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Cambridge Companions to Literature The Cambridge Companion to Plutarch (Paperback)

Plutarch is one of the most prolific and important writers from antiquity. His Parallel Lives continue to be an invaluable historical source and the numerous essays in his Moralia covering everything from marriage to the Delphic Oracle are crucial... more

The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot 9780521664738 Used / Pre-owned

This volume of specially-commissioned essays provides accessible introductions to all aspects of George Eliot s writing. With its supplementary material including a chronology and a guide to further reading this Companion is an invaluable tool for... more

The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde 9780521479875 Used / Pre-owned

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Cambridge Companions to American Studies The Cambridge Companion to Abraham Lincoln (Hardcover)

Abraham Lincoln s stature as an American cultural figure grows from his political legacy. In today s milieu the speeches he delivered as the sixteenth president of the United States have become synonymous with American progress values and... more

Cambridge Companions to Literature The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft (Hardcover)

Once viewed solely in relation to the history of feminism Mary Wollstonecraft is now recognized as a writer of formidable talent across a range of genres including journalism letters and travel writing and is increasingly understood as an heir to... more

The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe 9780521797276 Used / Pre-owned

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The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen 9780521498678 Used / Pre-owned

Leading scholars present a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to Jane Austen s works in the contexts of her contemporary world and of present-day critical discourse. Beside discussions of Austen s novels and letters there are essays on religion... more

Pre-Owned The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare s History Plays 9780521772778 Used

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Cambridge Companions to Literature: The Cambridge Companion to The Essay (Paperback)

The Cambridge Companion to the Essay considers the history theory and aesthetics of the essay from the moment it s named in the late sixteenth century to the present. What is an essay? What can the essay do or think or reveal or know that other... more

Pre-Owned The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson 9780521499460

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The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson

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Pre-Owned The Cambridge Companion to Brecht 9780521424851

This Companion offers students crucial guidance on the whole of Brecht s theatrical career bringing together the contrasting views of major critics and active practitioners to offer a provocative overview complete with illustrations and reference... more

Companion to the British & American homoepathic pharmacopoeias arranged in the form of a dictionary by Lawrence T. Ashwell (1890) [Leatherbound]

Leatherbound edition. Language: English Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1890 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations... more

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare 9780521658812 Used / Pre-owned

This book offers students and teachers a comprehensive readable and authoritative introduction to the study of Shakespeare by means of nineteen newly commissioned essays. An international team of prominent scholars provide a broadly cultural... more

Cambridge Companions to Literature The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Paris (Paperback)

No city more than Paris has had such a constant and deep association with the development of literary forms and cultural ideas. The idea of the city as a space of literary self-consciousness started to take hold in the sixteenth century. By 1620... more

Pre-Owned The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne 9780521002042

This 2004 Companion provides perspectives on Hawthorne s classic works and on topics such as Hawthorne s relationship to history to women politics and early America. The book brings together a team of leading international scholars to offer a... more

Cambridge Companions to Theatre and Perf The Cambridge Companion to International Theatre Festivals (Hardcover)

The global rise of festival culture and experience has taken over that which used to merely be events. The Cambridge Companion to International Theatre Festivals provides an up-to-date contextualized account of the worldwide reach and impact of the... more

Cambridge Companions to Literature: The New Cambridge Companion to Coleridge (Hardcover)

This new collection enables students and general readers to appreciate Coleridge s renewed relevance 250 years after his birth. An indispensable guide to his writing for twenty-first-century readers it contains new perspectives that reframe his work... more

Cambridge Studies in World Literature: South Asian Writers Latin American Literature and the Rise of Global English (Hardcover)

Ever since T.B. Macaulay leveled the accusation in 1835 that a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India South Asian literature has served as the imagined battleground between local linguistic... more

IIPPE: Money and Society : A Critical Companion (Hardcover)

An introduction to the sociology of money foregrounding how money embodies social relations more

Pre-Owned The Cambridge Companion to Milton 9780521655439

An accessible helpful guide for any student of Milton whether undergraduate or graduate introducing readers to the scope of Milton s work the richness of its historical relations and the range of current approaches to it. This second edition... more

Pre-Owned The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists 9780521691574

The ideal introduction to the English novel for students and teachers this book assesses the importance of the finest novelists in the English language (excluding living writers). Each writer is introduced in his or her literary context and the... more

Pre-Owned The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction (Paperback) 0521008719 9780521008716

In addition to covering the detective fiction of writers like Arthur Conan Doyle Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler this collection of British and American crime fiction considers other kinds of fiction where crime plays a substantial part such as... more

Pre-Owned The Cambridge Companion to English Literature 1500-1600 9780521587587

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Cambridge Classical Studies Euripidean Polemic: The Trojan Women and the Function of Tragedy (Hardcover)

The book offers an interpretation of Euripides The Trojan Women that issues from the argument that the function of Greek tragedy was to educate. The author demonstrates that the play performs its function by examining Athenian ideology. By making... more

Cambridge Companions to Literature The Cambridge Companion to Writing of the English Revolution (Hardcover)

This collection of fifteen essays by leading scholars examines the extraordinary diversity and richness of the writing produced in response to and as part of the upheaval in the religious political and cultural life of the nation that constituted... more

Cambridge Companion To...: The Cambridge Companion to Horseracing (Hardcover)

People have been racing horses for thousands of years all over the world. Yet horseracing is often presented as an English creation that was exported unaltered to the colonies. This Companion investigates the intersection of racing and literature... more

Cambridge Companions to Literature The Cambridge Companion to Byron (Hardcover)

Specially commissioned essays by leading scholars discuss Byron s work in several fascinating contexts: literary history Byron s life and travels publishing politics and his reception across Europe. Unique in its combination of breadth of coverage... more

Cambridge Companions to Literature: The Cambridge Companion to American Horror (Hardcover)

Opening up the warm body of American Horror - through literature film TV music video games and a host of other mediums - this book gathers the leading scholars in the field to dissect the gruesome histories and shocking forms of American life.... more

Pre-Owned The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture (Paperback) 0521574293 9780521574297

This book offers a comprehensive account of modern Spanish culture from its beginnings in the Revolution of 1868 to the present day. Specially-commissioned essays by leading experts analyze the historical and political background of modern Spain the... more

Cambridge Companions to Literature: The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature and Politics (Paperback)

For a long time people had been schooled to think of modern literature s relationship to politics as indirect or obscure and often to find the politics of literature deep within its unconsciously ideological structures and forms. But... more

Cambridge Companions to Literature: The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature and Politics (Hardcover)

For a long time people had been schooled to think of modern literature s relationship to politics as indirect or obscure and often to find the politics of literature deep within its unconsciously ideological structures and forms. But... more

Pre-Owned The Cambridge Companion to Milton 9780521655439

An accessible helpful guide for any student of Milton whether undergraduate or graduate introducing readers to the scope of Milton s work the richness of its historical relations and the range of current approaches to it. This second edition... more

Pre-Owned The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde (Paperback) 0521479878 9780521479875

The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde offers an essential introduction to one of the theater s most important and enigmatic writers. Although a general overview the volume also offers some of the latest thinking on the dramatist and his impact on... more

Pre-Owned The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy (Paperback) 0521566924 9780521566926

The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy is an essential introduction to this most important and enigmatic of writers. These commissioned essays from an international team of contributors comprise a general overview of all Hardy s work and specific... more

The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad 9780521484848 Used / Pre-owned

Leading Conrad scholars give an account of Conrad s life provide detailed readings of his major works and discuss his narrative techniques his complex relationship with the cultural developments of his time his influence on later writers and artists... more

Pre-Owned The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Bishop (Paperback) 1107672546 9781107672543

Elizabeth Bishop is increasingly recognized as one of the twentieth century s most important and original poets. Initially celebrated for the minute detail of her descriptions what John Ashbery memorably called her thinginess Bishop s reputation has... more

Pre-Owned The Cambridge Companion to Spenser (Paperback) 0521645700 9780521645706

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