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  • Alice in Space

    The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll

    de Gillian Beer ...
    Series series Carpenter Lectures
    The award-winning literary critic takes readers down the rabbit hole of Victorian cultural and intellectual influences on Lewis Carroll's Alice books.In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll created fantastic worlds that continue to live in the minds of readers today. Carroll conceived his Alice books during the 1860s, a time of intense intellectual upheaval ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Routledge Revivals: Arguing With The Past (1989)

    Essays in Narrative from Woolf to Sidney

    de Gillian Beer ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1989, this book analyses fiction and long narrative, drawing on a broad range of writing from earlier periods and on recent narrative theory. Gillian Beer looks at the work of writers as diverse as Thomas Carlyle and Philip Sydney, Samuel Richardson, and George Eliot. Three chapters on Virginia Woolf demonstrate how Woolf’s reading of past literature, philosophy, and science ... Leer más

    $48.99 USD

  • The Romance

    de Gillian Beer ...
    Series series The Critical Idiom Reissued
    First published in 1970, this work provides an overview of the Romance from the medieval period to the 20th century and tracks how the genre has changed with time, including its interaction with other forms of literature such as gothic novels, realism and science fiction. It explores a myriad of writers including Chaucer, Sidney, Tennyson, Shelley, Meredith and Keats and analyses key texts such as ... Leer más

    $48.99 USD

  • Darwin's Plots

    Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction

    de Gillian Beer ...
    Gillian Beer's classic Darwin's Plots, one of the most influential works of literary criticism and cultural history of the last quarter century, is here reissued in an updated edition to coincide with the anniversary of Darwin's birth and of the publication of The Origin of Species. Its focus on how writers, including George Eliot, Charles Kingsley and Thomas Hardy, responded to Darwin's ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • Open Fields

    Science in Cultural Encounter

    de Gillian Beer ...
    Science always raises more questions than it can contain. These challenging essays explore how ideas are transformed as they come under the stress of unforeseen readers. Using a wealth of material from diverse nineteenth- and twentieth- century writing Gillian Beer tracks encounters between science, literature, and other forms of emotional experience. Her analysis discloses issues of chance, ... Leer más

    $69.99 USD

  • In(ter)discipline

    New Languages for Criticism

    de Gillian Beer ...
    "'Interdisciplinarity' has dynamised the Modern Humanities like no other recent academic trend. Yet, this presents serious challenges involving both translation and affect: how can we transmit facts and interpretations, sense and sensations between disciplines, between different artistic media, between cultures, between the private and the public sphere? What are the advantages, the difficulties, ... Leer más

    $61.99 USD

  • Persuasion

    de Jane Austen, Gillian Beer ...
    Series series
    'In Persuasion, Jane Austen is beginning to discover that the world is larger, more mysterious, and more romantic than she had supposed' Virginia WoolfJane Austen's moving late novel of missed opportunities and second chances centres on Anne Elliot, no longer young and with few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she was persuaded by others to break off her engagement to poor, handsome naval ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • Creative Lives and Works

    Frank Kermode, George Steiner, Gillian Beer and Christopher Ricks

    de Alan Macfarlane ...
    Series series Creative Lives and Works
    Creative Lives and Works: Frank Kermode, George Steiner, Gillian Beer and Christopher Ricks is a collection of interviews conducted by one of England’s leading social anthropologists and historians, Professor Alan Macfarlane. Filmed over a period of 40 years, the four conversations in this volume, are part of a larger set of interviews that cut across various disciplines, from the social sciences, ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Persuasion

    Penguin Classics

    de Jane Austen ...
    Narrado por Erin Doherty ...
    Series series Penguin Classics Audio

    Completo

    8 hora 55 minutos

    Brought to you by Penguin.This Penguin Classic is performed by Erin Doherty. Star of Call The Midwife, Erin will play Princess Anne in Series 3 of The Crown. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Gillian Beer.At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • On the Origin of Species

    de Charles Darwin ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'can we doubt ... that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind?' In the Origin of Species (1859) Darwin challenged many of the most deeply held beliefs of the Western world. His insistence on the immense length of the past and on the abundance of life-forms, present and extinct, dislodged man from his ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • On the Origin of Species

    de Charles Darwin ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'can we doubt ... that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind?' In the Origin of Species (1859) Darwin challenged many of the most deeply held beliefs of the Western world. His insistence on the immense length of the past and on the abundance of life-forms, present and extinct, dislodged man from his ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Love and Mr Lewisham

    de H. G. Wells ...
    Young, impoverished and ambitious, science student Mr Lewisham is locked in a struggle to further himself through academic achievement. But when his former sweetheart, Ethel Henderson, re-enters his life his strictly regimented existence is thrown into chaos by the resurgence of old passion. Driven by overwhelming desire, he pursues Ethel passionately, only to find that while she returns his love ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD