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The Scroll for the Purging of the Eyes: Shapta d-Pishra d-Ainia [Hardback]
M. Tarelko (Author)
£53.00ISBN: 9782503512167
Published by : Brepols
Series: CORPUS CODICUM MANDAEORUM
Volume: 1
The volume edits two copies of the Mandaean scroll, ³Shapta d-Pishra d-Ainia from the Drower collection of the Mandaean manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Lady Ethel Drower published in 1937-38 a transliteration and translation of DC21, ... .... Learn More -
Distant Prospect of Wessex: Archaeology and the Past in the Life of Thomas Hardy [Paperback]
Martin J. P. Davies (Author)
Regular Price: £15.99
Special Price: £5.95
ISBN: 9781905739417
Published by : Archaeopress Archaeology
This study examines Thomas Hardy’s engagement with the past. His life encompassed the transformation of archaeology out of antiquarianism into a fully scientific discipline, a process which profoundly imp... .... Learn More
Giving People Ideas - Text and Concept [Paperback]
Godel Weiss-Sussex (Author); Susanne Kord (Editor); Ernest Schonfield (Editor); Godela Weiss-Sussex (Editor)
£19.00ISBN: 9781907975257
Published by : Maney Publishing
A special double issue of Publications of the English Goethe
Society to celebrate the 70th birthday of Professor Martin
Swales (UCL, UK)
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Vorgestellte Öffentlichkeit [Hardback]
Nadia Al-Bagdadi (Author); Nadia AlBagdadi (Author)
£50.00ISBN: 9783895002489
Published by : Reichert Verlag
Series: Literaturen im Kontext. Arabisch - Persisch - Türkisch
Volume: 31
This study analyses the newly-emerging literary representation and reception of the public sphere in Egypt of the second half of the 19th century. Evoked and represented simultaneously in and by literature, this study for the first time analyzes t... .... Learn More
Paradise Lost and Republican Tradition from Aristotle to Machiavelli [Hardback]
William Walker (Author)
£72.00ISBN: 9782503528779
Published by : Brepols
Series: CURSOR MUNDI
Volume: 6
This major interdisciplinary study re-examines the political thought of John Milton, one of the celebrated proponents of the 'Commonwealth and Free State' that was established in England in the mid-seventeenth century. Walker shows that in his epi... .... Learn More
A History of Seventeenth-Century English Literature [Hardback]
Thomas N. Corns (Author)
£87.99ISBN: 9780631221692
Published by : Wiley-Blackwell
A History of Seventeenth-Century English Literature outlines significant developments in the English literary tradition over a fascinating century of change and continuities. After a thorough consideration of the conditions for literary produc... .... Learn More
English Renaissance Drama [Hardback]
Peter Womack (Author)
£83.99ISBN: 9780631226291
Published by : Wiley-Blackwell
This book considers the London theatrical culture which took shape in the 1570s and came to an end in 1642. Peter Womack places emphasis on those plays which are readily available in modern editions and can sometimes be seen in modern productio... .... Learn More
English Renaissance Drama [Paperback]
Peter Womack (Author)
£32.99ISBN: 9780631226307
Published by : Wiley-Blackwell
This book considers the London theatrical culture which took shape in the 1570s and came to an end in 1642. Peter Womack places emphasis on those plays which are readily available in modern editions and can sometimes be seen in modern productio... .... Learn More
Old English Enigmatic Poems and the Play of the Texts [Hardback]
J. Niles (Author)
£51.00ISBN: 9782503515304
Published by : Brepols
Series: Studies in the Early Middle Ages
Volume: 13
Old English Enigmatic Poems and the Play of the Texts consists of a close study of a number of verse texts, most of which are preserved in the Exeter Book of Old English poetry. All of these texts are enigmatic. Some are riddles; others are riddl... .... Learn More
Subversive Scott: The Waverley Novels and Scottish Nationalism [Paperback]
Julian Meldon D'Arcy (Author); Julian D'Arcy (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9789979546665
Published by : Iceland University Press
For the last fifty years or so the standard critical view of Sir Walter Scott's fiction has been that, while paying full tribute to Scotland's heroic, ancient independence and romantic Jacobite past, his Scottish Waverley Novels ultimately pres... .... Learn More
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