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The Postcolonial Enlightenment: Eighteenth-century Colonialism and...

Over the last thirty years, postcolonial critiques of European imperial practices have transformed our understanding of colonial ideology, resistance, and cultural contact. The Enlightenment has played...

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The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney (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...

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The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Chaucer (Palgrave Literary Dictionaries)

This study, now available in paperback, provides readers with a convenient source of reliable and accessible information on Chaucer’s work, life and times. Topics include Chaucer’s works, major...

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A Companion to the Global Renaissance: English Literature and Culture in the...

Featuring twenty one newly-commissioned essays, A Companion to the Global Renaissance: English Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion demonstrates how today’s globalization is the result of a...

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‘The Jew’ in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and...

The turbulent period from the Boer War to the introduction of the Aliens Act was marked by contradictory imaginings of “the Jew”–pauper/capitalist, separatist/impostor, ideal colonizer/undesirable...

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Milton and Ecology

Ken Hiltner explores the ideological basis of our current environmental crisis by engaging literary, theoretical, and historic approaches. Focusing on Milton’s rejection of dualistic theology,...

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Religious Experience and the Modernist Novel

The modernist period witnessed attempts to explain religious experience in non-religious terms. Such novelists as Henry James, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Franz Kafka found methods...

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Milton’s Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination

Milton’s Paradise Lost, the most eloquent, most intellectually daring, most learned, and most sublime poem in the English language, is a poem about angels. It is told by and of angels; it relies upon...

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A Companion to Medieval Poetry (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)

A Companion to Medieval Poetry presents a series of original essays from leading literary scholars that explore English poetry from the Anglo-Saxon period up to the 15thcentury. Organised into three...

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John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: The Poems and Lucina’s Rape

Building on the strength of Keith Walker’s acclaimed The Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1984), leading scholar Nicholas Fisher presents a thoroughly revised and updated edition of the work of...

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