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  • The London Object The London Object
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    The London Object

    This book argues that certain works by Michael Moorcock, Iain Sinclair, Penelope Lively, Peter Ackroyd, and J.G. Ballard constitute the coordinates of an altermodernity that might bring to an end the...
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    The English Actor
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    The English Actor

    The English Actor charts the uniquely English approach to stagecraft. In thirty chapters, Peter Ackroyd describes, with superb narrative skill, the genesis of acting - deriving from the Church...
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    Lost in the Postmodern Metropolis

    London wird in zeitgenössischen Romantexten häufig als Ort einer gesteigerten Fragmentierung und Kontingenz konstruiert. Die Metropole als Kristallisationspunkt postmoderner Tendenzen steht in engem...
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  • The Making of London The Making of London
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    The Making of London

    London has become the focus of a ferocious imaginative energy since the rise of Thatcher. The Making of London analyses the body of exceptional work by writers who have unconditionally committed...
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    The English Soul
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    The English Soul

    The English Soul portrays the spirit and nature of English Christianity as it has developed over the last 1,400 years. As the predominant faith of the people, Christianity has been the reflection,...
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  • At Swim, Two Boys
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    At Swim, Two Boys

    ~ The Irish contemporary classic in a beautiful new edition ~ 'Weren't you never out for an easy dip?' he asked . . . 'I don't mean the baths, I mean with a pal. For a lark like.'Out at the Forty...
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  • Killing Children in British Fiction Killing Children in British Fiction
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    Killing Children in British Fiction

    Investigates how British fiction and film use dangerous and endangered children to explore conflicts over the future, from the Thatcher to Brexit eras.This book stems from a simple yet disturbing...
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  • Conceiving the City
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    Conceiving the City

    Conceiving the City is an innovative study of the ways in which a generation of late-Victorian novelists, poets, painters, and theoreticians attempted to represent London in literature and art...
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    Conversations with Jay Parini

    Jay Parini (b. 1948) is best known for his novel about Leo Tolstoy's last year, The Last Station, which has been translated into more than twenty-five languages and made into a Hollywood film...
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  • The First English Dictionary of Slang 1699
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    The First English Dictionary of Slang 1699

    The first work dedicated solely to the subject of slang words and their meanings, this book is a lost gem originally intended to educate the polite London classes in the parlance of thieves and...
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    Beautiful Dream

    Beautiful Dream: A Poetics of Ecstasy follows on from Barry Cottrell's first book of shamanic incantations or 'utterances' - Sounding Eternity: Shamanic Incantations and the Poetics of Sonic Power,...
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