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  • Indigenous Nation Building in Australia

    Resistance, Resilience, Resurgence

    by Professor Daryle Rigney, Mr Damein Bell, Professor Miriam Jorgensen, Dr Alison Vivian, Professor Steve Hemming, Professor Stephen Cornell, Larissa Behrendt ...
    Series series Indigenous Self-Rule
    This vital and timely book is the first sustained investigation of the creative strategies employed by two Australian Indigenous nations in re-asserting their sovereign capacities for self-determination. Continuing the remarkable history of Indigenous peoples resisting settler-colonialism, these nations echo the resurgence of collective cultural identity and political capacity evident across ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • The Diary of Antera Duke, an Eighteenth-Century African Slave Trader

    by Stephen D. Behrendt, A.J.H. Latham, David Northrup ...
    In his diary, Antera Duke (ca.1735-ca.1809) wrote the only surviving eyewitness account of the slave trade by an African merchant. A leader in late eighteenth-century Old Calabar, a cluster of Efik-speaking communities in the Cross River region, he resided in Duke Town, forty-five miles from the Atlantic Ocean in what is now southeast Nigeria. His diary, written in trade English from 1785 to 1788, ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Placing Charlotte Smith

    by Jacqueline M. Labbe, Elizabeth A. Dolan, Melissa Bailes, Stephen Behrendt, Anne Chandler, Val Derbyshire, Rachael Isom, Mary Anne Myers, Lisa Vargo0, Dr Claire Knowles1 ...
    A lively and far-ranging interest in place, space, and situation characterizes the work of Romantic-era British author Charlotte Smith (1749-1806). Featuring ten original essays, an introduction and an epilogue, this volume offers new insights into Smith’s life and work by exploring two central issues: Smith’s place as a foundational writer in her period, and her contribution to the creation of ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • British Women Poets and the Romantic Writing Community

    by Stephen Behrendt ...
    Approaching the work of Romantic-era British women poets through the lenses of public radicalism, war, and poetic form.This compelling study recovers the lost lives and poems of British women poets of the Romantic era. Stephen C. Behrendt reveals the range and diversity of their writings, offering new perspectives on the work of dozens of women whose poetry has long been ignored or marginalized in ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Romantic-Era Irish Women Poets in English

    Edited by Stephen Behrendt ...
    Romantic-Era Irish Women Poets in English offers a representative sampling of the still mostly unknown poetry by Romantic-era Irish women. It represents most of the period’s active poets by multiple (rather than only a few) works, demonstrating the diversity and the subject range of these four dozen or so poets over the 50-year period. Although several of these poets appear (briefly) in Andrew ... Read more

    $36.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley

    by Percy Bysshe Shelley ...
    The latest volume of the acclaimed and magisterial Hopkins Press edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley's poetry, covering the years 1818 to early 1820, the first phase of Shelley's Italian period."You talk Utopia," says the worldly Count Maddalo, reproaching the idealistic Julian in Julian and Maddalo. Inspired by conversations conducted on horseback near Venice between the two notorious exiled poets, ... Read more

    $117.29 USD

  • Romanticism and Women Poets

    Opening the Doors of Reception

    Edited by Harriet Kramer Linkin, Stephen C. Behrendt ...
    One of the most exciting developments in Romantic studies in the past decade has been the rediscovery and repositioning of women poets as vital and influential members of the Romantic literary community. This is the first volume to focus on women poets of this era and to consider how their historical reception challenges current conceptions of Romanticism. With a broad, revisionist view, the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • The Romantic Poetry Handbook

    by Michael O'Neill, Madeleine Callaghan ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks
    An absorbing survey of poetry written in one of the most revolutionary eras in the history of British literatureThis comprehensive survey of British Romantic poetry explores the work of six poets whose names are most closely associated with the Romantic era—Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Keats, Byron, and Shelley—as well as works by other significant but less widely studied poets such as Leigh Hunt ... Read more

    $28.00 USD

  • Greatest Love Poems

    by Madeleine Edgar ...
    Presented in an accessible and easy-reference format, Greatest Love Poems includes over 220 poems by a wide range of famous and lesser-known authors from different periods of history. These are divided into five themed sections, including:• Romance• Poems for Marriage• Unrequited Love• Long Distance Love• Lost LoveFeaturing short biographies of every author, this beautiful edition allows you to ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies

    How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature

    by Elizabeth Winkler ...
    An “extraordinarily brilliant” and “pleasurably naughty” (André Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy…and who the Bard might really be.The theory that Shakespeare may not have written the works that bear his name is the most horrible, unspeakable subject in the history of English ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • A Journal of the Plague Year

    by Daniel Defoe ...
    'The most reliable and comprehensive account of the Great Plague that we possess' Anthony BurgessIn 1665 the plague swept through London, claiming over 97,000 lives. Daniel Defoe was just five at the time of the plague, but he later called on his own memories, as well as his writing experience, to create this vivid chronicle of the epidemic and its victims. 'A Journal' (1722) follows Defoe's ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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  • Cruelty & Laughter

    Forgotten Comic Literature and the Unsentimental Eighteenth Century

    by Simon Dickie ...
    Eighteenth-century British culture is often seen as polite and sentimental—the creation of an emerging middle class. Simon Dickie disputes these assumptions in Cruelty and Laughter, a wildly enjoyable but shocking plunge into the forgotten comic literature of the age. Beneath the surface of Enlightenment civility, Dickie uncovers a rich vein of cruel humor that forces us to recognize just how ... Read more

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