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  • Thomas Carlyle and the Idea of Influence

    by Paul E. Kerry, Albert D. Pionke, Megan Dent, Mark Allison, Laura Beer, Michael Bentley, Laura H. Clarke, Elizabeth J. Deis0, Lowell T. Frye1, Stephanie Hicks2, Marylu Hill3, Ulrike I. Hill4, Ralph Jessop5, Tim Sommer6, Madeleine Emerald Thiele7, John M. Ulrich8, Chris R. Vanden Bossche9, Brian Young0, Kazuo Yokouchi1 ...
    That Thomas Carlyle was influential in his own lifetime and continues to be so over 130 years after his death is a proposition with which few will disagree. His role as his generation’s foremost interpreter of German thought, his distinctive rhetorical style, his approach to history via the “innumerable biographies” of great men, and his almost unparalleled record of correspondence with ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • Mothering Modernity

    Feminism, Modernism, and the Maternal Muse

    by Marylu Hill ...
    Series series Origins of Modernism
    This study examines the transformative relationship between Victorian mothers and their modern daughters in the works of six early British modernists (E. M. Forster, Dorothy Richardson, D.H. Lawrence, May Sinclair, Radclyffe Hall, and Virginia Woolf). The emphasis upon a female hero is a significant and largely unremarked similarity in some of the most significant works of these authors. In these ... Read more

    $45.99 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

  • The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf

    Edited by Susan Sellers ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Virginia Woolf's writing has generated passion and controversy for the best part of a century. Her novels - challenging, moving, and always deeply intelligent - remain as popular with readers as they are with students and academics. The highly successful Cambridge Companion has been fully revised to take account of new departures in scholarship since it first appeared. The second edition includes ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Children's Literature

    Edited by M. O. Grenby, Andrea Immel ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Some of the most innovative and spell-binding literature has been written for young people, but only recently has academic study embraced its range and complexity. This Companion offers a state-of-the-subject survey of English-language children's literature from the seventeenth century to the present. With discussions ranging from eighteenth-century moral tales to modern fantasies by J. K. Rowling ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

    Edited by Morag Shiach ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The novel is modernism's most vital and experimental genre. In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. No one technique or style defines a novel as modernist. Instead, these essays explain the formal innovations, stylistic preferences and thematic concerns ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

    by Jason Edwards ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Thinkers
    Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick was one of the most significant literary theorists of the last forty years and a key figure in contemporary queer theory. In this engaging and inspiring guide, Jason Edwards:introduces and explains key terms such as affects, the first person, homosocialities, and queer taxonomies, performativities and cuspsconsiders Sedgwick’s poetry and textile art alongside her theoretical ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Precocious Children and Childish Adults

    Age Inversion in Victorian Literature

    by Claudia Nelson ...
    Especially evident in Victorian-era writings is a rhetorical tendency to liken adults to children and children to adults. Claudia Nelson examines this literary phenomenon and explores the ways in which writers discussed the child-adult relationship during this period.Though far from ubiquitous, the terms “child-woman,” “child-man,” and “old-fashioned child” appear often enough in Victorian ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • A Companion to Virginia Woolf

    Edited by Jessica Berman ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
    A Companion to Virginia Woolf is a thorough examination of her life, work, and multiple contexts in 33 essays written by leading scholars in the field.Contains insightful and provocative new scholarship and sketches out new directions for future researchApproaches Woolf's writing from a variety of perspectives and disciplines, including modernism, post-colonialism, queer theory, animal studies, ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to E. M. Forster

    Edited by David Bradshaw ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This collection of essays, each one by a recognized expert, provides lively and innovative readings of every aspect of Forster's wide-ranging career. It includes substantial chapters dedicated to his two major novels, Howards End and A Passage to India, and further chapters focus on A Room With a View and Maurice. Forster's connections with the values of Bloomsbury and the lure of Greece and Italy ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Value of Virginia Woolf

    by Madelyn Detloff ...
    Series series The Value of
    In The Value of Virginia Woolf, Madelyn Detloff explores the writings of Virginia Woolf from her early texts to her challenging and inventive novels. Detloff demonstrates why Woolf has enduring value for our own time, both as a defender of modernist experimentation and as a novelist of innovation and poetic vision who also exhibits moments of intense insight and philosophical depth. A famously ... Read more

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  • The ghost story 1840–1920

    A cultural history

    by Andrew Smith ...
    The ghost story 1840-1920: A cultural history examines the British ghost story within the political contexts of the long nineteenth century. By relating the ghost story to economic, national, colonial and gendered contexts' it provides a critical re-evaluation of the period.The conjuring of a political discourse of spectrality during the nineteenth century enables a culturally sensitive ... Read more

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