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Autumnal Faces [PDF ebook] 
Old Age in British and Irish Dramatic Narratives

Looks at the lives and politics of four of the key players in the independence and labour movements of the 19th century: Daniel O”Connell (1775-1847); Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-91); Michael Davi …

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Why was Milton so important to the Romantics? How did ”Milton th …

This book chronicles travel writings of Bengali women in colonial India and explores the intersections of power, indigeneity, and the representations of the ‘self’ and the ‘other’ in these writings. …

Regularly the subject of cartoonists and satirical novelists, Mary Robinson achieved public notoriety as the mistress of the young Prince of Wales (George IV). Her association with figures such as Wi …

The Anatomy of Insults in Shakespeare”s World explores Shakespeare”s complex art of insults and shows how the playwright set abusive words at the heart of many of his plays. It provides valuable in …

"The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe: Or, There’s No Place Like Home" by Amanda M. Douglas is a charming children’s literature book that brings to life the classic nursery rhyme in a delightf …

‘Frayn has the rare ability to construct farcical comedy around philosophical principles and the laughs and the ideas effortlessly intermesh’ (Michael Billington, Guardian) Michael Frayn is a playwri …

This book gives true characters of Japanese speech sounds in reference to European speech sounds. When it was first published in 1931, it was the first book of its kind. There are only 5 Japanese vow …

Containing wide-ranging reflections on the subject of female transgression in early modern Britain, this volume presents a richly productive dialogue between literary and historical approaches to the …

”When I was a small child…(my) imagination was fired by the age-old mystery of that Lost City of Ophir which furnished gold to the temple of Suleiman and as the years passed, I formed an ambition …