Please enter a valid search term.
Currently Displaying Results
284676-284700 of 1543557
View book details for The Poetry of Salvador Espriu
To Save the Words
The first book-length study in English of the poetry of Salvador Espriu [1913-85].Two standpoints govern the approach taken to the poetry of Salvador Espriu [1913-85] in this first extended study of his work in English. First, the author explores the …
View book details for Edinburgh German Yearbook 12
Repopulating the Eighteenth Century: Second-Tier Writing in the German Enlightenment
In essays that examine particular non-canonical works and writers in their wider cultural context, this volume "repopulates" the German Enlightenment.German literature and thought flourished in the eighteenth century, when a culture considered a European backwater came to assert worldwide significance. …
This book is the first modern analysis of the coasting trade in Elizabethan England. Drawing on a significant body of evidence, including evidence from the port books of Bristol, Southampton and Hull, as well as from a much broader array …
View book details for An Enlightenment Statesman in Whig Britain
Lord Shelburne in Context, 1737-1805
A new assessment of the life and political career of Lord Shelburne, prime minister 1782-83, and of the context in which he lived.Lord Shelburne, Prime Minister in 1782-83, was a profoundly important politician, whose achievements included the negotiation of the …
View book details for El feri de Benastepar, o los moros de Sierra Bermeja
Edicion, Introduccion y notas de Javier Munoz de Morales Galiana y Daniel Munoz Sempere
Combining a rich depiction of historical customs with genuine admiration for the Muslim legacy of Andalucia, El feri de Benastepar is a previously unknown novel by Spanish writer Jose Miguel Hue y Camacho (1803-1841) that relates the doomed romance between …
The extent to which contemporary rhetorics of nation and kingship reflected the realities of social, economic and cultural life in Habsburg Spain.Early modern Spain's insistent rhetorics of nation and kingship, of a monolithic body of shared values and beliefs, especially …
Annual collection on diverse aspects of the fifteenth century, emphasizing literary topics with essays on French, German, English, Gaelic, and Middle Scots.The fifteenth century defies consensus on fundamental issues; most scholars agree, however, that the period outgrew the Middle Ages, …
Rich in archival detail and offering a ground-breaking analysis, this book presents a radically new interpretation of British politics and policy failings during the Great Famine.The Irish famine of the 1840s is the biggest humanitarian crisis in the United Kingdom's …
A new intellectual biography of Thomas Babington Macaulay, showing how nineteenth-century British liberal culture retained and transformed the ideas of the Enlightenment in a rapidly changing world.Macaulay and the Enlightenment sheds new light on both familiar and unfamiliar aspects of …
View book details for Music Speaks
On the Language of Opera, Dance, and Song
Explores the meaning[s] of music, the most intricate and significant language invented by our culture.From Daniel Albright, author of Musicking Shakespeare and Berlioz's Semi-Operas, comes a collection of essays on music and on dance, probing the problems of articulating the …
View book details for The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack
Victorian Urban Folklore and Popular Cultures
An intriguing study of a unique and unsettling cultural phenomenon in Victorian England.WINNER of the 2013 Katharine Briggs Award NEW LOWER PRICE This book uses the nineteenth-century legend of Spring-Heeled Jack to analyse and challenge current notions of Victorian popular …
View book details for That Jealous Demon, My Wretched Health
Disease, Death and Composers
Despite much triumph in adversity, illness fuelling composition is a misconception.The health - and especially deaths - of composers excite controversy. Was Mozart really poisoned? Did Tchaikovsky commit suicide? How did Beethoven lose his hearing? Much good previous scholarship has …
View book details for The Loss of the Wager
The Narratives of John Bulkeley and the Hon. John Byron
The Loss of the Wager is an eighteenth century melodrama set in a ferociously inhospitable climate on one of the world's most remote and dangerous coastlines.The Loss of the Wager is an eighteenth century melodrama set in a ferociously inhospitable …
View book details for Music Criticism in France, 1918-1939
Authority, Advocacy, Legacy
This collection uncovers how music criticism contributed to national and transnational preoccupations and agendas.Music Criticism in France examines the aesthetic battles that animated and informed French musical criticism during the interwar period (1918-1939). Drawing upon a rich corpus of critical …
Essays lay the groundwork for a theory of humour in Old English literature.Humour is rarely seen to raise its indecorous head in the surviving corpus of Old English literature, yet the value of reading that literature with an eye to …
Worthington George Smith and other case studiesBedfordshire chapelries: an essay in rural settlement history, by Dorothy Owen [The existence of chapels, in addition to churches, in many parishes in pre-Reformation England is explained. A list of rural parochial chapels in …
A journey through texts on, about, or reflecting our experience of the natural world.What might it mean to study ideas of nature within our English literary heritage? In posing this question this volume invites us both to discover a diversity …
Annual volume of the best essays submitted to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference, this year with an emphasis on English drama and the cultural anxieties it expresses.Renaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. …
View book details for Anatomy of a Duel in Jacobean England
Gentry Honour, Violence and the Law
Throws much new light on questions of gentry honour, the nature and prevalence of early modern elite violence, and the process of judicial investigation in Shakespeare's EnglandThis book offers an analysis of Jacobean duelling and gentry honour culture through the …
Presents essays by leading short-story writers on their favorite American short stories and why they like them. It will send readers to the library or bookstore to read - or re-read - the stories selected.On the assumption that John Updike …
View book details for Nobles and Nobility in Medieval Europe
Concepts, Origins, Transformations
The great strength of this collection is its wide range...a valuable work for anyone interested in the social aspects of the medieval nobility. CHOICE Articles on the origins and nature of "nobility", its relationship with the late Roman world, its …
View book details for Writing Europe, 500-1450
Texts and Contexts
Essays on the writing and textual culture of Europe in the middle ages.Medieval Europe was characterized by a sophisticated market for the production, exchange and sale of written texts. This volume brings together papers on a range of topics, centred …
Examines how the lives of pastoralists in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia are deeply affected by the creation of mutually exclusive ethnic territories and proposes ways to reverse this trend.Focuses on pastoralism, politics, policies and development in northern Kenya and …
View book details for Studies on Spanish Poetry in Honour of Trevor J. Dadson
Entre los Siglos de Oro y el siglo XXI
A collection of essays on Spanish poetry honouring a distinguished British Hispanist.Trevor J. Dadson is a British Hispanist of international distinction whose remarkable scholarly range has resulted in a published output that embraces cultural, literary and social history, textual editing, …
View book details for Willa Cather
The Critical Conversation
A contextualizing overview of the polarized critical reception of Willa Cather, one of the pre-eminent US authors of the twentieth-century.The ever-growing body of criticism on Willa Cather and her fiction is indicative of her enduring position as a pre-eminent figure …
Currently Displaying Results
284676-284700 of 1543557