Liverpool English Texts and Studies – serie
Visar alla böcker i serien Liverpool English Texts and Studies. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
93 produkter
Twenty-First-Century Readings of E. M. Forster's 'Maurice'
Av Emma Sutton, Tsung-Han Tsai
Inbunden, 2020
2382 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This is the first book-length study of Forster’s posthumously-published novel. Nine essays focus exclusively on Maurice and its dynamic afterlives in literature, film and new media during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Begun in 1913 and revised over almost fifty years, Maurice became a …
Tony Harrison and the Holocaust
Häftad, 2001
526 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book argues that Tony Harrison’s poetry is barbaric. It revisits one of the most misquoted passages of twentieth-century philosophy: Theodor Adorno’s apparent dismissal of post-Holocaust poetry as ‘impossible’ or ‘barbaric’. His statement is reinterpreted as opening up the possibility that the …
W. S. Graham
Speaking Towards You
Häftad, 2004
578 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Graham’s work was published by T. S. Eliot in the 1940s and 50s, but as a major post-war poet, his work has received astonishingly little critical attention given its prestige and influence. This collection of essays covers all aspects of Graham’s work – its critical reception, recent influence and …
Monstrous Adversary
The Life of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
Häftad, 2003
773 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The Elizabethan Court poet Edward de Vere has, since 1920, lived a notorious second, wholly illegitimate life as the putative author of the poems and plays of William Shakespeare. The work reconstructs Oxford’s life, assesses his poetic works, and demonstrates the absurdity of attributing …
The Most Dreadful Visitation
Male Madness in Victorian Fiction
Inbunden, 2006
857 kr
Lägg i varukorg
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.Victorian literature is rife with scenes of madness, with mental disorder functioning as everything from a simple plot device to a commentary on the foundations of Victorian society. But …
Labyrinths of Deceit
Culture, Modernity and Identity in the Nineteenth Century
Inbunden, 2008
600 kr
Lägg i varukorg
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.Prominent citizens in nineteenth-century England believed themselves to be living in a time of unstoppable progress. Yet running just beneath Victorian triumphalism were strong …
The Poetry of Dylan Thomas
Under the Spelling Wall
Av John Goodby
Häftad, 2014
755 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Published in anticipation of the centenary of the poet’s birth, The Poetry of Dylan Thomas is the first study of the poet to show how his work may be read in terms of contemporary critical concerns, using theories of modernism, the body, gender, the carnivalesque, language, hybridity and the …
Byron and John Murray
A Poet and His Publisher
Inbunden, 2015
2382 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Byron and John Murray: A Poet and His Publisher is the first comprehensive account of the relationship between Byron and the man who published his poetry for over ten years.It is commonly seen as a paradox of Byron’s literary career that the liberal poet was published by a conservative publishing …
The Collected Writings of Edward Rushton
(1756–1814)
Av Edward Rushton, Paul Baines
Inbunden, 2014
2382 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The edition brings together the known writings in poetry and prose of Edward Rushton (1756--1814). Blinded by trachoma after an outbreak on the slaving ship in which he was a young officer, Rushton returned to Liverpool to scratch a living as a publican, newspaper editor, and finally bookseller and …
Contemporary Irish Women Poets
Memory and Estrangement
Av Lucy Collins
Inbunden, 2015
1071 kr
Lägg i varukorg
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. This study examines the intersection of private and public spheres through the representation of memory in contemporary poetry by Irish women. Collins explores how memory shapes …
Touchstones: John McGahern’s Classical Style
Inbunden, 2016
2382 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Touchstones examines the ways in which John McGahern became a writer through his reading. This reading, it is shown, was both extensive and intensive, and tended towards immersion in the classics. As such, new insights are provided into McGahern’s admiration and use of writers as diverse as Dante …
Shelley’s Living Artistry: Letters, Poems, Plays
Inbunden, 2017
2382 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This study of the poetry and drama of Percy Bysshe Shelley reads the letters and their biographical contexts to shed light on the poetry, tracing the ambiguous and shifting relationship between the poet’s art and life. For Shelley, both life and art are transfigured by their relationship with one …
Male Body in Medicine and Literature
Inbunden, 2018
2382 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Contrary to what Simone de Beauvoir famously argued in 1949, men have not lived without knowing the burdens of their sex. Though men may have been elevated to cultural positions of strength and privilege, it has not been without intense scrutiny of their biological functions. Investigations of male …
Walter Greenwood’s 'Love on the Dole'
Novel, Play, Film
Häftad, 2018
434 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Love on the Dole (1933), the iconic novel about 1930s British working-class life, has a significant place in British cultural history. Its author, Walter Greenwood, went from unemployed Salford man to best-selling writer, and the novel has never been out of print. The 1935 stage adaptation was said …
Ireland, Migration and Return Migration
The “Returned Yank” in the Cultural Imagination, 1952 to present
Inbunden, 2019
649 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Drawing on historical, literary and cultural studies perspectives, this book examines the phenomenon of the “Returned Yank” in the cultural imagination, taking as its point of departure the most exhaustively discussed Returned Yank narrative, The Quiet Man (dir. John Ford, 1952). Often dismissed as …
John Murray’s Quarterly Review
Letters 1807–1843
Inbunden, 2019
2299 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This scrupulously edited volume is the first edition of letters specifically related to the important British journal the Quarterly Review. Included are letters by notable literary and political figures such as Sir Walter Scott, George Canning, William Gifford, John Gibson Lockhart, and John Wilson …
Didactics and the Modern Robinsonade
New Paradigms for Young Readers
Av Ian Kinane
Inbunden, 2019
2382 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Didactics and the Modern Robinsonade examines modern and contemporary Robinsonade texts written for young readers, looking specifically at the ways in which later adaptations of the Robinson Crusoe story subvert both traditional narrative structures and particular ideological codes within the …
Border Blurs
Concrete Poetry in England and Scotland
Av Greg Thomas
Inbunden, 2019
2382 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book offers the first in-depth account of the relationship between English and Scottish poets and the international concrete poetry movement of the 1950s to the 1970s. Concrete poetry was a literary and artistic style which reactivated early twentieth-century modernist impulses towards the …
Image of a Man
The Journal of Keith Vaughan
Av Alex Belsey
Inbunden, 2020
2382 kr
Lägg i varukorg
‘I want to know what I am, what I want, what I can do, what is real, what is lovely.’The post-war British artist Keith Vaughan (1912–77) was not only a supremely accomplished painter; he was an impassioned, eloquent writer. Image of a Man is the first book to provide a comprehensive critical …
Rough Beasts
The Monstrous in Irish Fiction, 1800–2000
Av Jack Fennell
Inbunden, 2019
2382 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Monsters and other supernatural malefactors disrupt the human world in distinct ways: werewolves and cunning beasts challenge the philosophical distinction between human and animal; demons offer deceptive pacts to prey upon our delusions of mastery over the world; capricious fairies claim dominion …
Walter Besant
The Business of Literature and the Pleasures of Reform
Av Morrison, Kevin A. Morrison
Inbunden, 2019
1751 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In the 1880s and 1890s, Walter Besant was one of Britain’s most lionized living novelists. Like many popular writers of the period, Besant suffered from years of critical neglect. Yet his centrality to Victorian society and culture all but ensured a revival of interest. While literary critics are …
Criminal Moves
Modes of Mobility in Crime Fiction
Av Jesper Gulddal, Alistair Rolls m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2382 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Criminal Moves: Modes of Mobility in Crime Fiction offers a major intervention into contemporary theoretical debates about crime fiction. It seeks to overturn the following preconceptions: that the genre does not warrant critical analysis, that genre norms and conventions matter more than textual …
Misreading Anita Brookner
Aestheticism, Intertextuality and the Queer Nineteenth Century
Av Peta Mayer
Inbunden, 2020
2382 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Anita Brookner was known for writing boring books about lonely, single women. Misreading Anita Brookner unlocks the mysteries of the famously depressed Brookner heroine by creating entirely new ways to read six Brookner novels.Drawing on Brookner’s legacy as a renowned historian of French Romantic …
Literary Afterlives of Roger Casement, 1899–2016
Inbunden, 2020
2382 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book explores the literary afterlives of one of Ireland’s most enigmatic, shape-shifting and controversial sons, Roger Casement. A seminal human rights activist, a key figure in the struggle for Irish independence, a traitor to British imperialism and an enthusiastic recorder of a sexual life …
British Women's Writing, 1930 to 1960
Between the Waves
Inbunden, 2020
1100 kr
Lägg i varukorg
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.This volume contributes to the vibrant, ongoing recuperative work on women’s writing by shedding new light on a group of authors commonly dismissed as middlebrow in their …
Remaking the Voyage
New Essays on Malcolm Lowry and 'In Ballast to the White Sea'
Inbunden, 2020
1180 kr
Lägg i varukorg
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.‘Who ever thought they would one day be able to read Malcolm Lowry’s fabled novel of the 1930s and 40s, In Ballast to the White Sea? Lord knows, I didn’t’ – Michael Hofmann, TLSThis book …
Literary Coteries and the Irish Women Writers' Club (1933-1958)
Inbunden, 2021
2382 kr
Lägg i varukorg
As publishers in private printing presses, as writers of dissident texts and as political campaigners against censorship and for intellectual freedom, a radical group of twentieth-century Irish women formed a female-only coterie to foster women’s writing and maintain a public space for professional …
Remaking the Voyage
New Essays on Malcolm Lowry and 'In Ballast to the White Sea'
Häftad, 2020
624 kr
Lägg i varukorg
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.‘Who ever thought they would one day be able to read Malcolm Lowry’s fabled novel of the 1930s and 40s, In Ballast to the White Sea? Lord knows, I didn’t’ – Michael Hofmann, TLSThis book …
Byron and John Murray
A Poet and His Publisher
Häftad, 2021
624 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Byron and John Murray: A Poet and His Publisher is the first comprehensive account of the relationship between Byron and the man who published his poetry for over ten years.It is commonly seen as a paradox of Byron’s literary career that the liberal poet was published by a conservative publishing …
The Collected Writings of Edward Rushton
(1756–1814)
Av Edward Rushton, Paul Baines
Häftad, 2021
720 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The edition brings together the known writings in poetry and prose of Edward Rushton (1756--1814). Blinded by trachoma after an outbreak on the slaving ship in which he was a young officer, Rushton returned to Liverpool to scratch a living as a publican, newspaper editor, and finally bookseller and …
