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Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers
Explorations in Victorian Literature and Science
Inbunden, 2013
1329 kr
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‘Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers: Explorations in Victorian Literature and Science’ is an edited collection of essays from leading authorities in the field of Victorian literature and science, including Gillian Beer and George Levine. Darwin, Tennyson, Huxley, Ruskin, Richard Owen, Meredith, …
Jane Austen's Families
Inbunden, 2013
1329 kr
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“Jane Austen’s Families” focuses on family dynamics in Jane Austen’s six novels. After a general introduction, which places its approach in the context of ethical criticism, it divides into two sections. The first, “Family Dynamics,” consists of three chapters – “The Function of the Dysfunctional …
Bakhtin and his Others
(Inter)subjectivity, Chronotope, Dialogism
Av Liisa Steinby, Tintti Klapuri
Inbunden, 2013
1329 kr
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‘Bakhtin and his Others’ aims to develop an understanding of Mikhail Bakhtin’s ideas through a contextual approach, particularly with a focus on Bakhtin studies from the 1990s onward. The volume offers fresh theoretical insights into Bakhtin’s ideas on (inter)subjectivity and temporality – …
William Morris and the Uses of Violence, 1856–1890
Inbunden, 2013
1329 kr
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‘William Morris and the Uses of Violence, 1856–1890’ combines a close reading of Morris’s work with historical and philosophical analysis in order to argue, contrary to prevailing critical opinion, that his writings demonstrate an enduring commitment to an ideal of violent battle. The work examines …
Jane Austen and her Readers, 1786–1945
Av Katie Halsey
Inbunden, 2012
1329 kr
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‘Jane Austen and her Readers, 1786–1945’ is a study of the history of reading Jane Austen’s novels. It discusses Austen’s own ideas about books and readers, the uses she makes of her reading, and the aspects of her style that are related to the ways in which she has been read. The volume considers …
Constitution of Shelley's Poetry
The Argument of Language in Prometheus Unbound
Häftad, 2011
486 kr
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‘The Constitution of Shelley’s Poetry’ is a close philosophical reading of ‘Prometheus Unbound’ and other Shelley works from the perspective of the argument or drama of language played out in its pages. The book urges and practises close reading, but in the thought of Stanley Cavell, it finds and …
Decadent Verse
An Anthology of Late-Victorian Poetry, 1872-1900
Häftad, 2011
659 kr
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This volume is both an essential resource for undergraduates and graduates studying Victorian and Decadent literature and an instructive work for enthusiastic readers of verse. The wide span of the 1872–1900 epoch enables readers to appreciate in great depth the literary developments that led to …
Dickens and the Sentimental Tradition
Fielding, Richardson, Sterne, Goldsmith, Sheridan, Lamb
Inbunden, 2012
1329 kr
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‘Dickens and the Sentimental Tradition’ is a timely study of the ‘sentimental’ in Dickens’s novels, which places them in the context of the tradition of Fielding, Richardson, Sterne, Goldsmith, Sheridan and Lamb. This study re-evaluates Dickens’s presentation of emotion – first within the …
Touching God
Hopkins and Love
Av Duc Dau
Inbunden, 2012
1329 kr
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‘Touching God: Hopkins and Love’ is the first book devoted to love in the writings of Gerard Manley Hopkins, illuminating our understanding of him as a romantic poet. Discussions of desire in Hopkins’ poetry have focused on his unrequited attraction to men. In contrast, Duc Dau turns to Luce …
Empire and the Animal Body
Violence, Identity and Ecology in Victorian Adventure Fiction
Av John Miller
Inbunden, 2012
1329 kr
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‘Empire and the Animal Body: Violence, Identity and Ecology in Victorian Adventure Fiction’ develops recent work in animal studies, eco-criticism and postcolonial studies to reassess the significance of exotic animals in Victorian adventure literature. Depictions of violence against animals were …
Edward Bouverie Pusey and the Oxford Movement
Av Rowan Strong, Carol Engelhardt Herringer
Inbunden, 2012
1200 kr
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The Oxford Movement, initiating what is commonly called the Catholic Revival of the Church of England and of global Anglicanism more generally, has been a perennial subject of study by historians since its beginning in the 1830s. But the leader of the movement whose name was most associated with it …
Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
A Famous Poem and Its Influence
Av William H. Martin, Sandra Mason
Häftad, 2011
200 kr
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The book presents the text of Edward FitzGerald’s three main versions of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, together with non-technical commentary on the origins, role and influence of the poem, including the story of its publication. The commentary also addresses the many spin-offs the poem has …
Changing France
Literature and Material Culture in the Second Empire
Av Anne Green
Inbunden, 2011
1165 kr
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The French Second Empire (1852-70) was a time of exceptionally rapid social, industrial and technological change. French literature also underwent fundamental changes during this period as writers embraced ‘modernity’ and incorporated new technologies, fashions and inventions into their work. …
FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Popularity and Neglect
Av Adrian Poole, Christine van Ruymbeke m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1148 kr
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Edward FitzGerald's ‘Rubáiyát’, loosely based on verses attributed to the eleventh-century Persian writer, Omar Khayyám, has become one of the most widely known poems in the world, republished virtually every year from 1879 to the present day, and translated into over eighty different languages. …
George Eliot's Grammar of Being
Inbunden, 2011
1329 kr
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George Eliot’s writing process was meticulous in all of its phases, from manuscript to published text. Each of her extensive novels has a delicately crafted syntax, for she shaped her individual sentences as carefully as she wanted her public to read them. Building on the influence of Victorian …
Anthology of Nineteenth-Century American Science Writing
Inbunden, 2012
1131 kr
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This volume is a brief anthology of the most influential writing by American scientists between 1800 and 1900. Arranged thematically and chronologically to highlight the progression of American science throughout the nineteenth century – from its beginnings in self-taught classification and …
Christian Fiction and Religious Realism in the Novels of Dostoevsky
Inbunden, 2011
1329 kr
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This study offers a literary analysis and theological evaluation of the Christian themes in the five great novels of Dostoevsky - 'Crime and Punishment', 'The Idiot', 'The Adolescent', 'The Devils' and 'The Brothers Karamazov'. Dostoevsky's ambiguous treatment of religious issues in his literary …
Collected Works of Ann Hawkshaw
Inbunden, 2014
1300 kr
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‘The Collected Works of Ann Hawkshaw’ brings together Hawkshaw’s four volumes of poetry and republishes them for the first time. Debbie Bark’s biography, introduction and notes highlight Hawkshaw’s most significant poems and propose connections with more canonical works alongside which her writing …
Mapping the Nation
An Anthology of Indian Poetry in English, 1870–1920
Häftad, 2013
579 kr
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Focusing specifically on the poetic construction of India, ‘Mapping the Nation’ offers a broad selection of poetry written by Indians in English during the period 1870–1920. Centering upon the “mapping” of India – both as a regional location and as a poetic ideal – this unique anthology presents …
Touching God
Hopkins and Love
Av Duc Dau
Häftad, 2013
486 kr
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‘Touching God: Hopkins and Love’ is the first book devoted to love in the writings of Gerard Manley Hopkins, illuminating our understanding of him as a romantic poet. Discussions of desire in Hopkins’ poetry have focused on his unrequited attraction to men. In contrast, Duc Dau turns to Luce …
Jane Austen and her Readers, 1786–1945
Av Katie Halsey
Häftad, 2013
486 kr
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‘Jane Austen and her Readers, 1786–1945’ is a study of the history of reading Jane Austen’s novels. It discusses Austen’s own ideas about books and readers, the uses she makes of her reading, and the aspects of her style that are related to the ways in which she has been read. The volume considers …
Anthology of Nineteenth-Century American Science Writing
Häftad, 2013
422 kr
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This volume is a brief anthology of the most influential writing by American scientists between 1800 and 1900. Arranged thematically and chronologically to highlight the progression of American science throughout the nineteenth century – from its beginnings in self-taught classification and …
Changing France
Literature and Material Culture in the Second Empire
Av Anne Green
Häftad, 2013
435 kr
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The French Second Empire (1852-70) was a time of exceptionally rapid social, industrial and technological change. French literature also underwent fundamental changes during this period as writers embraced ‘modernity’ and incorporated new technologies, fashions and inventions into their work. …
George Eliot's Grammar of Being
Häftad, 2013
475 kr
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George Eliot’s writing process was meticulous in all of its phases, from manuscript to published text. Each of her extensive novels has a delicately crafted syntax, for she shaped her individual sentences as carefully as she wanted her public to read them. Building on the influence of Victorian …
Lost Companions and John Ruskin’s Guild of St George
A Revisionary History
Av Mark Frost
Inbunden, 2014
1329 kr
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This important work in Ruskin studies provides for the first time an authoritative study of Ruskin’s Guild of St George. It introduces new material that is important in its own right as a significant piece of social history, and as a means to re-examine Ruskin’s Guild idea of self-sufficient, …
Significant Hamlin Garland
A Collection of Essays
Av Donald Pizer
Inbunden, 2014
1329 kr
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‘The Significant Hamlin Garland’ collects the best of Donald Pizer’s essays dealing with Garland’s early work and activities in an effort to re-establish the importance of this formative stage in his career. The essays in the first part of the book are devoted to Garland’s radical economic and …
Dickens and the Sentimental Tradition
Fielding, Richardson, Sterne, Goldsmith, Sheridan, Lamb
Häftad, 2014
486 kr
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‘Dickens and the Sentimental Tradition’ is a timely study of the ‘sentimental’ in Dickens’s novels, which places them in the context of the tradition of Fielding, Richardson, Sterne, Goldsmith, Sheridan and Lamb. This study re-evaluates Dickens’s presentation of emotion – first within the …
Empire and the Animal Body
Violence, Identity and Ecology in Victorian Adventure Fiction
Av John Miller
Häftad, 2014
486 kr
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‘Empire and the Animal Body: Violence, Identity and Ecology in Victorian Adventure Fiction’ develops recent work in animal studies, eco-criticism and postcolonial studies to reassess the significance of exotic animals in Victorian adventure literature. Depictions of violence against animals were …
Edward Bouverie Pusey and the Oxford Movement
Av Rowan Strong, Carol Engelhardt Herringer
Häftad, 2014
448 kr
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The Oxford Movement, initiating what is commonly called the Catholic Revival of the Church of England and of global Anglicanism more generally, has been a perennial subject of study by historians since its beginning in the 1830s. But the leader of the movement whose name was most associated with it …
Jane Austen's Families
Häftad, 2014
471 kr
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“Jane Austen’s Families” focuses on family dynamics in Jane Austen’s six novels. After a general introduction, which places its approach in the context of ethical criticism, it divides into two sections. The first, “Family Dynamics,” consists of three chapters – “The Function of the Dysfunctional …
