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  • Mirror of the World

    Literature, Maps, and Geographic Writing in Late Medieval and Early Modern England

    par Meg Roland ...
    In the late fifteenth century, the production of print editions of Claudius Ptolemy’s second-century Geography sparked one of the most significant intellectual developments of the era—the production of mathematically-based, north-oriented maps. The production of world maps in England, however, was notably absent during this "Ptolemaic revival." As a result, the impact of Ptolemy’s text on English ... En savoir plus

    $83.99 CAD

  • A New Companion to Malory

    par Megan G. Leitch, Lisa G. Robeson, Masako Takagi, Meg Roland, Ralph Norris, Raluca Radulescu, Robert Gossedge, Sian Echard, Thomas Howard Crofts, Cory Rushton1, Amy S. Kaufman2, Andrew Lynch3, Catherine Nall4, Daniel Glynn Helbert5, Dorsey Armstrong6, Kevin S Whetter7 ...
    Malory's Morte Darthur is now a canonical and widely-taught text. Recent decades have seen a transformation and expansion of critical approaches in scholarship, as well as significant advances in understanding its milieux:textual, literary, cultural and historical. This volume adds to and updates the influential Companion of 1996, offering scholars, teachers and students alike a full guide to the ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

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  • Geoffrey Chaucer (Authors in Context)

    par Peter Brown ...
    Collections series Oxford World's Classics
    Chaucer lived through a period of extraordinary upheaval: a protracted war with France, devastating plague, the peasants' revolt, religious controversy, and the overthrow of the king. Compact and comprehensive, this book offers a wide-ranging account of the medieval society from which works such as The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde sprang, and shows how these and other works manifest ... En savoir plus

    $7.59 CAD

  • Medieval Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Elaine Treharne ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    This Very Short Introduction provides a compelling account of the emergence of the earliest literature in Britain and Ireland, including English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish, Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Norman. Introducing the reader to some of the greatest poetry, prose and drama ever written, Elaine Treharne discusses the historical and intellectual background to these works, and considers the physical ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature 1100–1500

    Modifié par Larry Scanlon ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The medieval period was one of extraordinary literary achievement sustained over centuries of great change, anchored by the Norman invasion and its aftermath, the re-emergence of English as the nation's leading literary language in the fourteenth century and the advent of print in the fifteenth. This Companion spans four full centuries to survey this most formative and turbulent era in the history ... En savoir plus

    $39.19 CAD

  • Medieval Shakespeare

    Pasts and Presents

    Modifié par Ruth Morse, Helen Cooper, Peter Holland ...
    For many, Shakespeare represents the advent of modernity. It is easy to forget that he was in fact a writer deeply embedded in the Middle Ages, who inherited many of his shaping ideas and assumptions from the medieval past. This collection brings together essays by internationally renowned scholars of medieval and early modern literature, the history of the book and theatre history to present new ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500–1600

    Modifié par Arthur F. Kinney ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This is the first comprehensive account of English Renaissance literature in the context of the culture which shaped it: the courts of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, the tumult of Catholic and Protestant alliances during the Reformation, the age of printing and of New World discovery. In this century courtly literature under Henry VIII moves toward a new, more personal poetry of sentiment, narrative ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • A Concise Companion to Middle English Literature

    Modifié par Marilyn Corrie ...
    Collections series Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
    This concise companion examines contexts that are essential to understanding and interpreting writing in English produced in the period between approximately 1100 and 1500. The essays in the book explore ways in which Middle English literature is 'different' from the literature of other periods. The book includes discussion of such issues as the religious and historical background to Middle ... En savoir plus

    $52.99 CAD

  • Writing and Fantasy

    par Ceri Sullivan ...
    Collections series Crosscurrents
    Writing and Fantasy brings together essays which restore a sense of the fantastic as a political response to cultural opportunities and pressures. It moves on from two conventional fields of discussion: the psychoanalytic, where phantasies are produced by the emergence of the consciousness, and the social, where fantasies are the production of nineteenth-century individualism. Chapters run from ... En savoir plus

    $107.17 CAD

  • Killing Hercules

    Deianira and the Politics of Domestic Violence, from Sophocles to the War on Terror

    par Richard Rowland ...
    This book offers an entirely new reception history of the myth of Hercules and his wife/killer Deianira. The book poses, and attempts to answer, two important and related questions. First, why have artists across two millennia felt compelled to revisit this particular myth to express anxieties about violence at both a global and domestic level? Secondly, from the moment that Sophocles disrupted a ... En savoir plus

    $89.31 CAD

  • Women Pilgrims in Late Medieval England

    par Susan S. Morrison ...
    Collections series Routledge Research in Medieval Studies
    This thought-provoking book explores medieval perceptions of pilgrimage, gender and space. It examines real life evidence for the widespread presence of women pilgrims, as well as secular and literary texts concerning pilgrimage and women pilgrims represented in the visual arts. Women pilgrims were inextricably linked with sexuality and their presence on the pilgrimage trails was viewed as ... En savoir plus

    $94.99 CAD

  • The Wife of Bath

    A Biography

    par Marion Turner ...
    From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous character, from the Middle Ages to #MeTooEver since her triumphant debut in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognisably real woman in English literature, has obsessed readers—from Shakespeare to James Joyce, Voltaire to Pasolini, Dryden to Zadie Smith. Few ... En savoir plus

    $35.19 CAD

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