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FiltersSpenserian tracts
'A Brief Discourse of Ireland' and 'The Supplication of the Blood of the English' from the Munster revolt of 1598
By Hiram Morgan
Morgan's study of key texts situating Edmund Spenser and the plantation in Munster in the late 1590s reveals not only a hatred and abiding fear of the Catholic Irish but also disturbing tensions ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5643-3
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£85.00
Pre-OrderWalking in the dark
James Baldwin, my father, and me
By Douglas Field
A moving exploration of the life and work of the celebrated American writer, blending biography and memoir with literary criticism. Since James Baldwin's death in 1987, his writing - including ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7517-5
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Hardcover
£16.99
Pre-OrderLiterature and sustainability
Concept, text and culture
Edited by Adeline Johns-Putra, John Parham and Louise Squire
How might literary scholarship engage with the sustainability debate? Aimed at research scholars and advanced students in literary and environmental studies, this collection brings together ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-8235-7
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£25.00
Pre-OrderShakespeare's borrowed feathers
How early modern playwrights shaped the world's greatest writer
By Darren Freebury-Jones
A fascinating book exploring the early modern authors who helped to shape Shakespeare's beloved plays.Shakespeare's plays have influenced generations of writers, but who were the early modern ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7732-2
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Hardcover
£25.00
Pre-OrderThe legacy of John Polidori
The Romantic vampire and its progeny
Edited by Sam George and Bill Hughes
John Polidori's novella The Vampyre (1819) is perhaps 'the most influential horror story of all time' (Frayling). Polidori's story transformed the shambling, mindless monster of folklore into a ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6638-8
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Hardcover
£85.00
Pre-OrderReaders and mistresses
Kept women in Victorian literature
By Katie R. Peel
Readers and Mistresses: Kept Women in Victorian Literature identifies kept mistresses in British Victorian narrative and offers ways to understand their experiences. The author discusses kept ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7647-9
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Hardcover
£85.00
Pre-OrderThe mediated Arctic
Poetics and politics of contemporary circumpolar geographies
Edited by Johannes Riquet
The mediated Arctic analyses the multiple relations between geography and cultural production that have long shaped - and are currently transforming - the circumpolar world. It explores how ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7401-7
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Hardcover
£90.00
Pre-OrderTis Pity She's a Whore
By John Ford
Edited by Martin White
John Ford's tragedy, first printed in 1633, is the first major English play to take as its theme a subject still rarely handled: fulfilled incest between brother and sister. This Revels Plays ... More
ISBN: 978-0-7190-8843-8
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Hardcover
£85.00
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The Western canon and the incorporation of the Hispanic (c. 1850-75)
By Andrew Ginger
When all that was solid melted into air... For decades, intellectuals from Benjamin to Bourdieu, Berman to Foucault, have been in thrall to this vision of the mid-nineteenth century. It shaped ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7903-6
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£25.00
Pre-OrderDeirdre Madden
New critical perspectives
Edited by Anne Fogarty and Marisol Morales-Ladrón
The Irish writer, Deirdre Madden, has written key novels about the Northern Irish Troubles and about contemporary Ireland. In these works, she weighs up the aftermath of violence and the impact ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7907-4
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£25.00
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