Hogarth Vol. I: The Modern Moral Subject, 1697-1732 By Ronald Paulson ISBN: 9780718828547 ‘This is an astonishing book, and I don’t know when I last read anything on the 18th century from which I learned as much. It is a quite remarkably full chronicle of Hogarth’s life, based on the exhaustive information Paulson has exhumed… Continue reading Review! Hogarth
South Africans have gathered in Johannesburg and Soweto to mourn their former leader, Nelson Mandela, who died on Thursday aged 95. Crowds have been paying tribute, dancing and singing in front of Mr Mandela’s former home in Soweto. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary as… Continue reading Nelson Mandela death: South Africa and world mourn
Children’s Literature and Social Change Some Case Studies from Barbara Hofland to Philip Pullman By Dennis Butts ISBN: 9780718892081 ‘Butts is surely one of the pioneers of the discipline, helping to establish its academic credibility in the UK, at least, and involved in establishing the first MA in the subject at the University of Reading.… Continue reading Review! Children’s Literature and Social Change
Guess at the Rest Cracking the Hogarth Code By Elisabeth Soulier-Detis ISBN: 9780718892159 ‘Elisabeth Soulier-Detis has now boldly set out to show that this sophisticated repertoire is also suffused with a Masonic iconography hitherto unobserved by previous generations of scholars.’ Andrew Pink, Journal for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism, Vol. 3, No 1, 2012
We are really excited to present this new publication, Private Lives of the Ancient Mariner, and in this post you can find some information about the author and her character, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who was a founder… Continue reading Samuel Taylor Coleridge and ‘Private Lives of the Ancient Mariner’
Private Lives of the Ancient Mariner Coleridge and his Children By Molly Lefebure ISBN: 9780718893002 ‘There are few biographers who can claim such a long, intense engagement with their subjects as Lefebure. If she sometimes writes as though convinced she has cleared up all the complex mysteries of Coleridge’s character […] perhaps it’s because she… Continue reading Review! Private Lives of the Ancient Mariner
Extramural Literature and Lifelong Learning By Adrian Barlow ISBN: 9780718892791 ‘Adrian Barlow presents evidence and argument, eloquently and richly illustrated from his teaching experience, for the continued relevance of adult education. Barlow is clearly a fine teacher of English Literature and this book […] merits a late addition and placing to enhance the library record… Continue reading Review! Extramural
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