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If you loved Annotations to Finnegans Wake by Roland McHugh, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Modern, European, and Literary Criticism.

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Julian Wolfreys

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern • European

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William K. Wimsatt, Jr.

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern • European

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Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern • European

Atlas of Tolkien Deluxe Edition — David Day

Atlas of Tolkien Deluxe Edition

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern • European

The Haunted Wood A History of Childhood Reading — Sam Leith

The Haunted Wood A History of Childhood Reading

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern • European

Sapphic Modernities Sexuality, Women and National Culture — L. Doan

Sapphic Modernities Sexuality, Women and National Culture

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern • European

The Most Dangerous Book The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses — Kevin Birmingham

The Most Dangerous Book The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses

Kevin Birmingham

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern • European

George Orwell’s Perverse Humanity Socialism and Free Speech — Glenn Burgess

George Orwell’s Perverse Humanity Socialism and Free Speech

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern • European

Walter Macken Critical Perspectives — Sandra Heinen

Walter Macken Critical Perspectives

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern • European

Kafka and Pinter Shadow-Boxing — R. Armstrong

Kafka and Pinter Shadow-Boxing

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern • European

Vera Brittain and the First World War The Story of Testament of Youth — Mark Bostridge

Vera Brittain and the First World War The Story of Testament of Youth

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern • European

The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry — Peter Robinson

The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern • European

Reading and Writing Women’s Lives A Study of the Novel of Manners — Bege K. Bowers

Reading and Writing Women’s Lives A Study of the Novel of Manners

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern • European

Woolf Studies Annual Volume 13 — Mark Hussey

Woolf Studies Annual Volume 13

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern • European

Wyndham Lewis An Anthology of His Prose — E. W. F. Tomlin

Wyndham Lewis An Anthology of His Prose

E. W. F. Tomlin

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern • European

The Narnian The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis — Alan Jacobs

The Narnian The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern • European

The Language of George Orwell — Roger Fowler

The Language of George Orwell

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern • European

Modernism, Material Culture and the First World War — Cedric Van Dijck

Modernism, Material Culture and the First World War

Cedric Van Dijck

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern • European

Samuel Beckett and Technology — Galina Kiryushina

Samuel Beckett and Technology

Galina Kiryushina

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern • European

W. B. Yeats and T. Sturge Moore Their Correspondence 1901-1937 — Ursula Bridge

W. B. Yeats and T. Sturge Moore Their Correspondence 1901-1937

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern • European

The Inklings, the Victorians, and the Moderns Reconciling Tradition in the Modern Age — Christopher Butynskyi

The Inklings, the Victorians, and the Moderns Reconciling Tradition in the Modern Age

Christopher Butynskyi

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern • European

Imperium of the Soul The Political and Aesthetic Imagination of Edwardian Imperialists — Norman Etherington

Imperium of the Soul The Political and Aesthetic Imagination of Edwardian Imperialists

Norman Etherington

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern • European

Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Writing Between Them Turning the Table — Jennifer D. Ryan-Bryant

Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Writing Between Them Turning the Table

Jennifer D. Ryan-Bryant

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern • European

Agatha Christie — Cathy Cook

Agatha Christie

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern • European

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Modern, European — the same threads that run through Annotations to Finnegans Wake by Roland McHugh. Among the authors featured: Julian Wolfreys, William K. Wimsatt, Jr., Thomas Jackson Rice, David Day, and others.

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