Aspects of Recusant History Birrell T. a.
Aspects of Recusant History Birrell T. a. Thomas Anthony Birrell (1924-2011) was a man of many parts. He was the author of some very popular surveys of English Literature in Dutch, but - first and…
Specifikacia Aspects of Recusant History Birrell T. a.
Aspects of Recusant History Birrell T. a.
Thomas Anthony Birrell (1924-2011) was a man of many parts. He was the author of some very popular surveys of English Literature in Dutch, but - first and foremost - he was a bibliographer and a historian.His scholarly oeuvre is extensive and includes such highlights as English Monarchs and their Books (London 1986), a study of the Old Royal Library. For most of his working life he was Professor of English and American Literature in the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, where he was famous for his lively, humoristic and thought-provoking lectures.
That is why a - posthumous - selection of his bibliographical essays appeared in 2013, entitled Aspects of Book Culture (Ashgate 2013), and that is why it was decided to However, many of his publications are hidden in occasional publications, periodicals and introductions to books no longer in print.