Red, black, blond, and olive : studies in four civilizations: Zuñi, Haiti, Soviet Russia, Israel

Zuñi (1947): The pueblo -- The anthropologists -- Shálako -- Navaho interlude -- Shálako continued -- Departure -- Haiti (1949): Cotton Blossom Express -- Miami -- Two West Indian authors -- King Christophe's citadel -- Color politics -- Marbial -- Haitian literature -- Voodoo converts -- Pastor McConnell -- Port-au-Prince -- Soviet Russia (1935): Old England -- London to Leningrad -- Leningrad theaters -- On the margin of Moscow -- Volga idyll -- Odessa: counter-idyll -- Final reflections -- Israel (1954): On first reading Genesis -- Éretz Yisraél: Samaritan Passover ; The guardians of the city ; The fiction of S.Y. Agnón ; Theocracy ; Tanách ; Jerusalem the golden ; Degániya ; Éretz Yisraél.

Julian Barnes : contemporary critical perspectives

Contemporary critical perspectives

Contemporary critical perspectives series.

Flaneur and the Freeholder: Paris and London in Julian Barnes's Metroland / Inventing a Way to the Truth: Life and Fiction in Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot / À preference for things Gallic': Julian Barnes and the French Connection / Àn Ordinary Piece of Magic': Religion in the Work of Julian Barnes / Crossing the Channel: Europe and the Three Uses of France in Julian Barnes's Talking It Over / Story of Julian Barnes's The Porcupine: an Epistolary 1/2 Chapter / Julian Barnes's England, England and Englishness / Matters of Life and Death: The Short Stories of Julian Barnes / Àll Letters Quoted Are Authentic': The Past After Postmodern Fabulation in Julian Barnes's Arthur & George

William Trevor : revaluations

Learnt by heart: William Trevor and reading / In another country: aspects of Trevor's England / "Compassion thrown to the winds": William Trevor and postcolonial London / "The battlefield has never quietened": political violence in the fiction of William Trevor / William Trevor's screen fictions: "No interest. Not suitable for treatment" / The Ireland that we dreamed of?: "The Ballroom of Romance" / "Moments and subtleties and shadows of grey": reflections on the narrative mode of Fools of fortune / "Bid me strike a match and blow": The silence in the garden / The tragedy of the return of history: "Lost Ground" / The power of withholding: politics, gender and narrative technique in Felicia's Journey / " ... as if she were a symbol of something ... ": The Story of Lucy Gault / "The art of the glimpse": Cheating at Canasta / Character, community and critical nostalgia: Love and Summer

Working for the clampdown : the Clash, the dawn of neoliberalism and the political promise of punk

Working for the clampdown : an introduction / 'No Elvis, Beatles or the Rolling Stones' : the Clash, the politics of pop and the neoliberal conjuncture. The Clash, revolution and reverse / The Clash and musical artistry : against the corporate voice / 'Up in heaven (not only here)' : the Clash, left melancholila and the politics of redemption / 'Are you going backwards, or are you going forwards?'--England past and England future in 1970s punk / Retrieving the messianic promise of punk : the Clash in 1977 / What if Keith Levene had never left the Clash? Punk and the politics of novelty / 'The beautiful people are ugly too' : the Clash as my 'true fiction' / It could be anywhere, most likely could be any frontier, any hemisphere : The Clash around the world. 'Up and down the Westway' or 'live by the river'? Britishness, Englishness, London and the Clash / 'Cashing in the bill of rights'? The Clash, Gary Foley, punk politics and Indigenous Australian activism / Brigade Rosse : The Clash, Bologna and Italian punx

Women, property, and the letters of the law in early modern England

Temporal gestation, legal contracts, and the promissory economies of The winter's tale / Putting women in their place : female litigants at Whitehaven, 1660-1760 / Women's property, popular cultures, and the consistory court of London in the eighteenth century / The whore's estate : Sally Salisbury, prostitution, and property in eighteenth-century London / Primogeniture, patrilineage, and the displacement of women / Isabella's rule : singlewomen and the properties of poverty in Measure for measure / Marriage, identity, and the pursuit of property in seventeenth-century England : the cases of Anne Clifford and Elizabeth Wiseman / Cordelia's estate : women and the law of property from Shakespeare to Nahum Tate / Writing home : Hannah Wolley, the Oxinden letters, and household epistolary practice / Women's wills in early modern England / Spiritual property : the English Benedictine nuns of Cambrai and the dispute over the Baker manuscripts / The titular claims of female surnames in eighteenth-century fiction / Early modern (aristocratic) women and textual property

The Age of Johnson [electronic resource] : A Scholarly Annual (Volume 24).

The Age of Johnson Ser. ;

The Age of Johnson Ser.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Essays -- Milton at Bolt Court -- Mimesis and Understanding in Samuel Johnson's Notes to Shakespeare (1765) -- Samuel Johnson and the Allen Family -- "Con Amore" hester piozzi's annotations upon johnson's early poetry -- Johnson (and Boswell) in the Lists a view of their reputations, 1933-2018 -- The Curious Case of Charlotte Lennox conducting a professional literary life in eighteenth-century britain outside the bluestocking circle -- Punitive Injustice in Caleb Williams godwin's vexed call for penal reform -- Sensibility Reclaimed thomas blackwell, robert wood, and the "conjectural history" of homer -- Review Essays -- Organizing a Life and the "Lives" samuel johnson and the yale edition of johnson's lives of the poets -- Is Historical Fiction Still Revolutionary? Two Novels Set in Johnson's World -- Reviews -- Michael Schmidt. The Novel: A Biography. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 2014. Pp. XI + 1,172 -- David Alff.The Wreckage of Intentions: Projects in British Culture, 1660-1730. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. Pp. 239 -- Aileen Douglas. Work in Hand: Script, Print, and Writing, 1690-1840. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. XIV + 229 -- Julie Flavell. When London Was Capital of America. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2010. Pp. XII + 305 -- John Phibbs. Place-Making: The Art of Capability Brown. Swindon: Historic England, 2017. Pp. VII + 374 -- Notes on Contributors

Albion : the origins of the English imagination

Introduction: Albion -- Patterns of Eternity -- The Tree -- The Radiates -- Old English -- Listen! -- Why Is a Raven Like a Writing Desk? -- A Rare and Singular Bede -- The Song of the Past -- The Lives of Others -- A Land of Dreams -- A Note on English Melancholy -- The Rolling Hills -- It Rained All Night -- The Prose of the World -- The First Initials -- Anglo-Saxon Attitudes -- Middle English -- The Alteration -- He Is Not Dead -- The Piety of England -- Faith of Our Fathers -- Old Stone -- Part of the Territory -- The Poetry of England -- A Song and a Dance -- Fathers and Sons -- The Foolish Giant -- Solitaries and Recusants -- The Mysterious Voice -- The Inheritance -- Women and Silence -- The Female Religion -- A Renaissance -- But Newly Translated -- The Italian Connection -- Mungrell Tendencies -- A Short History of Shakespeare -- And Now for Streaky Bacon -- Antiquarianism and English History -- Among the Ruins -- The Conservative Tendency -- A Short History Lesson -- In the English Tradition -- The Song of the Sea -- A Brief Excursion -- A Miniature -- I Saw You, Missis -- An English Bible -- In the Beginning -- Cockney Visionaries -- London Calling -- A Wealth of Characters -- An Essay on the Essay -- The Hogarthian Moment -- Some Eminent Novelists -- A Character Study -- The Fine Art of Biography -- Women and Anger -- Femality and Fiction -- Melodrama -- Blood and Gore -- Ghosts -- Philosophy, Mockery and Learning -- Practice Makes Perfect -- Prolix and Prolific -- Some More Dunces -- Green England -- The Secret Garden -- Looking Backwards -- Forging a Language -- The Romantic Fallacy -- English Music -- Epilogue: The Territorial Imperative.

King Solomon's carpet

He died with his eyes open

Factory series

As the crow flies

Frost in May

A Virago modern classic

Virago modern classic.

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