broadview press ltd aug 2001 (4 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Helen Maria Williams was a poet, novelist, and radical thinker deeply immersed in the political struggles of the 1790s. Her Letters Written in France is the first and most important of eight volumes chronicling the French Revolution to an England fearful of another civil war. Her twenty-six letters recounting old regime tyranny and revolutionary events provide both an apology for the Revolution and a representation of it as sublime spectacle.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In The Pool in the Desert, first published in 1903, Sara Jeannette Duncan explores the impact of isolation on the small British communities of Victorian India. In the four stories collected here'The Pool in the Desert," 'A Mother in India," 'An Impossible Ideal," and 'The Hesitation of Miss Anderson"Duncan's women have certain freedoms living amidst the reaches of Empire, but they also must negotiate their way through a landscape dominated by the constraints of small military societies.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In June, 1860, Browning purchased an ''old yellow book'' from a bookstall in Florence. The book contained legal briefs, pamphlets, and letters relating to a case that had been tried in 1698. Browning resolved to use it as the source for a poem. The result, The Ring and the Book, is one of the most important long poems of the Victorian era.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Native Poetry in Canada: A Contemporary Anthology is the only collection of its kind. It brings together the poetry of many authors whose work has not previously been published in book form alongside that of critically-acclaimed poets, thus offering a record of Native cultural revival as it emerged through poetry from the 1960s to the present. The poets included here adapt English oratory and, above all, a sense of play. Native Poetry in Canada suggests both a history of struggle to be heard and the wealth of Native cultures in Canada today.