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  • Global Dickens

    by Nirshan Perera ...
    Series series A Library of Essays on Charles Dickens
    This volume of essays provides a selection of leading contemporary scholarship which situates Dickens in a global perspective. The articles address four main areas: Dickens's reception outside Britain and North America; his intertextual relations with and influence upon writers from different parts of the world; Dickens as traveller; and the presence throughout his fiction and journalism of ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • Recovering Your Story

    Proust, Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, Morrison

    by Arnold Weinstein ...
    “Great art discovers for us who we are,” writes eminent literature professor and critic Arnold Weinstein in this magisterial new book about how we can better uncover and understand our own stories by reading five major modern writers. Professor Weinstein, author of the highly acclaimed A Scream Goes Through the House, has spent a lifetime guiding students through the work of great writers, and in ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Age of Shakespeare

    Enriched edition. Exploring Shakespeare's Legacy & Literary Impact

    by Algernon Charles Swinburne, Jacob Sloane ...
    In "The Age of Shakespeare," Algernon Charles Swinburne explores the rich tapestry of the English Renaissance, delving into the life and works of William Shakespeare within the context of his contemporaries. Swinburne employs a lush, evocative literary style characterized by its rhythmic cadence and vibrant imagery. The book not only scrutinizes Shakespeare's plays but also the cultural, political ... Read more

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  • A Scream Goes Through the House

    What Literature Teaches Us About Life

    by Arnold Weinstein ...
    “For too long we have been encouraged to see culture as an affair of intellect, and reading as a solitary exercise. But the truth is different: literature and art are pathways of feeling, and our encounter with them is social, inscribing us in a larger community.... Through art we discover that we are not alone.”So writes the esteemed Brown University professor Arnold Weinstein in this brilliant, ... Read more

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  • Jack the Ripper in Film and Culture

    Top Hat, Gladstone Bag and Fog

    by Clare Smith ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    In 1888 the name Jack the Ripper entered public consciousness with the brutal murders of women in the East End of London. The murderer was never caught, yet film and television depicts a killer with a recognisable costume, motive and persona. This book examines the origins of the screen presentation of the four key elements associated with the murders – Jack the Ripper, the victims, the detective ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Modernist Papers

    by Fredric Jameson ...
    Cultural critic Fredric Jameson, renowned for his incisive studies of the passage of modernism to postmodernism, returns to the movement that dramatically broke with all tradition in search of progress for the first time since his acclaimed A Singular Modernity .The Modernist Papers is a tour de froce of anlysis and criticism, in which Jameson brings his dynamic and acute thought to bear on the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Reinventing King Arthur

    The Arthurian Legends in Victorian Culture

    by Inga Bryden ...
    Series series The Nineteenth Century Series
    In her systematic reassessment of the remaking of the Arthurian past in nineteenth-century British fiction and non-fiction, Inga Bryden examines the Victorian Arthurian revival as a cultural phenomenon, offering insights into the relationship between social, cultural, religious, and ethnographic debates of the period and a wide range of texts. Throughout, she adopts an intertextual and historical ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Anna Hume

    Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part Three, Volume 8

    by Thomas P. Roche Jr. ...
    Series Book 3 - The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works & Printed Writings, 1641-1700: Series II
    Little is known of Anna Hume except as the translator of the first three of Petrach's Trionfi and also as the daughter of David Hume of Godscroft whose History of the Houses of Douglas and Angus she edited in one of its troubled versions. This volume reprints her translation of Petrarch's The Triumphs of Love - a series of six poems celebrating Petrarch's purported devotion to Laura. The poems ... Read more

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  • Reading Victorian Illustration, 1855-1875

    Spoils of the Lumber Room

    by Paul Goldman ...
    In a reevaluation of that period in Victorian illustration known as 'The Sixties,' a distinguished group of international scholars consider the impact of illustration on the act of reading; its capacity to reflect, construct, critique and challenge its audience's values; its response to older graphic traditions; and its assimilation of foreign influences. While focused on the years 1855 to 1875, ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Prophets of the Posthuman

    American Fiction, Biotechnology, and the Ethics of Personhood

    by Christina Bieber Lake ...
    Prophets of the Posthuman provides a fresh and original reading of fictional narratives that raise the question of what it means to be human in the face of rapidly developing bioenhancement technologies. Christina Bieber Lake argues that works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Walker Percy, Flannery O'Connor, Toni Morrison, George Saunders, Marilynne Robinson, Raymond Carver, James Tiptree, Jr., and ... Read more

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  • Pirates and Mutineers of the Nineteenth Century

    Swashbucklers and Swindlers

    Edited by Grace Moore ...
    The first volume devoted to literary pirates in the nineteenth century, this collection examines changes in the representation of the pirate from the beginning of the nineteenth century through the late Victorian period. Gone were the dangerous ruffians of the eighteenth-century novel and in their place emerged a set of brooding and lovable rogues, as exemplified by Byron's Corsair. As the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Literary Agents in the Transatlantic Book Trade

    American Fiction, French Rights, and the Hoffman Agency

    by Cécile Cottenet ...
    Series series Studies in Publishing History: Manuscript, Print, Digital
    By way of a case study of one of the oldest French book agencies, Agence Hoffman, this book analyzes the role played by French literary agents in the importation of US fiction and literature into France in the years following World War II. It sheds light on the material conditions of the circulation of texts across the Atlantic between 1944 and 1955, exploring the fine mechanisms of agents’ ... Read more

    $66.99 USD