The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge
by Adam Sisman


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The story of the legendary friendship between Wordsworth and Coleridge The friendship between William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge produced dazzling results. From it came Lyrical Ballads, the volume that kick-started the Romantic Movement in... (read more)

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The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740-1830 (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
by Thomas Keymer


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The Teacher's Grammar of English is a comprehensive resource text designed to help ESL/EFL teachers and teachers-in-training develop an understanding of English grammar.... (read more)

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There You Are: Writings on Irish and American Literature and History (New York Review Books Classics)
by Thomas Flanagan


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Thomas Flanagan became famous as the author of a trilogy of novels, starting with The Year of the French, about Ireland from the rebellion of 1798 to the civil war of the 1920s. But the novelist who began by reimagining the mental and physical world of... (read more)

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The Chronology of American Literature: America's Literary Achievements from the Colonial Era to Modern Times
by Daniel S Burt


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'If you are looking to brush up on your literary knowledge, check a favorite author's work, or see a year's bestsellers at a glance, The Chronology of American Literature is the perfect resource. At once an authoritative reference and an ideal... (read more)

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Scholars and Rebels
by Terry Eagleton


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Terry Eagleton provides a novel account of Ireland's neglected national intellectuals, an extraordinary group, including such figures as Oscar Wilde's father William Wilde, Charles Lever, Samuel Ferguson, Isaac Butt, Sheridan Le Fanu. They formed a kind... (read more)

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Dialect of Modernism: Race, Language, & Twentieth-Century Literature
by Michael North


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The Dialect of Modernism uncovers the crucial role of racial masquerade and linguistic imitation in the emergence of literary modernism. Rebelling against the standard language, and literature written in it, modernists, such as Joseph Conrad, Gertrude... (read more)

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Memory and Myth: The Civil War in Fact and Fiction from Uncle Tom's Cabin to Cold Mountain
by David Sachsman


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Memory and Myth is an interdisciplinary study of the Civil War and its enduring impact on American writers and filmmakers. Its twenty-five chapters are all concerned, in one way or another, with creative responses to the Civil War, and the ways in which... (read more)

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Victorian Afterlives: The Shaping of Influence in Nineteenth-Century Literature
by R Douglas Fairhurst


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Questions of survival were much discussed during the nineteenth century, ranging from debates over the likelihood of a personal immortality, to anxieties over the more dispersed and unpredictable aftermath of particular acts and utterances. Victorian... (read more)

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Catholic Emancipations: Irish Fiction from Thomas Moore to James Joyce (Irish Studies)
by Emer Nolan


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James Joyce's iconoclastic epic Ulysses (1922) is by no means an unexpected end to a history of the Irish Catholic novel, admits Nolan (English, National U. of Ireland-Maynooth), but she takes a relatively unfamiliar route from the origin of the genre... (read more)

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The Death-ego and the Vital Self
by Gavriel Reisner


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This volume presents original views of the relationship between desire and romance. It begins by looking anew at the nature of desire, citing its central theoretical text as Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle. It traces the struggle between myth and... (read more)

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American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman
by Francis Matthiessen


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This text has taken its place as the definitive treatment of the most distinguished age of American literature. Centering the discussion around five literary giants of the mid-nineteenth century-Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman... (read more)

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The Essentials of Literature in English, Post-1914
by Ian Mackean


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This book covers the leading works and authors in modern literature in English and in doing so gives the reader an engaging and knowledgeable insight into the books, their writers and the connections between them. From Graham Greene to Margaret Atwood... (read more)

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Romanticism: An Oxford Guide
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This uniquely comprehensive and wide-ranging guide to Romantic literature presents forty-six newly commissioned chapters from an international team of contributors, both long-established scholars and cutting-edge academics. It combines an introduction to... (read more)

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Encyclopedia of American Literature 4 Volumes
by Elizabeth Leverton


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A thoroughly expanded and revised edition of the award-winning set, Encyclopedia of American Literature, Revised Edition is an extensive reference work that spans the entire scope of American literature, from the colonial period to the present. Now in... (read more)

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Poets and Pals of Picardy: A Weekend on the Somme (Cameos of the Western Front)
by Mary Ellen Freeman


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As with previous books in the Cameos of the Western Front series, Poets and Pals of Picardy concentrates on the human dimension of the great battles of World War I, in this case in the Somme sector. Because of the great diversity of the British forces... (read more)

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Minders of Make-Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children's Literature
by Leonard Marcus


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An animated first-time history of the visionaries--editors, authors, librarians, booksellers, and others--whose passion for books has transformed American childhood and American culture What should children read? As the preeminent children's literature... (read more)

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Edmund Wilson, the Man in Letters
by Edmund Wilson


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Aficionados of the American literary critic Wilson may find many of these letters disenchantingly trivial, dealing with baby's new tooth, or begging funds for his son. There are many letters that make some reference to Wilson's work, however... (read more)

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The Proper Word: Collected Criticism: Ireland, Poetry, Politics
by Gerald Dawe


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This collection of essays and reviews by one of Ireland's leading poets and critics moves from assessments of the work of individual poets work to explorations of broader themes and topics in Irish cultural history.... (read more)

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