Zbirka: Od 1500 do 1800

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    Printing and the Printers of The Book of Common Prayer, 1549–1561(2022) BLAYNEY, PETER W. M.
    This major, revisionist study upends our thinking about the ancestry and origins of the Elizabethan Book of Common Prayer, revealing it to have necessitated unprecedented levels of shared printing. In its close analysis of Anglican liturgy it will have co
    64,30 €
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    Voltaire: A Very Short Introduction(2017) CRONK, NICHOLAS (PROFESSOR OF FRENCH LITERATURE IN OXFORD, A FELLOW OF ST EDMUND HALL, AND DIRECTOR OF THE VOLTAIRE FOUNDATION)
    This Very Short Introduction examines Voltaire's (1694-1778) remarkable life and career. Exploring his most important writings, the impact his work had on our understanding of the European Enlightenment, and his status as a literary celebrity at the time,
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    Goethe: A Very Short Introduction(2016) ROBERTSON, RITCHIE (TAYLOR PROFESSOR OF GERMAN, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe lived to the age of 82 and wrote prodigiously in every genre: drama, poetry, fiction, autobiography, travel narrative, translation from French and Italian, and critical essays on art and literature, besides copious letters and d
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    Life of Samuel Johnson(2008) BOSWELL, JAMES
    A biography of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of English literature.
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    Camilla(2009) BURNEY, FANNY
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    Nun(2008) DIDEROT, DENIS
    Diderot's The Nun (La Religieuse) is the seemingly true story of a young girl forced by her parents to enter a convent and take holy orders. A novel mingling mysticism, madness, sadistic cruelty and nascent sexuality, it gives a scathing insight into the
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    Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature(2021) QUAYSON, ATO (STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CALIFORNIA)
    This book focuses on a comparative reading of tragedy from the Greeks through Shakespeare to postcolonial examples from Africa, India, Ireland, and the African-American tradition. It will appeal to a wide range of both specialists and non-specialists alik
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    Rhetoric of the Page(2020) MAGUIRE, LAURIE (PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, OXFORD UNIVERSITY AND TUTORIAL FELLOW, PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, OXFORD UNIVERSITY AND TUTORIAL FELLOW, MAGDALEN COLLEGE)
    A readable account of the book as an object: a history of the page as well as a history of the book. Drawing an arc from the medieval scriptorium to googlebooks, this volume shows the creative and playful opportunities blank spaces on the page afforded re
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    Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Early Modern England(2022) ULLYOT, MICHAEL (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY)
    This book investigates the role of exemplarity as a rhetorical device in late Elizabethan and Jacobean literature and culture. Ullyot argues that exemplarity is driven by both reader and author, and that positive moral examples were presented as aspiratio
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    This Is Shakespeare(2020) SMITH, EMMA
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    Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction(2019) SKINNER, QUENTIN (BARBER BEAUMONT PROFESSOR OF THE HUMANITIES, QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON)
    Quentin Skinner introduces Niccolò Machiavelli, Florentine diplomat, politician, and the writer known for that most infamous Early Modern work, The Prince. He explores Machiavelli's theory of princely virtù, tracing its roots in ancient historians and mor
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    Radical Botany(2019) MEEKER, NATANIA,SZABARI, ANTONIA
    Radical Botany uncovers a speculative tradition that conjures new languages to grasp the life of plants in all its specificity and vigor. Plants complement and challenge notions of human life. The book traces the implications of the speculative mobilizati
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    William Shakespeare: A Very Short Introduction(2015) WELLS, STANLEY (HONORARY PRESIDENT, THE SHAKESPEARE BIRTHPLACE TRUST)
    In this new offering from Stanley Wells comes an exploration of one of the world's greatest dramatists: William Shakespeare. Written with enthusiasm and flair, Wells looks at both the world Shakespeare lived in and all of his major works, to show how and
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    Shakespeare's Sonnets and Poems: A Very Short Introduction(2017) POST, JONATHAN F. S. (DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, UCLA)
    Jonathan Post introduces all of Shakespeare's poetry, including the sonnets and his great narrative poems, and explores themes of love and lust in these works. He also considers the debates surrounding their disputed authorship, and the impact these poems
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    Gothic Novel in Ireland, c. 1760–1829(2018) MORIN, CHRISTINA
    A compelling account of the development of gothic literature in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century Ireland. -- .
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    Black and Blur(2017) MOTEN, FRED
    In Black and Blur—the first volume in his consent not to be a single being trilogy—Fred Moten engages in a capacious consideration of the place and force of blackness in African diaspora arts, politics, and life, exploring a wide range of thinkers, musici
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    Jane Austen's Cousin(2021) WALTON, GERI
    Provides new insight into the real side of a vivacious socialite who inspired several fictional characters in her cousin Jane Austen's highly acclaimed books.
    27,78 €
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    Novel: An Alternative History, 1600-1800(2019) MOORE, DR STEVEN (INDEPENDENT SCHOLAR, USA)
    49,94 €
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    Empire of Tea - The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World(2018) MARKMAN ELLIS
    Vezava: Mehka
    35,14 €
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    Five Elizabethan Progress Entertainments(2021) SCRAGG, LEAH
    A fully annotated, modern-spelling edition of entertainments performed for the monarch during her summer progress, the collection affords an insight into a neglected area of Elizabethan cultural activity. -- .
    27,55 €

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