Robert W Maslen (8 results)

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. illustrated edition. 160 pages. 8.25x5.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Library sticker on front cover. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:0198119917.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. It is forty years since the death of Mervyn Peake (1911-68), the author of the much-loved "Gormenghast" novels. To mark the anniversary this first comprehensive edition of Peake's poetry is published. Of the more than 230 poems in the collection, over 80 are printed for the first time. Peake emerges as a compelling poet, with an acute sense of his responsibilities as an artist. xvi, 259 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Slight shelf wear to edges, gift inscription to previous owner on title page, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.…

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 332 44:B&W 5.5 x 8.5 in or 216 x 140 mm (Demy 8vo) Case Laminate on Creme w/Gloss Lam.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 332.

Condition: New. PRINT ON DEMAND pp. 332.

Buch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - In Elizabethan Fictions, Robert Maslen argues that English writers of prose fiction from the 1550s to the 15570s produced some of the most daringly innovative publications of the sixteenth century. Through close examination of a number of key texts, from William Baldwin's satircal fable Beware the Cat to George Gascoigne's mock-romance he Adventures of Master F.J. and John Lyly's immensely popular Euphues books, he sets out to demonstrate the courage as well as the considerable skills which these undervalued authors brought to their work. They wrote at a time when the Elizabethan censorship system was growing increasingly rigorous in response to the perceived threat of infiltration from Catholic Europe, yet they chose to write books of a kind that was specifically associated with Catholic Italy and France. Their topics were the secrets, lies, and acts of petty treason which vitiated the private lives of the contemporary ruling classes, and their vigorous experiments with style and form marked out prose fiction for years to come as shifty and perilous literary territory. These writers presented themselves as masters of the arts of duplicity, whose talents made them emminently suitable for employment as informers or spies, whether for the government or for its most deadly ideological opponents. Their sophisticated narratives of sexual intrigue had a profound effect on the development of the complex poetry and drama which sprung up towards the end of the century, as well as of the modern novel. This book provides a much-needed reappraisal of their achievements.…

Buch. Condition: Neu. Elizabethan Fictions | Espionage, Counter-Espionage and the Duplicity of Fiction in Early Elizabethan Prose Narratives | Robert W. Maslen (u. a.) | Buch | Gebunden | Englisch | 1997 | OUP Oxford | EAN 9780198119913 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand. …