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Reading Germany: Literature and Consumer Culture in Germany before
By closely examining the interaction between intellectual and material culture in the period before the Nazis came to power in Germany, the author comes to the conclusion that, contrary to...
Bibliotherapy: Books to Guide You Through Every Chapter of Life
A beautiful, thoughtful guide to finding your perfect next read, no matter what life's throwing at you, from the founder of Aphra a.k.a. 'your inclusive AF feminist book club' Through...
Bad Girls of Ancient Greece: Myths and Legends from the Baddies that
You've heard all about the 'brilliant men' of ancient myth, but what about the scheming and scandalous women who were so often lost in their shadow? Bad Girls of Ancient...
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
Elizabeth Smart's passionate fictional account of her intense love-affair with the poet George Barker, described by Angela Carter as 'Like Madame Bovary blasted by lightening ... A masterpiece'. One day,...
Shakespeare's Book: The Intertwined Lives Behind the First Folio
'A lively picture of multiple operators scrambling to steal a march on the competition . . . Lavishly detailed'FINANCIAL TIMES 'This is Shakespearean scholarship at its best, brilliantly researched yet...
John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language, Translation, and Tradition
New essays demonstrate Gower's mastery of the three languages of medieval England, and provide a thorough exploration of the voices he used and the discourses in which he participated. John...
A Ciceronian Sunburn: A Tudor Dialogue on Humanistic Rhetoric and
The poetry of Spenser, Sidney, and their contemporaries viewed as rhetorical discourse. ""A Ciceronian Sunburn"" reconsiders the complexion of Tudor poetics by demonstrating the ways in which poets and pedagogues...
On a Knife-Edge: The Poetry of Joao Cabral de Melo Neto
On a Knife-Edge represents the first book-length study in English solely devoted to the work of Joao Cabral de Melo Neto (1920-1999), one of Brazil's foremost poets of the twentieth...
Loss and the Other in the Visionary Work of Anna Maria Ortese
This book examines the oevre of Anna Maria Ortese (1914-1998) from her first literary writings in the Thirties to her great novels in the Nineties. The analysis focusses on two...
Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was the greatest writer in a Britain that ruled the largest empire the world has known, yet he was always a controversial figure, as deeply hated as...
A Local Habitation and a Name: Imagining Histories in the Italian
Focusing on major authors and problems from the Italian fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, from Petrarch and Boccaccio to Machiavelli, Ariosto and Tasso, A Local Habitation and a Name examines the...
John Barleycorn
Jack London cut a mythic figure across the American landscape of the early twentieth century. But throughout his colorful life-from his teenage years as an oyster pirate to his various...
Poems as Friends: The Poetry Exchange 10th Anniversary Anthology
The Poetry Exchange is an award-winning podcast and project that celebrates the role poetry plays in people's lives. In their first anthology, Fiona Bennett and Michael Shaeffer draw on ten...
The Little Book of J.R.R. Tolkien: Wit and Wisdom from the creator of
A renowned scholar of the English language, Tolkien is today celebrated as the father of the high fantasy genre. Drawing on his knowledge of languages, mythology and legend, he created...
Sip and Sensibility: An Inspired Literary Cocktail Collection
Tim Rayborn has written a large number of books and magazine articles, especially in subjects such as music, the arts, general knowledge, and history. He lived in England for many...
A Bookshop of One's Own: How a group of women set out to change the
A Waterstones Best Memoir of 2024An Independent and Stylist Best Non-Fiction Book for 2024The captivating true story of an underdog business - a feminist bookshop founded in Thatcher's Britain -...
Ladies Errant: Wayward Women and Social Order in Early Modern Italy
The issue of a woman's place-and the possibility that she might stray from it-was one of early modern Italy's most persistent social concerns. Ladies Errant takes as its starting point...
Shakespeare: The World as a Stage
Bill Bryson's biography of William Shakespeare unravels the superstitions, academic discoveries and myths surrounding the life of our greatest poet and playwright. Ever since he took the theatre of Elizabethan...
Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and
'A hugely entertaining and well-written tour of the links between math and literature. Hart's lightness of touch and passion for both subjects make this book a delight to read. Bookworms...
A Bookshop of One's Own: How a group of women set out to change the
A Waterstones Best Memoir of 2024An Independent and Stylist Best Non-Fiction Book for 2024The captivating true story of an underdog business - a feminist bookshop founded in Thatcher's Britain -...
Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses
A Book of the Year in The Times, Guardian, Independent, New Statesman, Bookseller and at Waterstones'He understands only the women he invents - the others not at all' Thomas Hardy...
Sip and Sensibility: An Inspired Literary Cocktail Collection
Tim Rayborn has written a large number of books and magazine articles, especially in subjects such as music, the arts, general knowledge, and history. He lived in England for many...
Walt Whitman: A glorious collection from one of America's best-loved
From the highly controversial Leaves of Grass, with its overt sexual imagery and delight of sensual pleasures, to the iconic Captain, oh my captain immortalised in the film Dead Poets...
The Writing School: A memoir
'Fascinating, hugely entertaining, instructive in the best sense. I always thought that writing could not be taught, only reading, but this book made me reconsider. I read it in one...
Ian Hamilton Collected Poems
Edited by Alan Jenkins, this authoritative Collected Poems contains all of the poetry that Ian Hamilton chose to publish, together with a small number of uncollected and unpublished poems; it...
The Writing School: A memoir
'Fascinating, hugely entertaining, instructive in the best sense. I always thought that writing could not be taught, only reading, but this book made me reconsider. I read it in one...
Poems as Friends: The Poetry Exchange 10th Anniversary Anthology
The Poetry Exchange is an award-winning podcast and project that celebrates the role poetry plays in people's lives. In their first anthology, Fiona Bennett and Michael Shaeffer draw on ten...
Mom and Me and Mom
'In the first decade of the twentieth century, it was not a good time to be born black, or woman, in America.' So begins this stunning portrait of Vivian Baxter...
Culture: The surprising connections and influences between
It shows how art forms have crisscrossed continents over centuries to produce masterpieces. From Nefertiti's lost city and the Islamic Golden Age to twentieth century Nigerian theatre and Modernist poetry,...
Total Expansion of the Letter: Avant-Garde Art and Language After
How cubism and Dada radically reimagined the social nature of language, following the utopian poetic vision of Stephane Mallarme.At the outset of the twentieth century, language became a visual medium...
The Year of the Cat: A Love Story: 'Tender and uplifting' Stylist
'A brave process of healing and self reconstruction' Observer'Simply one of the best writers working today. Here's to family, to glamour, and to love' Nell Frizzell, author of The Panic...
Metamorphoses: In Search of Franz Kafka
'A high-spirited, richly informed, and original portrait, a cross between biography, literary analysis and a study in modern canonisation: Karolina Watroba is an inspired guide and her book a pleasure...
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Much-loved poems from one of the [...]
'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways'Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a poet of passion, wit and conscience. She was also a woman who wrote to speak the...
At the Limits of Art: A Literary Study of Aelius Aristides' Hieroi Logoi
The Hieroi Logoi (or "Sacred Tales") of Aelius Aristides presents a unique first-person narrative from the ancient world-one that seems at once public and private, artful and naive. A prominent...
Fanny Kemble: A Performed Life
A ForeWord magazine Book of the Year for 2007 Charismatic, highly intelligent, and splendidly talented, Fanny Kemble (1809-93) was a Victorian celebrity, known on both sides of the Atlantic as...
You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
'One of the greatest writers of our time.' Toni Morrison'You Don't Know Us Negroes adds immeasurably to our understanding of Hurston ... her words make it impossible for readers to...
The Spell of Hypnos: Sleep and Sleeplessness in Ancient Greek Literature
Author: Silvia Montiglio (Johns Hopkins University, USA)Format: Hardback, 138mm x 216mm, 570g, 336 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2015Sleep was viewed as a boon by the ancient Greeks: sweet,...
Women of God and Arms: Female Spirituality and Political Conflict, 138-16
Author: Nancy Bradley WarrenFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 272 pagesPublished: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States, 2005The religious and political spheres of the later medieval and early modern periods were...
Clothing and Landscape in Victorian England: Working-Class Dress and Rural Life
Author: Rachel WorthFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 256 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2018In the context of this rapidly changing world, Rachel Worth explores the ways in which the...
Victorian Interpretation
Author: Suzy AngerFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 454g, 222 pagesPublished: Cornell University Press, United States, 2006Suzy Anger investigates the relationship of Victorian interpretation to the ways in which literary criticism...
A Pocket Guide to Alan Ayckbourn's Plays
If you are an amateur or a professional and want to perform an Ayckbourn play, A Pocket Guide to Alan Ayckbourn's Plays will give you all the information you need...
Ancient Ethnography: New Approaches
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Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded: Volume One
Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Yusuf al-Shirbini's Brains Confounded pits the "coarse" rural masses against the "refined" urban population. In Volume One, al-Shirbini describes the three rural "types"-peasant cultivator, village man-of-religion,...
Oxf Comp Aust Child Literature
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Germaine Greer : Untamed Shrew: Untamed Shrew
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Author: Twain Mark Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: To escape from his violent and drunken father, a 13-year-old boy from the wrong side of the tracks, Huckleberry Finn,...
The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths, and Their Year of Marvels
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Author: Adam Nicolson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Brimming with poetry, art, and nature writing--Wordsworth and Coleridge as you've never seen them before June 1797 to September 1798 is...
Mates: The Friendship that Sustained Henry Lawson
Author: Dr Gregory Bryan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Henry Lawson gave voice to a uniquely Australian identity and much of the Australian ethos of mateship was...