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The four pieces that make up this work are taken from Muldoon’s Oxford Clarendon Lectures of 1998. Together, they take the form of an A-Z, or abecedary of Irish literature, in which his imagination forges...
Teaching U.S. History as Mystery, 2nd Edition offers a clear set of principles and methods teachers can use to promote and sustain problem-finding and problem-solving in history, along with case studies and...
In this collection selected by C. S. Lewis are 365 selections from MacDonald's inspiring and challenging writings.
As a case study of the relationship between arts and cultural policy and nationalism, this book examines the overlooked significance of Scotland in the development of British arts policy and institutions. Euan...
Oscar Wilde's two collections of children's literature, The Happy Prince and Other Stories (1888) and A House of Pomegranates (1891), have often been relegated to the margins in studies of his work. In this,...
Royalist polemic and a sophisticated use of classical allusion are at the heart of the two 1648 volumes which are the focus of this study, yet there are striking differences in their politics and in the ways...
In his important contribution to the growing field of sports literature, Anthony Bateman traces the relationship between literary representations of cricket and Anglo-British national identity from 1850 to the...
Examining female characters in Barbara Pym, Angela Carter, Helen Dunmore, Helen Fielding, and Rachel Cusk, Andrea Adolph focuses on how women's relationships to food are used to locate women's embodiment within...
Susan Motherway illustrates the transformative impact of globalization on Irish traditional song performance by examining the ways in which performers mediate the divide between local and global markets. The...
Trollope the reformer and the reformation of Trollope scholarship in relation to gender, race, and genre are the intertwined subjects of eminent Trollopian Deborah Denenholz Morse's radical rethinking of Anthony...
Surveying the literary and cultural landscapes of the long eighteenth century, this collection examines the many locales that shaped Britons' affiliations and identities. Essays on individual authors, a variety...
Designed to appeal to both general and specialist readers, this volume presents a group of works by O’Brien (1828-1862), an early innovator in the short story form, that explore one of his special interests–the...
Taking into consideration the political and literary issues hanging upon the circulation of Machiavelli's works in England, this volume highlights how topics and ideas stemming from Machiavelli's books-including...
Focusing on six examples of printed letters from the period, in this study Diana Barnes develops a genealogy of epistolary discourse in early modern England. She considers how the examples-from the writings...
In light of its upcoming centenary in 2016, this book explores why, how and in what ways the memory of Ireland's 1916 Rising has persisted over the decades? It breaks new ground by offering a wide-ranging exploration...
13 Christmas stories by Charles Dickens:
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Tree
What Christmas is as we Grow Older
The Poor Relation's Story
The Child's Story
The Schoolboy's Story
Nobody's Story
The Chimes
Mrs. Lirriper's...
This book is a sociological study of a societal grouping popularly titled as the 'middle class'. It illustrates the extent to which social groups utilize the various assets at their disposal and seek to maintain...
The Conquest of Happiness is Bertrand Russell's recipe for good living. First published in 1930, it pre-dates the current obsession with self-help by decades. Leading the reader step by step through the causes...
Presented as a collection of articles about apocryphal artworks, exhibitions, books, and other cultural phenomena, Sunsets and Dogshits follows the convention of a collected writings” book. Most pieces adopt...
"Hard is his heart that loveth naught in May." —Geoffrey Chaucer
"Male glow-worms, attracted by the light of the candles, come into the parlour. The distant hills look very blue." —Gilbert White
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