Romanticism
ISBN: 9781138241763 / Angielski / Twarda / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1969, this work traces the evolution of Romanticism and in doing so, demonstrates its novelty as an imaginative and emotional perception of the world in contrast to the rationalistic approach which was dominant in the seventeenth century. It identifies the fundamental similarities between Romantic writing in England, France and Germany as well as their differences brought about by divergent literary and social backgrounds. The book is concluded by a review of the problems that arise from a simple definition of Romanticism.
First published in 1969, this work traces the evolution of Romanticism and in doing so, demonstrates its novelty as an imaginative and emotional pe... |
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433,21 zł |
For All Waters: Finding Ourselves in Early Modern Wetscapes
ISBN: 9781517900472 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Shakespearean era's wet writers guide our eco-way today
The Shakespearean era's wet writers guide our eco-way today
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132,48 zł |
The Oxford English Literary History: Volume V: 1645-1714: The Later Seventeenth Century
ISBN: 9780198183112 / Angielski / Twarda / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more. Each of these thirteen groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered assessment of the authors, works, cultural traditions, events, and ideas that shaped the literary voices of their age. The series will enlighten and inspire not only everyone studying, teaching, and researching in English Literature, but all serious readers. This volume covers the period 1645-1714, and removes the traditional...
The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a...
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315,36 zł |
Charles Dibdin and Late Georgian Culture
ISBN: 9780198812425 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Charles Dibdin (1745-1814) was one of the most popular and influential creative forces in late Georgian Britain, producing a diversity of works that defy simple categorisation. He was an actor, lyricist, composer, singer-songwriter, comedian, theatre-manager, journalist, artist, music tutor, speculator, and author of novels, historical works, polemical pamphlets, and guides to musical education. This collection of essays illuminates the social and cultural conditions that made such a varied career possible, offering fresh insights into previously unexplored aspects of late Georgian culture,...
Charles Dibdin (1745-1814) was one of the most popular and influential creative forces in late Georgian Britain, producing a diversity of works that d...
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407,11 zł |
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy
ISBN: 9780198820390 / Angielski / Miękka / 992 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy brings together fifty-four essays by scholars from all parts of the world. It offers a fresh and comprehensive understanding of Shakespeare tragedies as both works of literature and as performance texts, written by a playwright who was himself an experienced actor.
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy brings together fifty-four essays by scholars from all parts of the world. It offers a fresh and comprehe...
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189,76 zł |
Discursive "Renovatio" in Lope de Vega and Calderón: Studies on Spanish Baroque Drama
ISBN: 9783110556087 / Angielski / Twarda / 493 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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697,23 zł |
English Mythography in Its European Context, 1500-1650
ISBN: 9780198807704 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mythographies-texts that collected and explained ancient myths-were indispensable tools of literary engagement during the European Renaissance. This volume focuses on neglected English mythographies written between 1577 and 1647, revealing a unique English take on the genre and unfolding the significant role myth played in broader culture.
Mythographies-texts that collected and explained ancient myths-were indispensable tools of literary engagement during the European Renaissance. This v...
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513,35 zł |
Thomas Browne: Selected Writings
ISBN: 9780198797654 / Angielski / Miękka / 1018 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682). The edition introduces students to one of the most brilliant and wide-ranging of writers in Renaissance England and includes an Introduction and full commentary notes.
This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Sir Thomas Browne (1605...
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100,41 zł |
Newly Recovered English Classical Translations, 1600-1800
ISBN: 9780198705574 / Angielski / Twarda / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an edition of over 300 never-before-printed English translations of ancient Greek and Latin verse, selected from the surviving manuscripts of a 200-year period. They reveal a far broader, deeper, and richer culture of classical translation than previously apparent, with radical implications for classical reception and literary history.
This is an edition of over 300 never-before-printed English translations of ancient Greek and Latin verse, selected from the surviving manuscripts of ...
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997,10 zł |
Literature and Party Politics at the Accession of Queen Anne
ISBN: 9780198814078 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume examines how literature was central to the debates about royal succession and political culture of the early eighteenth century. It reshapes our understanding of writers such as Daniel Defoe, Alexander Pope, and Joseph Addison, as well as our understanding of political, literary, and material cultures of the time.
This volume examines how literature was central to the debates about royal succession and political culture of the early eighteenth century. It reshap...
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445,74 zł |
Common: The Development of Literary Culture in Sixteenth-Century England
ISBN: 9780198704102 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A study of the development of literary culture in sixteenth-century England that explores the relationship between the Reformation and literary renaissance of the Elizabethan period through the exploration of the theme of the 'common'.
A study of the development of literary culture in sixteenth-century England that explores the relationship between the Reformation and literary r...
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445,74 zł |
The Autos Sacramentales of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: Natural Philosophy and Sacramental Theology
ISBN: 9780198816829 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume surveys the work of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1651-1695), the most significant literary figure of the colonial period in Spanish America. Focussing on her three religious plays, it analyses the role of early scientific ideas in her literary works.
This volume surveys the work of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1651-1695), the most significant literary figure of the colonial period in Spanish America....
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426,42 zł |
Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Cartographic Anxiety
ISBN: 9780198816874 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This fascinating study explores how Renaissance-era maps fascinated people with their beauty and precision yet they also unnerved readers and writers. The volume shows how late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poets channelled the anxieties provoked by maps and mapping, creating a new way of thinking about how literature represents space.
This fascinating study explores how Renaissance-era maps fascinated people with their beauty and precision yet they also unnerved readers and writers....
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426,42 zł |
Gluttony and Gratitude: Milton's Philosophy of Eating
ISBN: 9780271081007 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explores the philosophical significance of gluttony in Paradise Lost, arguing that a complex understanding of gluttony and of ideal, grateful, and gracious eating informs the content of Milton's writing.
Explores the philosophical significance of gluttony in Paradise Lost, arguing that a complex understanding of gluttony and of ideal, grateful, and gra...
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386,04 zł |
The Additional Journals and Letters of Frances Burney: Volume II: 1791-1840
ISBN: 9780199658060 / Angielski / Twarda / 768 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the second of two volumes of The Additional Journals and Letters of Frances Burney. Presenting all of her journal and diary entries written between 1791 and 1840 that were not included in the series of later journals, the volume completes the modern editing of Burney's surviving journals and letters.
This is the second of two volumes of The Additional Journals and Letters of Frances Burney. Presenting all of her journal and diary entries written be...
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1129,03 zł |
Biblical Readings and Literary Writings in Early Modern England, 1558-1625
ISBN: 9780198812487 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book considers the relationship between biblical readings and literary writings in early modern England and it explores the impact of how the Bible was read across a variety of writers and genres.
This book considers the relationship between biblical readings and literary writings in early modern England and it explores the impact of how the Bib...
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426,42 zł |
The Oxford Handbook of British Romanticism
ISBN: 9780199660896 / Angielski / Twarda / 816 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of British Romantic literature and an authoritative guide to all aspects of the movement including its historical, cultural, and intellectual contexts, and its connections with the literature and thought of other countries. All the major Romantic writers are covered alongside lesser known writers.
This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of British Romantic literature and an authoritative guide to all aspects of the movement including its...
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585,77 zł |
The Works of Henry Vaughan: Introduction and Texts 1646-1652; Texts 1654-1678, Letters, & Medical Marginalia; Commentaries and Bibliography
ISBN: 9780198726234 / Angielski / Twarda / 1616 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first newly prepared, complete edition of Henry Vaughan's poetry and prose for over a century. It includes a biography of Vaughan, a substantial history of developments in scholarship, and bibliographical descriptions of each of the volumes published in the author's lifetime. The texts reproduce original spelling and punctuation.
This is the first newly prepared, complete edition of Henry Vaughan's poetry and prose for over a century. It includes a biography of Vaughan, a subst...
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1901,67 zł |
The Oxford Handbook of John Bunyan
ISBN: 9780199581306 / Angielski / Twarda / 736 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Handbook brings together thirty-eight original essays on the seventeenth-century Nonconformist preacher and writer, John Bunyan. The chapters span Bunyan's life and works, their religious and historical contexts, and the critical reception of his writings, in particular his allegorical narrative, The Pilgrim's Progress.
This Handbook brings together thirty-eight original essays on the seventeenth-century Nonconformist preacher and writer, John Bunyan. The chapters spa...
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585,77 zł |
The Works of Lucy Hutchinson: Volume II: Theological Writings and Translations
ISBN: 9780199247356 / Angielski / Twarda / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the second volume in a four-volume edition of the writings of Lucy Hutchinson, which have never before been published in a collected edition.
This is the second volume in a four-volume edition of the writings of Lucy Hutchinson, which have never before been published in a collected edition.
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1467,06 zł |