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  • Keats's Reading of the Romantic Poets

    by Beth Lau ...
    Keats's Reading of the Romantic Poets offers the first comprehensive analysis of Keats’s familiarity with the works of his most famous contemporaries: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, and Shelley. Beth Lau considers a variety of questions: which volumes and individual poems Keats read, what editions he used, when he read them, where he might have acquired copies, and why he read and responded as he ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Fellow Romantics

    Male and Female British Writers, 1790�1835

    Edited by Beth Lau ...
    Series series The Nineteenth Century Series
    Beginning with the premise that men and women of the Romantic period were lively interlocutors who participated in many of the same literary traditions and experiments, Fellow Romantics offers an inspired counterpoint to studies of Romantic-era women writers that stress their differences from their male contemporaries. As they advance the work of scholars who have questioned binary approaches to ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Keats’s Reading / Reading Keats

    Essays in Memory of Jack Stillinger

    Edited by Beth Lau, Greg Kucich, Daniel Johnson ...
    This book explores John Keats’s reading practices and intertextual dialogues with other writers. It also examines later writers’ engagements with Keats’s poetry. Finally, the book honors the distinguished Keats scholar Jack Stillinger and includes an essay surveying his career as well as a bibliography of his major publications. The first section of the volume, “Theorizing Keats’s Reading,” ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Jane Austen and Sciences of the Mind

    Edited by Beth Lau ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Romanticism
    The essays in this volume interpret Jane Austen’s fiction through the lens of various sciences of the mind and brain, especially the cluster of disciplines implicated in the term cognitive science, including neuroscience, evolutionary biology, evolutionary and developmental psychology, and others. The field of cognitive literary studies has rapidly developed in the last few decades and achieved ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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    by Michael Schmidt ...
    National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistIn this stunning volume of epic breadth, Michael Schmidt connects the lives and works of more than 300 poets over the last 700 years--spanning distant shores from Scotland to Australia to the Caribbean, all sharing the English language.Schmidt reveals how each poet has transformed "a common language of poetry" into the rustic rhythms and elegiac ballads, ... Read more

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  • Why Love Hurts

    A Sociological Explanation

    by Eva Illouz ...
    Few of us have been spared the agonies of intimate relationships. They come in many shapes: loving a man or a woman who will not commit to us, being heartbroken when we're abandoned by a lover, engaging in Sisyphean internet searches, coming back lonely from bars, parties, or blind dates, feeling bored in a relationship that is so much less than we had envisaged - these are only some of the ways ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare Beyond Doubt

    Evidence, Argument, Controversy

    Edited by Paul Edmondson, Stanley Wells ...
    Did Shakespeare write Shakespeare? The authorship question has been much treated in works of fiction, film and television, provoking interest all over the world. Sceptics have proposed many candidates as the author of Shakespeare's works, including Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe and Edward De Vere, the seventeenth Earl of Oxford. But why and how did the authorship question arise and what does ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Gilbert and Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic after Thirty Years

    Edited by Annette R. Federico ...
    When it was published in 1979, Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imaginationwas hailed as a pathbreaking work of criticism, changing the way future scholars would read Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, the Brontës, George Eliot, and Emily Dickinson. This thirtieth-anniversary collection adds both valuable reassessments and ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Jane Austen, Game Theorist

    by Michael Suk-Young Chwe ...
    How the works of Jane Austen show that game theory is present in all human behaviorGame theory—the study of how people make choices while interacting with others—is one of the most popular technical approaches in social science today. But as Michael Chwe reveals in his insightful new book, Jane Austen explored game theory's core ideas in her six novels roughly two hundred years ago—over a century ... Read more

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  • English Literature

    A Student Guide

    by Martin Stephen ...
    Now appearing in its third edition, Martin Stephen's classic text and course companion to English literature has been thoroughly revised and updated, taking account of the changes which have occurred in the subject since publication of the second edition. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to 'Pride and Prejudice'

    Edited by Janet Todd ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Named in many surveys as Britain's best-loved work of fiction, Pride and Prejudice is now a global brand, with film and television adaptations making Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy household names. With a combination of original readings and factual background information, this Companion investigates some of the sources of the novel's power. It explores key themes and topics in detail: money, land, ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry

    by Linda K. Hughes ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    Victorian poetry was read and enjoyed by a much larger audience than is sometimes thought. Publication in widely-circulating periodicals, reprinting in book reviews, and excerpting in novels and essays ensured that major poets such as Tennyson, Browning, Hardy and Rossetti were household names, and they remain popular today. The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry provides an accessible ... Read more

    $27.89 USD