws heavily from Stephen's letters to give a detailed account of the life of a most influential Victorian.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Parentage; 3. Boyhood (1832–50); 4. The undergraduate (1850–4); 5. Sketches of a don at Cambridge (1854–64); 6. The playground of Europe (1855–94); 7. The Times and the war (1863–5); 8. Free-thinking and plain-speaking (1862–5); 9. Journalism (1865–71); 10. The first marriage (1865–71); 11. Hours in a library (1867–73); 12. More hours in a library (1873–5); 13. Cornhill and Schreckhorn (1871–5); 14. Wordsworth's ethics (1875–8); 15. The second marriage (1878); 16. An ethical treatise (1878–82); 17. Tramps and contributors (1879–91); 18. The struggle with the Dictionary (1882–91); 19. An agnostics apology (1891–5); 20. Studies of a biographer (1895–1902); 21. The sunset (1902–4); Appendix I. Leslie Stephen's works; II. List of the Sunday Tramps; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Hume
Book SynopsisThis is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the entire career of one of Britain''s greatest men of letters. It sets in biographical and historical context all of Hume''s works, from A Treatise of Human Nature to The History of England, bringing to light the major influences on the course of Hume''s intellectual development, and paying careful attention to the differences between the wide variety of literary genres with which Hume experimented. The major events in Hume''s life are fully described, but the main focus is on Hume''s intentions as a philosophical analyst of human nature, politics, commerce, English history, and religion. Careful attention is paid to Hume''s intellectual relations with his contemporaries. The goal is to reveal Hume as a man intensely concerned with the realization of an ideal of open-minded, objective, rigorous, dispassionate dialogue about all the principal questions faced by his age.Trade Review'Harris skillfully explores the background of Hume's economic and other essays, and indeed all of his works, describing in some depth the debates to which they contributed and the influences of Hume's own reading.' The New York Review of Books'Harris himself writes well up to Hume's own standard, and his analyses are always clearly expressed as well as thoroughly argued. For anyone with an interest in Hume, this is now probably the place to start if not with the great man's work itself.' Hector MacQueen, Irish Legal News'This is an excellent book. James Harris has explored not only David Hume's well-known interlocutors but also a wide range of lesser-known influences. In addition to being carefully and thoroughly researched, it is also written in a clear and engaging style, making it a pleasure to read. … Harris's book is a long-awaited addition to the literature that will not disappoint.' Donald C. Ainslie, Global DiscourseTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Pursuits of philosophy and general learning; 2. Anatomist of human nature; 3. Essayist; 4. Achievement of independence; 5. Two years at Ninewells; 6. The start of a history of Great Britain; 7. The completion of a history of Great Britain; 8. Paris, London, Edinburgh; Afterword: death and character.
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Cambridge University Press The Afterlife of St Cuthbert
Book SynopsisIntroduces readers interested in insular spirituality and hagiography to the major texts associated with the cult of the great northern English saint, Cuthbert. The first sustained analysis of this textual tradition from 690-1500, emphasizing his ascetic evolution, and association with changing perceptions of northernness and nationhood.Table of Contents1. Blessings on pregnant seals: constructing Cuthbert's asceticism in his anonymous and Bedan vitae and the Historia ecclesiastica, 690-740; 2. Travels with my coffin: the dislocation and defence of the community of St Cuthbert in the Historia de Sancto Cuthberto, 793-1050; 3. The bishop in the rain: celebrating the new order in Symeon of Durham's Libellus de exordio, Old English Durham, and the Capitula de miraculis et translationibus sancti Cuthberti, 1066-1140; 4. Expansions and contractions of saintly space in two Cuthbertine miracle collections, 1150-1210; 5. Godric of Finchale, Bartholomew of Farne, and the 'Irish' Libellus de ortu Sancti Cuthberti: three eremitic responses to St Cuthbert, 1150-1210; 6. Delimiting sanctity in two meditations from Farne Island: the Exortacio ad Contemplacionem and the Meditaciones of the Monk of Farne, 1210-1370; 7. Vernacular epitomes and encyclopedias: Southern Legendaries and the Metrical Life of St Cuthbert, 1270-1500; Conclusion.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Dust Tracks on a Road
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Letters of E. B. White
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Agatha Christies Secret Notebooks
Book SynopsisAgatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks is the fascinating exploration of the contents of Agatha Christie’s long hidden notebooks, including illustrations, analyses, and two previously unpublished Hercule Poirot short stories. Not only will Christie’s legions of ardent fans find a treasure chest of new material from the author of such classics as And Then There Were None, Murder on the Orient Express, and Death on the Nile, but Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks is also a must-read tutorial for writers who want to learn the intricacies of constructing crime novels.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Real Jane Austen
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Boy Detective A New York Childhood
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Art of Neil Gaiman
Book SynopsisWith unprecedented access to Neil Gaiman’s personal archives, author Hayley Campbell gives an insider’s glimpse into the artistic inspirations and musings of one of the world’s most visionary writers.Over the last twenty-five years, Neil Gaiman has mapped out a territory in the popular imagination that is uniquely his own. A master of several genres, including, but not limited to, bestselling novels, children’s books, groundbreaking comics, and graphic novels, it’s no wonder Gaiman has been called a rock star of the literary world. Now, for the first time, Gaiman reveals the inspiration behind his signature artistic motifs, giving author Hayley Campbell a rare, in-depth look at the contents of his personal notebooks and early work, even some of his abandoned projects. The result is a startling, intimate glimpse into the life and mind of one of the world’s most creative visionaries. The book is the first comprehensive, full-color examination
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Memorial Drive
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Memorial Drive
Book SynopsisAn Instant New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book One of Barack Obama''s Favorite Books of 2020Named One of the Best Books of the Year by: The Washington Post, NPR, Shelf Awareness, Esquire, Electric Literature, Slate, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and InStyleA chillingly personal and exquisitely wrought memoir of a daughter reckoning with the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather, and the moving, intimate story of a poet coming into her own in the wake of a tragedyAt age nineteen, Natasha Trethewey had her world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot and killed her mother. Grieving and still new to adulthood, she confronted the twin pulls of life and death in the aftermath of unimaginable trauma and now explores the way this experience lastingly shaped the artist she became.With penetrating insight and a searing voice that moves from the wrenching to the elegiac, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey explores this profound experience of pain, loss, and grief as an entry point into understanding the tragic course of her mother’s life and the way her own life has been shaped by a legacy of fierce love and resilience. Moving through her mother’s history in the deeply segregated South and through her own girlhood as a “child of miscegenation” in Mississippi, Trethewey plumbs her sense of dislocation and displacement in the lead-up to the harrowing crime that took place on Memorial Drive in Atlanta in 1985.Memorial Drive is a compelling and searching look at a shared human experience of sudden loss and absence but also a piercing glimpse at the enduring ripple effects of white racism and domestic abuse. Animated by unforgettable prose and inflected by a poet’s attention to language, this is a luminous, urgent, and visceral memoir from one of our most important contemporary writers and thinkers.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc City Poet
Book SynopsisThe definitive biography of Frank O’Hara, one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, the magnetic literary figure at the center of New York’s cultural life during the 1950s and 1960s.City Poet captures the excitement and promise of mid-twentieth-century New York in the years when it became the epicenter of the art world, and illuminates the poet and artist at its heart. Brad Gooch traces Frank O’Hara’s life from his parochial Catholic childhood to World War II, through his years at Harvard and New York. He brilliantly portrays O’Hara in in his element, surrounded by a circle of writers and artists who would transform America’s cultural landscape: Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Helen Frankenthaler, Jackson Pollock, Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, LeRoi Jones, and John Ashbery.Gooch brings into focus the artistry and influence of a life “of guts and wit and style and passion” (Luc Sa
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Ted Hughes
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Lost Landscape A Writers Coming of Age
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Melville in Love
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Age of Disenchantments
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