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A People’s History of Classics explores the influence of the classical past on the lives of working-class people, whose voices have been almost completely excluded from previous histories of classica …

Tracing how central tensions in J.M. Coetzee”s fiction converge in and are made visible by the child figure, this book establishes the centrality of the child to Coetzee”s poetics. Through readings …

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 …

Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities demonstrates how late twentieth century postcolonial print cultures initiated a public discourse on sexual activism and contends that postcolonial feminist and queer …

In England literary consciousness had its beginning in the middle ages, and this book, originally published in 1943, describes and illustrates the first phases of the growth of a tradition of critici …

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 …

Based on readings of some of the leading literary voices in contemporary Irish writing, this book explores how these authors have engaged with the events of Ireland”s recent economic ”boom” and th …

Taking readers through the various stages of criticism of Emily Dickinson”s poetry, this guide identifies both the essential critical texts and the key debates within them. The texts chosen for disc …

The Happy Prince, and Other Tales" is a collection of fairy tales and short stories written by Oscar Wilde and first published in 1888. The stories are renowned for their blend of whimsy, moral …

Fleur is used to balancing her two different cultures from her English Mum to her West Indian Nan but when she discovers that she can talk to animals she finds herself in a whole new world! Can her n …