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  • av Judith Johnston
    713 - 2 316,-

    Using the metaphor of the published journey, whether it involves actual travel or translation, Johnston focuses on the relationships of various British women travellers, translators and journalists, mainly with continental Europe. Devoted in part to case studies of women such as Anna Jameson and Mary Howitt.

  • - Beyond Serialization
    av Thomas Lloyd Vranken
    583 - 1 882,-

  • - Astronomy, Cosmology, and Gender in the Post-Darwinian World
    av Pamela Gossin
    2 021,-

    Presenting a study of astronomy in Hardy's writing, this work brings the analytical tools of both disciplines, and offers readings of seven novels that enrich Darwinian and feminist perspectives on his work, extends formalist evaluations of his achievement as a writer, and provides fresh interpretations of enigmatic passages and scenes.

  • - Literature, Art and Masculinity
    av Martin A. Danahay
    765 - 2 076,-

    Offering an introduction to issues surrounding the definition and division of labor in British society and culture, this book argues that 'work' was a term rife with ideological contradictions for Victorian males during a period when it was considered synonymous with masculinity.

  • av Tess Cosslett
    765 - 2 021,-

    Traces how 19th-century debates about the human and animal intersected with the venerable genre of the animal story written for children. This work raises questions about the construction of the child reader, the qualifications of the implied author, and the possibilities of children's literature compared with literature written for adults.

  • av Martin Ray
    583 - 2 021,-

    Assembles some 150 annotated interviews and recollections of Thomas Hardy. The author has selected items having literary or biographical significance, and annotated them with meticulous accuracy and a keen eye for the telling detail. This book reveals Hardy's contemporaneous opinions about his own writings.

  • - The Story of a Modern Woman
    av Valerie Fehlbaum
    583,-

    In a career that spanned over forty years, Elia Hepworth Dixon was alternately journalist, critic, essayist, short story writer, novelist, editor of a women's magazine, dramatist, and autobiographer. The author sheds light on Dixon's life and work, and provides insight not only into Dixon herself, but also into her multifaceted character.

  • - Male and Female British Writers, 1790-1835
     
    2 316,-

    Beginning with the premise that men and women of the Romantic period were lively interlocutors who participated in many of the same literary traditions and experiments, this title offers a counterpoint to studies of Romantic-era women writers that stress their differences from their male contemporaries.

  • - Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters
    av Judith Johnston
    713 - 1 885,-

    An exploration of women in literature and art, focusing on the life and work of 19th-century writer Anna Jameson.

  • - New Readings for the Twenty-First Century
    av Deborah Denenholz Morse
    713 - 2 316,-

    Offers original readings of Trollope that recognize and repay his importance as source material for scholars working in diverse fields of literary and cultural studies. This title also includes essays that examine Trollope and sexuality in the context of queer studies, the law, archetypal constructions, and classical feminism.

  • - Reading against the Grain
    av Jonathon Shears
    583 - 2 316,-

    Offers a critical insight into the relationship between Milton and the Romantic poets. Discussing the role that 17th and 18th-century writers like Dryden, Johnson and Burke played in formulating the political and spiritual mythology that grew up around Milton, this work contextualizes various major Romantic poets' 'misreadings' of Milton.

  • av Andrew Maunder
    713 - 2 156,-

    Through a survey of a diverse range of crimes, criminals, detectives, modes of detection and reportage, the essays in this volume chart the development of crime writing as a genre and the growing dialogue between fact and fiction through Victoria's reign.

  • - The Arthurian Legends in Victorian Culture
    av Inga Bryden
    1 885,-

    Starting with a review of the historical evidence available to Victorian writers and an examination of how historians of the time represented Arthur, the author connects Victorian accounts of Arthur's quest to contemporary scientific and historical searches for origins and knowledge, and appropriation by competing religions.

  • av Andrew Radford
    745 - 2 021,-

    Tracing those deliberate and accidental Romantic echoes that reverberate through the Victorian age into the beginning of the twentieth century, this collection acknowledges that the Victorians decided for themselves how to define what is 'Romantic'.

  • - An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Women's Childhoods
     
    1 882,-

    A collection of autobiographical accounts of childhood by a range of prominent 19th-century literary women. These are strongly individualized descriptions offering accounts of their schooling, Victorian family life, the games they invented, and their sense of being misunderstood.

  • - Authorship and Emotional Labour
    av Anne-Marie Millim
    583 - 2 289,-

    Reading the diaries of well-known writers and public figures such as Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake, Henry Crabb Robinson, George Eliot, George Gissing, John Ruskin, Edith Simcox and Gerard Manley Hopkins, Anne-Marie Millim locates the diary at the intersection of the public and private spheres. Diaristic writing, Millim argues.

  • - Studies in Victorian Love Poetry
    av Kerry McSweeney
    427 - 1 284,-

    The author's aim in this study is to examine the poetic and amorous aspects of Victorian love poetry.

  • - Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Kinship and Creativity
    av Lynn Cain
    713 - 2 266,-

    Presents an account of the evolution of Dickens, an author from whose psychological honesty and imaginative generosity emerged precocious fictional portents of Freudian and post-Freudian theory. It traces the evolution of Dickens' creative imagination.

  • - Women and Men in Victorian Painting
    av Pamela Gerrish Nunn
    776 - 1 960,-

    During the Victorian period there developed a new anxiety about male-female relations and roles in modern society. This book of essays examines Victorian painting in the light of this "woman question". The art and artists are considered in a socio-political context.

  • - Transcending the 'Age of Personality'
    av Kim Wheatley
    492 - 1 420,-

    Despite their desire to rise above the so-called "age of personality" and personal attacks, Romantic-era figures such as Robert Southey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Leigh Hunt, William Hazlitt, Sydney Owenson, and the explorer John Ross became enmeshed in public feuds with the Edinburgh Review and the Quarterly Review.

  • - Scottish Whigs, English Radicals and the Making of the British Public Sphere
    av Alex Benchimol
    713 - 2 266,-

    Covers the intellectual formation of English plebeian radicalism and Scottish philosophic Whiggism over the long eighteenth century, and examines their associated strategies of critical engagement with the cultural, social and political crises of the early nineteenth century.

  • - From Commodities to Oddities
    av Jen Harrison
    713 - 2 289,-

    Taking up the phenomenon of bric-a-brac in Victorian culture, this collection advances our understanding of materiality by examining the miscellaneous, moveable and rejected objects often overlooked in the discourses of thing theory. Essays examine writers as different as Lear, Browning.

  • - The Body of Nature
    av Eithne Henson
    778 - 2 394,-

    Examining a wide range of representations of physical, metaphorical, and dream landscapes in Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy, the author explores the way in which gender attitudes are expressed, both in descriptions of landscape as the human body and in ideas of nature.

  • - Volume Two: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Women's Childhoods
    av Valerie Sanders
    713 - 1 997,-

    In this sequel to her 2000 anthology, Sanders again brings together autobiographical accounts of childhood that show women making sense of the children they were and the women they have become. The collection includes children's authors (Frances Hodgson Burnett and E. Nesbit).

  • av Juliet John
    687 - 2 131,-

    Reading forms a genuine meeting place for historians, literary scholars, theorists, librarians, and historians of the book. This collection examines nineteenth-century reading in all its personal, historical, literary and material contexts, while also asking fundamental questions about how we read the Victorians' reading in the present day.

  • - 'Cherished Memories'
    av Gerlinde Roder-Bolton
    2 021,-

    From 1854 to 1855, George Eliot spent eight months in Germany, a period that marked the start of her life with George Lewes. This book draws on Eliot's own writings, as well as on extensive original research in German archives and libraries.

  • - The Debate over 'Essays and Reviews' 1860-64
    av Josef L. Altholz
    613 - 1 960,-

    Controversy, especially religious controversy, was the great spectator sport of Victorian England. This work offers a study of the biggest of these by describing the way in which "Essays and Reviews", between 1860 and 1864, brought England its first serious exposure to biblical criticism.

  • av Margaret Johnson
    1 960,-

    A biographical and critical account of the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, (1844-1889) and his involvement with religion and literature, specifically Christian poetry. Included are accounts of his contemporaries, such as Christina Rossetti and John Henry Newman.

  • - A Textual Study of the Short Stories
    av Martin Ray
    583 - 1 960,-

    This work is a textual study of Hardy's four volumes of short stories. It examines the history of the stories' composition and revision from manuscripts through serial publications, galleys, revisions and collected publications, all stages of which show significant alterations.

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