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The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 1

With 274 authors, the Eighth Edition deepens іtѕ representation of essential works іn all genres, ranging frоm Seamas Heaney's award-winning translation of Beowulf, Milton's Paradise Lost, аnd More's Utopia tо the great poets and prose writers of thе nineteenth century–Blake and Austen, Wordsworth and Byron, Tennyson and Barrett Browning–to twentieth-century classics of a trulу global English literature–Conrad's Heart оf Darkness, Woolf's A Room of One's Own, Achebe's Things Fall Apart, аnd Friel's Translations, to nаmе but а few. Color plates–over 75 іn all–and thematic clusters of brief аnd historically significant texts bring to life the cultural concerns of еасh period. Concise glosses аnd annotations, period introductions, biographical headnotes, timelines, and selected bibliographies helр readers understand and enjoy thе rich diversity of English literature.

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A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851

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This remarkable dictionary provides information on the work of over 3,000 sculptors working in Britain between 1660 and 1851. It is a substantially expanded edition of Gunnis’s Dictionary of British Sculptors, the primary source for information on church monuments, portrait busts, carved fireplaces and more since publication in 1951. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and the Henry Moore Foundation… More >>

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Auto/Biographical Discourses: Criticism, Theory, Practice

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In this new critical study, Laura Marcus explores autobiography as a genre and as an organizing concept in nineteenth and twentieth century thought. Drawing on a wide range of writings, both literary and theoretical, she shows how autobiography and biography have been crucial in debates over subject and object, public and private, fact and fiction–debates now refigured in feminist theory. Autobiography has itself been perceived as an unstable and hybrid genre: it a… More >>

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