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“gavin alexander”

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  • Cliffside

    by Gavin Alexander ...
    Katie Petherick is young, beautiful and successful, but not content. For three years she has been earning a good living as an upmarket live-in maternity nurse, working closely with wealthy couples and gaining their trust. It is not enough. Now it is decision time. Katie has a devious plan to make some serious cash, but there is considerable risk. She knows she is playing with fire, and she ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sidney's 'The Defence of Poesy' and Selected Renaissance Literary Criticism

    by Gavin Alexander ...
    Controversy raged through England during the 1570-80s as Puritans denounced all manner of games & pastimes as a danger to public morals. Writers quickly turrned their attention to their own art and the first & most influential response came with Philip Sidney's Defense. Here he set out to answer contemporary critics &, with reference to Classical models of criticism, formulated a manifesto for ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • The Places of Early Modern Criticism

    Edited by Gavin Alexander, Emma Gilby, Alexander Marr ...
    What is criticism? And where is it to be found? Thinking about literature and the visual arts is found in many places - in treatises, apologies, and paragoni; in prefaces, letters, and essays; in commentaries, editions, reading notes, and commonplace books; in images, sculptures, and built spaces; within or on the thresholds of works of poetry and visual art. It is situated between different ... Read more

    $82.79 USD

  • Renaissance Figures of Speech

    Edited by Sylvia Adamson, Gavin Alexander, Katrin Ettenhuber ...
    The Renaissance saw a renewed and energetic engagement with classical rhetoric; recent years have seen a similar revival of interest in Renaissance rhetoric. As Renaissance critics recognised, figurative language is the key area of intersection between rhetoric and literature. This book is the first modern account of Renaissance rhetoric to focus solely on the figures of speech. It reflects a ... Read more

    $49.19 USD

  • Spenser in the Moment

    by Gavin Alexander, April Bernard, Elisabeth Chaghafi, K. Silem Mohammad, Syrithe Pugh, Kathryn Walls, David Scott Wilson-Okamura, Gordon Teskey ...
    Spenser in the Moment collects specially commissioned essays critical of established readings, each of which in surveying the state of the art attempts radically to unsettle our conception of the poetry of Edmund Spenser (1552–1599).The editors were drawn together by a shared restlessness with the canonical Spenser, and a sense that attention especially to Spenser’s musical qualities, and the ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

  • The Model of Poesy

    by William Scott ...
    The Model of Poesy is one of the most exciting literary discoveries of recent years. A manuscript treatise on poetics written by William Scott in 1599, at the end of the most revolutionary decade in English literary history, it includes rich discussions of the works of Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare and their contemporaries. Scott's work presents a powerful and coherent theoretical account of all ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Writing after Sidney

    The Literary Response to Sir Philip Sidney 1586-1640

    by Gavin Alexander ...
    Writing After Sidney examines the literary response to Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86), author of the Arcadia, Astrophil and Stella, and The Defence of Poesy, and the most immediately influential writer of the Elizabethan period. It does so by looking closely both at Sidney and at four writers who had an important stake in his afterlife: his sister Mary Sidney, his brother Robert Sidney, his best ... Read more

    $57.59 USD

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    Adam Bede

    by George Eliot ...
    Narrated by Sophia Jones, Olivia Garcia, Mason Miller, Miles Turner, Ethan Hernandez, Gavin Alexander, Charlotte Moore, Madison Taylor, Elizabeth Martin, James Perez, Emma Brown, Isabella Davis, Ava Rodriguez, William Martinez, Mia Lopez, Michael Wilson, Abigail Anderson, Emily Thomas, Alexander Jackson, Amelia Lee ...

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    20 hours 10 min

    Adam Bede is the first novel by English author George Eliot, first published in 1859. The novel is set in the fictional community of Hayslope—a rural, pastoral, and close-knit community—in 1799. It revolves around a love "rectangle" among the beautiful but self-absorbed Hetty Sorrel; Captain Arthur Donnithorne, the young squire who seduces her; Adam Bede, her unacknowledged suitor; and Dinah ... Read more

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