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Télécharger le livre :  Samuel Beckett's 'Philosophy Notes'
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Samuel Beckett's 'Philosophy Notes'


Matthew Feldman , Steven Matthews


The Irish writer and Nobel Prize winner, Samuel Beckett, assembled for himself a history of western philosophy during the 1930s, just at the point at which his first novel, Murphy, was coming together.The 'Philosophy Notes', together with related notes taken at that...

Parution : 2023-08-25
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Women and Property Ownership in Jane Austen
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Women and Property Ownership in Jane Austen


Rita Dashwood


«In this brilliant study of Jane Austen’s fiction, Rita J. Dashwood deftly illuminates the complexity of women’s relationships to nineteenth-century property, by considering not only houses and estates, but law, inheritance, management, interior spaces, and feelings....

Parution : 2022-07-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Doris Lessing - A Life Behind the Scenes
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Doris Lessing - A Life Behind the Scenes


Peter Raina


In March 1949 the security service MI5 received notice of a suspect person about to enter Britain and went to great pains to keep her under surveillance. This person was the author Doris Lessing. She would eventually go on to win the Nobel Prize for literature as an...

Parution : 2021-04-28
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
Éditeur : NBN International
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Télécharger le livre :  A.S. Byatt’s Art of Memory
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A.S. Byatt’s Art of Memory


Mara Cambiaghi


This book provides a comprehensive reading of some of A.S. Byatt’s major novels. Focusing on memory, Renaissance forms of theatrical reinvention in post-war culture, ekphrasis, visuality, the cognitive processes of the mind, gender and science, the book retraces a...

Parution : 2020-08-07
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Télécharger le livre :  Scents and Sensibility
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Scents and Sensibility


Catherine Maxwell


This lively, accessible book is the first to explore Victorian literature through scent and perfume, presenting an extensive range of well-known and unfamiliar texts in intriguing and imaginative new ways that make us re-think literature's relation with the senses....

Parution : 2017-10-20
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Scents and Sensibility
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Scents and Sensibility


Catherine Maxwell


This lively, accessible book is the first to explore Victorian literature through scent and perfume, presenting an extensive range of well-known and unfamiliar texts in intriguing and imaginative new ways that make us re-think literature's relation with the senses....

Parution : 2017-10-11
Format(s) : PDF
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Lying in Early Modern English Culture
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Lying in Early Modern English Culture


Andrew Hadfield


Lying in Early Modern English Culture is a major study of ideas of truth and falsehood in early modern England from the advent of the Reformation to the aftermath of the failed Gunpowder Plot. The period is characterised by panic and chaos when few had any idea how...

Parution : 2017-09-07
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Lying in Early Modern English Culture
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Lying in Early Modern English Culture


Andrew Hadfield


Lying in Early Modern English Culture is a major study of ideas of truth and falsehood in early modern England from the advent of the Reformation to the aftermath of the failed Gunpowder Plot. The period is characterised by panic and chaos when few had any idea how...

Parution : 2017-09-01
Format(s) : PDF
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern English Literature and Religion
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The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern English Literature and Religion


Andrew Hiscock , Helen Wilcox


This pioneering Handbook offers a comprehensive consideration of the dynamic relationship between English literature and religion in the early modern period. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were the most turbulent times in the history of the British church and,...

Parution : 2017-07-03
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700
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The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700


Lorna Hutson


This Handbook triangulates the disciplines of history, legal history, and literature to produce a new, interdisciplinary framework for the study of early modern England. Scholars of early modern English literature and history have increasingly found that an...

Parution : 2017-06-29
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern English Literature and Religion
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The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern English Literature and Religion


Andrew Hiscock , Helen Wilcox


This pioneering Handbook offers a comprehensive consideration of the dynamic relationship between English literature and religion in the early modern period. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were the most turbulent times in the history of the British church and,...

Parution : 2017-06-22
Format(s) : PDF
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700
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The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700


Lorna Hutson


This Handbook triangulates the disciplines of history, legal history, and literature to produce a new, interdisciplinary framework for the study of early modern England. Scholars of early modern English literature and history have increasingly found that an...

Parution : 2017-06-15
Format(s) : PDF
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Liffey and Lethe
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Liffey and Lethe


Patrick R. O'malley


Focusing on literary and cultural texts from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth, Patrick R. O'Malley argues that in order to understand both the literature and the varieties of nationalist politics in nineteenth-century Ireland, we must understand the...

Parution : 2017-03-01
Format(s) : PDF
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Liffey and Lethe
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Liffey and Lethe


Patrick R. O'malley


Focusing on literary and cultural texts from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth, Patrick R. O'Malley argues that in order to understand both the literature and the varieties of nationalist politics in nineteenth-century Ireland, we must understand the...

Parution : 2017-03-01
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Allegory and Enchantment
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Allegory and Enchantment


Jason Crawford


What is modernity? Where are modernitys points of origin? Where are its boundaries? And what lies beyond those boundaries? Allegory and Enchantment explores these broad questions by considering the work of English writers at the threshold of modernity, and by...

Parution : 2017-01-19
Format(s) : PDF
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Allegory and Enchantment
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Allegory and Enchantment


Jason Crawford


What is modernity? Where are modernitys points of origin? Where are its boundaries? And what lies beyond those boundaries? Allegory and Enchantment explores these broad questions by considering the work of English writers at the threshold of modernity, and by...

Parution : 2017-01-19
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Louis MacNeice and the Irish Poetry of his Time
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Louis MacNeice and the Irish Poetry of his Time


Tom Walker


This study focuses on Louis MacNeice's creative and critical engagement with other Irish poets during his lifetime. It draws on extensive archival research to uncover the previously unrecognised extent of the poet's contact with Irish literary mores and networks. Poetic...

Parution : 2015-09-17
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  "Something Dreadful and Grand"
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"Something Dreadful and Grand"


Stephen Watt


Elaborate analogies between Irish and Jewish history, between Irish and Jewish subjectivities, occur with surprising frequency throughout American literature. They recall James Joyce's Leopold Bloom and episodes of Ulysses, Douglas Hyde's analogies during the Celtic...

Parution : 2015-07-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Writing the Frontier
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Writing the Frontier


John Mccourt


Writing the Frontier: Anthony Trollope between Britain and Ireland is the first book-length study of the great Victorian novelist's relationship with Ireland, the country which became his second home and was the location of his first personal and professional success....

Parution : 2015-03-19
Format(s) : PDF
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  By Accident or Design
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By Accident or Design


Paul Fyfe


'On the banks of the Thames it is a tremendous chapter of accidents'. As Henry James surveys London in 1888, he sums up what had fascinated urban observers for a century: the random and even accidental development of this unprecedented form of human settlement, the...

Parution : 2015-03-19
Format(s) : PDF
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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