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bibliogroup:"Oxford English monographs" from books.google.com
This book explores the development of artists' biographies in the cultural context of 18th- and early 19th-century Britain.
bibliogroup:"Oxford English monographs" from books.google.com
This volume looks at ideas of sympathy in the early 20th-century novel.
bibliogroup:"Oxford English monographs" from books.google.com
This book challenges the divide between 'elite' and 'popular' culture in the seventeenth century.
bibliogroup:"Oxford English monographs" from books.google.com
This book shows how prose writers in the Victorian period grappled with the sea as a setting, a shaper of plot and character, as a structuring motif, and as a source of metaphor.
bibliogroup:"Oxford English monographs" from books.google.com
Percy's Reliques is the seminal collection of historical and lyrical ballads that defined English literature at the end of the 18th century. This study examines his working methods.
bibliogroup:"Oxford English monographs" from books.google.com
Shakespeare's Unreformed Fictions asks why Catholicism had such an imaginative hold on Shakespearean drama, even though the on-going Reformation outlawed its practice.
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This book argues that the significance of Coetzee's complex and finely-nuanced fiction lies in the acuity with which it both explores and develops the tradition of the novel - ranging from Cervantes, Defoe, and Richardson, to Dostoevsky, ...
bibliogroup:"Oxford English monographs" from books.google.com
Scarlett Baron explores the works of two of the most admired and mythologized masters of nineteenth- and twentieth-century prose: Gustave Flaubert (1822-1880) and James Joyce (1882-1941).
bibliogroup:"Oxford English monographs" from books.google.com
This book demonstrates the capacities of poetry for rethinking its own relation to history and politics, providing a new perspective on a vital era of American poetry.
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Building on substantial new archival research, Benjamin Kohlmann explores the deep tensions between modernist experimentation and political vision that lie at the heart of these works.