Kategoria BISAC: Literary Collections >> European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

In highlighting the crucial contributions of diasporic people to British cultural production, this important collection defamiliarizes prevailing descriptions of Romanticism as the expression of a national character or culture. The contributors approach the period from the perspective of the Atlantic maritime economy, making a strong case for viewing British Romanticism as the effect of myriad economic and cultural exchanges occurring throughout a circum-Atlantic world driven by an insatiable hunger for sugar and slaves. Typically taken for granted, the material contributions of slaves,...

The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and 18^th Century Drama brings together the work of key playwrights from 1660 to 1800, divided into three main sections:

• Restoring the Theatre: 1660-1700
• Managing Entertainment: 1700-1760
• Entertainment in an Age of Revolutions: 1760-1800

Covering 20 major plays of the period, each of these sections offers an extraordinary wealth of print and online supplementary materials including primary critical sources, commentaries, illustrations, and reviews of...

The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and 18^th Century Drama brings together the work of key playwrights from 1660 to 1800, divided into three main sections:

• Restoring the Theatre: 1660-1700
• Managing Entertainment: 1700-1760
• Entertainment in an Age of Revolutions: 1760-1800

Covering 20 major plays of the period, each of these sections offers an extraordinary wealth of print and online supplementary materials including primary critical sources, commentaries, illustrations, and reviews of...

"Certain Personal Matters" is a collection of humorous and witty essays written by H. G. Wells. The essays span a variety of different topics but can perhaps most accurately be considered as a humorous and cynical look at the customs of his day. Highly recommended for fans and collectors of Well's seminal work. Contents include: "Of Conversation," "In A Literary Household," "On Schooling And The Phases Of Mr. Sandsome," "The Poet And The Emporium," "The Language Of Flowers," "The Literary Regimen," "House-hunting As An Outdoor Amusement," "Of Blades And Bladery," "Of Cleverness," "The Pose...

Certain Personal Matters is an 1897 collection of essays selected by H. G. Wells from among the many short essays and ephemeral pieces he had written since 1893.The book consists of thirty-nine pieces ranging from about eight hundred to two thousand words in length. A one-shilling reprint (two shillings in cloth) was issued in 1901 by T. Fisher Unwin. The essays in Certain Personal Matters are written from a consistent first-person perspective, but only one (ironically, given the title) describes an identifiable event in Wells's life-how he responded to being diagnosed with tuberculosis in...

Failure starts from the key misrepresentation of orthodox poetry criticism, that the conservative is also the new, and sets out to define the whole British complex of refusing to innovate. In the attempt to set up publicly accountable criteria for what counts as new, the book goes through the whole period from the 1950s to the mid-1990s, identifying what the stylistic innovations were at each point. Naturally, in such a culturally rich era, not every significant poet or work can be mentioned.

We present the 1950s as an era of conservative reaction and occupation of the...

ACIS Donald J Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book "Clearly written, convincingly argued, and transformative."--Nicholas Allen, author of Modernism, Ireland and Civil War "Goes beyond 'statism' and postnationalism toward a cosmopolitics of Irish transnationalism in which national belonging and national identity are permanently in transition."--Gregory Castle, author of The Literary Theory Handbook "Shows how three important Irish writers crafted forms of cosmopolitan thinking that spring from, and illuminate, the painful realities of colonialism and anti-colonial struggle."--Marjorie...

A scholarly edition of the correspondence of Thomas Gray. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

George Chapman is known today as a translator of Homer and as the author of dark tragedies such as Bussy D'Ambois. An Humorous Day's Mirth, written in 1597, was one of the most popular plays of the Elizabethan era. Not only was Chapman's play the Rose Theatre's greatest box-office success of that year, but it also presented an entirely new type of comedy, one that has profoundly influenced comic writing up to the present day.

This play is the English theatre's first 'comedy of humours', in which the attitudes, behaviour, and social pretensions of contemporary men and women are satirised....

Johnathon Marvel had it all. The youngest billionaire in the world according to Time Magazine but Johnathon's world collapses and his various business ventures go belly up. Jonathon does what any sane person would do in his situation, he makes a run for it. The police and the taxation department are hot on his trail. Jonathon Marvel, alias Kalvin Karson, flees to China where he meets the frenetic Frenella, a British tourist and language expert, with curves that would make any man's head turn. She is just the beginning in a long line of affaires d'amour until... 'A great romantic travel...

In spite of his early disadvantages and personal disfigurement (he had lost an eye in a youthful brawl), Evans was a remarkably powerful preacher. To a natural aptitude for this calling he united a nimble mind and an inquiring spirit; his character was simple, his piety humble and his faith fervently evangelical. For a time he came under Sandemanian influence, and when the Wesleyans entered Wales he took the Calvinist side in the bitter controversies that were frequent between 1800 and 1810. His chief characteristic was a vivid and affluent imagination, which absorbed and controlled his other...

Byron's exuberant masterpiece tells of the adventures of Don Juan, beginning with his illicit love affair at the age of sixteen in his native Spain and his subsequent exile to Italy. Following a dramatic shipwreck, his exploits take him to Greece, where he is sold as a slave, and to Russia, where he becomes a favourite of the Empress Catherine who sends him on to England. Written entirely in ottava rima stanza form, Byron's Don Juan blends high drama with earthy humour, outrageous satire of his contemporaries (in particular Wordsworth and Southey) and sharp mockery of Western societies, with...

Robert Copland is (fl. 1505-1546) had a long career as a poet, translator, and printer, and his achievements were substantial. As a printer, he worked for and with Wynkyn de Worde, and his editions look back to the work of Caxton, de Worde's master, and forward, through the work of his successor William Copland, to the Elizabethan period. As a translator, he worked at a time when foreign languages were becoming increasingly necessary to the average Englishman. John Berdan calls Copland one of the main channels of French influence in England during this period.

This book makes...

extract: FIRST ACT SCENE Lawn in front of the terrace at Hunstanton. Sir John and Lady Caroline Pontefract, Miss Worsley, on chairs under large yew tree.] Lady Caroline. I believe this is the first English country house you have stayed at, Miss Worsley? Hester. Yes, Lady Caroline. Lady Caroline. You have no country houses, I am told, in America? Hester. We have not many. Lady Caroline. Have you any country? What we should call country? Hester. Smiling.] We have the largest country in the world, Lady Caroline. They used to tell us at school that some of our states are as big as France and...

Jaintia Oral Narratives will try to dwell on the oral traditions of the people, which serve as an important source of information today. Some of the references will give an insight into the historical developments and may provide a window for researchers to explore into those areas once again and a proper understanding of the Jaintia society.

Tracing unexplored connections between nineteenth-century astronomy and literature, The Starry Sky Within offers a new understanding of literary point of view as essentially multiple, mobile, and comparative. Nineteenth-century astronomy revealed a cosmos of celestial systems in constant motion. Stars, comets, planets, and moons coursed through space in complex and changing relation. As the skies were in motion, so too was the human subject. Astronomers showed that human beings never perceive the world from a stable position. The mobility of our bodies in space and the very structure...