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  • The Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron

    by Jonathon Shears, Alan Rawes ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron offers the latest in critical thinking about the poet that defined the Romantic era across Europe and beyond. The volume presents forty-four groundbreaking essays that enable readers to assess Lord Byron's central position in Romantic traditions and his profound and far-reaching influence on British, European, and world culture. The chapters are organized into ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Byron�s Poetic Experimentation

    Childe Harold, the Tales and the Quest for Comedy

    by Alan Rawes ...
    Series series The Nineteenth Century Series
    In this study, the author examines the evolution of Byron's poetry from Childe Harold I and II through to the composition of Beppo. Beginning with a close reading of the sustained poetic experimentation that constitutes Childe Harold I and II, he charts the progress of that experimentation in the Tales where Byron's poetry gets entrenched in a tragic idiom. The author then describes Byron's ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Byron and Italy

    Edited by Alan Rawes, Diego Saglia ...
    Winner of the Elma Dangerfield Prize 2018Byron in Italy – Venetian debauchery, Roman sight-seeing, revolution, horse-riding and swimming, sword-brandishing and pistol-shooting, the poet’s ‘last attachment’ – forms part of the fabric of Romantic mythology. Yet Byron’s time in Italy was crucial to his development as a writer, to Italy’s sense of itself as a nation, to Europe’s perceptions of ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Romantic Biography

    by Arthur Bradley ...
    Series series The Nineteenth Century Series
    Romantic biography lives. Despite the so-called 'death of the author', popular interest in the lives of the major Romantic writers has reached a new peak. Romantic Biography brings together Romantic biographers and critics to consider some of the key questions surrounding this publishing phenomenon. What precisely is Romantic biography? What is the relationship between it and Romantic writings ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Robert Burns in Global Culture

    by Murray Pittock, Leith Davis, Dominique Delmaire, R D. S. Jack, Nigel Leask, Pauline Anne Mackay, Clark McGinn, Silvia Mergenthal, Andrew Monnickendam, Alan Rawes, Frauke Reitemeier, Christopher A. Whatley, Robert Crawford ...
    Robert Burns has been a key figure in Scottish identity globally since his death in 1796. But he has always been much more than that. In America, his admirers have included Emerson, President Lincoln, Maya Angelou and many others, for Burns was long held to be a friend to the American way of life, an opponent of kings and tyranny, and someone who proved that the values that built the United States ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

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    The Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron

    Narrated by Mike Cooper ...

    Unabridged

    28 hours 21 min

    The Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron offers the latest in critical thinking about the poet that defined the Romantic era across Europe and beyond. The volume presents forty-four groundbreaking essays that enable listeners to assess Lord Byron's central position in Romantic traditions and his profound and far-reaching influence on British, European, and world culture.The chapters are organized into ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Romanticism

    A Literary and Cultural History

    by Carmen Casaliggi, Porscha Fermanis ...
    The Romantic period coincided with revolutionary transformations of traditional political and human rights discourses, as well as witnessing rapid advances in technology and a primitivist return to nature. As a broad global movement, Romanticism strongly impacted on the literature and arts of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in ways that are still being debated and negotiated ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Romanticism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael Ferber ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    What is Romanticism? In this Very Short Introduction Michael Ferber answers this by considering who the romantics were and looks at what they had in common -- their ideas, beliefs, commitments, and tastes. He looks at the birth and growth of Romanticism throughout Europe and the Americas, and examines various types of Romantic literature, music, painting, religion, and philosophy. Focusing on ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Italian Literature: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Peter Hainsworth, David Robey ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey consider Italian literature from the Middle Ages to the present day, looking at themes and issues which have recurred throughout its history and continue to be of importance today.Examining themes such as regional identities, political disunity, and the role of the national language, they also cover a wide range of authors and works ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • English Literature in Context

    Edited by Paul Poplawski ...
    This is the second edition of English Literature in Context, a popular textbook which provides an essential resource and reference tool for all English literature students. Designed to accompany students throughout their degree course, it offers a detailed narrative survey of the diverse historical and cultural contexts that have shaped the development of English literature, from the Anglo-Saxon ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • Shakespeare: I am Italian. He reveals himself in coded messages

    by Vito Costantini ...
    The year 2016 is the four hundredth anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death, the greatest playwright and poet of the English language. In reality, it was an illiterate actor who died in 1616. He had pilfered not only the stage name, but also the works of two Italian immigrants, Michelangelo and Giovanni Florio, father and son, who emigrated to England because of the Inquisition. In the last ... Read more

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  • The Routledge History of Literature in English

    Britain and Ireland

    by Ronald Carter, John McRae ...
    The Routledge History of Literature in English covers the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, with accompanying language notes which explore the interrelationships between language and literature at each stage. With a span from AD 600 to the present day, it emphasises the growth of literary writing, its traditions, conventions and changing characteristics, and ... Read more

    $67.99 USD