18 books like Selected Letters of Caroline Norton

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William Shakespeare Brian Vickers · 2002 · 564p · ≈ 18h · Moderate The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range from… Shares: Littérature anglaise, Literary Criticism, English literature

Works of Thomas de Quincey Grevel Lindop · 2001 · 3024p · ≈ 100h · Moderate Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) is considered one of the most important English prose writers of the early-19th century. This is the first part of a 21-volume set presenting De Quincey's work, also including previously unpublished material. Shares: Littérature anglaise, Literary Criticism, English literature

Works of Patrick Branwell Brontë Victor A. Neufeldt · 2015 · 464p · ≈ 15h · Moderate This volume, first published in 1999, contains all of Patrick Branwell Brontë’s known writings, excluding his letters, from 1837 to 1848. This title primarily covers and depicts the end of the Angrian conflict, Branwell’s abandonment of the Angrian saga, and his attempts to establish himself as a published poet and a man of letters. All of the texts in this edition are based on Neufeldt’s own… Shares: Littérature anglaise, Literary Criticism, English literature

Ted Hughes Terry Gifford · 1981 · ★ 3.6 · 255p · ≈ 8h · Moderate This innovative casebook introduces readers to wide-ranging critical dialogue about the work of Ted Hughes, one of the most popular and influential British poets of the twentieth century. In twelve new essays, international authorities on Hughes examine and debate his work, shedding new light on familiar texts. Split into two parts, the first half of this book examines Hughes's work through… Shares: Littérature anglaise, Literary Criticism, English literature

Stemming the torrent Gesa Stedman · 2002 · 286p · ≈ 9h · Moderate "In this new study, Gesa Stedman mines the vein of emotion in Victorian writing to unearth new insights into the ways literature responded to the dramatic social and political changes then taking place." "Through an examination of the history of key Victorian emotion words, the major topics that dominate the discourses on emotions in this era, and the central fictional and non-fictional 'paradigm… Shares: Littérature anglaise, Literary Criticism, English literature

Middle English literature George Kane · 1951 · 252p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Originally published in 1951 Middle English Literature applies methods of literary evaluation to certain Middle English works. Arguing that previous literary criticism has largely focused on the commentary of their historical, social, philological and religious content, the book suggests that it has led to a thinking that Middle English literature is without artistic value and therefore cannot be… Shares: Littérature anglaise, Literary Criticism, English literature

The five nations Rudyard Kipling · 1903 · ★ 5.0 · 215p · ≈ 7h · Challenging The Five Nations, Rudyard Kipling. TEI XML version of http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/k/kipling/rudyard/five/ . Shares: Littérature anglaise, English literature

William Makepeace Thackeray Library Pearson, Richard · 2016 · 179p · ≈ 5h · Moderate First published in 1996, The William Makepeace Thackeray Library is a collection of works written by and about the novelist. William Makepeace Thackeray spent part of virtually every year of his writing life in Paris and he wrote continually on France and French culture. This volume contains a selection of Thackeray’s travel writing, the majority of which centres around his time spent in France,… Shares: Littérature anglaise, Literary Criticism, English literature

Cousin Henry Anthony Trollope · 1879 · ★ 3.6 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Challenging When the Squire of Llanfeare dies, his nephew Henry inherits the estate. Rumours are rife that the Squire had named his niece Isabel as his heir, and that Henry is an impostor. Mr Apjohn, the family lawyer, takes it upon himself to investigate. Shares: Littérature anglaise, English literature

Curiosities of literature Isaac Disraeli · 1791 · 580p · ≈ 19h · Demanding In "Curiosities of Literature," Isaac Disraeli offers a captivating anthology that intricately weaves the realms of literature, history, and philosophy. The book comprises a series of essays exploring the eccentricities and lesser-known facets of literary figures, cultural traditions, and historical anecdotes. Disraeli's prose is characterized by its eloquent style and a careful attention to… Shares: Littérature anglaise, English literature

Modern Arthurian literature Alan Lupack · 1992 · 504p · ≈ 16h · Moderate First published in 1992. This is a collection of works around the legend of King Arthur from both English and American sources. They range from the sixteenth century to the 1980s and includes authors such as Spenser, Swift, Fielding, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Swinburne, Morris, Carr, Hawthorne, Pyle, Richard Wilbur and Wendy M. Mnookin. Shares: Littérature anglaise, English literature

British autobiography in the seventeenth century Paul Delany · 1969 · ★ 3.0 · 198p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "Few works of a personal or self-revelatory nature were published before 1700. On the other hand, we see in seventeenth century literature many kinds of autobiographical writings, to which their authors gave such titles as Journal of the life of me, Confessions, etc. This present work is a study of nearly two hundred of those, published and unpublished."--Page 2 of cover. Shares: Littérature anglaise, Literary Criticism, English literature

Disturb the Universe Adam Fieled · 2005 · 10p · ≈ 20m · Moderate "In "Disturb the Universe: The Collected Essays of Adam Fieled", we see a young poet wrestling with old problems: how to move forward and conserve simultaneously, how to form coherent judgments regarding what will endure and what will not, how to, as Eliot wrote in Four Quartets, purify the dialect of the tribe. These essays are bold stabs in search of new directions, which push the envelope past… Shares: Literary Criticism, English literature

Women Writers in Renaissance England Randall Martin · 1997 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Moderate This lively book surveys women writers in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Its selection is vast, historically representative, and original, taking examples from twenty different, relatively unknown authors in all genres of writing, including poetry, fiction, religious works, letters and journals, translation, and books on childcare. It establishes new contexts for the debate about… Shares: Littérature anglaise, English literature

Literary criticism William Wordsworth · 1905 · 260p · ≈ 8h · Challenging William Wordsworth, 1770 – 1850, was an English poet most commonly associated with being, along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of the early figures of British romanticism. Their publication of the volume LYRICAL BALLADS in 1798 often serves as a marker of sorts for when that movement publicly began. As a young artist—already showing signs of being a gifted writer and thinker at St. John’s… Shares: Correspondence, Literary Criticism

Lettres portugaises Gabriel de Guilleragues · 1669 · ★ 3.6 · 79p · ≈ 2h · Demanding Note on authorship: These “Lettres portugaises” were originally published as having been written by an unknown author in Portuguese and translated into French, also by an unknown translator. Eventually, they came to be ascribed to Sister Marianna Alcoforado, and countless editions were published throughout the centuries under her name. More recent scholarship, however, has considered more… Shares: Correspondence, Literary Criticism

The oriental tale in England in the eighteenth century Martha Pike Conant · 1908 · 342p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Originally published in 1906, this book examines the oriental tale in England, meaning it considers all the oriental and pseudo-oriental fiction that appeared in English, whether written in English or translater from the French. The highlights fall upon the Arabian Nights, Dr. Johnson's Rasselas, Goldsmith's Citizen of the World, and Beckford's Vathek, and the presnet volume aims to depict… Shares: Literary Criticism, English literature

Changing my mind Zadie Smith · 2009 · ★ 3.8 · 306p · ≈ 10h · Moderate A sparkling collection of Zadie Smith's nonfiction over the past decade.Zadie Smith brings to her essays all of the curiosity, intellectual rigor, and sharp humor that have attracted so many readers to her fiction, and the result is a collection that is nothing short of extraordinary.Split into four sections—"Reading," "Being," "Seeing," and "Feeling"—Changing My Mind invites readers to witness… Shares: Literary Criticism, English literature

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