Author: Rick Robinson
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448157404
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 381
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Rebel. Prisoner. Princess. When the crown prince of Lyonesse is assassinated, his fiery daughter, Catherine, is taken to Aquitaine, where she is raised at the royal court and given two ladies-in-waiting to protect her from all who conspire against her. Now that the time has come for Catherine to return to Lyonesse, she finds herself surrounded by enemies. Danger lies around every corner, but Catherine will not stop until she has overcome her oppressors and taken what is rightfully hers. She may just live to claim her crown. Perfect for fans of Philippa Gregory, Catherine of Lyonesse is an irresistible historical romance.
Author: Besant
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Languages : en
Pages : 592
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Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
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Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Author: Corinne J. Saunders
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780859916103
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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"The study then considers the treatment of rape and ravishment in a range of literary genres: in hagiography, female saints are repeatedly threatened with rape; the stories of Lucretia and Helen underpin legendary history; the acts of rape and ravishment challenge and shape chivalric order in romance; otherworldly rapes result in the conception of romance heroes. The final two chapters examine the ways in which Malory and Chaucer write and rewrite rape and ravishment."--BOOK JACKET.
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Category : Petroleum
Languages : en
Pages : 686
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Author: Algernon Charles Swinburne
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 1780223412
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 145
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The last of the Romantics, Swinburne's poems took the public by storm, intoxicated by their rhythms and shocked by his lack of restraint.
Author: Henry Sotheran Ltd
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Languages : en
Pages : 674
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Author: Catherine Maxwell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191005215
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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This lively, accessible book is the first to explore Victorian literature through scent and perfume, presenting an extensive range of well-known and unfamiliar texts in intriguing and imaginative new ways that make us re-think literature's relation with the senses. Concentrating on aesthetic and decadent authors, Scents and Sensibility introduces a rich selection of poems, essays, and fiction, exploring these texts with reference to both the little-known cultural history of perfume use and the appreciation of natural fragrance in Victorian Britain. It shows how scent and perfume are used to convey not merely moods and atmospheres but the nuances of the aesthete or decadent's carefully cultivated identity, personality, or sensibility. A key theme is the emergence of the olfactif, the cultivated individual with a refined sense of smell, influentially represented by the poet and critic Algernon Charles Swinburne, who is emulated by a host of canonical and less well-known aesthetic and decadent successors such as Walter Pater, Edmund Gosse, John Addington Symonds, Lafcadio Hearn, Michael Field, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Symons, Mark André Raffalovich, Theodore Wratislaw, and A. Mary F. Robinson. This book explores how scent and perfume pervade the work of these authors in many different ways, signifying such diverse things as style, atmosphere, influence, sexuality, sensibility, spirituality, refinement, individuality, the expression of love and poetic creativity, and the aura of personality, dandyism, modernity, and memory. A coda explores the contrasting twentieth-century responses of Virginia Woolf and Compton Mackenzie to the scent of Victorian literature.
Author: Tory Pearman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429818149
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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This book considers the representation of disability and knighthood in Malory’s Morte Darthur. The study asserts that Malory’s unique definition of knighthood, which emphasizes the unstable nature of the knight’s physical body and the body of chivalry to which he belongs, depends upon disability. As a result, a knight must perpetually oscillate between disability and ability in order to maintain his status. The knights’ movement between disability and ability is also essential to the project of Malory’s book, as well as its narrative structure, as it reflects the text’s fixation on and alternation between the wholeness and fragmentation of physical and social bodies. Disability in its many forms undergirds the book, helping to cohere the text’s multiple and sometimes disparate chapters into the "hoole book" that Malory envisions. The Morte, thus, construes disability as an as an ambiguous, even liminal state that threatens even as it shores up the cohesive notion of knighthood the text endorses.
Author: Catherine Christian
Publisher: MacMillan
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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Based on the life of King Arthur.
