Описание: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle`s stories are full of references to everyday activities and events from Victorian times. These short twenty-four essays explore various aspects of life mentioned in the original adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the world`s most famous consulting detective.
Описание: Part of a new wave of cross-disciplinary scholarship, where Chinese studies meets the British eighteenth century, this novel work will appeal to scholars in a number of fields, including performance studies, East Asian studies, British literature, cultural history, gender studies, and postcolonial studies.
Автор: Healy Название: Fictions of Disease in Early Modern England ISBN: 0333963997 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333963999 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12577.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: How did early modern people imagine their bodies? Ranging from the Reformation through the English Civil War, Fictions of Disease in Early Modern England is a unique study of a fascinating cultural imaginary of `disease` and its political consequences.
Автор: Hamlin Название: Tragedy and Scepticism in Shakespeare`s England ISBN: 1403945985 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403945983 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12577.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Hamlin's study provides the first full-scale account of the reception and literary appropriation of ancient scepticism in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (c. 1570-1630). Offering abundant archival evidence as well as fresh treatments of Florio's Montaigne and Bacon's career-long struggle with the challenges of epistemological doubt, Hamlin's book explores the deep connections between scepticism and tragedy in plays ranging from Doctor Faustus and Troilus and Cressida to The Tragedy of Mariam, The Duchess of Malfi, and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore .
Автор: Clery Название: The Feminization Debate in Eighteenth-Century England ISBN: 033377731X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333777312 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 16769.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: It looks at the first use of a female author as an icon of modernity in the Athenian Mercury , and reappraises works by Elizabeth Singer Rowe, Mandeville, Defoe, Pope and Elizabeth Carter.
Автор: Grande Название: William Cobbett, the Press and Rural England ISBN: 1137380071 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137380074 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12577.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: William Cobbett, the Press and Rural England offers a thorough re-appraisal of William Cobbett (1763-1835), situating his journalism and rural radicalism in relation to contemporary political debates.
Автор: Hadfield Название: Literature and Censorship in Renaissance England ISBN: 0333794109 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333794104 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 18866.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Censorship is one of the key controversies debated by Renaissance historians and literary critics. This is the first collection that brings together the key figures in the field and includes essays by Richard Burt, Janet Clare, Cyndia Clegg, Richard Dutton, Richard McCabe and Annabel Patterson.
Описание: Pre-Civil War English political culture was shaped by an extensive pamphlet literature, which has remained unknown due to its handwritten form. Drawing from book history and the history of political thought, Noah Millstone reconstructs the world of manuscript pamphleteering to explain how contemporaries came to see their world as political.
Автор: Linker Название: Lucretian Thought in Late Stuart England ISBN: 1137398574 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137398574 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 8384.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: How did writers understand the soul in late seventeenth-century England? This book considers depictions of the soul in literary texts that engage with Lucretius`s Epicurean philosophy in De rerum natura or through the writings of the most important natural philosopher to disseminate Epicurean atomism in England, Walter Charleton (1619-1707).
Описание: Pre-Civil War English political culture was shaped by an extensive pamphlet literature, which has remained unknown due to its handwritten form. Drawing from book history and the history of political thought, Noah Millstone reconstructs the world of manuscript pamphleteering to explain how contemporaries came to see their world as political.
Автор: Josephine Billingham Название: Infanticide in Tudor and Stuart England ISBN: 9462986797 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789462986794 Издательство: NBN International Рейтинг: Цена: 27034.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Infanticide in Tudor and Stuart England explores one of society`s darkest crimes using archival sources and discussing its representation in the drama, pamphlets and broadside ballads of the early modern period.
Автор: Watkins Название: Representing Elizabeth in Stuart England ISBN: 0521118964 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521118965 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6653.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Watkins traces the development of Elizabeth I`s iconic significance in the political and popular imagination of the seventeenth century. From monarch to the perfect model of the tragic individual pitted against a hostile social order, Elizabeth`s story informed contemporary debates. This study will appeal to literary and cultural historians alike.
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