 | The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell
Buy new: £7.57 / Used from: £5.83 Intensely readable dissection of the British Literary response to the Great War. A classic in every sense.
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 | Minotaur: Poetry in the Nation State by Tom Paulin
Buy used from: £10.80 Idiosyncratic but finely honed essays on the political and historical resonances of English poetry, from one of the sharpest literary minds in the business!
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 | The New Bloomsday Book: Guide Through "Ulysses" by Harry Blamires
Buy new: £15.49 / Used from: £14.99 Stake your claim in the greatest novel ever written! The front door key to Joyce's masterpiece.
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 | This Stage-Play World: Texts and Contexts, 1580-1625 (OPUS) by Julia Briggs
Buy new: £24.70 / Used from: £7.09 Lucid and original introduction to the Elizabethan Age. Will reinvent your reading!
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 | The Critical Eye (Language Skills) by Don Shiach
Buy used from: £0.01 Getting old, but still a great tool to begin serious close critical reading.
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 | The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (Penguin Psychology) by Bruno Bettelheim
Buy new: £7.11 / Used from: £4.94 Hugely impressive psychological deconstruction of fairy tales. A must to decode magic realism.
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 | Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001 by Seamus Heaney
Buy used from: £7.46 A great critic also - following the Yeatsian model! One of poetry's most impressive modern advocates.
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 | The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-century Literary Imagination (Yale Nota Bene) by SM Gilbert
Buy new: £9.49 / Used from: £5.96 Resounding overview of 19th century writing in English by women. Comprehensive, detailed and revolutionary.
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 | Renaissance Self Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare by Stephen J. Greenblatt
Buy used from: £13.31 Founding text of new historicism - the realisation of the self in Renaissance literature
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| Thomas Hardy and British Poetry by Donald Davie
Buy used from: £20.95 Guide to the roots of modern poetry in English - back to Hardy's Wessex.
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