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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
How the First World War influenced the author of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy: “Very much the best book about J.R.R. Tolkien that has yet been written.” —A. N. Wilson As Europe plunged into World War I, J. R. R. Tolkien was a student at Oxford and part of a cohort of literary-minded friends who had wide-ranging conversations in their Tea Club and Barrovian Society. After finishing his degree, Tolkien experienced the horrors of the Great War...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Language
English
Description
In 16th century England many loyal subjects to the crown were asked to make a terrible choice: to follow their monarch or their God. The era was one of unprecedented authoritarianism: England, it seemed, had become a police state, fearful of threats from abroad and plotters at home. This age of terror was also the era of the greatest creative genius the world has ever known: William Shakespeare. How, then, could such a remarkable man born into such...
Author
Series
Publisher
Adams Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Explores how English authors altered and transformed the English language and forms of writing. Describes prominent authors' works and how those works were influenced by, and in turn influenced, historical contexts and literary contexts"--
6) British and Irish literature and its times: Celtic migrations to the Reform Bill (beginnings-1830s)
Author
Series
World literature and its times volume 3
Publisher
Gale Group
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Author
Series
World literature and its times volume 4
Publisher
Gale Group
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Matters of Fact in Jane Austen: History, Location, and Celebrity makes the bold assertion that Jane Austen's novels allude to actual high-profile politicians and contemporary celebrities as well as to famous historical figures and landed estates. Janine Barchas is the first to conduct extensive research into the names and locations in Austen's fiction by taking full advantage of the explosion of archival materials now available online. According...
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