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  • Irish Theatre in England

    Irish Theatrical Diaspora

    Edited by Richard Cave, Ben Levitas ...
    Series Book 223 - Carysfort Press Ltd.

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  • Writer's Luck

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Bloomsbury Group

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    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Named after a small neighborhood in London where its members settled as young adults, the Bloomsbury Group produced an impressive body of work that yielded British Post-Impressionist painting, literary modernism, the field of macroeconomics, and a new direction for public taste in art. This Companion offers a comprehensive guide to the intellectual and social contexts surrounding Bloomsbury and ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture

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    Victorian Urban Folklore and Popular Cultures

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    Literary Life in Britain Since 1918

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  • Oscar Wilde in Context

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of London

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