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 Claude Rawson, "The Cambridge Companion to English Poets " English | ISBN: 0521874343 | 2011 | 580 pages | PDF | 6 MB This volume provides lively and authoritative introductions to twenty-nine of the most important British and Irish poets from Geoffrey Chaucer to Philip Larkin. The list includes, among others, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Wordsworth, Browning, Yeats and T. S. Eliot, and represents the tradition of English poetry at its best. Each contributor offers a new assessment of a single poet's achievement and importance, with readings of the most important poems. The essays, written by leading experts, are personal responses, written in clear, vivid language, free of academic jargon, and aim to inform, arouse interest, and deepen understanding.  Roger Luckhurst, "The Cambridge Companion to Dracula " English | ISBN: 1107153174 | 2017 | 240 pages | PDF | 1420 KB Bram Stoker's Dracula is the most famous vampire in literature and film. This new collection of sixteen essays brings together a range of internationally renowned scholars to provide a series of pathways through this celebrated Gothic novel and its innumerable adaptations and translations. The volume illuminates the novel's various pre-histories, critical contexts and subsequent cultural transformations. Chapters explore literary history, Gothic revival scholarship, folklore, anthropology, psychology, sexology, philosophy, occultism, cultural history, critical race theory, theatre and film history, and the place of the vampire in Europe and beyond. These studies provide an accessible guide of cutting-edge scholarship to one of the most celebrated modern Gothic horror stories. This Companion will serve as a key resource for scholars, teachers and students interested in the enduring force of Dracula and the seemingly inexhaustible range of the contexts it requires and readings it might generate.  Brenda Murphy, "The Cambridge Companion to American Women Playwrights " English | ISBN: 0521576806 | 1999 | 324 pages | EPUB | 3 MB This volume addresses the work of women playwrights throughout the history of the American theater, from the early pioneers to contemporary feminists. Each chapter introduces the reader to the work of one or more playwrights, covering significant writers such as Rachel Crothers, Susan Glaspell, Lillian Hellman, Sophie Treadwell, Lorraine Hansberry, Alice Childress, Megan Terry, Ntozake Shange, Adrienne Kennedy, Wendy Wasserstein, Marsha Norman, Beth Henley and Maria Irene Fornes, in the context of topics such as early comedy and melodrama, feminism and realism, the Harlem Renaissance and feminism.  Stephen Shapiro, "The Cambridge Companion to American Horror " English | ISBN: 1316513009 | 2022 | 300 pages | PDF | 1236 KB Opening up the warm body of American Horror - through literature, film, TV, music, video games, and a host of other mediums - this book gathers the leading scholars in the field to dissect the gruesome histories and shocking forms of American life. Through a series of accessible and informed essays, moving from the seventeenth century to the present day, The Cambridge Companion to American Horror explores one of the liveliest and most progressive areas of contemporary culture. From slavery to censorship, from occult forces to monstrous beings, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in America's most terrifying cultural expressions.  Lindsey Fitzharris, "The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine" English | ISBN: 0374117292 | 2017 | 304 pages | AZW3 | 1034 KB Winner, 2018 PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing  Alexandre Sumpf, "The Broken Years: Russia's Disabled War Veterans, 1904-1921 " English | ISBN: 1316517748 | 2022 | 320 pages | PDF | 6 MB The Broken Years tells the forgotten story of Russia's disabled ex-servicemen through three wars and three revolutions: the Russo-Japanese War, the Russian Civil War and the First World War. Using extensive archival material from national, regional and town archives, Alexandre Sumpf explores the treatment of these veterans by the state, their battle for legal status and their right to both collective and individual health care. He shows how the question of disabled veterans became bound up in broader political and social debates in the early 20th century and fostered healthcare and social welfare policy. The experience of these 1.14 million war veterans reconfigured notions of heroism, sacrifice and patriotism while the period of 1915-1919 was marked by extensive political activism by disabled veterans. Dr Sumpf illustrates how the Bolsheviks condemned disabled veterans as the symbol of the "imperialist war" and brutally negated their rights as part of the broader devaluation of the war experience in early Soviet Russia.  Anthony Seldon, "The Brexit Effect, 2016-2026" English | ISBN: 1009749625 | 2026 | 622 pages | PDF | 2 MB Britain's decision to leave the European Union was perhaps the most divisive and consequential event of modern British politics. To assess its impact on the tenth anniversary of the referendum, Anthony Seldon assembles an unparalleled list of writers from all sides of the debate - including Brexit MP Steve Baker, ex-Cabinet Secretary Simon Case, election guru John Curtice, economist Paul Johnson, ex-Foreign Secretary David Miliband, ex-Cabinet minister Emily Thornberry, leading lawyers Marina Wheeler and Jonathan Sumption and ex-Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams. They analyse why the referendum happened, how Brexit became law and its impact on every corner of British life, concluding with a range of perspectives on how Britain might make the most of the opportunities now available to it. As the dust continues to settle, The Brexit Effect delivers a vital and timely analysis for all who wish to understand Britain's past, present and future.  Gwendoline Smith, "The Book of Overthinking" English | ISBN: 1988547377 | 2020 | 262 pages | MOBI | 6 MB Overthinking is also known as worrying or ruminating and it's a form of anxiety that many people suffer from.  Gwendoline Smith, "The Book of Overthinking: How to Stop the Cycle of Worry" English | ISBN: 1988547377 | 2020 | 262 pages | AZW3 | 13 MB Overthinking is also known as worrying or ruminating and it's a form of anxiety that many people suffer from.  Mary Carruthers, "The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture " English | ISBN: 0521888204 | 2008 | 540 pages | EPUB | 24 MB Mary Carruthers's classic study of the training and uses of memory for a variety of purposes in European cultures during the Middle Ages has fundamentally changed the way scholars understand medieval culture. This fully revised and updated second edition considers afresh all the material and conclusions of the first. While responding to new directions in research inspired by the original, this new edition devotes much more attention to the role of trained memory in composition, whether of literature, music, architecture, or manuscript books. The new edition will reignite the debate on memory in medieval studies and, like the first, will be essential reading for scholars of history, music, the arts and literature, as well as those interested in issues of orality and literacy (anthropology), in the working and design of memory (both neuropsychology and artificial memory), and in the disciplines of meditation (religion). |
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