Part of the "Lives of Victorian Literary Figures" series, this set collects contemporary memoirs, biographies and ephemera relating to Oscar Wilde, Henry James and Edith Wharton. Editorial apparatus includes a general introduction, headnotes, endnotes and a general index.

Part of the "Lives of Victorian Literary Figures" series, this set collects contemporary memoirs, biographies and ephemera relating to Oscar Wilde, Henry James and Edith Wharton. Editorial apparatus includes a general introduction, headnotes, endnotes and a general index.

Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth (1905) is a sharp and satirical, but also sensitive and tragic analysis of a young, single woman trying to find her place in a materialistic and unforgiving society. The House of Mirth offers a fascinating insight into the culture of the time and, as suggested by the success of recent film adaptations, it is also an enduring tale of love, ambition and social pressures still relevant today.Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this vol...

"An excellent guide that explains how different beers are crafted and what gives these different types their synergies with superior cheeses." —Max McCalman, coauthor of Mastering CheeseGourmand Awards Winner—Beer category, USACheese & Beer capitalizes on the rapidly growing audience for craft beer in the U.S. and the enthusiasm these passionate beer fans have for good cheese. The beer enthusiast who wants to know which chee...

"An excellent guide that explains how different beers are crafted and what gives these different types their synergies with superior cheeses." —Max McCalman, coauthor of Mastering CheeseGourmand Awards Winner—Beer category, USACheese & Beer capitalizes on the rapidly growing audience for craft beer in the U.S. and the enthusiasm these passionate beer fans have for good cheese. The beer enthusiast who wants to know which chee...

A study on Li fet des Romains, a guide to Roman history which was also an ideological pamphlet for the king Philippe-Auguste. A study of significancce for medieval historiography.

Bien souvent, les textes du Moyen Age prétendent relater des faits vrais. Cette affirmation de véracité n'avait attiré que peu ou prou l'attention, bien que la déclaration dogmatique "ici est la Vérité" soit d'une grande importance dans tout texte narratif.C'est la vérité qui distingue l'Histoire de la fable et celle que l'auteur remet ici en cause. Madame Beer se penche particulièrement sur les textes de Guillaume de Poitiers, Guillaume de Jumières, La Gesta Francorum, Villehardoui...

In Their Own Words examines early medieval history-writing through quotation practices in five works, each in some way the first of its kind. Nithard’s Historiae de dissensionibus filiorum Ludovici Pii is extraordinary for its quotation of vernacular oaths, the first recorded piece of French. The Gesta Francorum is the first eye-witness account of the First Crusade. Geoffrey of Villehardouin’s La Conquête de Constantinople, written by a leader and negoti...

Conçue pour accompagner sa grande sœur des « Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance », la collection des « Cahiers d’Humanisme et Renaissance » rassemble une grande variété d’études, historiques, philologiques, bibliographiques ou littéraires, et d’éditions de sources (de théologiens réformés, de diplomates, d’historiens humanistes), dont le point commun est d’éclairer un aspect de la vie culturelle au xvie siècle et durant la première modernité.

Although she enjoyed only modest success during her lifetime, Kate Chopin is now recognised as a unique voice in American literature. Her seminal novel, The Awakening, published in 1899, explored new and startling territory, and stunned readers with its frank depiction of the limits of marriage and motherhood. Chopin's aesthetic tastes and cultural influences were drawn from both the European and American traditions, and her manipulation of her 'foreignness' contributed to the composition ...