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…narratives. Arguing that recent materialist approaches to Defoe are insufficiently attentive to the dominant preoccupations of his fictional oeuvre, which center on issues of moral accountability and self-definition, it addresses the need to examine more sharply Defoe's novelistic achievement i More

The Market Leader specialist titles extends the scope of the Market Leader series and allows teachers to focus on the reading skills and vocabulary development required for specific areas of business. More

Comprises a critical edition of an 18th-century text describing the wreck of the East India Company packet, the Antelope, in the Pelew Islands (now Pelau or Belau in the western Carolines, in Micronesia) and the subsequent amicable relations between the crew and the islanders. More

Provides evidence to validate parts of Hirtle's theory and to investigate several problems, some of which are mentioned in his work as subjects for further research. Specific areas are ailment nouns, liquid names, endings in "-ings", binary objects, abstract "-s", and external singulars. More

An account of the RSA 'Shakespeare in Schools' Project. More

The Wickenheiser Collection contains more than six thousand volumes, including more than sixty seventeenth-century editions of Milton's writings and significant holdings of seventeenth-century Miltoniana. Augmented by nearly 300 color illustrations, this book includes descriptions of nearly… More

This book interprets Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles with the openness toward experience recommended by John Dewey's Art as Experience. The characters of Tess are considered as real people with sexual bodies and complex minds. Efron identifies the "experience blockers" that the critical… More

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Contributes to a better understanding not only of ecclesiastical power and politics but of life in an elite household in seventeenth-century Britain More

Analysis of accounts disbursed by the royal treasury, alongside text and translation in excerpt, provides richly detailed information on clothing at the time. More

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Contains an account and reflection on each diverse stage of Philip Roth's fifty-year career. This book confronts his diversity by accounting for each stage of Rothian preoccupation, from the comedy and seriousness to the Judaism and psychoanalysis. It reveals the changing face of liberalism, and the… More

Includes an account and reflection on each diverse stage of Philip Roth's fifty-year career. This book confronts his diversity by accounting for each stage of Rothian preoccupation, from the comedy and seriousness to the Judaism and psychoanalysis. It reveals the changing face of liberalism, and the… More

…the period 1512-78, the High Cross churchwardens' accounts of Stratton, in Cornwall, are unusually complete and informative. Written mostly in English, they are among only eighteen surviving sets of Pre-Reformation churchwardens' accounts which cover the whole period 1535-70, when most Reformation… More

Offers a comparative approach to ethnic literature that begins by accounting for the intrinsic historical, geographical, and political contingencies of different American cultures. This work looks at a range of writing, from novels to literature. More

Employing a form-to-function mapping, thanking formulae are not only analysed quantitatively, but also qualitatively accounting for local contexts and genre. This title contributes insights to research on thanking (formulae), politeness, variational pragmatics and media discourse. More

Offers a comparative approach to ethnic literature that begins by accounting for the intrinsic historical, geographical, and political contingencies of different American cultures. This work looks at a range of writing, from novels to literature. More

…textbook takes a critical approach to the analysis of syntactic structures, using a highly restrictive analytic toolkit to introduce students to the methods of syntactic analysis that have proven successful in accounting for a huge range of phenomena in natural language sentence patterns. More

…textbook takes a critical approach to the analysis of syntactic structures, using a highly restrictive analytic toolkit to introduce students to the methods of syntactic analysis that have proven successful in accounting for a huge range of phenomena in natural language sentence patterns. More

…and linguist, describes three siblings' apportioning of linguistic and cultural space among three languages: Portuguese, Swedish and English. Parallel strategies accounting for monolingual and multilingual language management shape a truly illuminating picture of child linguistic competence. More

Professional English in Use Finance is the latest exciting addition to the bestselling English Vocabulary in Use titles. More

First comprehensive account of Africa's economic history. More

Finance Fictions examines the tension between psychosis and realism in the contemporary finance novel and shows that compared to earlier instances of the genre (Wolfe; Ellis), the 21st-century finance novel (Alger; Harris; Houellebecq; Lerner) develops a new realist approach to a contemporary… More

This is the only comprehensive guide for wri ters showing them the money available to them yearly in the form of grants, prizes and bursaries. ' More

In the 1990s we witnessed the growth of computer software providers from small businesses into multi-billion dollar giants. In 1998 it was easy for such companies to raise money. But investment funds have dried up. Why? And more importantly, is there a way to reverse the trend? More

An account of Socrates' encounter with divine revelation More

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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer John Matteson, an account of the "Susan Sontag" of nineteenth-century America. More

A comprehensive account of London's celebrated East End killer, revised and updated. More

'A fascinating account of provincial life and manners.' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT More

This book provides a rich and accessible account of genre studies by a world-renowned applied linguist. More

First full-scale account of the use of the Arthurian legend in the long twelfth century. More

Engaging account of the fortunes of a farming family during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. More

Edition and translation of important documents, providing an account of the foundation of a Cambridge college. More

Contributes to scholarship on Edward Said by providing a comprehensive account of his theory of exile More

A unique account of one of history's most intriguing literary groups. More

This book provides a brief account of the origins, history, and sense-development of more than 38,000 words. More

Comprehensively revised and updated to take account of the impact of technology on the field of materials development More

A critical account of George Orwell's politics, exploring his anti-fascism, criticism of the USSR and enduring commitment to socialism More

This volume offers an explanatory account of the progress of academic language proficiency testing in the UK. More

This book is a thorough account of Hermann Zapf's contributions to the artistry and success of Hallmark Cards. More

An engagingly written account of textile engineering in its key northern centres, rich with historical narrative and analysis. More

The first ever book-length account of Spenser's monsters and their relation to the poetic imagination in the Renaissance. -- . More

Account of life in the trenches from the author of I, Claudius, and read by Martin Jarvis More

…from the Margins' is an account of the 1930s writing of two of the most popular authors of the time. Locating the work of Louis MacNeice and Dylan Thomas historically, the book questions standard accounts of the period as Auden-dominated and offers a theoretical account of the engagement of both… More

A Will to Believe is a revised version of Kastan's 2008 Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lectures, providing a provocative account of the ways in which religion animates Shakespeare's plays. More

Volume Seven of the Oxford History of the Novel in English offers the fullest and most nuanced account available of the last eight decades of British prose fiction. More

A Will to Believe is a revised version of Kastan's 2008 Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lectures, providing a provocative account of the ways in which religion animates Shakespeare's plays. More

Shakespeare and the English-speaking Cinema offers a lively and authorative account of the ways in which Shakespeare's plays have been adapted for the screen. More

A detailed account of the performance history of As You Like It through the modern period, focusing on landmark stage and film productions. -- . More

Helen Carr's account draws on both recent feminism and postcolonial theory, and places Jean Rhys's work in relation to modernist and postmodernist writing. More