Literary Studies and Criticism

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Updated June 10, 2026
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Modernism : a literature in crisis
Eagleton, Terry
Paper Book
An engaging, approachable introduction to literary modernism   Modernism represented an astonishing outbreak of cultural innovation, spanning artforms and nations. It was centred around feelings of growing alienation in an industrial world, and a desire to...
How the world became a book in Shakespeare's England
Lamb, Jonathan P.
Paper Book
Human beings build their worlds using metaphors. Just as computer technology has inaugurated a massive metaphorical transformation in the present era, in which we can 'reboot' social causes or 'program' human behaviour, books spawned new metaphorical worlds in the newly print-savvy early modern...
Sex and style : literary criticism and gender in early modern England
Scott-Baumann, Elizabeth
Ebook
A new literary history that places women writers at the center of poetic theory and practice in English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Many of the terms we use today to describe poetic style originated in the early modern period: original ideas, feminine...
Sexual restraint and aesthetic experience in Victorian literary decadence
Green, Sarah
Ebook

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