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  • Byron's Don Juan

    by Bernard Beatty ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Lord Byron
    First published in 1985. What sort of poem is Don Juan, and how does it maintain its momentum through its long and often struggling narrative? These are the questions that Bernard Beatty proposes in this subtle and elegant discussion of Byron’s masterwork. The legend of Don Juan was entrenched in European literature and other arts long before it came under Byron’s hands, yet Byron’s treatment of ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Romanticism, Reaction and Revolution

    British Views on Spain, 1814–1823

    Edited by Bernard Beatty, Alicia Laspra Rodríguez ...
    Series Book 30 - Cultural History and Literary Imagination
    When the Peninsular War ended in 1814, the prolonged struggle had all but exhausted both British government finances and the British public’s enthusiasm for war. The authoritarian rule of Ferdinand VII aroused long-standing British suspicions of Spanish ways, which emerged in British literary works that depicted a retrograde, fanatical Spain. The tumultuous years following Ferdinand’s reign also ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Byron

    Edited by Drummond Bone ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Byron's life and work have fascinated readers around the world for two hundred years, but it is the complex interaction between his art and his politics, beliefs and sexuality that has attracted so many modern critics and students. In three sections devoted to the historical, textual and literary contexts of Byron's life and times, these specially commissioned essays by a range of eminent Byron ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • The Poetics of Piracy

    Emulating Spain in English Literature

    by Barbara Fuchs ...
    Series series Haney Foundation Series
    With its dominance as a European power and the explosion of its prose and dramatic writing, Spain provided an irresistible literary source for English writers of the early modern period. But the deep and escalating political rivalry between the two nations led English writers to negotiate, disavow, or attempt to resolve their fascination with Spain and their debt to Spanish sources. Amid thorny ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Byron: The Poetry of Politics and the Politics of Poetry

    Edited by Roderick Beaton, Christine Kenyon Jones ...
    Series series Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London
    'It is no great matter, supposing that Italy could be liberated, who or what is sacrificed. It is a grand object - the very poetry of politics. Only think - a free Italy!!! Why, there has been nothing like it since the days of Augustus.' So wrote Lord Byron in his journal, in February 1821, only days before the outbreak of revolution in Greece, where three years later he would die in the service ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Life Lessons from Byron

    by Matthew Bevis ...
    Series Book 8 - School of Life
    'The School of Life offers radical ways to help us raid the treasure trove of human knowledge' – Independent on SundayBorn in 1788, Lord Byron was an English poet and a leading figure of the Romantic movement. A prodigious poetic gift and a scandalous private life made him famous throughout Europe, and his masterpiece, Don Juan, became the biggest-selling work of the period. He remains one of the ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • Primitive Rebels

    by Eric Hobsbawm ...
    Social agitation is as essential a part of public life today as it has ever been. In Eric Hobsbawm's masterful study, Primitive Rebels, he shines a light on the origins of contemporary rebellion: Robin Hood, secret societies, revolutionary peasants, Mafiosi, Spanish Civil War anarchy, pre-industrial mobs and riots - all of which have fed in to our notions of dissent in the modern world.Coining now ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764–1820

    The Import of Terror

    by Angela Wright ...
    Series Book 99 - Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
    In describing his proto-Gothic fiction, The Castle of Otranto (1764), as a translation, Horace Walpole was deliberately playing on national anxieties concerning the importation of war, fashion and literature from France in the aftermath of the Seven Years' War. In the last decade of the eighteenth century, as Britain went to war again with France, this time in the wake of revolution, the ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • The Smart Student's Guide to the GRE Literature in English Test

    by Martin Asiner ...
    Most English majors who take the GRE Literature in English test do not do particularly well, usually near the 50th percentile. To increase their acceptance into a graduate program (MA or PhD), test takers need at least to be over the 80th percentile. This is hard to do since ETS deliberately designs the test to befuddle most test takers. Quite frankly, these test takers simply do not know enough ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • History in the Making

    by J. H. Elliott ...

    $28.59 CAD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to British Romantic Poetry

    by Michael Ferber ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    The best way to learn about Romantic poetry is to plunge in and read a few Romantic poems. This book guides the new reader through this experience, focusing on canonical authors - Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, Blake and Shelley - whilst also including less familiar figures as well. Each chapter explains the history and development of a genre or sets out an important context for the poetry, ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory

    by J. A. Cuddon, M. A. R. Habib, Matthew Birchwood, Martin Dines, Shanyn Fiske, Vedrana Velickovic ...
    With new entries and sensitive edits, this fifth edition places J.A. Cuddon’s indispensable dictionary firmly in the 21st Century.Written in a clear and highly readable styleComprehensive historical coverage extending from ancient times to the present dayBroad intellectual and cultural rangeExpands on the previous edition to incorporate the most recent literary terminologyNew material is ... Read more

    $226.99 CAD