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A Journal of the Plague Year
ISBN: 9780393961881 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. "Backgrounds" encourages comparison of 1665 documents with those of the early 1720s, when England feared a new outbreak of the plague Included are official government orders and newspaper accounts as well as writings by Defoe, John Graunt, the College of Physicians, and others "Contexts" includes eight comparative pieces united by the theme of a community in crisis From Thucydides to Boccaccio to modern accounts by Albert Camus, Michel Foucault, and Susan Sontag, this collection represents some of the most celebrated observers and critics in western civilization who have seen what plagues...
"Backgrounds" encourages comparison of 1665 documents with those of the early 1720s, when England feared a new outbreak of the plague Included are off...
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70,25 zł |
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Daniel Defoe: Ambition and Innovation
ISBN: 9780813150840 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this book, Paula Backscheider considers Daniel Defoe's entire canon as related, developing, and in close dynamic relationship to the literature of its time. In so doing, she revises our conception of the contexts of Defoe's work and reassesses his achievement and contribution as a writer. By restoring a literary context for modern criticism, Backscheider argues the intensity and integrity of Defoe's artistic ambitions, demonstrating that everything he wrote rests solidly upon extensive reading of books published in England, his understanding of the reading tastes of his... In this book, Paula Backscheider considers Daniel Defoe's entire canon as related, developing, and in close dynamic relationship to the literature ... |
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146,00 zł |