Illustrated history of english literature
Author: A.C. Ward
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 300
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Author: A.C. Ward
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 300
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Pat Rogers
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 580
ISBN-13: 9780192854377
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraces the history of English literature from Anglo-Saxon poetry to the present day.
Author: Alfred Charles Ward
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas Seccombe
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Published: 1906
Total Pages: 332
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: A. C. Ward
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Published: 1960
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ronald Carter
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 598
ISBN-13: 9780415243179
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, charting some of the main features of literary language development and highlighting key language topics.
Author: Alfred Charles Ward
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 244
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Chris Fletcher
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Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780712358736
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe British Library is home to an unparalleled collection of original manuscripts of great English literature, from the tenth-century manuscript of Beowulf to the work of such twentieth-century authors as T. S. Eliot, Ted Hughes, and Angela Carter. With 1000 Years of English Literature, Chris Fletcher shares some of the gems from the collection. Originally published in 2003, this updated and expanded paperback edition chronicles the life and work of more than one hundred of the best-loved British writers, with greater attention paid to the writers of the twentieth century. Each spread begins with an engaging sketch of the life and significance of the author, then offers a reproduced portion of manuscript on the facing page. Among the writers included are Shakespeare, Dickens, Wordsworth, and Larkin, and the volume also presents such masterpieces as Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, and Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. Whether written on parchment, vellum, or paper, and whether poems, short stories, novels, or diaries, these documents offer fascinating insights into the world of the writer at work and at times reveal major amendments and corrections carried out during the course of writing. An inspiring vision of literary achievement, 1000 Years of English Literature will not only teach and delight but also enrich the pleasure of reading and rereading the best literature Britain has to offer.
Author: Holly A. Crocker
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2019-09-27
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 0812251415
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf material bodies have inherent, animating powers—or virtues, in the premodern sense—then those bodies typically and most insistently associated in the premodern period with matter—namely, women—cannot be inert and therefore incapable of ethical action, Holly Crocker contends. In The Matter of Virtue, Crocker argues that one idea of what it means to be human—a conception of humanity that includes vulnerability, endurance, and openness to others—emerges when we consider virtue in relation to modes of ethical action available to premodern women. While a misogynistic tradition of virtue ethics, from antiquity to the early modern period, largely cast a skeptical or dismissive eye on women, Crocker seeks to explore what happened when poets thought about the material body not as a tool of an empowered agent whose cultural supremacy was guaranteed by prevailing social structures but rather as something fragile and open, subject but also connected to others. After an introduction that analyzes Hamlet to establish a premodern tradition of material virtue, Part I investigates how retellings of the demise of the title female character in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Henryson's Testament of Cresseid, and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida among other texts structure a poetic debate over the potential for women's ethical action in a world dominated by masculine violence. Part II turns to narratives of female sanctity and feminine perfection, including ones by Chaucer, Bokenham, and Capgrave, to investigate grace, beauty, and intelligence as sources of women's ethical action. In Part III, Crocker examines a tension between women's virtues and household structures, paying particular attention to English Griselda- and shrew-literatures, including Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. She concludes by looking at Chaucer's Legend of Good Women to consider alternative forms of virtuous behavior for women as well as men.
Author: Arthur Garfield Kennedy
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 484
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