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The Historical Jesus and the Literary Imagination 1860–1920

The Historical Jesus and the Literary Imagination 1860–1920 Jennifer Stevens ISBN 978-1-789-62420-5 Pages 312 Format eBook Other Formats 9781846314704 (Hardback) Description Fictional reconstructions of the Gospels continue to find a place in contemporary literature and in the popular imagination. Present day writers of New Testament fiction and drama are usually considered as part of a…

Writing Life

Writing Life: Early Twentieth-Century Autobiographies of the Artist-Hero Mhairi Pooler ISBN 978-1-781-38479-4 Pages 208 Format eBook Other Formats 9781781381977(Hardback) Description Writers’ lives are endlessly fascinating for the reading public and literary scholars alike. By examining the self-representation of authors across the schism between Victorianism and Modernism via the First World War, this study offers a…

Tyranny and Usurpation

Tyranny and Usurpation: The New Prince and Lawmaking Violence in Early Modern Drama Doyeeta Majumder ISBN 978-1-786-94962-2 Pages 240 Format eBook Other Formats 9781786941688 (Hardback) Description In the middle years of the sixteenth century, English drama witnessed the emergence of the ‘tyrant by entrie’ or the usurper, who supplanted earlier ‘tyrant by the administration’ as…

John Keats’ Medical Notebook

John Keats’ Medical Notebook: Text, Context, and Poems Hrileena Ghosh ISBN 978-1-789-62472-4 Pages 320 Format eBook Other Formats 9781789620610 (Hardback) Reviews ‘John Keats’s Medical Notebook is an ingenious roadmap to conceptual issues in the teaching of Romantic medicine; its informed annotations and originality of research reveal the depth of Keats’s knowledge and comprehension of what he had learned…

Keeping the Ancient Way

Keeping the Ancient Way: Aspects of the Life and Work of Henry Vaughan (1621-1695) Robert Wilcher ISBN 978-1-800-85974-6 Pages 320 Format Hardback Price £90.00 Description Written by one of the editors of the new complete works of Henry Vaughan, Keeping the Ancient Way is the first book-length study of the poet by a single author for twenty…

The Use of English – The Current Issue

The Use of English, 73.3 Summer 2022 Editorial Kayte Haselgrove “… As you read through this diverse collection of offerings, can we ask that you don’t skip by the topics you don’t teach, or the sectors you might not work in, or the titles which don’t directly address the challenges you face in your day-to-day…