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Product Description: Originally published in 1969. In the seventeenth century neither the literary genre nor the term ‘autobiography’ existed but we see in seventeenth-century literature many kinds of autobiographical writings, to which their authors gave such titles as ‘Journal of the Life of Me, Confessions, etc...read more

Product Description: George Orwell was asked to write a biography of George Gissing, having hailed him as "perhaps the best novelist England has produced." He had to refuse, and instead of a book like this one, Orwell wrote a novel, 1984. His closeness to Gissing can help draw the map of English literature from 1880 to 1950...read more

Product Description: Bill Brandt, the greatest of British photographers, who visually defined the English identity in the mid-twentieth century, was an enigma. Indeed, despite his assertions to the contrary, he was not in fact English at all. His life, like much of his work, was an elaborate construction...read more

Although born in Hamburg in 1904, Bill Brandt's photographic work struck at the heart of what was 'English' from the publication of his first book, 'The English at Home' in the 1930s to his later famous landscapes. This title explores his life and work.

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Product Description: For better or worse, postmodernism has become the master concept for thinking about the culture of our time. "Vancouver: Representing the Postmodern City" examines how Vancouver has been represented through literary and iconic narratives of power, morality, and ethnicity...read more

Recounts the life of the English poet who died during World War I, looks at the group of his friends and fellow poets known as the Neo-Pagans, and discusses the influence of homosexuality on his life

Delves into the circumstances of Lawrence's life during the First World War, bringing to light the impact of the growing horror of the war on Lawrence's physical and emotional health and on the writing of Women in Love