Literary Criticism
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Literary Criticism
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Geraldine Hodgson - English Literature
This book is not meant to be a History of English Literature, but an introduction for those who do not know much about it, or who may be thinking of it as a «dull, horrid thing» which they have to learn in school. I...
12 hours 21 minutes
Literary Criticism
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William Hazlitt - Characters of Shakespeare's Plays
This famous Shakespearean exploration illuminates its plays through the frame of character, while also weighing theme, mood, structure and poetics. In it, 19th-century critic William Hazlitt unveils Shakespeare's...
10 hours 15 minutes
Literary Criticism
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Charles Harold Herford - Six lectures on literature
C. H. Herford was Professor of English Literature at the Victoria University of Manchester in era when public lectures were published in pamphlet form. The six lectures in this collection span Herford's career at the...
6 hours 18 minutes
History
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Isaac D'Israeli - Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3
This is the third and final volume of Isaac D'Israeli's monumental work Curiosities of Literature. It covers a great range of diverse topics, by no means limited to literature only, but also containing numerous essays...
25 hours 53 minutes
Essays & Short Works
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John Cowper Powys - Visions and Revisions
Powys presents a set of literary devotions of great figures in Literature who have obsessed him. He attempts not so much a reasoned critique or any attempt to categorise these figures but rather, as he describes in...
6 hours 49 minutes
Literary Criticism
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Thomas Alfred Spalding - Elizabethan Demonology
Elizabethan Demonology: An Essay in Illustration of the Belief in the Existence of Devils, and the Powers Possessed By Them, as It Was Generally Held during the Period of the Reformation, and the Times Immediately...
4 hours 16 minutes
