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Public Speaking in Reshaping of Great Britain

Robert Oliver

• Hardcover | Engels
• This volume and its predecessor work, The Influence of Rhetoric in the Shaping of Great Britain, constitute the first comprehensive history of public ... Lees meer

Neoclassical Tragedy in Elizabethan England

Howard B Norland

• Hardcover | Engels
• This book examines the development of neoclassical tragedy during the reign of Elizabeth I (1558-1603). The first chapter investigates the Elizabethan... Lees meer

Prospero's 'True Preservers'

Arthur Horowitz

• Hardcover | Engels
• This work explores how three great modern, international directors have adapted and applied African story-telling techniques, textual deconstruction, ... Lees meer

Sustainability & Historic Preservation

Richard Longstreth

• Hardcover | Engels
• Sustainability and Historic Preservation: Towards a Holistic View broadens the horizons of the mushrooming drive to correlate the objectives of these ... Lees meer

Imagining Selves

Rivka Swenson

• Hardcover | Engels
• The thirteen essays in Imagining Selves survey diverse cultural artifacts that include memoirs, histories, plays, poems, courtesy manuals, children's ... Lees meer

The World of Elizabeth Inchbald

• Paperback | Engels
• This collection centers on the remarkable life and career of the writer and actor Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821), active in Great Britain in the late ... Lees meer

The Idea of the Sciences in the French Enlightenment

G Matthew Adkins

• Paperback | Engels
• This book traces the development of the idea that the sciences were morally enlightening through an intellectual history of the secrétaires perpétuels... Lees meer

Baudelaire in China

Gloria Bien

• Hardcover | Engels
• The book examines the reception of Baudelaire in China by translators, critics, scholars, and individual writers. It reveals not only the protean qual... Lees meer

Politics on the Periphery

George R Lamplugh

• Hardcover | Engels | Factions and Parties in Georgia, 1783-1806
• By considering in detail ideology, sectionalism, social tensions, personalities, and land hunger as factors in Georgia politics, this study sheds new ... Lees meer

Roman Invasions

John E Curran

• Hardcover | Engels
• This book describes how the Renaissance understanding of ancient Britain remained affected by medieval conceptions. The reason for this remaining medi... Lees meer

Action & Reaction

Paul Theerman, Dolors Altaba-Artal

• Hardcover | Engels
• This collection of essays reflects the depth of inquiry and diversity of research that have characterized the last generation of work on Sir Isaac New... Lees meer

Defiant Diplomat

• Paperback | Engels
• American diplomat George Platt Waller's memoir of his experiences in Luxembourg from 1939-1941 reveals the plight of a small neutral country invaded b... Lees meer

Formal Revolution in the Work of Baudelaire and Flaubert

Kathryn Oliver Mills

• Paperback | Engels
• Kathryn Mills argues that despite the enduring celebrity of Baudelaire and Flaubert, their significance to modern art has been misunderstood. Millspla... Lees meer

Inspiration in the Age of Enlightenment

Sarah Eron

• Hardcover | Engels
• Inspiration in the Age ofEnlightenment reconsiders theories of apostrophe and poetic authority to argue that the Augustan age created a new form of in... Lees meer

Austen's Oughts

Karen Valihora

• Hardcover | Engels
• The word is all over Austen's novels: what ought to be done, what one ought to say, how one ought to feel (versus how one does feel). When Austen's ch... Lees meer

Uneasy Possessions

Katharine A Jensen

• Hardcover | Engels
• In Uneasy Possessions: The Mother-Daughter Dilemma in French Women's Writings, 1671-1928 , Katharine Ann Jensen analyzes the work of five major women ... Lees meer

The Politics of Rape

Jennifer L Airey

• Paperback | Engels
• The Politics of Rape: Sexual Atrocity, Propaganda Wars, and the Restoration Stage is the first full-length study to examine representations of sexual ... Lees meer

Gender and Genre

Stephanie M Hilger

• Hardcover | Engels
• Gender and Genre explores the ways in which German women writers used literature, in the sense of belles lettres, to comment on the French Revolution ... Lees meer

Mandeville's Travails

Francis Tobienne

• Hardcover | Engels
• This book offers a critical methodology for analyzing travel literature. The subject of travel literature, as well as travel literatures, have not alw... Lees meer

Reading Texts, Reading Lives

• Hardcover | Engels
• Distinguished contributors take up eminent scholar Daniel R. Schwarz's reading of modern fiction and poetry as mediating between human desire and huma... Lees meer

Transformations of Memory and Forgetting in Sixteenth-Century France

Nicolas Russell

• Hardcover
• Proposes that in a number of French Renaissance texts, produced in varying contexts and genres, we observe a shift in thinking about memory and forget... Lees meer

Other Voices, Other Views

• Hardcover | Engels
• This collection presents early modern writers who were either virtually unknown, or whose works were overshadowed by those of their great contemporari... Lees meer

Fiction of the New Statesman, 1913-1939

Bashir Abu-Manneh

• Hardcover | Engels
• Fiction of the New Statesman is the first study of the short stories published in the renowned British journal the New Statesman . This book argues th... Lees meer

Structures and Subjectivities

• Hardcover | Engels
• Structures and Subjectivities refers to what we can and probably cannot know about women in the early modern period. Scholars study the societal struc... Lees meer