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Mary Shelley
A Literary Life
Av NA NA
Inbunden, 2000
1080 kr
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This comprehensive overview of Mary Shelley's life as an author frequently reads like an anthology of extracts from some of the most lurid and sensationalist novels of the early 19th century.
Mary Shelley
A Literary Life
Inbunden, 2000
585 kr
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Much of Mary Shelley's life reads like a compilation of some of the most lurid and sensationalist novels of her time. After the stormy years of her relationship with Percy Shelley, Mary went on to raise her one surviving son on her own, never sure of the loyalty of friends, threatened and …
Ernest Hemingway
A Literary Life
Häftad, 2022
258 kr
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Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Life includes new research on the best-known of the posthumous publications: A Moveable Feast, 1964 (and the 2009 A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition); Islands in the Stream, 1970; and The Garden of Eden, 1986. Linda Wagner-Martin provides background and intertextual …
Vladimir Nabokov
A Literary Life
Av D. Rampton
Inbunden, 2012
634 kr
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A clearly written, insightful study of Nabokov the novelist, providing an expert analysis of the 17 novels he wrote during a career spanning more than 50 years: one of the most impressive, challenging, and controversial literary achievements of our time.
Tennessee Williams
A Literary Life
Av J. Bak
Inbunden, 2013
634 kr
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This Literary Life draws extensively from the playwright's correspondences, notebooks, and archival papers to offer an original angle to the discussion of Williams's life and work, and the times and circumstances that helped produce it.
Ernest Hemingway
A Literary Life
Häftad, 2007
640 kr
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Linda Wagner-Martin brings a wealth of new information to this detailed portrait of Hemingway and his world, concentrating particularly on his friendships with women and the history of his four marriages.
William Blake
A Literary Life
Av J. Beer
Häftad, 2005
585 kr
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This volume on Blake follows the writer's life and combines biography and critical analysis. Covering Blake's early career, his major works and his work as a visual artist, this new study will be a must for all Blake scholars and enthusiasts. Recent discoveries concerning Blake's forebears and …
John Keats
A Literary Life
Av R. White
Inbunden, 2010
585 kr
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At the heart of this 'Literary Life' are fresh interpretations of Keats's most loved poems, alongside other neglected but rich poems. The readings are placed in the context of his letters to family and friends, his medical training, radical politics of the time, his love for Fanny Brawne, his …
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A Literary Life
Av W. Christie
Häftad, 2006
634 kr
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The most sustained criticism and ambitious theory that had ever been attempted in English, the Biographia was Coleridge's major statement to a literary culture in which he sought to define and defend all imaginative life. This book offers a reading of Coleridge in the context of that culture and …
Ted Hughes
A Literary Life
Av Neil Roberts
Häftad, 2006
585 kr
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How was Ted Hughes's poetry affected by Sylvia Plath? What is the importance of his early life on the Yorkshire moors with his elder brother, that he called Paradise? How did writing Birthday Letters affect his attitude to his life and career? This book attempts to answer these questions by a close …
Angela Carter
A Literary Life
Av S. Gamble
Häftad, 2005
585 kr
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By the time of her death in 1992, Angela Carter had come to be regarded as one of the most successful and original British authors of the twentieth-century, and her writing has subsequently become the focus of a burgeoning body of criticism. This book disentangles the cult of Angela Carter as 'the …
Edmund Spenser
A Literary Life
Av G. Waller
Inbunden, 1994
1260 kr
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Gary Waller surveys Spenser's career in terms of the material conditions of its production - the often overlooked material factors of race, gender, class, agency - and the resonant 'places' which influenced his career - court, church, nation, colony. The book includes an original account of the …
George Orwell
A Literary Life
Av P. Davison
Inbunden, 1996
634 kr
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This account of Orwell's life is chiefly concerned with what influenced Orwell, his relations with publishers and editors, and the analysis of certain key experiences - the deposition that during the Spanish Civil War he was guilty of espionage and high treason; his work at the BBC; his interest in …
Thomas Hardy
A Literary Life
Av J. Gibson
Inbunden, 1996
1260 kr
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Thomas Hardy in the Literary Lives series relates Hardy's life to his career as a writer, giving particular attention to his determination as a young man to make literature his career, his methodical preparation during the first thirty years of his life for that career, the writing of his fourteen …
Matthew Arnold
A Literary Life
Av C. Machann
Inbunden, 1998
1163 kr
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Matthew Arnold, the foremost Victorian 'man of letters', forged a unique literary career, first as an important post-Romantic poet and then as a prose writer who profoundly influenced the formation of modern literary and cultural studies. Machann challenges the popular image of Arnold as an elitist …
Evelyn Waugh
A Literary Life
Av David Wykes
Inbunden, 1999
1260 kr
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Waugh's life and his literary life exist in fascinating, dynamic relationship. Virtually all of his fiction was autobiographical, yet he maintained that his novels were 'objects', unrelated to the life of their author. This study traces the shifting relationship of ascertainable fact and …
Frances Burney
A Literary Life
Av J. Thaddeus
Inbunden, 2000
1260 kr
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Emphasizing Frances Burney's professionalism and her courage, Janice Farrar Thaddeus shows the protean writer who recognised her abilities and exercised them, always carefully shaping her career.
W.B. Yeats
A Literary Life
Häftad, 1994
239 kr
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This is not a straightforward biography but rather an attempt to describe and examine Yeats as a phenomenon, partly shaped by forces and movements around him and partly shaping the public events of his time. His position in literary, political and cultural matters is detailed and the book offers, …
Charlotte and Emily Brontë
Literary Lives
Av Edward Chitham, Tom Winnifrith
Inbunden, 1989
1163 kr
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This new book on the Brontes concentrates on the way in which the literary interests and expressions of Charlotte and Emily were built up. It makes use of recent research into background and reading matter to investigate the development of the authors' poetry and novels.
Charlotte and Emily Brontë
Literary Lives
Av Edward Chitham, Tom Winnifrith
Häftad, 1989
1163 kr
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This new book on the Brontes concentrates on the way in which the literary interests and expressions of Charlotte and Emily were built up. It makes use of recent research into background and reading matter to investigate the development of the authors' poetry and novels.
John Donne
A Literary Life
Häftad, 1989
412 kr
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John Donne's individuality has been heavily stressed in the twentieth century. This book recognises the individuality of Donne's writing, but aims to relate this to the particular circumstances of his life and to the pressures of the period in which Donne lived. Both his poetry and his prose are …
John Milton
A Literary Life
Häftad, 1995
258 kr
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For the first time in an approachable, affordable volume this study treats the whole literary career of England's most distinguished protestant-republican poet and writer, considering the miscellaneous output in the light of contexts and political functions. It highlights self-presentational and …
Alexander Pope
A Literary Life
Häftad, 1990
470 kr
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Part of a series which follows the outline of writers' working lives, aiming to trace the professional, publishing and social contexts which shaped their writing. This is a sympathetic portrait of the poet who overcame the obscurity of his origins to become the uncrowned Laureate of his age.
Henry James: A Literary Life
A Literary Life
Häftad, 1995
634 kr
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This comprehensive account of the writing life of Henry James aims at providing a critical overview of all his important writings, firmly set in two contexts: that of James's practical career as a novelist in America, England, and Europe; and that of the literary and intellectual climate of his …
Thomas Hardy
A Literary Life
Av J. Gibson
Inbunden, 1996
1163 kr
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Thomas Hardy in the Literary Lives series relates Hardy's life to his career as a writer, giving particular attention to his determination as a young man to make literature his career, his methodical preparation during the first thirty years of his life for that career, the writing of his fourteen …
Thomas Hardy
A Literary Life
Av J. Gibson
Häftad, 1996
1163 kr
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Thomas Hardy in the Literary Lives series relates Hardy's life to his career as a writer, giving particular attention to his determination as a young man to make literature his career, his methodical preparation during the first thirty years of his life for that career, the writing of his fourteen …
Alfred Tennyson
A Literary Life
Häftad, 1993
331 kr
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Throughout his long working life, Tennyson was experimenting with new forms and subjects. Widely read in a range of disciplines, he responsed to many of the personalities, events and discoveries of the Victorian age. Still widely regarded as an apologist for the 'establishment', Tennyson was always …
Percy Bysshe Shelley
A Literary Life
Av Michael O'Neill, Richard Dutton
Inbunden, 1989
1260 kr
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In 'Percy Bysshe Shelly: A Literary Life' , Michael O'Neill gives a knowledgeable and balanced account of Shelley's literary career from his earliest published work to his last unfinished masterpiece, The Triumph of Life . The book draws on recent research about the poet and his age, but its sense …
Percy Bysshe Shelley
A Literary Life
Av Michael O'Neill, Richard Dutton
Häftad, 1989
1260 kr
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In 'Percy Bysshe Shelly: A Literary Life' , Michael O'Neill gives a knowledgeable and balanced account of Shelley's literary career from his earliest published work to his last unfinished masterpiece, The Triumph of Life . The book draws on recent research about the poet and his age, but its sense …
T. S. Eliot
A Literary Life
Av Tony Sharpe
Häftad, 1991
509 kr
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Part of a series which offers accounts of the literary careers of the most widely read British and Irish authors. This volume looks at T.S.Eliot and traces the professional, publishing and social contexts which shaped his writing.
