The Cambridge Companion to John Clare : Cambridge Companions to Literature - Sarah Houghton-Walker

The Cambridge Companion to John Clare

By: Sarah Houghton-Walker (Editor)

Hardcover | 21 October 2024

At a Glance

Hardcover


$177.60

or 4 interest-free payments of $44.40 with

 or 

Aims to ship in 7 to 10 business days

The fascinations of John Clare's life are manifold. A labouring-class poet and naturalist, he was lionised in the early 1820s but spent his final decades incarcerated in asylums. In this Companion leading scholars illuminate Clare's rich life and writing, situating each within a range of critical contexts. Essays rooted in discourses as diverse as ecocriticism, aesthetics, religion, health, and time are accompanied by explorations of the construction of the idea (including the self-identity) of Clare through writing and images. The collection also traces influences upon Clare, and considers the ways in which he has influenced subsequent poets in turn. The volume includes a chronology and an invaluable guide to further reading, and provides students with a firm grounding in Clare's writings and his critical reception: this is an indispensable guide to the poet and his work.

More in History & Criticism of Literature

Normal Women : 900 Years Of Making History - Philippa Gregory
Wifedom : Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life : Our July Book of the Month - Anna Funder
Night : Penguin Modern Classics - Elie Wiesel

RRP $22.99

$17.75

23%
OFF
Dracula : Penguin Classics - Bram Stoker
The Idiot : Penguin Classics - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Metamorphosis : Popular Penguins : Popular Penguins - Franz Kafka
Meditations : Penguin Classics - Marcus Aurelius
The Crucible : A Play in Four Acts - Arthur Miller

RRP $22.99

$17.75

23%
OFF
The Book of Yokai : Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore - Michael Dylan Foster
The Merchant of Venice : Cambridge School Shakespeare - Robert Smith
Crime and Punishment : Penguin Classics - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Nineteen Eighty Four : Penguin Modern Classics - George Orwell
On Writing : A Memoir of the Craft - Stephen King

RRP $22.99

$21.90

Twelve Angry Men : Penguin Classics - Reginald Rose
Scene of the Crime : A Novel - Patrick Modiano

RRP $26.95

$25.75