Peter j kitson editors (4 risultati)

Decorative Hardcover. Condizione: Poor. Dust Jacket Missing. 783 pp. Book shows heavy use. Solidly bound copy with heavy external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Multiple stains on fore, bottom edge and front cover Dj (if any) missing.

Condizione: Minor rubbing. VG. orig.boards Minor rubbing. VG. 22x14cm, lxviii,783 pp Contents: English Language; Old English Language; Middle English; Middle English: Chaucer; The 16th Century: Excluding Drama after 1550; Shakespeare; Renaissance Drama: Exclusing Shakespeare; The Earlier 17th Century: Excluding Drama; Milton; The Later 17th Century; The 18th Century;The 19th Century: Romantic Period; Victoiran Period; The 20th Century; American Literature to 1900; American Literature: the 20th Century; New Literatures in English.…

Condizione: Minor rubbing. VG. orig.boards Minor rubbing. VG. 22x14cm, lxxiv,1082 pp Contents: English Language; Old English Literature; Middle English, Excluding Chaucer; Middle English: Chaucer; The 16th Century: Excluding Drama after 1550; Shakespeare; Renaissance Drama: Excluding Shakespeare; The Earlier 17th Century: Excluding Drama; Milton; The Later 17th Century; The 18th Century; The 19th Century: Romantic Period; Victorian Period; The 20th Century; American Literature to 1900; American Literature; The 20th Century; New Literatures in English; Bibliography & Textual Criticism. …

Cloth. Condizione: Fine. First edition. An excellent complete four volume first edition set of this expansive study of travel and travel writing through history. Complete in four volumes. First edition. A series exploring some of the earliest collections of travel writing, drawing together pieces from 1770 to 1835, and reflecting the diversity of travel literature from the late eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries. The study includes Romantic-period texts dating from the first publishing boom of popular writings on travel, through contemporaneous accounts of travels in the Victorian era, when British colonialism was approaching its zenith. Revealing something of the cultural and gender difference of the travellers, as well as contemporary ideas on colonialism, anthropology and slavery. Volume one focuses on North America, volume two the Far East, volume three the North and South Poles, and volume four the Middle East. With a selection of texts reproduced in facsimile. Edited by Tim Fulford, an English professor and researcher whose specialises in the literature in the Romantic era, in the contexts of colonialism, exploration, science, landscape, the picturesque, religion; Carol Bolton, a British professor at Loughborough University, noted for her research in Romantic-period literature particularly in the areas of travel, exploration and colonialism; and Peter J. Kitson, a British academic and author, who is Professor of Romantic Literature and Culture at the University of East Anglia where he teaches and researches the literature and culture of the British Romantic era. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine. None (illustratore). book.…