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A new approach to the visual arts in the work of John Donne

This book is a literary analysis of J.M. Barrie¿s Peter Pan in all its different versions -- key rewritings, dramatisations, prequels, and sequels -- and includes a synthesis of the main critical interpretations of the text over its history. A comprehensive and intelligent study of the Peter Pan phenomenon, this study discusses the book¿s complicated textual history, exploring its origins in the Harlequinade theatrical tradition and British pa...

This book is a literary analysis of J.M. Barrie¿s Peter Pan in all its different versions -- key rewritings, dramatisations, prequels, and sequels -- and includes a synthesis of the main critical interpretations of the text over its history. A comprehensive and intelligent study of the Peter Pan phenomenon, this study discusses the book¿s complicated textual history, exploring its origins in the Harlequinade theatrical tradition and British pa...

IBella Caledonia: Woman, Nation, Text/I looks at the widespread tradition of using a female figure to represent the nation, focusing on twentieth-century Scottish literature. The woman-as-nation figure emerged in Scotland in the twentieth century, but as a literary figure rather than an institutional icon like Britannia or France's Marianne. Scottish writers make use of familiar aspects of the trope such as the protective mother nation and the...