Leask Nigel Books
Books di Leask Nigel
Robert Burns and Pastoral
Leask Nigel
edizioni Oxford University Press collana (Hardcover) , 2010
Robert Burns and Pastoral is a full-scale reassessment of the writings of Robert Burns (1759-1796), arguably the most original poet writing in the British Isles between Pope and Blake, and the creator of the first modern vernacular style in British poetry. Although still celebrated as Scotland's national poet, Burns...
The Oxford Edition of the Works of Robert Burns
Leask Nigel (EDT)
edizioni Oxford University Press collana Oxford Univ Pr (Hardcover) , 2014
Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing, 1770-1840
Leask Nigel
edizioni Oxford University Press collana Oxford Univ Pr (Hardcover) , 2002
The first book of its kind to study the Romantic obsession with the "antique lands" of Ethiopia, Egypt, India, and Mexico, Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing is an important contribution to the recent wave of interest in exotic travel writing. Drawing generously on both original texts and modern scholarship...