Literature in Context – serie
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Jane Austen in Context
Av Janet Todd
Häftad, 2006
495 kr
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This collection of essays covering many aspects of Austen's life, works and historical context provides the fullest introduction in one volume to the life and times of Jane Austen. Jane Austen in Context is a generously illustrated collection of short, lively contributions arranged alphabetically, …
Thomas Pynchon in Context
Inbunden, 2019
2107 kr
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Thomas Pynchon in Context guides students, scholars and other readers through the global scope and prolific imagination of Pynchon's challenging, canonical work, providing the most up-to-date and authoritative scholarly analyses of his writing. This book is divided into three parts. The first, …
Tolstoy in Context
Inbunden, 2022
1647 kr
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Likened to a second Tsar in Russia and attaining prophet-like status around the globe, Tolstoy made an impact on literature and the arts, religion, philosophy, and politics. His novels and stories both responded to and helped to reshape the European and Russian literary traditions. His non-fiction …
Samuel Johnson in Context
Av Jack Lynch
Inbunden, 2011
1516 kr
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Few authors benefit from being set in their contemporary context more than Samuel Johnson. Samuel Johnson in Context is a guide to his world, offering readers a comprehensive account of eighteenth-century life and culture as it relates to his work. Short, lively and eminently readable chapters …
Thomas Hardy in Context
Inbunden, 2013
2143 kr
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This collection covers the range of Thomas Hardy's works and their social and intellectual contexts, providing a comprehensive introduction to Hardy's life and times. Featuring short, lively contributions from forty-four international scholars, the volume explores the processes by which Hardy the …
W. H. Auden in Context
Av Tony Sharpe
Inbunden, 2013
2191 kr
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W. H. Auden is a giant of twentieth-century English poetry whose writings demonstrate a sustained engagement with the times in which he lived. But how did the century's shifting cultural terrain affect him and his work? Written by distinguished poets and scholars, these brief but authoritative …
T. S. Eliot in Context
Inbunden, 2011
2191 kr
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T. S. Eliot's work demands much from his readers. The more the reader knows about his allusions and range of cultural reference, the more rewarding are his poems, essays and plays. This book is carefully designed to provide an authoritative and coherent examination of those contexts essential to …
Henry James in Context
Inbunden, 2010
2310 kr
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Long misread as a novelist conspicuously lacking in historical consciousness, Henry James has often been viewed as detached from, and uninterested in, the social, political, and material realities of his time. As this volume demonstrates, however, James was acutely responsive not only to his era's …
Ezra Pound in Context
Av Ira B. Nadel
Inbunden, 2010
1366 kr
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Long at the centre of the modernist project, from editing Eliot's The Waste Land to publishing Joyce, Pound has also been a provocateur and instigator of new movements, while initiating a new poetics. This is the first volume to summarize and analyze the multiple contexts of Pound's work, …
Milton in Context
Inbunden, 2010
1967 kr
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Few early modern poets engaged more fully with their historical circumstances than John Milton. A pamphleteer, government employee, and writer of occasional verse, Milton did not retreat from public life even after his political hopes were dashed by the Restoration. This volume investigates the …
The Brontës in Context
Inbunden, 2012
2191 kr
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Very few families produce one outstanding writer. The Brontë family produced three. The works of Charlotte, Emily and Anne remain immensely popular, and are increasingly being studied in relation to the surroundings and wider context that formed them. The forty-two new essays in this book tell 'the …
George Eliot in Context
Inbunden, 2013
1872 kr
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Prodigiously learned, alive to the massive social changes of her time, defiant of many Victorian orthodoxies, George Eliot has always challenged her readers. She is at once chronicler and analyst, novelist of nostalgia and monumental thinker. In her great novel Middlemarch she writes of 'that …
Jane Austen in Context
Av Janet Todd
Inbunden, 2005
2284 kr
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This collection of essays covering many aspects of Austen's life, works and historical context provides the fullest introduction in one volume to the life and times of Jane Austen. Jane Austen in Context is a generously illustrated collection of short, lively contributions arranged alphabetically, …
James Joyce in Context
Av John McCourt
Inbunden, 2009
1366 kr
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This collection of original, cohesive and concise essays charts the vital contextual backgrounds to Joyce's life and writing. The volume begins with a chronology of Joyce's publishing history, an analysis of his various biographies and a study of his many published and unpublished letters. It goes …
Charles Dickens in Context
Av Sally Ledger, Holly Furneaux
Inbunden, 2011
2078 kr
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Charles Dickens, a man so representative of his age as to have become considered synonymous with it, demands to be read in context. This book illuminates the worlds - social, political, economic and artistic - in which Dickens worked. Dickens's professional life encompassed work as a novelist, …
Joseph Conrad in Context
Inbunden, 2009
1869 kr
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Joseph Conrad's Polish background, his extensive travels and his detached view of his adopted country, Britain, gave him a perspective unique among English writers of the twentieth century. Combining Continental and British influences, Victorian and Modernist styles, he was an artist acutely …
Ben Jonson in Context
Inbunden, 2010
2097 kr
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Bringing together a group of established and emergent Jonson scholars, this volume reacts to major advances in thinking about the writer and his canon of works. The study is divided into two distinct parts: the first considers the Jonsonian career and output from biographical, critical, and …
W. B. Yeats in Context
Av David Holdeman, Ben Levitas
Inbunden, 2009
2434 kr
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W. B. Yeats is a writer who requires, and at the same time tests the limits of, contextual study. More than perhaps any other Irish writer, he produced his own context as much as it produced him. His cultural and political activities, combined with his prolific literary output, made an impact that …
John Donne in Context
Häftad, 2021
504 kr
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John Donne was a writer of dazzling extremes. He was a notorious rake and eloquent preacher; he wrote poems of tender intimacy, and lyrics of gross misogyny. This book offers a comprehensive account of early modern life and culture as it relates to Donne's richly varied body of work. Short, lively, …
Geoffrey Chaucer in Context
Av Ian Johnson
Häftad, 2021
523 kr
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Geoffrey Chaucer is widely acknowledged as the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages. His texts are studied extensively but, in order to be fully appreciated, they demand a nuanced understanding of the medieval period. This volume provides freshly illuminated access to Chaucer's writing through …
W. G. Sebald in Context
Häftad, 2026
535 kr
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The German academic and writer W. G. Sebald made an astounding ascent into the canon of world literature. In this volume, leading experts from both the English- and the German-speaking worlds explore his celebrated prose works published in the short span from 1996 to his premature death in 2001. …
Gerard Manley Hopkins in Context
Inbunden, 2025
1797 kr
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Gerard Manley Hopkins was one of the most innovative British poets of the nineteenth century. This book provides an authoritative guide to the ideas and influences shaping Hopkins's life and writing. Consisting of thirty-eight essays by leading scholars, the book covers topics that have long …
Percy Shelley in Context
Av Ross Wilson
Inbunden, 2025
1797 kr
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Percy Shelley was a writer in the broadest sense - poet, pamphleteer, philosopher, translator, and correspondent - and one of the most eccentric, fascinating figures of his age. Yet he is emphatically of our age too, continuing to influence contemporary writers, to be referenced in popular culture, …
María Irene Fornés In Context
Av Brian Eugenio Herrera, Anne García-Romero
Inbunden, 2025
1610 kr
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María Irene Fornés is both one of the most influential and one of the least well-known US theatermakers of the late twentieth century, with former students including leading US playwrights, directors and scholars. This is the first major scholarly collection to elucidate Fornés' rich life, work, …
Sean O'Casey in Context
Av James Moran
Inbunden, 2025
1704 kr
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Sean O'Casey is one of Ireland's best-known writers. He is the most frequently performed playwright in the history of the Irish National Theatre, and his work is often revived onstage elsewhere. O'Casey is also widely studied in schools, colleges, and universities in the English-speaking world. …
August Wilson in Context
Av Khalid Y. Long, Isaiah Matthew Wooden
Inbunden, 2025
1704 kr
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August Wilson is one of the twentieth century's most important and acclaimed playwrights. This volume demonstrates Wilson's significance to contemporary theatre, culture, and politics by providing fresh and compelling insights into his life, practices, and contributions as an artist and public …
August Wilson in Context
Av Khalid Y. Long, Isaiah Matthew Wooden
Häftad, 2026
438 kr
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August Wilson is one of the twentieth century's most important and acclaimed playwrights. This volume demonstrates Wilson's significance to contemporary theatre, culture, and politics by providing fresh and compelling insights into his life, practices, and contributions as an artist and public …
Michael Field in Context
Av Sarah Parker
Inbunden, 2025
1704 kr
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Few authors attract as much fascination as 'Michael Field', the collaborative pseudonym of Katharine Bradley (1846-1914) and Edith Cooper (1862-1913), an aunt and niece living and working together in devoted fellowship. As Michael Field, Bradley and Cooper published over thirty volumes of poetry …
Robert Lowell In Context
Av Thomas Austenfeld, Grzegorz Kość
Inbunden, 2024
1797 kr
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Robert Lowell was one of the most influential American poets of the 20th century. This volume explores the various contexts of Lowell's life and work and evaluates his oeuvre from new perspectives. Individual chapters address his relation to the South, his religious evolution, aspects of his …
Ngugi wa Thiong'o in Context
Av James Ogude
Inbunden, 2026
1704 kr
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Ngugi wa Thiong'o in Context offers a compelling and comprehensive reading of the various contexts pivotal to Ngugi wa Thiong'o's practice as a writer. Ngugi drew a complex link between his role as a writer and the contexts within which his works are produced. The desire to come to terms with the …
