Author: Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191063835
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 689
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191063835
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 689
Book Description
The New Arthurian Encyclopedia
Author: Norris J. LacyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136606327
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1490
Book Description
First published in 1996. Now updated with a new information-packed 40-page Supplement covering the years 1990-1995, this unique Encyclopedia highlights the World of King Arthur from its origins in Dark Age Britain to the present day, when Arthurian novels, films, and music continue to appear around the world at an astonishing rate. The Supplement, which provides five full years of coverage not available anywhere else, enhances the usefulness of more than 1,300 entries on all aspects of the Arthurian legend-in literature, history, folklore, archaeology, art, and music. Written by an international team of over 130 authorities, no other work approaches this A-Z guide to the legends of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table for breadth and depth of coverage. This is the ultimate source for reliable information on topics as diverse as the Grail, Tristan and Isolde, Lancelot and Guenevere, Arthurian operas, the historicity of Arthur, and more.
Publications
Author: Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oxford (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Representing Place in British Literature and Culture, 1660-1830
Author: Evan GottliebPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317065891
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Revising traditional 'rise of the nation-state' narratives, this collection explores the development of and interactions among various forms of local, national, and transnational identities and affiliations during the long eighteenth century. By treating place as historically contingent and socially constructed, this volume examines how Britons experienced and related to a landscape altered by agricultural and industrial modernization, political and religious reform, migration, and the building of nascent overseas empires. In mapping the literary and cultural geographies of the long eighteenth century, the volume poses three challenges to common critical assumptions about the relationships among genre, place, and periodization. First, it questions the novel’s exclusive hold on the imagining of national communities by examining how poetry, drama, travel-writing, and various forms of prose fiction each negotiated the relationships between the local, national, and global in distinct ways. Second, it demonstrates how viewing the literature and culture of the long eighteenth century through a broadly conceived lens of place brings to the foreground authors typically considered 'minor' when seen through more traditional aesthetic, cultural, or theoretical optics. Finally, it contextualizes Romanticism’s long-standing associations with the local and the particular, suggesting that literary localism did not originate in the Romantic era, but instead emerged from previous literary and cultural explorations of space and place. Taken together, the essays work to displace the nation-state as a central category of literary and cultural analysis in eighteenth-century studies.
Oxford Historical Society
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oxford (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
A Catalogue of Books, ... Containing Theology, Ecclesiastical History, Biography, ... and Miscellaneous English Books; Nearly the Whole of which are in Very Fine Condition; Now on Sale at the Low Prices Affixed
Author: William StrongPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library, Etc
Author: Guildhall Library (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Spanish Romance in the Battle for Global Supremacy
Author: Victoria MuñozPublisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1785273310
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Did Spanish explorers really discover the sunken city of Atlantis or one of the lost tribes of Israel in the site of Aztec Mexico? Did classical writers foretell the discovery of America? Was Baja California really an island or a peninsula—and did romances of chivalry contain the answer? Were Amazon women hiding in Guiana and where was the location of the fabled golden city, El Dorado? Who was more powerful, Apollo or Diana, and which claimant nation, Spain or England, would win the game of empire? These were some of the questions English writers, historians and polemicists asked through their engagement with Spanish romance. By exploring England’s fanatical consumption of so-called books of the brave conquistadors, this book shows how the idea of the English empire took root in and through literature.
Imagining the Pagan Past
Author: Marion GibsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415674182
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Imagining the Pagan Past explores stories of Britain's pagan history. These tales have been characterised by gods and fairies, folklore and magic. They have had an uncomfortable relationship with the scholarly world; often being seen as historically dubious, self-indulgent romance and, worse, encouraging tribal and nationalistic feelings or challenging church and state. This book shows how important these stories are to the history of British culture, taking the reader on a lively tour from prehistory to the present. From the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, Marion Gibson explores the ways in which British pagan gods and goddesses have been represented in poetry, novels, plays, chronicles, scientific and scholarly writing. From Geoffrey of Monmouth to Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare to Seamus Heaney and H.G. Wells to Naomi Mitchison it explores Romano-British, Celtic and Anglo-Saxon deities and fictions. The result is a comprehensive picture of the ways in which writers have peopled the British pagan pantheons throughout history. Imagining the Pagan Past will be essential reading for all those interested in the history of paganism.
A Supplement to the View of the English Editions, Translations and Illustrations of the Ancient Greek and Latin Authors: With Remarks
Author: Lewis William BrüggemannPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1666783587
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
