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Written in an engaging and accessible manner, English Literature in the Age of Chaucer serves as both a lucid introduction to Middle English literature for those coming fresh to the study of earlier English writing, and as a stimulating examination of the themes, traditions and the literary achievement of a number of particulary original and interesting authors. In addition to detailed and sensitive treatment of Chaucer's major works, the book includes chapters on his chief contemporaries, such as John Gower, William Langland and the Gawain-poet. It also examines the often underrated c.

English Literature: Victorians and Moderns is an anthology with a difference. In addition to providing annotated teaching editions of many of the most frequently-taught classics of Victorian and Modern poetry, fiction and drama, it also provides a series of guided research casebooks which make available numerous published essays from open access books and journals, as well as several reprinted critical essays from established learned journals such as English Studies in Canada and the Aldous Huxley Annual with the permission of the authors and editors. Designed to supplement the annotated complete texts of three famous short novels: Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, each casebook offers cross-disciplinary guided research topics which will encourage majors in fields other than English to undertake topics in diverse areas, including History, Economics, Anthropology, Political Science, Biology and Psychology. Selections have also been included to encourage topical, thematic and generic cross-referencing. Students will also be exposed to a wide-range of approaches, including new-critical, psychoanalytic, historical and feminist.

English Literature: Victorians and Moderns is an anthology with a difference. In addition to providing annotated teaching editions of many of the most frequently-taught classics of Victorian and Modern poetry, fiction and drama, it also provides a series of guided research casebooks which make available numerous published essays from open access books and journals, as well as several reprinted critical essays from established learned journals such as English Studies in Canada and the Aldous Huxley Annual with the permission of the authors and editors. Designed to supplement the annotated complete texts of three famous short novels: Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, each casebook offers cross-disciplinary guided research topics which will encourage majors in fields other than English to undertake topics in diverse areas, including History, Economics, Anthropology, Political Science, Biology, and Psychology. Selections have also been included to encourage topical, thematic, and generic cross-referencing. Students will also be exposed to a wide-range of approaches, including new-critical, psychoanalytic, historical, and feminist.

Machine generated contents note: I OPENING THE FIELD -- 1 British history and 'The British history': the same old story? -- Philip Schwyzer -- 2 Revising criticism: Ireland and the British model -- Andrew Murphy --II CONTESTED PERIPHERIES -- 3 'The lost British lamb': English Catholic exiles and the problem of Britain -- Christopher Highley -- 4 Making history: Holinshed's Irish Chronicles, 1577 and 1587 -- Richard A. McCabe --III BRITISH SHAKESPEARE -- 5 Henry IV: metatheatrical Britain -- Matthew Greenfield -- 6 Uncertain unions: Welsh leeks in Henry V -- Patricia Parker -- 7 Delving to the root: Cymbeline, Scotland, and the English race -- Mary Floyd- Wilson --IV UNION QUESTIONS -- 8 Reinventing the matter of Britain: undermining the state in Jacobean masques -- Philippa Berry and Jayne Elisabeth Archer -- 9 'Mapping British identities: Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine -- Christopher Ivic --V BRITAIN'S BRAVE NEW WORLD -- 10 Bruited abroad:John White and Thomas Harriot's colonial representations of ancient Britain -- Andrew Hadfield -- 11 The commonwealth of the word: New England, Old England, and the praying Indians -- Linda Gregerson --VI RESTORING BRITAIN -- 12 Orrery's Ireland and the British problem, 1641-1679 -- John Kerrigan -- 13 Jacobite literature and national identities -- Murray Pittock -- VII HISTORIANS RESPOND -- 14 Literature and the new British and Irish histories -- Jane Ohlmeyer -- 15 Text, time, and the pursuit of 'British identities' -- Derek Hirst

Similar to other fields, Middle East Studies are at a stage where scholars have begun to reexamine their efforts within the framework of the modern university and science in general, with regard to both research and teaching. It is being realized that for a long time these studies have been directed towards area specialization and self-perpetration while efforts at keeping up the communication with other fields of scholarship and, more important perhaps, with the disciplinary approaches and theories that are or ought to be applied in Near Eastern studies have been very much neglected. Communication of our field with other fields and with the various disciplines is invariable dependent on translation from translations of individual pieces of literature to 'translations' of the entire field and the range of problems related to it. Translators from one European language into another can rely on a vast amount of secondary data and a general knowledge of the overlapping cultural settings. Translators of Middle Eastern literary output have first to overcome a basic public ignorance about the area on, or, if not ignorance, then a view and presupposition that our field is still largely exotic. There is moreover little expectation on the side of non-specialists that the literary output of the Middle East can have any wider impact on or be of any importance for the various humanistic or social disciplines and comparative studies.