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Beautiful Creatures The Complete Series Box Set (Bog, paperback)
af Kami Garcia
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af: Alice Meynell
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af: Susan E Whyman & Clare Brant
Nine experts offer accessible and stimulating interpretations of John Gay's poem Trivia: or the Art of Walking the Streets of London (1716). The text of this lively, funny poem about urban life accomp...
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Aaron Hill was one of the most lively cultural patrons and brokers on the London literary scene - an image hard to square with the company of undistinguished scribblers to which Pope relegated him in ...
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af: David Worrall
This book sets out the political and cultural conditions regulating dramatic writing during an era of censorship and monopolistic royal theatres. Using a range of plays and manuscripts, it argues for ...
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af: Richard Greene
Mary Leapor (1722-1746), a Northamptonshire kitchen maid, produced a substantial body of exceptional poetry which was only published after her death at the age of 24. This book examines Leapor's poetr...
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af: Anne Stott
Hannah More was a public figure at a time when domesticity was regarded as women's chief virtue. This biography of More for fifty years reveals her as a lively and attractive character. It demonstrate...
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A 2002 collected volume which addresses all aspects of Wollstonecraft's momentous and tragically brief career. chronology, bibliography...
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af: Nicholas Hudson
Hudson examines Samuel Johnson's contribution to the creation of the modern English identity....
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af: Duncan Wu
A directory of authors and books read by Wordsworth before the age of thirty....
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af: Irene Collins
Jane Austen's life coincided with the war against Revolutionary France. This text shows how she drew upon an extensive knowledge of wartime conditions not only in "Pride and Prejudice", "Mansfield Par...
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af: Irene Collins
Jane Austen was a clergyman's daughter. Many of her attitudes, expressed in her novels, reflect this directly or indirectly. This book shows how Jane Austen in fact drew on an extensive knowledge of w...
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Emphasizing Frances Burney's professionalism and her courage, the author of this work aims to show the protean writer who recognized her abilities and exercised them, always carefully shaping her care...
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af: Linda Bree
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af: Thomas Keymer & Peter Sabor
A fresh account of the enormous cultural impact of the first true novel in English. 14 b/w illus....
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Addresses the literary context of Hannah More, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Smith, Helen Maria Williams, and Ann Radcliffe....
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af: Tiffany Stern
Attention is often given to the performance of a text, but not to the shaping process behind that performance. This a history of rehearsal, from the 16th century to the 18th, which examines its nature...
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af: E J Clery
In the 18th century, critics of capitalism denounced the growth of luxury and effeminacy; supporters applauded the increase of refinement and the improved status of women. This study explores the way ...
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af: Joseph Skipsey & William Blake
af: Neil Vickers
What did Coleridge know about medicine and how did it influence the development of his critical thought? Aiming to answer this question, this book deals with Coleridge's career between 1795 and 1806. ...
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af: Daniel E White
White provides a new context for Romantic literature by explaining the key influence of religious dissent. Illustrations...
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af: Penny Gay
Penny Gay describes for the first time the rich theatrical context of Austen's writing. 7 b/w illus....
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af: Mary Waldron
Presents Jane Austen as a radical innovator in confrontation with contemporary popular novelists. bibliography, index...
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af: Nicholas Roe
Long confounded with a monolithic British entity or misrepresented as 'Lakers' and 'Cockneys', the diverse regional forms of 'English Romanticism' are ripe for reassessment. Ranging west of a line bet...
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af: David Selwyn
This text identifies leisure and its use as a central characteristic of Jane Austen's work, by examining her life and by looking at the range of leisure pursuits in her novels. black & white illustrat...
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af: James McLaverty
Offers fresh insights into Pope's self-presentation and his relation to his readers: he emerges as a figure marginalized socially, politically, and sexually, who gambles with his private life in confr...
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Benjamin Franklin's achievements encompassed roles as scientist, politician and international ambassador. This work draws a fresh portrait of Benjamin Franklin as writer and printer. 150 colour illust...
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Examines such areas as: the texts written and read to children; the multifarious ways childhood has been considered, shaped and schooled through literacy practices; and the hitherto ignored role of wo...
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af: Walter Hooper & C S Lewis
Collection of poetry containing a rich variety of styles....
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af: Luke Gibbons
This study argues that Burke's influential early writings on aesthetics are intimately connected to his politics. 14 b/w illus....
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Combining Shakespearean studies with the theory of textual criticism, this volume challenges traditional views of Shakespearean plays through a study of textual imperatives in the late 18th century. 8...
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af: Voltaire & Haydn Mason
This volume, which takes account of the latest scholarship, consists of an introduction to Voltaire and to "Candide," the French text and textual notes, and a short bibliography. black & white illustr...
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af: Victor Watson
Inspired by the library archive of an 18th century nursery teacher, this is a collection of essays on the nature of childhood, learning, and the role of women educators, in English cultural life from ...
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af: E P Thompson & Christopher Hill
First paperback edition of one of E. P. Thompson's best and most deeply felt works. 20 b/w illus....
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A contextual reassessment of Swift's political writing concentrating on A Tale of a Tub and Gulliver's Travels....
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af: Simon Bainbridge
In this study, Simon Bainbridge highlights the major role that poetry played in the mediation of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars to the British public, and explores the impact that the wars had ...
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af: Kenneth Simpson
Kenneth Simpson's SCOTNOTE study guide provides students with a brief and authoritative introduction to Robert Burns, his life and his work....
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af: Carey Mcintosh
A study of the change in English prose from strong oral influence to a new emphasis on formality and precision....
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af: Kevin Gilmartin
Gilmartin analyses the role of periodical reviews and anti-Jacobin fiction in the campaign against revolution. 3 b/w illus....
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