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  • Island Garden
    Lynn Staley
    For centuries England’s writers used the metaphor of their country as an island garden to engage in a self-conscious debate about national identity. In The Island Garden: England’s Language of Nation from Gildas to Marvell, Lynn Staley suggests that the trope of Britain as an island garden catalyzed two crucial historical perspectives and thus analytic modes: as isolated and vu...
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    46,23 €

  • The Powers of the Holy
    David Aers / Justin Hall / Staley Lynn / Staley Lynn Staley
    The Powers of the Holy explores ways in which the language and images of Christian devotion in late fourteenth-century England were inextricably bound up with a variety of social and political relations. Addressing a wide range of texts, David Aers and Lynn Staley analyze the complex, shifting, and often extremely subtle forms in which writers responded to this situation. Aers ...
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    58,53 €

  • Margery Kempe’s Dissenting Fictions
    Justin Hall / Lynn Staley
    Margery Kempe’s Dissenting Fictions, a contextual and historical study of the Book, focuses on Kempe’s ability to construct a fiction that exploits the conventions of sacred biography and devotional prose as the means of scrutinizing the very foundations of fifteenth-century English society. Thus, though the Book is cast into a communally sanctioned 'female' form, Kempe uses th...
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    58,86 €

  • The Shepheardes Calender
    Justin Hall / Lynn Staley / Lynn Staley Johnson
    The Shepheardes Calender is the poem that launched Edmund Spenser’s career and changed the direction of English poetry. In this reappraisal, Lynn Staley Johnson demonstrates that Spenser himself made a self-conscious effort to create a new literature, a new esthetic for a new era. Drawing upon a wide range of primary sources, she places the poem in its literary, social, politic...
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    50,10 €