Strange Country: Modernity and Nationhood in Irish Writing since 1790 (Clarendon Lectures in English, 1995) 9780198184904, 0198184905

Unreal Country: Modernity in the Canadian Novel in English 9780773570344

This diverse yet distinctive Canadian modernity is explored in Unreal Country. Referring to a wide range of novels and d

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Poetics of the Pillory: English Literature and Seditious Libel, 1660-1820 (Clarendon Lectures in English) 9780198744498, 0198744498

On the lapse of the Licensing Act in 1695, Thomas Macaulay wrote in his History of England, 'English literature was

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Street Songs: Writers and urban songs and cries, 1800-1925 (Clarendon Lectures in English) 2018947080, 9780198792352, 0198792352

This book, based on the Clarendon Lectures for 2016, is about the use made by poets and novelists of street songs and cr

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Unreal Country : Modernity in the Canadian Novel in English [1 ed.] 9780773570344, 9780773523968

Modernism is one of the great manifold movements in literature and the arts. Responding with magnificent independence to

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This Strange Country 9781982141349, 9781982141332, 1982141344

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Mercenaries in British and American Literature, 1790–1830: Writing, Fighting, and Marrying for Money 9780748636457

In Mercenaries in British and American Literature, 1790-1830, Erik Simpson proposes the mercenary as a meeting point of

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Captivating Subjects: Writing Confinement, Citizenship, and Nationhood in the Nineteenth Century 9781442672734

This volume is the first sustained examination of the ways in which the diverse kinds of confinement intersect with West

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Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350-1650 9780812297478

Eric Weiskott examines the uses and misuses of three metrical forms as markers of literary periodization: alliterative m

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Indian Writing in English [5 ed.]

Indian Writing In English is a comprehensive collection of material, prepared out of the lectures delivered by KR Sriniv

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Swedish Women's Writing 1850-1995 : Swedish Women's Writing, 1850-1995 [1 ed.] 9781847141972, 9780485910032

Provides a survey of women's writing in Sweden, from the beginnings of the struggle for emancipation in the 1850s t

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