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  • Subaltern Medievalisms

    Medievalism 'from below' in Nineteenth-Century Britain

    by David Matthews, Ingrid Hanson, Stuart McWilliams, Carolyn P Collette, Michael Sanders, Matthew Roberts, Rosemary A. Mitchell, Stephen Knight, Stephen Basdeo0, Colin Trodd1 ...
    This book offers a challenge to the current study of nineteenth-century British medievalism, re-examining its general perception as an elite and conservative tendency, the imposition of order from above evidenced in the work of Walter Scott, in the Eglinton Tournament, and in endless Victorian depictions of armour-clad knights. Whilst some previous scholars have warned that medievalism should not ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • 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

  • The Routledge Encyclopedia of Tudor England

    Edited by Arthur F. Kinney, Eugene D. Hill, William A. Long, David Swain ...
    This is the first encyclopedia to be devoted entirely to Tudor England. 700 entries by top scholars in every major field combine new modes of archival research with a detailed Tudor chronology and appendix of biographical essays.Entries include: * Edward Alleyn [actor/theatre manager] * Roger Ascham * Bible translation * cloth trade * Devereux fami ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Image Wars: Kings and Commonwealths in England, 1603-1660

    by Kevin Sharpe ...

    $45.99 USD

  • Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764–1820

    The Import of Terror

    by Angela Wright ...
    Series Book 99 - Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
    In describing his proto-Gothic fiction, The Castle of Otranto (1764), as a translation, Horace Walpole was deliberately playing on national anxieties concerning the importation of war, fashion and literature from France in the aftermath of the Seven Years' War. In the last decade of the eighteenth century, as Britain went to war again with France, this time in the wake of revolution, the ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • King James and the History of Homosexuality

    by Michael Young ...
    James VI & I, the namesake of the King James Version of the Bible, had a series of notorious male favourites. No one denies that these relationships were amorous, but were they sexual? Michael B. Young merges political history with recent scholarship in the history of sexuality to answer that question. More broadly, he shows that James's favourites had a negative impact within the royal family, at ... Read more

    $13.64 USD

  • In Pursuit of Civility

    Manners and Civilization in Early Modern England

    by Keith Thomas ...
    Series series The Menahem Stern Jerusalem Lectures
    Keith Thomas’s earlier studies in the ethnography of early modern England, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Man and the Natural World, and The Ends of Life, were all attempts to explore beliefs, values, and social practices in the centuries from 1500 to 1800. In Pursuit of Civility continues this quest by examining what English people thought it meant to be “civilized” and how that condition ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The University of Oxford

    A New History

    by Dr. G.R. Evans ...
    A generation or so ago, the Inklings - C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and Charles Williams - met regularly in an Oxford pub to encourage one another in the writing of fictions set in fantasy worlds... Philip Pullman's Gyptians live on an Oxford canal and it is from Oxford that his characters gain entry to another world... It is true that Oxford is a world to itself, a village where everyone stops in ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • A People's History of Classics

    Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939

    by Edith Hall, Henry Stead ...
    A People’s History of Classics explores the influence of the classical past on the lives of working-class people, whose voices have been almost completely excluded from previous histories of classical scholarship and pedagogy, in Britain and Ireland from the late 17th to the early 20th century.This volume challenges the prevailing scholarly and public assumption that the intimate link between the ... Read more

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  • Thomas More

    by John Guy ...
    Series series Very Brief Histories
    'If the English people were to be set a test to justify their history and civilization by the example of one man, then it is Sir Thomas More whom they would perhaps choose.' So commented The Times in 1978 on the 500th anniversary of More's birth.Twenty-two years later, Pope John Paul II proclaimed Thomas More the patron saint of politicians and people in public life, on the basis of his 'constant ... Read more

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  • The Debate on the English Reformation

    Second edition

    by Rosemary O’Day ...
    Series series Issues in Historiography
    Extensively revised and updated, this new edition of The debate on the English Reformation combines a discussion of successive historical approaches to the English Reformation with a critical review of recent debates in the area, offering a major contribution to modern historiography as well as to Reformation studies. It explores the way in which successive generations have found the Reformation ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Fiction in the Romantic Period

    Edited by Richard Maxwell, Katie Trumpener ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    While poetry has been the genre most closely associated with the Romantic period, the novel of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries has attracted many more readers and students in recent years. Its canon has been widened to include less well known authors alongside Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Maria Edgeworth and Thomas Love Peacock. Over the last generation, especially, a remarkable ... Read more

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