Category Archives: English Literature

John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: The Poems and Lucina’s Rape

Building on the strength of Keith Walker’s acclaimed The Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1984), leading scholar Nicholas Fisher presents a thoroughly revised and updated edition of the work of one the greatest Restoration wits. Includes the text … Continue reading

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A Companion to Medieval Poetry (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)

A Companion to Medieval Poetry presents a series of original essays from leading literary scholars that explore English poetry from the Anglo-Saxon period up to the 15thcentury. Organised into three parts to echo the chronological and stylistic divisions between the … Continue reading

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Milton’s Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination

Milton’s Paradise Lost, the most eloquent, most intellectually daring, most learned, and most sublime poem in the English language, is a poem about angels. It is told by and of angels; it relies upon their conflicts, communications, and miscommunications. They … Continue reading

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Religious Experience and the Modernist Novel

The modernist period witnessed attempts to explain religious experience in non-religious terms. Such novelists as Henry James, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Franz Kafka found methods to describe through fiction the sorts of experiences that had traditionally been … Continue reading

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Milton and Ecology

Ken Hiltner explores the ideological basis of our current environmental crisis by engaging literary, theoretical, and historic approaches. Focusing on Milton’s rejection of dualistic theology, metaphysical philosophy, and early-modern subjectivism, Hiltner argues that he anticipated certain essential modern ecological arguments. … Continue reading

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‘The Jew’ in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture)

The turbulent period from the Boer War to the introduction of the Aliens Act was marked by contradictory imaginings of “the Jew”–pauper/capitalist, separatist/impostor, ideal colonizer/undesirable immigrant, familiar/alien. Going beyond the racial or cultural dimensions of fin de siècle semitic discourse, … Continue reading

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A Companion to the Global Renaissance: English Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)

Featuring twenty one newly-commissioned essays, A Companion to the Global Renaissance: English Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion demonstrates how today’s globalization is the result of a complex and lengthy historical process that had its roots in England’s … Continue reading

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The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Chaucer (Palgrave Literary Dictionaries)

This study, now available in paperback, provides readers with a convenient source of reliable and accessible information on Chaucer’s work, life and times. Topics include Chaucer’s works, major characters, social and political contexts, influences on Chaucer and those influenced by … Continue reading

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The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

Seamus Heaney is a unique phenomenon in contemporary literature, as a poet whose individual volumes (such as his Beowulf translation, and individual volumes of poems such as Electric Light and District and Circle) have been high in the bestseller lists … Continue reading

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The Postcolonial Enlightenment: Eighteenth-century Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory

Over the last thirty years, postcolonial critiques of European imperial practices have transformed our understanding of colonial ideology, resistance, and cultural contact. The Enlightenment has played a complex but often unacknowledged role in this discussion, alternately reviled and venerated as … Continue reading

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