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Perfidious Albion: The story of Stendhal and British culture
ISBN: 9781912224005 / Angielski / Twarda / 1 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "What to make of the British?" is a question that puzzled Stendhal throughout his whole life. In this new work, which is both a biography and an exercise in cultural history, David Ellis brings to bear on the issues it raises much new and unfamiliar information. Italy is the foreign country with which Stendhal is most commonly associated. The multiplicity of his Italian connections makes it less surprising that so much has been written about them, and so comparatively little about his consuming interest in British culture. Yet this book makes a strong case for believing that Britain mattered...
"What to make of the British?" is a question that puzzled Stendhal throughout his whole life. In this new work, which is both a biography and an exerc...
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388,19 |
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British Romanticism, Climate Change, and the Anthropocene: Writing Tambora
ISBN: 9783319678931 / Angielski / Twarda / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the first major ecocritical study of the relationship between British Romanticism and climate change.
This book is the first major ecocritical study of the relationship between British Romanticism and climate change.
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221,37 |
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Fashion and Narrative in Victorian Popular Literature: Double Threads
ISBN: 9781138710153 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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759,15 |
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Action and Consequence in Ibsen, Chekhov and Strindberg
ISBN: 9781476672236 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Henrik Ibsen, Anton Chekhov and August Strindberg--innovators of modern drama--created characters whose reckless pursuit of irrational objectives blind them to better options. Together, the lives of these characters offer a study of the individual's struggle with modernity" --
"Henrik Ibsen, Anton Chekhov and August Strindberg--innovators of modern drama--created characters whose reckless pursuit of irrational objectives bli...
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221,82 |
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Awful Parenthesis: Suspension and the Sublime in Romantic and Victorian Poetry
ISBN: 9781487502911 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examining various aesthetics of suspension in the works of nineteenth-century poets such as Coleridge, Shelley, Tennyson, and Christina Rossetti, Anne C. McCarthy shares important insights into the cultural fascination with the sublime.
Examining various aesthetics of suspension in the works of nineteenth-century poets such as Coleridge, Shelley, Tennyson, and Christina Rossetti, Anne...
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279,17 |
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Harvester of Hearts: Motherhood Under the Sign of Frankenstein
ISBN: 9780810137523 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explores how Mary Shelley's exchanges with her children - in utero, in birth, in life, and in death - infuse her literary creations. Drawing on the archives of feminist scholarship, Rachel Feder theorizes ""elective affinities"", a term she borrows from Goethe to interrogate how the personal attachments of literary critics shape our sense of literary history.
Explores how Mary Shelley's exchanges with her children - in utero, in birth, in life, and in death - infuse her literary creations. Drawing on the ar...
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146,88 |
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Harvester of Hearts: Motherhood Under the Sign of Frankenstein
ISBN: 9780810137530 / Angielski / Twarda / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explores how Mary Shelley's exchanges with her children - in utero, in birth, in life, and in death - infuse her literary creations. Drawing on the archives of feminist scholarship, Rachel Feder theorizes ""elective affinities"", a term she borrows from Goethe to interrogate how the personal attachments of literary critics shape our sense of literary history.
Explores how Mary Shelley's exchanges with her children - in utero, in birth, in life, and in death - infuse her literary creations. Drawing on the ar...
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489,77 |
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The Vocation of Sara Coleridge: Authorship and Religion
ISBN: 9783319703701 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents a fundamental reassessment of Sara Coleridge. Sara Coleridge the religious author was the peer of such major figures as John Henry Newman and F. Sara Coleridge critiques the Oxford theology of Newman and his colleagues for authoritarian and elitist tendencies, and for creating a negative culture in religious discourse.
This book presents a fundamental reassessment of Sara Coleridge. Sara Coleridge the religious author was the peer of such major figures as John Henry ...
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201,24 |
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The Form of Poetry in the 1820s and 1830s: A Period of Doubt
ISBN: 9783319705118 / Angielski / Twarda / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores and recovers a neglected culture of poetry in those years, and it demonstrates that that culture was a crucial turning point in literary history. In turn, it uses that culture to open up wider theoretical issues relating to literary form, book history, print culture, gender and periodisation.
This book explores and recovers a neglected culture of poetry in those years, and it demonstrates that that culture was a crucial turning point in lit...
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362,27 |
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The Collected Works of Walter Pater: Gaston de Latour: Volume 4
ISBN: 9780198816164 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gaston De Latour is the first volume in the ten-volume Collected Works of Walter Pater. Pater's novel, unfinished and first posthumously published in 1896, is accompanied by a scholarly Introduction, Explanatory Annotation, and Apparatus Criticus.
Gaston De Latour is the first volume in the ten-volume Collected Works of Walter Pater. Pater's novel, unfinished and first posthumously published in ...
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725,50 |
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The Labour of Literature in Britain and France, 1830-1910: Authorial Work Ethics
ISBN: 9781137552525 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume examines the anxieties that caused many nineteenth-century writers to insist on literature as a laboured and labouring enterprise. Whereas previous studies have focused on national literatures in isolation, this volume demonstrates the two-way traffic between British and French conceptions of literary labour.
This volume examines the anxieties that caused many nineteenth-century writers to insist on literature as a laboured and labouring enterprise. Whereas...
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362,27 |
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Tuberculosis and Disabled Identity in Nineteenth Century Literature: Invalid Lives
ISBN: 9783319714455 / Angielski / Twarda / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Until the nineteenth century, consumptives were depicted as sensitive, angelic beings whose purpose was to die beautifully and set an example of pious suffering - while, in reality, many people with tuberculosis faced unemployment, destitution, and an unlovely death in the workhouse.
Until the nineteenth century, consumptives were depicted as sensitive, angelic beings whose purpose was to die beautifully and set an example of pious...
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442,79 |
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Fictions of the Press in Nineteenth-Century France
ISBN: 9783319721996 / Angielski / Twarda / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Taking as its subject the ceaseless intertwining of fiction and journalism at this time, it tracks the representation of newspapers and journalists in works by Honore� de Balzac, Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, and Guy de Maupassant.
Taking as its subject the ceaseless intertwining of fiction and journalism at this time, it tracks the representation of newspapers and journalists in...
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442,79 |
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Routledge Revivals: English Poetry in the Later Nineteenth Century (1933)
ISBN: 9781138501232 / Angielski / Twarda / 498 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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783,64 |
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Leo Tolstoy: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 9780198813934 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Leo Tolstoy is one of the greatest novelists ever to have lived, whose books have stood the test of time to remain widely recognised as literary masterpieces today. This Very Short Introduction explores his celebrated novels and nonfiction writings to reveal the core themes and thought at the heart of Tolstoy's work.
Leo Tolstoy is one of the greatest novelists ever to have lived, whose books have stood the test of time to remain widely recognised as literary maste...
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50,05 |
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The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Volume V: Sermons and Spiritual Writings
ISBN: 9780199238651 / Angielski / Twarda / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Sermons and Spiritual Writings of Gerard Manley Hopkins features the thirty-two sermons and fragments Hopkins preached between the 1870s and 1880s, personal and private meditations, undergraduate notes on lectures, marginalia in the Bible, vows made in the Society of Jesus, and the Commentary on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius.
The Sermons and Spiritual Writings of Gerard Manley Hopkins features the thirty-two sermons and fragments Hopkins preached between the 1870s and 1880s...
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980,69 |
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What Was Literary Impressionism?
ISBN: 9780674980792 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If literary impressionism is anything, it is the project to turn prose into vision. But vision of what? Michael Fried argues that the impressionists compelled readers not only to see what was described and narrated but also to see writing itself: the upward-facing page, pen and ink, the written script, the act of inscription.
If literary impressionism is anything, it is the project to turn prose into vision. But vision of what? Michael Fried argues that the impressionists c...
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216,27 |
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The Sexual Imperative in the Novels of Sir Henry Rider Haggard
ISBN: 9781783087631 / Angielski / Twarda / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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360,89 |
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L'Évolution musicale de Nietzsche
ISBN: 9781981161447 / Francuski / Miękka / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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37,22 |
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Zola
ISBN: 9781138677494 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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186,06 |