Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Living death in medieval French and English literature Living death in medieval French and English literature Jane Gilbert "Medieval literature contains many figures caught at the interface between life and death - the dead return to place demands on the living, while the living foresee, organize or desire their own deat… OL16010964W
The Cambridge Introduction to modernist poetry The Cambridge Introduction to modernist poetry Howarth, Peter "Modernist poems are some of the twentieth-century's major cultural achievements, but they are also hard work to read. This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poe… OL16134650W
The Cambridge history of the English novel The Cambridge history of the English novel Robert L. Caserio,Clement Hawes "The Cambridge History of the English Novel chronicles an ever-changing and developing body of fiction across three centuries. An interwoven narrative of the novel's progress unfolds in more than fif… OL16152433W
Sensation and sublimation in Charles Dickens Sensation and sublimation in Charles Dickens Gordon, John "My book sets out to explore three crucial stages in Dickens' ongoing voyage of discovery into what has been called the "hidden springs" of his fiction. The three novels under examination are Oliver … OL16173795W
The new Milton criticism The new Milton criticism Elizabeth Sauer,Peter C. Herman "The New Milton Criticism seeks to emphasize ambivalence and discontinuity in Milton's work and interrogate the assumptions and certainties in previous Milton scholarship. Contributors to the volume … OL16451288W
Minds, bodies, machines, 1770-1930 Minds, bodies, machines, 1770-1930 Deirdre Coleman,Hilary Fraser "It is during the nineteenth-century, the age of machinery, that we begin to witness a sustained exploration of the literal and discursive entanglements of minds, bodies, machines. This book explores… OL16938366W
Authoring war Authoring war Catherine Mary McLoughlin "Kate McLoughlin's Authoring War is an ambitious and pioneering study of war writing across all literary genres from earliest times to the present day. Examining a range of cultures, she brings wide … OL19829118W
British women writers and the reception of ancient Egypt, 1840-1910 British women writers and the reception of ancient Egypt, 1840-1910 Molly Youngkin "Focusing on British women writers' knowledge of ancient Egypt, Molly Youngkin shows how British women writers' encounters with textual and visual representations of ancient Egyptian women such as Ha… OL22318244W
Suspense Suspense Joseph Conrad "Published posthumously in 1925, Suspense is set in Genoa in early 1815. This edition of Conrad's last novel, established through modern textual scholarship, presents the text in a form more authorit… OL39033W