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Studies in the Age of Chaucer: Volume 38
ISBN: 9780933784406 / Angielski / Twarda / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and his contemporaries, their antecedents and successors, and their intellectual and social contexts. More generally, articles explore the culture and writing of later medieval Britain (1200-1500).
The annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and his contemporaries, their antecedents and successors...
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242,39 |
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Same-Sex Desire in Early Modern England, 1550-1735: An Anthology of Literary Texts and Contexts
ISBN: 9780719082085 / Angielski / Miękka / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Same-sex desire in early modern England, 1550-1735: An anthology of literary texts and contexts is a collection of English texts dealing with same-sex erotic love, relationships, desires and sexual acts. Recent scholarship has explored extensively the nature and representation of early modern homoerotic relationships and sexual acts, but this anthology is the first devoted to their literary and non-literary representations in this crucial period when conceptions about sexuality and identity generally underwent massive change.
Carefully annotated, introduced, and contextualized with... Same-sex desire in early modern England, 1550-1735: An anthology of literary texts and contexts is a collection of English texts dealing with same-sex...
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127,58 |
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Treacherous Faith: The Specter of Heresy in Early Modern English Literature and Culture
ISBN: 9780199203390 / Angielski / Twarda / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Treacherous Faith offers a new and ambitious cross-disciplinary account of the ways writers from the early English Reformation to the Restoration generated, sustained, or questioned cultural anxieties about heresy and heretics. This book examines the dark, often brutal story of defining, constructing, and punishing heretics in early modern England, and especially the ways writers themselves contributed to or interrogated the politics of religious fear-mongering and demonizing. It illuminates the terrors and anxieties early modern writers articulated and the fantasies they constructed...
Treacherous Faith offers a new and ambitious cross-disciplinary account of the ways writers from the early English Reformation to the Restora...
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649,28 |
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Feminine Subjects in Masculine Fiction: Modernity, Will and Desire, 1870-1910
ISBN: 9780230355187 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Between 1870 and 1910 male authors were actively engaged with imagining new possibilities for women, at the same time as the central female figure continued to function as a troubling and unreachable object of aesthetic desire. This book examines these inscrutable female characters who were the ground on which fiction reinvented itself as Art.
Between 1870 and 1910 male authors were actively engaged with imagining new possibilities for women, at the same time as the central female figure con...
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200,77 |
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The Cooke Sisters: Education, Piety and Politics in Early Modern England
ISBN: 9780719088339 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a study of five remarkable sixteenth-century women. Part of the select group of Tudor women allowed access to a formal humanist education, the Cooke sisters were also well-connected through their marriages to influential Elizabethan politicians. Drawing particularly on the sisters' own writings, including those in classical languages, this study provides a comprehensive analysis of the lives of Mildred Cooke Cecil (152689), Anne Cooke Bacon (15281610), Margaret Cooke Rowlett (c. 153358), Elizabeth Cooke Hoby Russell (c. 15401609) and Katherine Cooke Killigrew (c. 154283).
The... This book is a study of five remarkable sixteenth-century women. Part of the select group of Tudor women allowed access to a formal humanist education...
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433,76 |
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An Institute of the Pleas of the Crown: An Exhibition of the Hyde Collection at the Houghton Library, 1987
ISBN: 9780914630029 / Angielski / Miękka / 30 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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53,09 |
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Studies in the Age of Chaucer: Volume 35
ISBN: 9780933784383 / Angielski / Twarda / 564 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Studies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the new Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and his contemporaries, their antecedents and successors, and their intellectual and social contexts. More generally, articles explore the culture and writing of later medieval Britain (1200-1500). SAC also includes an annotated bibliography and reviews of Chaucer-related publications.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the new Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and his contempo...
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242,39 |
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Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen: The Story of Nuncomar and the Impeachment of Sir Elijah Impey
ISBN: 9780199236183 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Story of Nuncomar and the Impeachment of Sir Elijah Impey (1885) examines some of the most controversial events of 18th century English colonial legal history from the point of view of Victorian England's most important legal authority. An experienced barrister, journalist, Legal Member of the Governor-General's Council in India, author of the inaugurative and consolidatory History of the Criminal Law of England (1883), and, finally, a justice on the Queen's Bench, Sir James Fitzjames Stephen argues that far from being the victim of a judicially-engineered execution, Nuncomar (a powerful...
The Story of Nuncomar and the Impeachment of Sir Elijah Impey (1885) examines some of the most controversial events of 18th century English colonial l...
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775,58 |
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The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne: Volume 3: Sermons Preached at the Court of Charles I
ISBN: 9780199565481 / Angielski / Twarda / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the first volume to be published in The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, which presents the largest prose output of one of the most celebrated poets and preachers of the seventeenth century. The edition provides freshly edited texts arranged by place of delivery instead of (often speculative) chronology, and offers a wealth of explanatory material for specialist and non-specialist readers alike. Volume III contains the fourteen sermons preached by Donne at the court of Charles I, between the king's accession in 1625 and Donne's death in 1631. It includes the first...
This book is the first volume to be published in The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, which presents the largest prose output of one of th...
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1028,18 |
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The House of Gold
ISBN: 9781484097496 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first novel to be banned in Ireland, The House of Gold is a rare perspective on the Irish at a major turning point in their history. The House of Gold in a turbulent post-Civil War town in the West of Ireland where the old ascendancy has been replaced by a corrupt native elite headed by the avaricious Ramon Mor Costello and his clerical accomplices. His exotically beautiful wife is the catalyst for a series of violent events that lead to an unexpected climax. Greed, priestly lusts, sexual frustration, alcoholism, and murder are themes woven together in this compelling tale by Liam...
The first novel to be banned in Ireland, The House of Gold is a rare perspective on the Irish at a major turning point in their history. The House of ...
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47,85 |
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Ted Hughes: From Cambridge to Collected
ISBN: 9781137276575 / Angielski / Twarda / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Including a previously unpublished poem by Ted Hughes, as well as new essays from Seamus Heaney and Simon Armitage, Ted Hughes: From Cambridge to Collected offers fresh readings and newly available archival research, challenging established views about Hughes's speaking voice, study at Cambridge and the influence of other poets on Hughes's work.
Including a previously unpublished poem by Ted Hughes, as well as new essays from Seamus Heaney and Simon Armitage, Ted Hughes: From Cambridge to Coll...
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200,77 |
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Spectacular Performances: Essays on Theatre, Imagery, Books, and Selves in Early Modern England
ISBN: 9780719081699 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why did Queen Elizabeth I compare herself with her disastrous ancestor Richard II? Why would Ben Jonson transform Queen Anne and her ladies into Amazons as entertainment for the pacifist King James? How do the concepts of costume as high fashion and as self-fashioning, as disguise and as the very essence of theatre, relate to one other? How do portraits of poets help create the author that readers want, and why should books, the embodiment of the word, be illustrated at all? What conventions connect image to text, and what impulses generated the great art collections of the early seventeenth...
Why did Queen Elizabeth I compare herself with her disastrous ancestor Richard II? Why would Ben Jonson transform Queen Anne and her ladies into Amazo...
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102,01 |
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The Creation and Re-Creation of Cardenio: Performing Shakespeare, Transforming Cervantes
ISBN: 9781137344212 / Angielski / Twarda / 329 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Did Shakespeare really join John Fletcher to write Cardenio, a lost play based on Don Quixote? With an emphasis on the importance of theatrical experiment, a script and photos from Gary Taylor's recent production, and essays by respected early modern scholars, this book will make a definitive statement about the collaborative nature of Cardenio.
Did Shakespeare really join John Fletcher to write Cardenio, a lost play based on Don Quixote? With an emphasis on the importance of theatrical experi...
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401,58 |
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The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain
ISBN: 9780099532132 / Angielski / Miękka / 325 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this selection frommore than 20years of reporting and writing, Ian Jack takes us to a place of which there are now only memories and ruinsthe Great Britain that gave us the Industrial Revolution, a nation that led the world in feats of engineering, a Britain of empire, a place of vital cities, each with their own unique identity, and a country whose residual presence can still be found in the strangest corners of the world. These pieces set out to deal with contemporary Britainnational disasters, football matches, obesity, etc.but are drawn back in time, vexed by the question of what came...
In this selection frommore than 20years of reporting and writing, Ian Jack takes us to a place of which there are now only memories and ruinsthe Great...
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81,60 |
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Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: Winston Churchill's Famous Speeches
ISBN: 9780141442068 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With a sequence of specially selected illustrations, and a pithy introduction to each speech by Cannadine, this collection gives an unforgettably vivid picture of Churchill the orator in action. His voice may be silenced, but his words still speak.
With a sequence of specially selected illustrations, and a pithy introduction to each speech by Cannadine, this collection gives an unforgettably vivi...
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65,23 |
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Wilfred Owen: Selected Poems and Letters
ISBN: 9780198328780 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Each book in this established series contains the full and complete text, and is designed to motivate and encourage students who may be writing on these challenging writers for the first time. It contains useful notes to add depth and knowledge to students' understanding, comments to explain literacy and historical allusions, tasks to help students explore themes and issues, and suggestions for further reading.
Each book in this established series contains the full and complete text, and is designed to motivate and encourage students who may be writing on the...
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56,08 |
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The Complete Works of John Milton, Volume VI: Vernacular Regicide and Republican Tracts
ISBN: 9780199218059 / Angielski / Twarda / 832 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the fourth volume to be published in Oxford's 11-volume edition of the Complete Works of John Milton, the first complete scholarly edition for nearly 100 years. It brings together (for the first time in a single volume) Milton's English writing in prose on the political issues that exercised him throughout his life - civil and religious liberty, republicanism and the constitution of a free commonwealth, the rights and duties of citizens, resistance of tyranny and the role of military force in securing national stability. The eleven pieces here presented in chronological order, from...
This is the fourth volume to be published in Oxford's 11-volume edition of the Complete Works of John Milton, the first complete scholarly edition for...
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1338,18 |
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The Oxford Francis Bacon, Volume XII: The Instauratio Magna: Part III: Historia Naturalis and Historia Vitæ
ISBN: 9780199265008 / Angielski / Twarda / 500 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Francis Bacon (1561-1626) was a genuine midwife of modernity. He was one of the first thinkers to visualize a future which would be guided by a cooperative science-based vision of bettering human welfare. In this the first critical edition of his greatest philosophical work since the nineteenth-century, we find facing-page Latin translations and a thorough and detailed Introduction to the text.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) was a genuine midwife of modernity. He was one of the first thinkers to visualize a future which would be guided by a cooper...
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1579,31 |
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The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals
ISBN: 9780199536870 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dorothy Wordsworth's journals are a unique record of her life with her brother William, at the time when he was at the height of his poetic powers. Invaluable for the insight they give into the daily life of the poet and his friendship with Coleridge, they are also remarkable for their spontaneity and immediacy, and for the vivid descriptions of people, places, and incidents that inspired some of Wordsworth's best-loved poems. The Grasmere Journal was begun at Dove Cottage in May 1800 and kept for three years. Dorothy notes the walks and the weather, the friends, country neighbors...
Dorothy Wordsworth's journals are a unique record of her life with her brother William, at the time when he was at the height of his poetic powers. In...
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49,22 |
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Cousin Henry
ISBN: 9780199537679 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cousin Henry, first published in 1879, is perhaps the most unusual and intriguing of Trollope's shorter novels. Trollope's masterly handling of the novel's unlikely hero, a tiresome and timid coward, is notable for its insight and compassion.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous... Cousin Henry, first published in 1879, is perhaps the most unusual and intriguing of Trollope's shorter novels. Trollope's masterly handling of the no...
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55,19 |
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