Frommer’s European Cruises & Ports of Call covers more than two dozen American and European cruise lines and about 80 ships, with full details on itineraries, rates, cabins, crews, cuisine, activities and entertainment, children's programs, pools and spas, fitness facilities, passenger profiles, and more.
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The Novel Now is an intelligent and engaging survey of contemporary British fiction.
* Discusses familiar names such as Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, and Angela Carter and compares them with more recent authors, including David Mitchell, Ali Smith, A.L. Kennedy, Matt Thorne, Nicola Barker, and Toby Litt * Incorporates original coverage of subgenres such as chick lit, lad lit, gay fiction, crime fiction, and the historical novel * Discusses the ways in which notions of regional identity and tribalist views have surfaced in UK and Irish fiction, and how post-Imperial sensibility has become a feature of the 'British' novel * Situates contemporary fiction within its socio-cultural and literary contexts.
Product Description: The Routledge Dictionary of Modern British History is an essential guide to the last two centuries of British history, which have witnessed democratization, international decline, devolution, the rise of the welfare state, and New Labour challenging the Conservatives as the natural party of government. This book includes: * every Prime Minister from Pitt the Younger to Tony Blair * protest movements from Chartism to CND * military conflict from the French Revolutionary Wars to Iraq * and milestones from the Act of Union to the Northern Ireland peace process
Encyclopedia of British Writers, 16th and 17th Centuries cannot replace reading and enjoying the works of the writers and artists whose entries follow, but it will help general readers and student researchers become more informed and appreciative of the works discussed herein.We hope that this encyclopedia creates a critical and historical context for one of the world’s greatest ages of the arts and sciences.
This book gives an ambitious revisionist account of the nineteenth-century British novel and its role in the complex historical process that ultimately gave rise to modern anthropology's concept of culture and its accredited researcher, the Participant Observer. Buzard reads the great nineteenth-century novels of Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and others as "metropolitan autoethnographies" that began to exercise and test the ethnographic imagination decades in advance of formal modern ethnography--and that did so while focusing on Western European rather than on distant Oriental subjects.
