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Fictions of Authority : Women Writers and Narrative Voice / by Lanser, Susan Sniader, 1944-

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Novel beginnings experiments in eighteenth-century English fiction / by Spacks, Patricia Ann Meyer

“…Yale guides to English literature.…”
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The relation of Tristram Shandy to the life of Sterne by James, Overton Philip

“…Studies in English literature (Hague, Netherlands) ;…”
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The love that failed ideal and reality in the writings of E.M. Forster / by Martin, Richard, M.A

“…Studies in English literature (Hague, Netherlands) ;…”
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In the Presence of Audience : The Self in Diaries and Fiction / by Martinson, Deborah, 1946-

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Narratives of the self /

“…English Literature and Culture in Context,…”
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Shaftesbury to Hume a study of the language of religion and ethics in England, 1660-1780 / by Rivers, Isabel

“…Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought: reason, grace, and sentiment ;…”
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The Pushkin handbook /

Table of Contents: “…. / Bocharov -- Pushkin and society / Todd -- Pushkin and the Caucasus / Ram -- The Pushkin myth in Russia / Sandler -- Pushkin and English literature / Dolinin -- Pushkin i frantsuskaja ... / Vol'pert -- Predshestvenikii ... / Proskurin -- Pushkin i literaturnoe ... / Vatsuro -- Pushkin and Romanticism / Gasparov -- Pushkin i realizm / Markovich -- Pushkin and music / Katz & Emerson -- Puskiniana as an encyclopedia / Evdokimova & Golstein.…”
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Inventing English a portable history of the language / by Lerer, Seth, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: finding English, finding us -- Caedmon learns to sing : Old English and the origins of poetry -- From Beowulf to Wulfstan : the language of Old English literature -- In this year : the politics of language and the end of Old English -- From kingdom to realm : middle English in a French world -- Lord of this langage : Chaucer's English -- I is an Ille a millere as are ye : Middle English dialects -- The great vowel shift and the changing character of English -- Chancery, Caxton, and the making of English prose -- I do, I will : Shakespeare's English -- A universal hubbub wild : new words and worlds in early modern English -- Visible speech : the Orthoepists and the origins of standard English -- A harmless drudge : Samuel Johnson and the making of the dictionary -- Horrid, hooting stanzas : Lexicography and literature in American English -- Antses in the sugar : dialect and regionalism in American English -- Hello, dude : Mark Twain and the making of the American idiom -- Ready for the funk : African American English and its impact -- Pioneers through an untrodden forest : the Oxford English dictionary and its readers -- Listening to Private Ryan : war and language -- He speaks in your voice : everybody's English.…”
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Youth and age in the medieval north

Table of Contents: “…: grandmothers and familial identity in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Iceland / Philadelphia Ricketts -- Age matters in Old English literature / Jordi Sánchez-Martí -- Becoming 'old', ageism and taking care of the elderly in Iceland c. 900-1300 / Jon Viðar Sigurðsson -- Old age in Viking-age Britain / Shannon Lewis-Simpson -- The patriarch : myth and reality / Armann Jakobsson -- Egill Skalla-Grímsson : a Viking poet as a child and an old man / Yelena Sesselja Helgadóttir Yershova.…”
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The English medieval book : studies in memory of Jeremy Griffiths /

Table of Contents: “…Jeremy John Griffiths : an address given at a memorial service in thanksgiving for his life / Vincent Gillespie -- Travels with Jeremy / Pedrag Milovanovic -- Introduction / Ralph Hanna -- A new Bohun / Christopher de Hamel -- Augustinian canons and middle English literature / Ralph Hanna -- Ushaw College, Durham, MS 50 : fragments of the Prick of conscience, by the same scribe as Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 201, of the B text of Piers Plowman / A.I. …”
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The Handbook of Salutogenesis

Table of Contents: “…Section I: History and Development of the Salutogenic Model -- Introduction to the Aim of the Book -- Aaron Antonovsky, the Scholar and the Man -- The Salutogenic Model of Health: Developments from 1979 to 1994 -- The Sense of Coherence as Appreciated by Antonovsky -- Section II: Developments in the Era after Antonovsky: Sense of Coherence -- The Role of Culture in the Development of Sense of Coherence -- Development of SOC over the Life Course -- Sense of Coherence: Individuals, Families, Community -- Critical Reflections on the Conceptualisation and Measurement of SOC -- Section III: Developments in the Era after Antonovsky -- The Conceptualisation, Nature, Sources and Measurement of Generalised Resistance Resources -- Public and Private Health Measures and Other Specific Resistance Resources -- The Concepts of Health in Research Based on the Salutogenic Model -- Section IV: Salutogenesis Research in Settings for Health Promotion -- Organisations and Work Life -- Schools -- Cities and Towns -- Community Gardens and Care Farms -- Health Care Settings -- Very Poor Settings in the Global South -- Correctional Settings -- Section V: Salutogenesis Scholarship in Non-English Literatures -- Dutch -- French -- German -- Hebrew -- Italian -- Japanese -- Polish -- Russian -- Scandinavian Languages -- Spanish -- Section VI: From the Present to the Future -- Newer Conceptualisations of the Salutogenic Model of Health -- Evidence-Based Revision of the Salutogenic Model -- Development of the Salutogenic Orientation as Part of a Larger Movement Towards Positive Perspectives in Health Promotion -- Conclusions -- Resources.…”
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Feminisms redux an anthology of literary theory and criticism /

Table of Contents: “…Gilbert and Susan Gubar -- "Dancing through the minefield : some observations on the theory, practice, and politics of a feminist literary criticism" (1980) / Annette Kolodny -- "What has never been : an overview of lesbian feminist literary criticism" (1981) / Bonnie Zimmerman -- "Aesthetics" from How to suppress women's writing (1983) / Joanna Russ -- "Caste, class, and canon" (1981/1987) / Paul Lauter -- "A criticism of our own : autonomy and assimilation in Afro-American and feminist literary theory" (1989) / Elaine Showalter -- "Introduction" from Gender in African women's writing : identity, sexuality, difference (1997) / Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi -- "Introduction : on the politics of literature" from The resisting reader : a feminist approach to American fiction (1978) / Judith Fetterley -- "The father's seduction" from The daughter's seduction: feminism and psychoanalysis (1982) / Jane Gallop -- "Constructing the subject : deconstructing the text (1985) / Catherine Belsey -- "Introduction" from Between men: English literature and male homosocial desire (1985) / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- "Gender assymetry and erotic triangles" from Between men: English literature and male homosocial desire (1985) / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- "Apostrophe, animation, and abortion" (1986) / Barbara Johnson -- "Feminist politics : what's home got to do with it?" …”
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Bathroom Songs: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick as a Poet /

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Aspects of recusant history / by Birrell, T. A.

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How We Write: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blank Page /

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Berlioz in Time : From Early Recognition to Lasting Renown / by Bloom, Peter

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