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First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
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Massinger (Paperback)
Martin Garrett
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R697
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Martin Garrett's comprehensive collection presents and explains the
history of the critical reception to Massinger's work from the
early seventeenth to the late nineteenth century. The volume
includes extensive selections from the writings of Pepys,
Goldsmith, Coleridge, Hazlitt, Lamb and Swinburne, as well as
briefer comments from Scott, Byron and Keats. Responses to
Massinger's plays from writers as diverse as Boswell, Mrs Thrale,
Dickens and Elizabeth Barrett Browning are discussed in Martin
Garrett's introduction, which also includes an account of the
plays' original political and theatrical context.
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 these sources direct.
The plays of Philip Massinger (1583-1640) have been at the centre
of a recent re-evaluation of the politics of 17th century drama. In
their own time, the plays contributed to contemporary arguments
about appropriate dramatic language. In the 18th and early 19th
centuries they were crucial to the rediscovery of Renaissance drama
outside Shakespeare. During the Victorian period Massinger's plays
gradually fell from grace, to be rediscovered by a new generation
following T.S. Eliot's reappraisal in 1920. This volume presents
and explains the history of the critical reception to Massinger's
work from the early 17th to the late 19th century. The volume
includes extensive selections from the writings of Pepys,
Goldsmith, Coleridge, Hazlitt, Lamb and Swinburne, as well as
briefer comments from Scott, Byron and Keats. Responses to
Massinger's plays from writers as diverse as Boswell, Mrs Thrale,
Dickens and Elizabeth Barrett Browning are discussed in the
introduction, which also includes an account of the plays' original
political and theatrical context.
This book covers the life and work of a wide range of writers from
Coleridge to Wollstonecraft, Hemans, Beckford and their
contemporaries. Also encompassing a wealth of material on contexts
from the treason trials of 1794 to the coming of gas-light to the
London stage in 1817, it provides a panorama of one of the richest
periods in British culture.
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Cosy Crime Short Stories (Hardcover)
Martin Edwards; Contributions by Stephanie Bedwell-Grime, Joshua Boyce, Sarah Holly Bryant, Jeffrey B Burton, …
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R650
R537
Discovery Miles 5 370
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Cosy crime fiction is a popular phenomenon, with its safe but
intriguing boundaries. This latest addition to the Gothic Fantasy
series is packed with armchair detectives, murders in the vicarage,
family secrets unravelling in gossipy ears, and the ingredients of
a genteel bloodbath in an otherwise delightful village. Contains a
fabulous mix of classic and brand new writing, with contemporary
authors from the US, Canada, and the UK. Classic authors include:
Arnold Bennett, Ernest Bramah, Anton Chekhov, Arthur Conan Doyle,
Andrew Forrester, R. Austin Freeman, Anna Katherine Green, Maurice
Leblanc, Arthur Morrison, Baroness Orczy, Catherine Louisa Pirkis,
Edgar Wallace, Israel Zangwill, G.K. Chesterton.
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Oxford (Paperback)
Martin Garrett
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R399
Discovery Miles 3 990
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Oxford started as an Anglo-Saxon border outpost, with a bridge
replacing the 'oxen ford' from which it takes its name. It became a
centre for trade and religion and developed one of the oldest
universities in Europe from the late twelfth century. Since the
Middle Ages its individual colleges have gone on building--chapels,
halls, accommodation, libraries--in an extraordinary variety of
styles from Gothic to Brutalist. Oxford also has many churches, a
Covered Market, an extraordinary museum of Natural History in
soaring iron, glass and stone, and a flamboyant neo-Jacobean Town
Hall. In such a place, suggested W.B. Yeats, 'one almost expects
the people to sing instead of speaking'. Nevertheless, Oxford has
become a busy modern city. For much of the twentieth century the
car industry, established in Cowley by William Morris (Lord
Nuffield), dominated local life. Today there are cinemas, theatres,
innumerable restaurants, shopping centres, an ice-rink, business
and technology centres, close links to London by bus and train.
Amidst the expanding city Oxford University retains its academic
excellence, its student exuberance and its physical beauty.And it
has been joined by a notably successful second university, Oxford
Brookes. Martin Garrett discusses the literature Oxford has
generated: from Chaucer to Lewis Carroll, Wilde, Evelyn Waugh,
Barbara Pym, Tolkien and C.S. Lewis and Iris Murdoch. There are
also chapters on architecture, on religion, on theatre, film and
art--including Oxford's great museum of art and history the
Ashmolean--and on leisure pursuits (punting and rowing, gardens,
student pranks, city fairs and carnival). A chapter on commerce
focuses on Victorian shops, Cornmarket and the Morris Motor Works,
while a brief social history includes the former Oxford Castle and
a gallery of dons as rulers--visionary or ignorant, charismatic or
dull. Garrett looks at social change, especially the transformation
in the position of Oxford women, and considers the city's darker
side of crime. A final chapter explores its rich surroundings: the
countryside where Matthew Arnold's 'black-winged swallows haunt the
glittering Thames', the baroque grandeur of Blenheim Palace, the
ancient windswept Ridgeway and White Horse.
This volume explores 'the labyrinth of what we call Coleridge'
(Virginia Woolf): his poems and prose, their sources,
interpretation and reception; his life, troubled marriage and
fatherhood, conversation, changing intellectual contexts and
legacy. Major entries cover such canonical works as The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner, Christabel, 'Kubla Khan', the 'conversation poems'
and Biographia Literaria. But a fuller understanding of Coleridge
must embrace many lesser-known poems - lyrics, satire, comical
squibs. The prose - critical, philosophical, political, religious -
ranges from his early radical writings to the more conservative On
the Constitution of the Church and State, his influential
Shakespeare lectures, and the vast resource of the notebooks.
Coleridge read widely throughout his life and engaged extensively
with the work of, among many others, Milton, Fielding, Berkeley,
Priestley, Kant, Schelling. One of his most important relationships
was with William Wordsworth. Another was with Sara Hutchinson.
Entries trace Coleridge's changing reputation, from brilliant young
activist to the 'Sage of Highgate' to the later apostle of the
theories of the imagination and of Practical Criticism. Other
topics covered include opium, plagiarism, the French Revolution,
Pantisocracy, Unitarianism, and the Salutation and Cat tavern.
This volume considers the work and life of Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley (1797-1851). It looks not only at Frankenstein and its
composition, sources, themes and reception but at the wide range of
other work by Shelley including such novels as The Last Man and
Mathilda and her tales, reviews, travel writing and the (until
recently neglected) Literary Lives of Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
and French writers. There are detailed entries on her personal
and/or literary relationship with her parents Mary Wollstonecraft
and William Godwin, her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, Byron,
Coleridge and Claire Clairmont; on her religion, feminism,
politics, relation to Romanticism, portraits and representation in
drama, film and television; and on the influence of her work on
such writers as Poe, Elizabeth Gaskell, the Brontes, Dickens and
H.G. Wells.
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Kara's Prayer (Paperback)
Perry Martin; Illustrated by Garrett Mannings; Shakara Andem
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R260
Discovery Miles 2 600
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Gustave Flaubert called the Loire "the most French of French
rivers." It is the longest river in France and the most varied in
scenery and moods. Beginning as a mountain stream in the Ardeche,
it issues, 630 miles later, into the Atlantic beyond the great
modern port of St.-Nazaire. Small and rapid at first, the Loire
runs through dark volcanic hills; further downstream it becomes the
broad, slower river of sandy islands, poplars, and chateaux and of
the vibrant cities of Orleans, Blois, Tours, and Nantes (the former
capital of Brittany). It is lined with vineyards, forests, medieval
fortresses, and flamboyant Renaissance palaces. It is fed by
countless tributaries, from rivulets to mighty rivers like the
Allier, Cher, and Vienne, each with their own remarkable sights.
Martin Garrett follows the Loire's course through cities and
countryside, tracing its dramatic history from the days of feuding
warlords and barons to the battles of 1940. Looking at the wide
range of literature, art, and architecture created along its banks,
he considers works from Du Bellay and Balzac to Virginia Woolf,
from Renaissance palace builders to Le Corbusier."
Celebrated by writers from Petrach to Peter Mayle, Provence's
rugged mountains, wild maquis, and lavender-filled meadows are
world-famous. Martin Garrett explores a region littered with
ancient monuments and medieval castles. Looking at the vibrant
dockside atmosphere of Luberon, he considers how writers like
Mistral and Daudet have captured the character of a place and its
people. He traces the development of Provence as a Roman outpost,
medieval kingdom, and modern region of France, revealing through
its landmarks the people and events that have shaped its often
tumultuous history. Through its architecture, literature, and
popular culture, this book analyzes and celebrates the identity of
a region famous for its pastis and petanque. Linking the past to
the present, it also evokes the intense light and sun-baked stones
that have attracted generations of painters and writers.
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