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  • Mary Wollstonecraft

    A Very Short Introduction

    by E. J. Clery ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Mary Wollstonecraft is widely hailed as the mother of modern feminism. The book that made her famous, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, is a work of worldwide renown. Yet the range of her achievements as a thinker and writer reaches far beyond this text. She was a multi-faceted author, and although the condition of women was a constant ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Anna Letitia Barbauld

    New Perspectives

    by Stephen Bygrave, E. J. Clery, Jocelyn Harris, Sonia Hofkosh, Naomi Lightman, Sabine Volk-Birke, Joanna Wharton, Isobel Armstrong, Isobel Grundy, Felicity James, Scott Krawczyk, Michelle Levy, Rachel Trethewey, Dr Gillian Dow ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    Anna Letitia Barbauld: New Perspectives is the first collection of essays on poet and public intellectual Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743–1825). By international scholars of eighteenth-century and Romantic British literature, these new essays survey Barbauld’s writing from early to late: her versatility as a stylist, her poetry, her books for children, her political writing, her performance as editor ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Eighteen Hundred and Eleven

    Poetry, Protest and Economic Crisis

    by E. J. Clery ...
    Series Book 116 - Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
    In 1811 England was on the brink of economic collapse and revolution. The veteran poet and campaigner Anna Letitia Barbauld published a prophecy of the British nation reduced to ruins by its refusal to end the interminable war with France, titled Eighteen Hundred and Eleven. Combining ground-breaking historical research with incisive textual analysis, this new study dispels the myth surrounding ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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    Mary Wollstonecraft

    A Very Short Introduction

    by E.J. Clery ...
    Narrated by Susan Duerden ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 16 min

    Mary Wollstonecraft is widely hailed as the mother of modern feminism. The book that made her famous, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, is a work of worldwide renown. Yet the range of her achievements as a thinker and writer reach far beyond this text. She was a multi-faceted author, and although the condition of women was a constant preoccupation throughout her life, she wrote on a wide ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth-Century Novel

    Edited by J. A. Downie ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Although the emergence of the English novel is generally regarded as an eighteenth-century phenomenon, this is the first book to be published professing to cover the 'eighteenth-century English novel' in its entirety. This Handbook surveys the development of the English novel during the 'long' eighteenth century-in other words, from the later seventeenth century right through to the first three ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Feminism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Margaret Walters ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    How much have women's lives really changed? In the West women still come up against the 'glass ceiling' at work, most earning considerably less than their male counterparts. What are we to make of the now commonplace insistence that feminism deprives men of their rights and dignities? And how does one tackle the issue of female emancipation in different cultural and economic environments - in, for ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel

    Edited by Deirdre David ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In the Victorian period, the British novel reached a wide readership and played a major role in the shaping of national and individual identity. As we come to understand the ways the novel contributed to public opinion on religion, gender, sexuality and race, we continue to be entertained and enlightened by the works of Dickens, George Eliot, Thackeray, Trollope and many others. This second ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • John Stuart Mill

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Gregory Claeys ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring John Stuart Mill (1806-73) is widely regarded as the leading liberal philosopher, economist, and political theorist of nineteenth century Britain. In his lifetime he was best known for his System of Logic (1843) and the Principles of Political Economy (1848). Today Mill is chiefly identified with On Liberty (1859), perhaps the definitive text ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Ends of Life

    Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England

    by Keith Thomas ...
    How should we live? That question was no less urgent for English men and women who lived between the early sixteenth and late eighteenth centuries than for this book's readers. Keith Thomas's masterly exploration of the ways in which people sought to lead fulfilling lives in those centuries between the beginning of the Reformation and the heyday of the Enlightenment illuminates the central values ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The History of Emotions

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Thomas Dixon ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Emotions are complex mental states that resist reduction. They are visceral reactions but also beliefs about the world. They are spontaneous outbursts but also culturally learned performances. They are intimate and private and yet gain their substance and significance only from interpersonal and social frameworks. And just as our emotions in ... Read more

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  • English Literature in Context

    Edited by Paul Poplawski ...
    This is the second edition of English Literature in Context, a popular textbook which provides an essential resource and reference tool for all English literature students. Designed to accompany students throughout their degree course, it offers a detailed narrative survey of the diverse historical and cultural contexts that have shaped the development of English literature, from the Anglo-Saxon ... Read more

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  • Slumming

    Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London

    by Seth Koven ...
    In the 1880s, fashionable Londoners left their elegant homes and clubs in Mayfair and Belgravia and crowded into omnibuses bound for midnight tours of the slums of East London. A new word burst into popular usage to describe these descents into the precincts of poverty to see how the poor lived: slumming. In this captivating book, Seth Koven paints a vivid portrait of the practitioners of slumming ... Read more

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