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  • - A Literary Life
    af Roger Sales
    542,95 - 546,95 kr.

    This book situates John Clare's long, prolific but often badly neglected literary life within the wider cultural histories of the Regency and earlier Victorian periods. The second half recreates asylum culture and places Clare's performances as Regency boxers and Lord Byron within this bleak new world.

  • - A Literary Life
    af Linda Wagner-Martin
    199,95 kr.

    A reading of the oeuvre of Toni Morrison-fiction, non-fiction, and other-drawing extensively from her many interviews as well as her primary texts, Toni Morrison: A Literary Life, second edition provides an overview of Morrison's intellectual growth as an artist.

  • - A Literary Life
    af Gerald Roberts
    536,95 kr.

    A concise study of the life and poetry of the Victorian priest-poet. Gerald Roberts gives a chronological description and analysis of Hopkins's career and writing, and pays due attention to the Victorian and Jesuit background.

  • - A Literary Life
    af Felicity Rosslyn
    489,95 kr.

    Part of a series which follows the outline of writers' working lives, aiming to trace the professional, publishing and social contexts which shaped their writing. This is a sympathetic portrait of the poet who overcame the obscurity of his origins to become the uncrowned Laureate of his age.

  • - A Literary Life
    af J. Gibson
    1.049,95 - 1.056,95 kr.

    This work relates Hardy's life to his career, his methodological preparation during the first 30 years of his life for that career, the writing of his 14 published novels and the fame they brought him. It also offers a culmination of his life as a writer.

  • - A Literary Life
    af Kimberly J. Stern
    201,95 kr.

  • - A Literary Life
    af J. Thaddeus
    1.060,95 kr.

    Emphasizing Frances Burney's professionalism and her courage, Janice Farrar Thaddeus shows the protean writer who recognised her abilities and exercised them, always carefully shaping her career.

  • - A Literary Life
    af NA NA
    1.056,95 kr.

    This comprehensive overview of Mary Shelley's life as an author frequently reads like an anthology of extracts from some of the most lurid and sensationalist novels of the early 19th century.

  • - A Literary Life
    af K. McSweeney
    406,95 kr.

    George Eliot (Marian Evans) as a writer of fiction is the central theme of this literary life.

  • - A Literary Life
    af Anne Rowe & P. Martin
    544,95 kr.

    This largely chronological study of Iris Murdoch's literary life begins with her fledgling publications at Badminton School and Oxford, and her Irish heritage. It moves through the novels of the next four decades and concludes with an account of the biographical, critical and media attention given to her life and work since her death in 1999.

  • - A Literary Life
    af P. Martin
    540,95 kr.

    This largely chronological study of Iris Murdoch's literary life begins with her fledgling publications at Badminton School and Oxford, and her Irish heritage. It moves through the novels of the next four decades and concludes with an account of the biographical, critical and media attention given to her life and work since her death in 1999.

  • - A Literary Life
    af Ira B. Nadel
    1.049,95 - 1.057,95 kr.

    Drawing on a series of new sources, this biography of Ezra Pound - the first to appear in more than a decade - outlines his contribution to modernism through a detailed account of his development, influence and continued significance. His roles as editor, translator and critic, plus his attempt to complete The Cantos , are also studied.

  • - A Literary Life
    af G. Law & A. Maunder
    546,95 kr.

    Wilkie Collins: A Literary Life draws on recently available business and personal correspondence to establish a fresh portrait of one of Victorian Britain's busiest authors. The book takes in Collins's notoriously complicated private life as well as his work as a professional author in the changing world of Victorian publishing.

  • - A Literary Life
    af D. Rampton
    545,95 kr.

    Despite all the studies devoted to William Faulkner, he continues to be variously perceived. Focussing on his fiction, this study of Faulkner's multifaceted literary life explores the distinctive blend of continuity and innvoation that characterizes his novels and looks at the extensive and varied reactions they have elicited.

  • - A Literary Life
    af L. Hopkins
    543,95 kr.

    This book charts the major events of Stoker's life, including friendships with many of the major figures of the age and as manager of Henry Irving's Lyceum, with his literary career. It offers critical evaluation of Dracula and of Stoker's lesser-known works, yielding much interest when reinserted into their original cultural contexts.

  • - A Literary Life
    af Sarah Gamble
    540,95 - 552,95 kr.

    By the time of her death in 1992, Angela Carter had come to be regarded as one of the most successful and original British authors of the twentieth-century, and her writing has subsequently become the focus of a burgeoning body of criticism.

  • - A Literary Life
    af David Rampton
    540,95 - 545,95 kr.

    A clearly written, insightful study of Nabokov the novelist, providing an expert analysis of the 17 novels he wrote during a career spanning more than 50 years: one of the most impressive, challenging, and controversial literary achievements of our time.

  • - A Literary Life
    af H. Pagliaro
    495,95 kr.

    Henry Fielding: A Literary Life characterizes Fielding's complex personality, in some ways full of contradiction, and yet resolved both by a deep knowledge of human nature, including his own, and by his innate social constructiveness and his gift for friendship and love.

  • - A Literary Life
    af Christina Malcolmson
    539,95 - 545,95 kr.

    This volume replaces the traditional image of George Herbert as meditative recluse with a portrait of the poet as engaged throughout his life with the religion, politics and society of his time.

  • - A Literary Life
    af L. Wagner-Martin
    538,95 kr.

    Sylvia Plath: A Literary Life examines the way Plath made herself into a writer. Close analysis of Plath's reading and apprenticeship writing both in fiction and poetry sheds considerable light on Plath's work in the late 1960s.

  • - A Literary Life
    af Phillip Mallett
    1.050,95 - 1.055,95 kr.

    This is a study of the forces and influences that shaped Kipling's work, including his unusual family background, his role as the laureate of empire and the deaths of two of his children, and of his complex relations with a literary world that first embraced and then rejected him.

  • - A Literary Life
    af Dr Gary Waller
    1.049,95 - 1.057,95 kr.

    Gary Waller surveys Spenser's career in terms of the material conditions of its production - the often overlooked material factors of race, gender, class, agency - and the resonant 'places' which influenced his career - court, church, nation, colony.

  • - A Literary Life
    af Janice Farrar Thaddeus
    1.053,95 - 1.060,95 kr.

    Emphasizing Frances Burney's professionalism and her courage, Janice Farrar Thaddeus shows the protean writer who recognised her abilities and exercised them, always carefully shaping her career.

  • - A Literary Life
    af Michael O'Neill
    1.046,95 - 1.054,95 kr.

    In 'Percy Bysshe Shelly: A Literary Life' , Michael O'Neill gives a knowledgeable and balanced account of Shelley's literary career from his earliest published work to his last unfinished masterpiece, The Triumph of Life . For Shelley, a poet was the 'combined product' of 'internal powers' and 'external influences' (Preface to Prometheus Unbound );

  • af Peter L. Shillingsburg
    1.048,95 - 1.053,95 kr.

    A Literary life of William Makepeace Thackeray offers a new perspective on the relation between Thackeray's life and his novels.

  • - A Literary Life
    af Adam Roberts
    223,95 kr.

    This is the first new complete literary biography of H G Wells for thirty years, and the first to encompass his entire career as a writer, from the science fiction of the 1890s through his fiction and non-fiction writing all the way up to his last publication in 1946.

  • - A Literary Life
    af Linda Wagner-Martin
    289,95 kr.

  • - A Literary Life
    af W. Christie
    542,95 kr.

    The most sustained criticism and ambitious theory that had ever been attempted in English, the Biographia was Coleridge's major statement to a literary culture in which he sought to define and defend all imaginative life. This book offers a reading of Coleridge in the context of that culture and the institutions that comprised it.

  • - A Literary Life
    af W. Christie
    551,95 kr.

    The most sustained criticism and ambitious theory that had ever been attempted in English, the Biographia was Coleridge's major statement to a literary culture in which he sought to define and defend all imaginative life. This book offers a reading of Coleridge in the context of that culture and the institutions that comprised it.

  • - A Literary Life
    af William Christie
    541,95 - 825,95 kr.

    Dylan Thomas: A Literary Life offers an account of the poet's life, along with a critical reading of his work, that is designed to close what has been called 'the yawning gap' between Dylan Thomas's popular and critical reputations.