Literary History & Criticism


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  • Cover scan of The Tragedy Of Macbeth
    The Tragedy Of Macbeth
    William Shakespeare - Paperback - Oxford University Press
    Dark and violent, 'Macbeth' is also the most theatrically spectacular of Shakespeare's tragedies. Indeed, for 250 years - until early this century - it was performed with grand operatic additions set to baroque music.
  • Cover scan of The Pocket Book Of Scottish Quotations
    The Pocket Book Of Scottish Quotations
    David Ross - Paperback - Birlinn
    The Scots have always had a reputation for clarity of thought and also for the vigour with which it is put into words. This new edition of David Ross's collection spans the entire gamut of a nation's recorded thought and experience.
  • Cover scan of Virginia Woolf's Essayism

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    Virginia Woolf's Essayism
    Randi Saloman - Hardback - Edinburgh University Press
  • Cover scan of Robert Burns And Transatlantic Culture
    Robert Burns And Transatlantic Culture
    - Hardback - Ashgate
    Addressing a gap in Burns studies, this collection focuses on the reception and representation of Robert Burns in the Americas. Divided into six sections, the volume addresses topics such as transatlantic concerns in Burns's work, Burns's early publication in North America, and much more.
  • Cover scan of The Cambridge Companion To Scottish Literature
    The Cambridge Companion To Scottish Literature
    - Paperback - Cambridge University Press
    This companion offers a unique introduction, guide and reference work for students and readers of Scottish literature from the pre-medieval period to the post-devolution present. A chronology provides a guide to further reading making this an ideal overview of a national literature that continues to develop its own style.
  • Cover scan of Literature Of The 1980s
    Literature Of The 1980s: After The Watershed
    Joseph Brooker - Paperback - Edinburgh University Press
    Joseph Brooker relates developments in fiction, poetry and drama to social change - from the new generation of London novelists such as Martin Amis and Ian McEwan to the impact of feminism in the writing of Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson.
  • Cover scan of Between the Sheets
    Between The Sheets: The Literary Liaisons Of Nine 20th-Century Women Writers
    Lesley McDowell - Paperback - Duckworth
    Why did a gifted writer like Sylvia Plath stumble into a marriage that drove her to suicide? Why did Hilda Doolittle want to marry Ezra Pound when she was attracted to women? This book examines the extent to which each women was prepared to put artistic ambition before personal happiness.
  • Cover scan of The Edinburgh Companion To Sir Walter Scott
    The Edinburgh Companion To Sir Walter Scott
    - Paperback - Edinburgh University Press
    This is a comprehensive collection devoted to the work of Sir Walter Scott, drawing on the innovative research and scholarship which have revitalised the study of the whole range of his exceptionally diverse writing in recent years.
  • Cover scan of The Edinburgh Companion To James Hogg
    The Edinburgh Companion To James Hogg
    - Paperback - Edinburgh University Press
    A reference book devoted to its subject, this book draws on recent breakthroughs in research on Hogg to illuminate the urgent debates and contexts that helped to shape his writings. Essays written by an international team of scholars provide an indispensable guide to Hogg's career, and the diverse literary forms in which he wrote.
  • Cover scan of The Edinburgh Companion to James Hogg
    The Edinburgh Companion To James Hogg
    - Hardback - Edinburgh University Press
    A reference book devoted to its subject, this book draws on recent breakthroughs in research on Hogg to illuminate the urgent debates and contexts that helped to shape his writings. Essays written by an international team of scholars provide an indispensable guide to Hogg's career, and the diverse literary forms in which he wrote.

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