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War That Used Up Words American Writers and the First World War
ISBN: HB: 9780300195026, Yale University Press, May 2015
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 3 black&white illus.
In this provocative study, Hazel Hutchison takes a fresh look at the roles of American writers in helping to shape national opinion and policy during the First World War. From the war's opening salvos in Europe, American writers recognized the impact...
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£50,00
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Those Who Write for Immortality Romantic Reputations and the Dream of Lasting Fame
ISBN: HB: 9780300174793, Yale University Press, May 2015
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
Great writers of the past whose works we still read and love will be read forever. They will survive the test of time. We remember authors of true genius because their writings are simply the best. Or ...might there be other reasons that account for...
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£49,00
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Cervantes' "Don Quixote"
ISBN: PB: 9780300198645, Yale University Press, May 2015
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 22 black&white illus.
The novel "Don Quixote", written in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, is widely considered to be one of the greatest fictional works in the entire canon of Western literature. At once farcical and deepl...
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£16,99
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Dante A Life in Works
ISBN: PB: 9780300212594, Yale University Press, April 2015
240 pp., 21x14 cm
How did Dante come to create his masterpiece, the Divine Comedy, a work unrivaled by any of his other writings? In this book, a preeminent Dante scholar analyzes the only real biography of the poet that we have-his body of works-to illuminate this qu...
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£14,99
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Why the Romantics Matter
ISBN: HB: 9780300144291, Yale University Press, February 2015
224 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm
With his usual wit and elan, esteemed historian Peter Gay enters the contentious, long-standing debates over the romantic period. Here, in this concise and inviting volume, he reformulates the definition of romanticism and provides a fresh account of...
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£18,99
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Voice Still Heard Selected Essays of Irving Howe
ISBN: HB: 9780300203660, Yale University Press, January 2015
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 6 black&white illus.
Man of letters, political critic, public intellectual, Irving Howe was one of America's most exemplary and embattled writers. Since his death in 1993 at age 72, Howe's work and his personal example of commitment to high principle, both literary and p...
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£54,00
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Emerson's Proteges Mentoring and Marketing Transcendentalism's Future
ISBN: HB: 9780300197440, Yale University Press, December 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.
In the late 1830s, Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, poet, lecturer, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement, publicly called for a radical nationwide vocational reinvention, and an idealistic group of collegians eagerly responded. Assumin...
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£50,00
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Virtue of Sympathy Magic, Philosophy and Literature in Seventeenth-Century England
ISBN: HB: 9780300192032, Yale University Press, December 2014
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Beginning with an analysis of Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and building to a new reading of Milton's "Paradise Lost", author Seth Lobis charts a profound change in the cultural meaning of sympathy during the seventeenth century. Having long referred t...
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£65,00
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International Novel
ISBN: HB: 9780300198003, Yale University Press, November 2014
272 pp., 21x14 cm, 9 black&white maps
Annabel Patterson here turns her well-known concern with political history in early modern England into an engine for investigating our own era and a much wider terrain. The focus of this book is, broadly, nationalism and internationalism today, appr...
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£26,00
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Little History of Literature
ISBN: PB: 9780300205312, Yale University Press, August 2014
288 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 40 black&white illus.
This "little history" tackles a very big subject: the glorious span of literature from Greek myth to graphic novels, from "The Epic of Gilgamesh" to "Harry Potter". John Sutherland is perfectly suited to the task, having researched, taught and writte...
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£9,99
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