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Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise
Hardback,
08/08/2019,
£6.00
£5.40
Grief and English Renaissance Elegy
Paperback,
14/12/2006,
£23.99
£21.59
For most of the sixteenth century, English poets were clearly anxious about the grief expressed in their funeral poems and often rebuked themselves for indulging in it, but towards the end of the century this defensiveness about mourning became less pressing and persistent.
Ethics of Mourning: Grief and Responsibility in Elegiac Literature
Hardback,
18/11/2004,
£42.00
£32.00
He argues for the particular capacity of literature to undertake an imaginative risk on behalf of another that seems the very ground of ethics itself.
Reading the Ruins: Modernism, Bombsites and British Culture
Hardback,
15/09/2011,
£75.00
£67.50
Mellor makes the persuasive argument that to understand Second World War British culture one must understand the ruined and fragmented cityscapes that it responds to. Of relevance to literary critics and cultural historians, and featuring famous and forgotten authors, this book makes modernism - and war literature - look vividly different.
British Writers and the Approach of World War II
Hardback,
27/10/2014,
£75.00
£67.00
Ellis explores the ways in which modernist writers like T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf and H. G. Wells witnessed the approach of World War II and how their writings raised profound questions emblematic of the era. No other literary study has looked at the period covered in such detail.
Rooms of their Own
Hardback,
05/04/2018,
£14.99
£13.49
Evocative, engaging and filled with detail, this book explores the homes of three writers linked to the Bloomsbury Group. Bringing together stories of love and intimacy, of evolving relationships and erotic encounters, with vivid accounts of the settings in which they took place, it offers fresh insights into their complicated, interlocking lives.
Vita Sackville-West's Sissinghurst: The Creation of a Garden
Hardback,
06/03/2014,
£30.00
£27.00
A lavish hardback celebrating one of Britain's best-loved gardens.
British Literature of the Blitz: Fighting the People's War
Hardback,
18/12/2008,
£79.99
£65.00
British Literature of the Blitz interrogates the patriotic, utopian ideal of the People's War by analyzing conflicted representations of class and gender in literature and film. Its subtitle - Fighting the People's War - describes how British citizens both united to fight Nazi Germany and questioned the nationalist ideology binding them together.
Vita and Virginia: The Work and Friendship of V. Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf
Paperback,
25/02/1993,
£46.99
£42.29
An examination of the creative intimacy between Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf, this work interprets their relationship and their work in the light of their experience as married lesbians. It offers readings of their autobiographical texts and "Orlando".
Memories of a Lost War: American Poetic Responses to the Vietnam War
Paperback,
18/10/2001,
£45.49
£40.94
A collection of American poetic responses to the Vietnam War. This title should be of interest to specialists in Vietnam studies, American literature and war poetry, and the general reader interested in these and similar issues.
We'll Never Have Paris
Paperback,
14/05/2019,
£16.99
£15.29
Fiction and essays inspired by Paris from more than 70 Anglophone writers - A MoveableFeast for the twenty-first century.
On Chapel Sands: My mother and other missing persons
Hardback,
04/07/2019,
£16.99
£15.29
Cumming began with a few criss-crossing lives in this fraction of English coast - the postman, the grocer, the elusive baker - but soon her search spread right out across the globe as she discovered just how many lives were affected by what happened that day on the beach - including her own.
Words & Pictures: Writers, Artists and a Peculiarly British Tradition
Paperback,
04/07/2019,
£10.99
£9.89
It looks at how artists have responded to two great, contrasting works, Paradise Lost and Pilgrim's Progress; A brief coda turns to a fourth relationship: writers and artists who collaborate from the start, like Dickens and Phiz, and Lewis Carroll and Tenniel.
Chapters into Verse: A Selection of Poetry in English Inspired by the Bible from Genesis through Revelation
Paperback,
07/09/2000,
£17.99
£16.19
This abridged one-volume edition collects poetry from the original two volumes of Chapters into Verse to survey the literary legacy of the Scriptures from the fourteenth century to the present.
Fabulous Monsters: Dracula, Alice, Superman, and Other Literary Friends
Hardback,
09/07/2019,
£14.99
£13.49
An original look at how literary characters can transcend their books to guide our lives, by one of the world's most eminent bibliophiles
Material Texts in Early Modern England
Hardback,
11/01/2018,
£75.00
£67.50
What was a book in early modern England? Material Texts in Early Modern England focuses on neglected bibliographical cultures, including cutting, destruction, recycling, and errors. It explores how authors including Herbert, Milton, and Cavendish responded to this rich bibliographical context.
Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture: Series Number 108: Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Poetry of Religious Experience
Paperback,
28/02/2019,
£18.99
£17.09
This nuanced yet accessible study is the first to examine the range of religious experience imagined in Hopkins' writing. By exploring the shifting way in which Hopkins imagines religious belief in individual history, Martin Dubois contests established views of his poetry as a unified project.
Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce
Paperback,
25/07/2019,
£9.99
£8.99
Remembered Dead: Poetry, Memory and the First World War
Paperback,
08/08/2019,
£18.99
£17.09
The Remembered Dead explores the ways poets of the First World War - and later poets writing in the memory of that war - address the difficult question of how to remember, and commemorate, those killed in conflict. It looks closely at the way poets struggled to represent death, trauma, and grief.
Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours
Paperback,
07/01/2020,
£19.95
£17.96
The ancient Greeks' concept of "the hero" was very different from what we understand by the term today. In 24 installments, based on the Harvard course Nagy has taught and refined since the 1970s, The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours explores civilization's roots in Classical literature-a lineage that continues to challenge and inspire us.
Contemporary Novelists: British Fiction since 1970
Paperback,
19/09/2012,
£24.99
£22.49
Peter Childs offers accessible analyses of the work of twelve prominent contemporary British writers, including Hanif Kureishi, Pat Barker, Zadie Smith and Jeanette Winterson. This expanded second edition has been revised and updated throughout, and now also features a new chapter on the younger "generation" of novelists born in the 1970s.
Print Cultures: A Reader in Theory and Practice
Paperback,
02/08/2019,
£27.99
£25.19
Featuring a general introduction to contemporary print culture and publishing studies, the volume includes 42 influential and innovative pieces of writing, arranged around themes such as authorship, women and print culture, colonial and postcolonial publishing and globalisation.
Selected Tales for Children and Young People
Paperback,
21/08/2013,
£14.99
£13.49
Maria Edgeworth was a pioneer of realist children's literature. This critical edition reveals the range of her writing for children, ranging from stories for very young children to tales for young adults, and includes The Purple Jar, The Good Aunt and The Grateful Negro.
Living Fiction: Reading the British Novel from Daniel Defoe to Julian Barnes
Paperback,
01/05/2014,
£23.99
£21.59
Analysing a wide range of extracts from key works of British fiction from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Century, William Hutchings lucidly demonstrates how close reading can enhance appreciation of detail and illuminate whole novels.
Children's Literature
Paperback,
08/04/2016,
£22.99
£20.69
This invaluable Guide surveys the key critical works and debates in the vibrant field of children's literature since its inception. Leading expert Pat Pinsent combines a chronological overview of developments in the genre with analysis of key theorists and theories, and subject-specific methodologies.
Brief History of English Literature
Paperback,
30/10/2013,
£18.99
£17.09
A lively introductory guide to English literature from Beowulf to the present day. The authors write in their characteristically lucid style and present the texts in relation to their social, political and cultural contexts. Clear and concise, the updated second edition now features a new final chapter on twenty-first century literature.
Modern Children's Literature: An Introduction
Paperback,
01/12/2014,
£24.99
£22.49
The second edition of this established introductory text has been thoroughly revised, updated and expanded to reflect current issues in the field. It features new chapters by leading names on key topics such as canon formation, fantasy, and technology, and includes an essay on children's poetry by the former Children's Laureate, Michael Rosen.
Jacqueline Wilson
Paperback,
24/11/2015,
£19.99
£17.99
The book also features an interview with Jacqueline Wilson herself, where she discusses the challenges of writing social realism for young readers and how her writing has changed over her lengthy career.
Victorian Sensation Fiction
Paperback,
06/05/2019,
£22.99
£20.69
Since the establishment of sensation fiction in the 1860s, key trends have emerged in critical readings of these texts.
Daily Sherlock Holmes: A Year of Quotes from the Case-Book of the World's Greatest Detective
Paperback,
22/10/2019,
£10.00
£9.00
Bronte Myth
Paperback,
03/01/2002,
£11.99
£10.79
A fascinating and wonderfully readable deconstruction of the countless myths that have grown up around the Brontes.
Since 1857, hardly a year has gone by without some sort of Bronte 'biography' appearing.
Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes
Paperback,
05/03/2020,
£9.99
£8.99
The only autobiography by the great Roland Barthes, philosopher, literary theorist and semiotician.
This is the autobiography of one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century.
Mind is the Ride
Paperback,
23/01/2020,
£9.99
£8.99
A journey through cycling and philosophy, shortlisted for the 2020 Edward Stanford Debut Travel Writer of the Year award
Shared Lives: Growing Up in 50s Cape Town
Paperback,
20/01/2005,
£9.99
£8.99
A heartfelt tribute to three women who left nothing but their stories, letters, and memories reveals the significance of their lives, their hidden possibilities, and, most importantly, the redemptive power of friendship between women.
Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds
Paperback,
07/04/2011,
£12.99
£11.69
* 'As rich as a novel by Henry James' DAILY TELEGRAPH
* 'Will do nothing less than revolutionise the way Dickinson is read for years' GUARDIAN
The definitive biography, out now in paperback
Letters of Note: Love
Paperback,
05/03/2020,
£6.99
£6.29
A compulsive collection of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and powerful letters with love at their heart, curated by the founder of the global phenomenon lettersofnote.com
Letters of Note: War
Paperback,
05/03/2020,
£6.99
£6.29
A compulsive collection of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and powerful letters with war at their heart, curated by the founder of the global phenomenon lettersofnote.com
Letters of Note: Cats
Paperback,
05/03/2020,
£6.99
£6.29
A compulsive collection of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and powerful letters with cats at their heart, curated by the founder of the global phenomenon lettersofnote.com
Letters of Note: Music
Paperback,
05/03/2020,
£6.99
£6.29
A compulsive collection of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and powerful letters with music at their heart, curated by the founder of the global phenomenon lettersofnote.com
Letters of Note: Mothers
Paperback,
05/03/2020,
£6.99
£6.29
A compulsive collection of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and powerful letters with mothers at their heart, curated by the founder of the global phenomenon lettersofnote.com
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