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  • Inspiring Views from «a' the airts» on Scottish Literatures, Art and Cinema

    The First World Congress of Scottish Literatures in Glasgow 2014

    Edited by Klaus Peter Müller, Ilka Schwittlinsky, Ron Walker ...
    Series Book 41 - Scottish Studies International
    Where do Scottish literatures, art, and cinema stand today? What and how do Scottish Studies investigate? Creative writers and scholars give answers to these questions and address vital concerns in Scottish, British, and European history from the Union debate and the Enlightenment to Brexit, ethnic questions, and Scottish film. They present new insights on James Macpherson, Robert Burns, John Galt ... Read more

    $96.99 USD

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  • English Literature in Context

    Edited by Paul Poplawski ...
    This is the second edition of English Literature in Context, a popular textbook which provides an essential resource and reference tool for all English literature students. Designed to accompany students throughout their degree course, it offers a detailed narrative survey of the diverse historical and cultural contexts that have shaped the development of English literature, from the Anglo-Saxon ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Travel Writing

    by Tim Youngs ...
    Critics have long struggled to find a suitable category for travelogues. From its ancient origins to the present day, the travel narrative has borrowed elements from various genres - from epic poetry to literary reportage - in order to evoke distant cultures and exotic locales, and sometimes those closer to hand. Tim Youngs argues in this lucid and detailed Introduction that travel writing ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Robert Burns in Global Culture

    by Murray Pittock, Leith Davis, Dominique Delmaire, R D. S. Jack, Nigel Leask, Pauline Anne Mackay, Clark McGinn, Silvia Mergenthal, Andrew Monnickendam, Alan Rawes, Frauke Reitemeier, Christopher A. Whatley, Robert Crawford ...
    Robert Burns has been a key figure in Scottish identity globally since his death in 1796. But he has always been much more than that. In America, his admirers have included Emerson, President Lincoln, Maya Angelou and many others, for Burns was long held to be a friend to the American way of life, an opponent of kings and tyranny, and someone who proved that the values that built the United States ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture

    Edited by Francis O'Gorman ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    The Victorian era produced artistic achievements, technological inventions and social developments that continue to shape how we live today. This Companion offers authoritative coverage of that period's culture and its contexts in a group of specially commissioned essays reflecting the current state of research in each particular field. Covering topics from music to politics, art to technology, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to W. H. Auden

    Edited by Stan Smith ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This volume brings together specially commissioned essays by some of the world's leading experts on the life and work of W. H. Auden, one of the major English-speaking poets of the twentieth century. The volume's contributors include a prize-winning poet, Auden's literary executor and editor, and his most recent, widely acclaimed biographer. It offers fresh perspectives on his work from Auden ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney

    Edited by Bernard O'Donoghue ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Seamus Heaney is a unique phenomenon in contemporary literature, as a poet whose individual volumes (such as his Beowulf translation, and individual volumes of poems such as Electric Light and District and Circle) have been high in the bestseller lists for decades. Since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, he has come to be considered one of the most important English language poets in the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry

    Edited by Fran Brearton, Alan Gillis ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Forty chapters, written by leading scholars across the world, describe the latest thinking on modern Irish poetry. The Handbook begins with a consideration of Yeats's early work, and the legacy of the 19th century. The broadly chronological areas which follow, covering the period from the 1910s through to the 21st century, allow scope for coverage of key poetic voices in Ireland in their ... Read more

    $144.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Scottish Literature

    Edited by Gerard Carruthers, Liam McIlvanney ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Scotland's rich literary tradition is a product of its unique culture and landscape, as well as of its long history of inclusion and resistance to the United Kingdom. Scottish literature includes masterpieces in three languages - English, Scots and Gaelic - and global perspectives from the diaspora of Scots all over the world. This Companion offers a unique introduction, guide and reference work ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Modern Irish and Scottish Poetry

    Edited by Peter Mackay, Edna Longley, Fran Brearton ...
    The comparative study of the literatures of Ireland and Scotland has emerged as a distinct and buoyant field in recent years. This collection of new essays offers the first sustained comparison of modern Irish and Scottish poetry, featuring close readings of texts within broad historical and political contextualisation. Playing on influences, crossovers, connections, disconnections and differences ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The New Elizabethan Age

    Culture, Society and National Identity after World War II

    Edited by Irene Morra, Rob Gossedge ...
    In the first half of the twentieth century, many writers and artists turnedto the art and received example of the Elizabethans as a means ofarticulating an emphatic (and anti-Victorian) modernity. By the middleof that century, this cultural neo-Elizabethanism had become absorbedwithin a broader mainstream discourse of national identity, heritage andcultural performance. Taking strength from the ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel

    by John Wilson Foster ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Irish novel has had a distinguished history. It spans such diverse authors as James Joyce, George Moore, Maria Edgeworth, Bram Stoker, Flann O'Brien, Samuel Beckett, Lady Morgan, John Banville, and others. Yet it has until now received less critical attention than Irish poetry and drama. This volume covers three hundred years of Irish achievement in fiction, with essays on key genres, themes, ... Read more

    $36.99 USD