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29 produkter
Life of Robert Frost
A Critical Biography
Av Henry Hart
Inbunden, 2017
1051 kr
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The Life of Robert Frost presents a unique and rich approach to the poet that includes original genealogical research concerning Frost's ancestors, and a demonstration of how mental illness plagued the Frost family and heavily influenced Frost's poetry. A widely revealing biography of Frost that …
Life of D. H. Lawrence
A Critical Biography
Inbunden, 2016
1051 kr
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Complete with fresh perspectives, and drawing on the latest scholarship and biographical sources, The Life of D. H. Lawrence spans the full range of his intellectual interests and creative output to offer new insights into Lawrence’s life, work, and legacy. Addresses his major works, but also …
Life of William Wordsworth
A Critical Biography
Av John Worthen
Inbunden, 2014
1452 kr
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By examining the family and financial circumstances of Wordsworth’s early years, this illuminating biography reshapes our understanding of the great Romantic poet’s most creative period of life and writing. Features new research into Wordsworth’s financial situation, and into how the poet and his …
Life of Goethe
A Critical Biography
Inbunden, 1998
1377 kr
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Goethe established a major European reputation and profoundly influenced his contemporaries and literary successors, not least among them the British Romantic writers Coleridge, Scott, and Byron. Offers a comprehensive one-volume study of a major European literary figure.Deals in depth and detail …
Life of Celine
A Critical Biography
Inbunden, 1998
1526 kr
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This invaluable book not only assesses the life and work of one of Europe's most important and innovative writers, it also casts revealing light on crucial areas of French cultural, social, and political history.
Life of John Milton
A Critical Biography
Inbunden, 2000
1614 kr
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Providing a close examination of Milton's wide-ranging prose and poetry at each stage of his life, Barbara Lewalski reveals a rather different Milton from that in earlier accounts. Provides a close analysis of each of Milton's prose and poetry works.Reveals how Milton was the first writer to self …
Life of W. B. Yeats
A Critical Biography
Inbunden, 1999
1392 kr
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W. B. Yeats is widely regarded as the greatest English-language poet of the twentieth century. This new critical biography seeks to tell the story of his life as it unfolded in the various contexts in which Yeats worked as an artist and as public figure.
Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A Critical Biography
Inbunden, 1995
1720 kr
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Rosemary Ashton explores the many facets of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's complex personality, by turns poet, critic, thinker, enchanting companion, feckless husband, fabled conversationalist and guilt-ridden opium addict.
Life of Henry Fielding
A Critical Biography
Inbunden, 2000
1526 kr
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Each chapter in this intriguing book by one of the world's leading authorities on Henry Fielding begins with an annotated chronology of the known facts, followed by analyses of the important issues. Paulson's account must be essential reading to all admirers and serious students of Fielding and his …
Life of Daniel Defoe
A Critical Biography
Inbunden, 2005
1590 kr
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The Life of Daniel Defoe examines the entire range of Defoe’s writing in the context of what is known about his life and opinions. Features extended and detailed commentaries on Defoe’s political, religious, moral, and economic journalism, as well as on all of his narrative fictions, including …
Life of Robert Browning
A Critical Biography
Häftad, 1996
707 kr
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Robert Browning is customarily regarded as a dramatic poet whose works are separate and distinct from himself. This biography proposes a different view of the poet and his poems. Every one of his works is regarded in the same way that Browning himself regarded it; as a performance in which the …
Life of William Faulkner
A Critical Biography
Av Richard Gray
Häftad, 1996
766 kr
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In this major reassessment, now available in paperback, Richard Gray uses and develops recent theories about the relationship between writing and historical experience, language and social change, to draw a brilliantly detailed portrait of the place and times Faulkner inhabited. Attending closely …
Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A Critical Biography
Av Rosemary Ashton, Claude Rawson
Häftad, 1997
662 kr
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Rosemary Ashton explores the many facets of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's complex personality, by turns poet, critic, thinker, enchanting companion, feckless husband, fabled conversationalist and guilt-ridden opium addict.
Life of William Shakespeare
A Critical Biography
Av Lois Potter
Inbunden, 2012
1241 kr
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The Life of William Shakespeare is a fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of Shakespeare's life and works focusing on oftern neglected literary and historical contexts: what Shakespeare read, who he worked with as an author and an actor, and how these various collaborations may have affected …
Life of Thomas Hardy
A Critical Biography
Av Paul Turner
Häftad, 1998
632 kr
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Turner's strikingly original and penetrating account of Hardy's extraordinarily creative life and longevity offers a series of thirty-two chapters, each of which relates the biographical and literary background of a single work.
Life of W. B. Yeats
A Critical Biography
Häftad, 2001
692 kr
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W. B. Yeats is widely regarded as the greatest English-language poet of the twentieth century. This new critical biography seeks to tell the story of his life as it unfolded in the various contexts in which Yeats worked as an artist and as public figure.
Life of Evelyn Waugh
A Critical Biography
Häftad, 2001
692 kr
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He has written a masterful biography, rich in enlivened critical detail, which more than any other study of Waugh to date, works to redress the bias against its subject that is so representative of Stannard's major two-volume account.
Life of Goethe
A Critical Biography
Häftad, 2001
707 kr
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Goethe established a major European reputation and profoundly influenced his contemporaries and literary successors, not least among them the British Romantic writers Coleridge, Scott, and Byron. Offers a comprehensive one-volume study of a major European literary figure.Deals in depth and detail …
Life of William Shakespeare
A Critical Biography
Av Lois Potter
Häftad, 2012
409 kr
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The Life of William Shakespeare is a fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of Shakespeare's life and works focusing on oftern neglected literary and historical contexts: what Shakespeare read, who he worked with as an author and an actor, and how these various collaborations may have affected …
Life of George Eliot
A Critical Biography
Av Nancy Henry
Häftad, 2014
483 kr
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The life story of the Victorian novelist George Eliot is as dramatic and complex as her best plots. This new assessment of her life and work combines recent biographical research with penetrating literary criticism, resulting in revealing new interpretations of her literary work. A fresh look at …
Life of Jonathan Swift
Av Thomas Lockwood, Claude Rawson
Häftad, 2023
669 kr
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Presents a fresh account of the life history and creative imagination of Jonathan Swift Classic satires such as Gulliver’s Travels, A Modest Proposal, and A Tale of a Tub express radical positions, yet were written by the most conservative of men. Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin and spent most of …
Life of Daniel Defoe
A Critical Biography
Häftad, 2015
454 kr
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The Life of Daniel Defoe examines the entire range of Defoe’s writing in the context of what is known about his life and opinions. Features extended and detailed commentaries on Defoe’s political, religious, moral, and economic journalism, as well as on all of his narrative fictions, including …
Life of Robert Frost
A Critical Biography
Av Henry Hart
Häftad, 2020
606 kr
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The Life of Robert Frost presents a unique and rich approach to the poet that includes original genealogical research concerning Frost's ancestors, and a demonstration of how mental illness plagued the Frost family and heavily influenced Frost's poetry. A widely revealing biography of Frost that …
Life of Henry James
A Critical Biography
Häftad, 2023
669 kr
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Discover anew the life and influence of Henry James, part of the acclaimed Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies series.In The Life of Henry James: A Critical Biography, Peter Collister, an established critic and authority on Henry James, offers an original and fully documented account of one of …
Life of John Milton
A Critical Biography
Häftad, 2002
647 kr
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Providing a close examination of Milton's wide-ranging prose and poetry at each stage of his life, Barbara Lewalski reveals a rather different Milton from that in earlier accounts. Provides a close analysis of each of Milton's prose and poetry works.Reveals how Milton was the first writer to self …
Life of Samuel Johnson
A Critical Biography
Häftad, 1994
707 kr
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In this major revision of The Life of Samuel Johnson, Robert DeMaria makes a compelling claim for the attention of a new generation of Johnson's readers and admirers.
Life of Geoffrey Chaucer
A Critical Biography
Häftad, 1994
707 kr
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This important new critical biography traces in carefully considered detail what is known of Geoffrey Chaucer's personal life while exploring the fascinating relationship between the man of affairs, who made so many 'improvisations and accommodations' to ensure his own survival, and the poet. A …
The Life of Walter Scott
A Critical Biography
Av London) Sutherland, John (University College
Häftad, 1997
480 kr
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aeo A major account of Scotta s life and work which removes many layers of the myth. aeo Original contribution to our knowledge of Scotta s disastrous business affairs. aeo An accessible yet thorough account of a major cultural figure in the evolution of the novel.
Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley
A Critical Biography
Av John Worthen
Inbunden, 2019
966 kr
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Drawing especially on the many scholarly discoveries of recent years, this biography examines the life – and death ‒ of one of the greatest Romantic poets. Based on sceptical historical investigation and featuring an in-depth look at Shelley’s personal, financial and familial situation, it builds a …
