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  • Making Darkness Light

    A Life of John Milton

    by Joe Moshenska ...
    An innovative and elegant new biography of John Milton from an acclaimed Oxford professorJohn Milton was once essential reading for visionaries and revolutionaries, from William Blake to Ben Franklin. Now, however, he has become a literary institution—intimidating rather than inspiring.In Making Darkness Light, Oxford professor Joe Moshenska rediscovers a poet whose rich contradictions confound ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Iconoclasm As Child's Play

    by Joe Moshenska ...
    When sacred objects were rejected during the Reformation, they were not always burned and broken but were sometimes given to children as toys. Play is typically seen as free and open, while iconoclasm, even to those who deem it necessary, is violent and disenchanting. What does it say about wider attitudes toward religious violence and children at play that these two seemingly different activities ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

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    Making Darkness Light

    A Life of John Milton

    by Joe Moshenska ...
    Narrated by Joe Eyre ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 20 min

    An innovative and elegant new biography of John Milton from an acclaimed Oxford professorJohn Milton was once essential reading for visionaries and revolutionaries, from William Blake to Ben Franklin. Now, however, he has become a literary institution—intimidating rather than inspiring.In Making Darkness Light, Oxford professor Joe Moshenska rediscovers a poet whose rich contradictions confound ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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    How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature

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    An “extraordinarily brilliant” and “pleasurably naughty” (André Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy…and who the Bard might really be.The theory that Shakespeare may not have written the works that bear his name is the most horrible, unspeakable subject in the history of English ... Read more

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  • Romanticism

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    by Michael Ferber ...
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    What is Romanticism? In this Very Short Introduction Michael Ferber answers this by considering who the romantics were and looks at what they had in common -- their ideas, beliefs, commitments, and tastes. He looks at the birth and growth of Romanticism throughout Europe and the Americas, and examines various types of Romantic literature, music, painting, religion, and philosophy. Focusing on ... Read more

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  • A History of English Literature

    Traversing the Centuries

    by Aditi Chowdhury, Rita Goswami ...
    A History of English Literature: Traversing the Centuries provides a comprehensive outline of the course of English literature from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day. In its fourteen chapters, the book covers all major literary periods with inclusive analyses of the political, social and intellectual developments which inevitably contribute to and influence literature in both overt and ... Read more

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  • Renaissance Self-Fashioning

    From More to Shakespeare

    by Stephen Greenblatt ...
    "Greenblatt's classic placed the world of Renaissance scholarship in a deep and vigorous dialogue with literary modernity . . . a remarkable work." —Homi BhabhaPulitzer Prize–Winning AuthorRenaissance Self-Fashioning is a study of sixteenth-century life and literature that spawned a new era of scholarly inquiry. Stephen Greenblatt examines the structure of selfhood as evidenced in major literary ... Read more

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  • William Shakespeare

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Prof Stanley Wells ...
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    In this new offering from Stanley Wells, the pre-eminent Shakespearian scholar, comes a Very Short Introduction to the life and writings of the world's greatest and best-known dramatists: William Shakespeare. Looking at his early life and education, Wells explores Shakespeare's social and intellectual background and the literary traditions on which Shakespeare drew. Examining the theatres and ... Read more

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  • Image and Imagination

    by C. S. Lewis ...
    Image and Imagination presents some of C.S. Lewis's finest literary criticism and religious exposition. This selection gathers together forty book reviews—never before reprinted—as well as four major essays which have been unavailable for many decades, and a fifth essay, “Image and Imagination,” published for the first time. The essays and reviews substantiate Lewis's reputation as an eloquent and ... Read more

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  • The Routledge History of Literature in English

    Britain and Ireland

    by Ronald Carter, John McRae ...
    The Routledge History of Literature in English covers the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, with accompanying language notes which explore the interrelationships between language and literature at each stage. With a span from AD 600 to the present day, it emphasises the growth of literary writing, its traditions, conventions and changing characteristics, and ... Read more

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  • Pleasing Myself

    From Beowulf to Philip Roth

    by Frank Kermode ...
    Sir Frank Kermode is acknowledged as one of the greatest critics of our time, renowned for the wit humanity and good sense of his writing. Pleasing Myself brings together the very best of his shorter pieces, on topics ranging from Donne and Yeats to modern art and money. ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare's Dark Lady

    Amelia Bassano Lanier The Woman Behind Shakepeare's Plays?

    by John Hudson ...
    Amelia Bassano was born in 1569 into a family of Venetian Jews who were court musicians to Queen Elizabeth I. At about the age of thirteen, she became mistress to the fiftysix-year-old Lord Hunsdon, Henry VIII’s reputed son by Mary Boleyn. As Lord Chamberlain, Hunsdon was in charge of the English theatre and would become the patron of the company that performed the Shakespearean plays. Amelia ... Read more

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