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69 produkter
Persuasion
Häftad, 2003
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
126 kr
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'In Persuasion, Jane Austen is beginning to discover that the world is larger, more mysterious, and more romantic than she had supposed' Virginia WoolfJane Austen's moving late novel of missed opportunities and second chances centres on Anne Elliot, no longer young and with few romantic prospects. …
On the Origin of Species
Av Charles Darwin, Gillian Beer
Häftad, 2008
119 kr
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'can we doubt ... that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind?'In the Origin of Species (1859) Darwin challenged many of the most deeply held beliefs of the Western world. His insistence on the immense …
Darwin's Plots
Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Av Gillian Beer
Häftad, 2009
542 kr
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Gillian Beer's classic Darwin's Plots, one of the most influential works of literary criticism and cultural history of the last quarter century, is here reissued in an updated edition to coincide with the anniversary of Darwin's birth and of the publication of The Origin of Species. Its focus on …
Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense
Collected Poems
Av Lewis Carroll, Gillian Beer
Häftad, 2013
179 kr
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'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe...' wrote Lewis Carroll in his wonderfully playful poem of nonsense verse, 'Jabberwocky'. This new edition collects together the marvellous range of Carroll's poetry, including nonsense verse, parodies, burlesques, and more. …
Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense
Collected Poems
Av Lewis Carroll, Gillian Beer
Inbunden, 2012
215 kr
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'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe...' wrote Lewis Carroll, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, in his wonderfully playful poem of nonsense verse, 'Jabberwocky'. This beautiful, clothbound new edition collects together the …
Persuasion
Inbunden, 2011
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239 kr
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Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and …
On the Origin of Species
Av Charles Darwin, Gillian Beer
E-bok, 2008
92 kr
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'' can we doubt ... that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind?'' In the Origin of Species (1859) Darwin challenged many of the most deeply held beliefs of the Western world. His insistence on the immense …
On the Origin of Species
Av Charles Darwin, Gillian Beer
E-bok, 2008
92 kr
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'' can we doubt ... that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind?'' In the Origin of Species (1859) Darwin challenged many of the most deeply held beliefs of the Western world. His insistence on the immense …
Alice in Space
The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll
Av Gillian Beer
Inbunden, 2016
1120 kr
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In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll created fantastic worlds that continue to delight and trouble readers of all ages today. What is often overlooked, however, is that Carroll conceived his Alice books during the 1860s, a moment of intense intellectual …
Alice in Space
The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll
Av Gillian Beer
Häftad, 2018
272 kr
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In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll created fantastic worlds that continue to delight and trouble readers of all ages today. Few consider, however, that Carroll conceived his Alice books during the 1860s, a moment of intense intellectual upheaval, as new …
In(ter)discipline
New Languages for Criticism
Av Gillian Beer, Beate Perrey m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
727 kr
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This book examines and breaks the routine to propose alternative languages for criticism. It shows the commitments of some of the most distinctive voices in criticism, from literature, music, the visual arts, psychoanalysis, and philosophy, amongst others, to comparative thinking.
Rereading Walter Pater
Av William F. Shuter, Gillian Beer
Häftad, 2005
729 kr
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Walter Pater is increasingly gaining recognition as a pivotal figure in nineteenth-century culture. His later work is often regarded as an effort to distance himself from his earlier, more controversial texts. In this 1997 book, William F. Shuter argues that Pater's writings demand a twofold …
Professional Domesticity in the Victorian Novel
Women, Work and Home
Av Monica Feinberg Cohen, Gillian Beer
Häftad, 2005
804 kr
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Much attention has recently been given by scholars to the widening of the gender gap in the nineteenth century and the concept of separate spheres. Testing such constructions, and questioning the stereotypes associated with Victorian domesticity, Monica F. Cohen offers new readings of narratives by …
Victorian Renovations of the Novel
Narrative Annexes and the Boundaries of Representation
Häftad, 2005
750 kr
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This study of narrative technique in Victorian novels introduces the concept of 'narrative annexes' whereby unexpected characters, impermissible subjects and plot-changing events are introduced within fictional worlds which otherwise exclude them. They are marked by the crossing of borders into …
Disease, Desire, and the Body in Victorian Women's Popular Novels
Av Pamela K. Gilbert, Gillian Beer
Häftad, 2005
767 kr
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Popular fiction in mid-Victorian Britain was regarded as both feminine and diseased. Critical articles of the time on fiction and on the body and disease offer convincing evidence that reading was metaphorically allied with eating, contagion and sex. Anxious critics traced the infection of the …
Physiognomy and the Meaning of Expression in Nineteenth-Century Culture
Häftad, 2006
804 kr
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In Physiognomy and the Meaning of Expression in Nineteenth-Century Culture, first published in 2001, Lucy Hartley examines the emergence of physiognomy as a form of popular science. Physiognomy posited an understanding of the inner meaning of human character from observations of physical …
Literature, Technology and Magical Thinking, 1880-1920
Av Pamela Thurschwell, Gillian Beer
Häftad, 2005
767 kr
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In this 2001 book Pamela Thurschwell examines the intersection of literary culture, the occult and new technology at the fin-de-siècle. Thurschwell argues that technologies began suffusing the public imagination from the mid-nineteenth century on: they seemed to support the claims of spiritualist …
Literary Culture and the Pacific
Nineteenth-Century Textual Encounters
Av Vanessa Smith, Gillian Beer
Häftad, 2005
654 kr
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This 1998 book examines a range of nineteenth-century European accounts from the Pacific, depicting Polynesian responses to imported metropolitan culture, in particular its technologies of writing and print. Texts designed to present self-affirming images of 'native' wonderment at European culture …
Ancestry and Narrative in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Blood Relations from Edgeworth to Hardy
Av Sophie Gilmartin, Gillian Beer
Häftad, 2005
654 kr
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This 1999 study addresses the question of why ideas of ancestry and kinship were so important in nineteenth-century society, and particularly in the Victorian novel. Through readings of a range of literary texts, Sophie Gilmartin explores questions fundamental to the national and racial identity of …
Aestheticism and Sexual Parody 1840-1940
Av Dennis Denisoff, Gillian Beer
Häftad, 2006
823 kr
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This original and provocative 2001 study discusses the work of a number of authors in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in order to argue that mainstream society was enabled to accept the non-normative sexuality of the Aesthetic Movement chiefly through parody and self-parody. Highlighting …
Realism, Representation, and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Av Alison Byerly, Gillian Beer
Häftad, 2006
729 kr
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This book confronts a significant paradox in the development of literary realism: the very novels that present themselves as purveyors and celebrants of direct, ordinary human experience also manifest an obsession with art that threatens to sabotage their Realist claims. Unlike previous studies of …
Fairies in Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature
Häftad, 2006
729 kr
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Although fairies are now banished to the realm of childhood, these diminutive figures were central to the work of many Victorian painters, novelists, poets and even scientists. It would be no exaggeration to say that the Victorians were obsessed with fairies: yet this obsession has hitherto …
Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body
Av Anna Krugovoy Silver, Gillian Beer
Häftad, 2006
767 kr
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Anna Krugovoy Silver examines the ways nineteenth-century British writers used physical states of the female body - hunger, appetite, fat and slenderness - in the creation of female characters. Silver argues that anorexia nervosa, first diagnosed in 1873, serves as a paradigm for the cultural ideal …
Testimony and Advocacy in Victorian Law, Literature, and Theology
Av Jan-Melissa Schramm, Gillian Beer
Häftad, 2006
824 kr
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The eighteenth-century model of the criminal trial - with its insistence that the defendant and the facts of a case could 'speak for themselves' - was abandoned in 1836, when legislation enabled barristers to address the jury on behalf of prisoners charged with felony. Increasingly, professional …
Ruskin's God
Av Michael Wheeler, Gillian Beer
Häftad, 2006
804 kr
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In this 1999 book, Michael Wheeler challenges critical orthodoxy by arguing that John Ruskin's writing is underpinned by a sustained trust in divine wisdom: a trust nurtured by his imaginative engagement with King Solomon and the temple in Jerusalem, and with the wisdom literature of the Old …
Dickens, Novel Reading, and the Victorian Popular Theatre
Av Deborah Vlock, Gillian Beer
Häftad, 2006
729 kr
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Dickens' novels, like those of his contemporaries, are more explicitly indebted to the theatre than scholars have supposed: his stories and characters were often already public property by the time they were published, circulating as part of a current theatrical repertoire well known to many …
George Eliot and the British Empire
Häftad, 2006
710 kr
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In this study Nancy Henry introduces a set of facts that place George Eliot's life and work within the contexts of mid-nineteenth-century British colonialism and imperialism. Henry examines Eliot's roles as an investor in colonial stocks, a parent to emigrant sons, and a reader of colonial …
Victorian Writing about Risk
Imagining a Safe England in a Dangerous World
Av Elaine Freedgood, Gillian Beer
Häftad, 2006
654 kr
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In Victorian Writing about Risk, first published in 2000, Elaine Freedgood explores the geography of risk produced by a wide spectrum of once-popular literature, including works on political economy, sanitary reform, balloon flight, Alpine mountaineering and African exploration. The consolations …
After Dickens
Reading, Adaptation and Performance
Häftad, 2006
654 kr
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After Dickens is both a performative reading of Dickens the novelist and an exploration of the potential for adaptive performance of the novels themselves. John Glavin conducts a historical inquiry into Dickens's relationship to the theatre and theatricality of his own time, and uncovers a much …
Death and the Mother from Dickens to Freud
Victorian Fiction and the Anxiety of Origins
Av Carolyn Dever, Gillian Beer
Häftad, 2006
842 kr
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The cultural ideal of motherhood in Victorian Britain seems to be undermined by Victorian novels, which almost always represent mothers as incapacitated, abandoning or dead. Carolyn Dever argues that the phenomenon of the dead or missing mother in Victorian narrative is central to the construction …
