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Dickens at Work (RLE Dickens) - Routledge Library Editions: Charles Dickens Volume 1 (Hardcover): John Butt & Kathleen Tillotson Dickens at Work (RLE Dickens) - Routledge Library Editions: Charles Dickens Volume 1 (Hardcover)
John Butt & Kathleen Tillotson
R5,094 Discovery Miles 50 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book marks a new departure in the study of Dickens. The authors make use of first-hand evidence of Dickens? actual methods and conditions of work; much of this evidence is examined and co-ordinated here for the first time. It includes Dickens? detailed manuscript notes for novels, with a complete transcript of these for every instalment and chapter of David Copperfield. Seven other books are chosen, so that the different stages of his career and different kinds of work are well represented. The volume illustrates what modes of planning Dickens evolved as best suited to his genius and to the demands of serial publication, monthly or weekly; how he responded to the events of the day; and how he yet managed to combine the freshness of this "periodical," almost journalistic approach with the art of the novel.

Race in American Literature and Culture (Hardcover, New edition): John Ernest Race in American Literature and Culture (Hardcover, New edition)
John Ernest
R1,033 R977 Discovery Miles 9 770 Save R56 (5%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Exploring the unsteady foundations of American literary history, Race in American Literature and Culture examines the hardening of racial fault lines throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth while considering aspects of the literary and interrelated traditions that emerged from this fractured cultural landscape. A multicultural study of the influential and complex presence of race in the American imagination, the book pushes debate in exciting new directions. Offering expert explorations of how the history of race has been represented and written about, it shows in what ways those representations and writings have influenced wider American culture. Distinguished scholars from African American, Latinx, Asian American, Native American, and white American studies foreground the conflicts in question across different traditions and different modes of interpretation, and are thus able comprehensively and creatively to address in the volume how and why race has been so central to American literature as a whole.

The Happy Prince - A hand-lettered edition (Paperback): Oscar Wilde The Happy Prince - A hand-lettered edition (Paperback)
Oscar Wilde; Illustrated by Sally Castle; Introduction by Michael Seeney
R295 R238 Discovery Miles 2 380 Save R57 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Sally Castle's beautifully hand-lettered and illustrated edition of Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince sets the story among Reading's parks, squares, rooflines and churches - the town that's shaped her and her artwork and where Oscar spent an unhappy period in gaol. This enchanting combination of fairy story with concrete urban reality, a tale of sacrificial love written with a flourish and swirl, turns a simple book into a gem as precious as the large red ruby that glowed on the Prince's sword-hilt. With an introduction by Michael Seeney, author and collector of Wilde's work.

Biofiction - An Introduction (Paperback): Michael Lackey Biofiction - An Introduction (Paperback)
Michael Lackey
R1,095 Discovery Miles 10 950 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Biofiction: An Introduction provides readers with the history, origins, evolution, and legitimization of biofiction, suggesting potential lines of inquiry, exploring criticisms of the literary form, and modeling the process of analyzing and interpreting individual texts. Written for undergraduate and graduate students, this volume combines comprehensive coverage of the core foundations of biofiction with contemporary and lively debates within the subject. The volume aims to confront and illuminate the following questions: * When did biofiction come into being? * What forces gave birth to it? * How does it uniquely function and signify? * Why has it become such a dominant aesthetic form in recent years? This introduction will give readers a framework for evaluating specific biofictions from writers as varied as Friedrich Nietzsche, George Moore, Zora Neale Hurston, William Styron, Angela Carter, Joyce Carol Oates, and Colm Toibin, thus enabling readers to assess the value and impact of individual works on the culture at large. Spanning nineteenth-century origins to contemporary debates and adaptations, this book not only equips the reader with a firm grounding in the fundamentals of biofiction but also provides a valuable guide to the uncanny power of the biographical novel to transform cultural attitudes, perspectives, and beliefs.

The Marketing of Edgar Allan Poe (Hardcover): Jonathan Hartmann The Marketing of Edgar Allan Poe (Hardcover)
Jonathan Hartmann
R4,345 Discovery Miles 43 450 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Edgar Allan Poe is today considered one of the greatest masters and most fascinating figures of the American literary world. However, an examination of Poe's essays and criticism throughout his prose publishing career (1831-1849) reveals that the author himself played a vital role in the creation and manipulation of his own reputation.

During his twenties and thirties, Poe promoted his writing to magazine editors in the United States and in Europe through several strategies. He painted a Romantic and patriotic self-portrait in his fiery literary reviews, even as he played up his own connections, both real and imaginary, to literary celebrities including Washington Irving, Charles Dickens, George Gordon Lord Byron and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Through recycling plots, atmosphere, and language (including his own) from American and British magazines, he built stories and essays which were linked in a complex network of references to each other and their author.

Teachers and studentsalike will enjoy this single-volume treatment of Poe's self-promotional tales and criticism.

Student Guide to Charles Dickens (Paperback): Robert Giddings Student Guide to Charles Dickens (Paperback)
Robert Giddings
R381 Discovery Miles 3 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Robert Giddings introduces and analyses Dickens' major works and explores, especially, his use of audience feedback in his creative processes. Dickens' childhood experiences and his treatment of women in his fiction are analysed, as well as his social critique of a society increasingly de-humanised by materialsim and greed.

Spaces of the Sacred and Profane - Dickens, Trollope, and the Victorian Cathedral Town (Hardcover): Elizabeth A. Bridgham Spaces of the Sacred and Profane - Dickens, Trollope, and the Victorian Cathedral Town (Hardcover)
Elizabeth A. Bridgham
R4,207 Discovery Miles 42 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This study examines the unique cultural space of Victorian cathedral towns as they appear in the literary work of Charles Dickens and Anthony Trollope, arguing that Dickens and Trollope use the cathedral town's enclosure, and its overt connections between sacred and secular, present and past, as an ideal locus from which to critique Victorian religious attitudes, aesthetic anxieties, business practices, and even immigration. By displacing these issues from the metropolis, these social authors defamiliarize them, raising what might have been considered strictly urban problems to the level of national crises.

By situating contemporary debates in cathedral towns, Dickens and Trollope complicate the restrictive dichotomy between urban and rural space often drawn by contemporary critics and Victorian fiction writers alike.

In this book, Bridgham focuses on the appearance of three such key concerns appearing in the cathedral towns of each writer: religious fragmentation, the social value of artistic labor, and the Gothic revival. Dickens and Trollope reject Romantic nostalgia by concentrating on the ancient, yet vital (as opposed to ruined) edifices of the cathedrals, and by demonstrating ways in which modern sensibilities, politics, and comforts supersede the values of the cloister. In this sense, their cathedral towns are not idealized escapes; rather, they reflect the societies of which they are a part.

Thomas De Quincey - New Theoretical and Critical Directions (Hardcover): Robert Morrison, Daniel S. Roberts Thomas De Quincey - New Theoretical and Critical Directions (Hardcover)
Robert Morrison, Daniel S. Roberts
R4,802 Discovery Miles 48 020 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The ongoing critical fascination with Thomas De Quincey and the burgeoning recognition of the centrality of his writings to the Romantic age and beyond necessitates a critical examination of De Quincey. In this spirit, ten of the top De Quincey scholars in the world have come together in this volume to engage directly with the immense amount of new information to be published on De Quincey in the past two decades. The book features wide-ranging and incisive assessments of De Quincey as essayist, addict, economist, subversive, biographer, autobiographer, aesthete, innovator, hedonist, and much else.

Modern Dramatists (Hardcover): B.C. Southam Modern Dramatists (Hardcover)
B.C. Southam
R29,415 Discovery Miles 294 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes.

Dorothy Wordsworth's Ecology (Hardcover, annotated edition): Kenneth Cervelli Dorothy Wordsworth's Ecology (Hardcover, annotated edition)
Kenneth Cervelli
R4,196 Discovery Miles 41 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Dorothy Wordsworth has a unique place in literary studies. Notoriously self-effacing, she assiduously eschewed publication, yet in her lifetime, her journals inspired William to write some of his best-known poems. Memorably depicting daily life in a particular environment (most famously, Grasmere), these journals have proven especially useful for readers wanting a more intimate glimpse of arguably the most important poet of the Romantic period.

With the rise of women's studies in the 1980s, however, came a shift in critical perspective. Scholars such as Margaret Homans and Susan Levin revaluated Dorothy's work on its own terms, as well as in relation to other female writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Part of a larger shift in the academy, feminist-oriented analyses of Dorothy's writings take their place alongside other critical approaches emerging in the 1980s and into the next decade.

One such approach, ecocriticism, closely parallels Dorothy's changing critical fortunes in the mid-to-late 1980s. Curiously, however, the major ecocritical investigations of the Romantic period all but ignore Dorothy's work while at the same time emphasizing the relationship between ecocriticism and feminism. The present study situates Dorothy in an ongoing ecocritical dialogue through an analysis of her prose and poetry in relation to the environments that inspired it.

Victorian Thinkers - Critical Heritage Set (Hardcover): B.C. Southam Victorian Thinkers - Critical Heritage Set (Hardcover)
B.C. Southam
R26,484 Discovery Miles 264 840 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This six volume boxed set comprises of individual volumes on: Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, Matthew Arnold (Volumes 1 and 2), William Morris and Walter Pater. The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects. The Critical Heritage set will be available as a set of 68 volumes and the series will also be available in mini sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes) and as individual volumes. Publication: October 1995.

The Romantics - Critical Heritage Set (Hardcover): B.C. Southam The Romantics - Critical Heritage Set (Hardcover)
B.C. Southam
R27,949 Discovery Miles 279 490 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Includes individual volumes on William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2 volume set), Robert Southey, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats. The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects. The Collected Critical Heritage set will be available as a set of 68 volumes and the series will also be available in mini sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes) and as individual volumes.

Victorian Poets - Critical Heritage Set (Hardcover): B.C. Southam Victorian Poets - Critical Heritage Set (Hardcover)
B.C. Southam
R24,285 Discovery Miles 242 850 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Comprises of separate volumes on the following: John Clare, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Arthur Hugh Clough, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Algernon Swinburne. The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects. The Collected Critical Heritage set will be available as a set of 68 volumes and the series will also be available in mini sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes) and as individual volumes.

Victorian Fiction and the Cult of the Horse (Hardcover, New Ed): Gina M. Dorre Victorian Fiction and the Cult of the Horse (Hardcover, New Ed)
Gina M. Dorre
R4,197 Discovery Miles 41 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The horse was essential to the workings of Victorian society, and its representations, which are vast, ranging, and often contradictory, comprise a vibrant cult of the horse. Examining the representational, emblematic, and rhetorical uses of horses in a diversity of nineteenth-century texts, Gina M. Dorre shows how discourses about horses reveal and negotiate anxieties related to industrialism and technology, constructions of gender and sexuality, ruptures in the social fabric caused by class conflict and mobility, and changes occasioned by national "progress" and imperial expansion. She argues that as a cultural object, the horse functions as a repository of desire and despair in a society rocked by astonishing social, economic, and technological shifts. While representations of horses abound in Victorian fiction, Gina M. Dorre's study focuses on those novels by Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Braddon, Anna Sewell, and George Moore that engage with the most impassioned controversies concerning horses and horse-care, such as the introduction of the steam engine, popular new methods of horse-taming, debates over the tight-reining of horses, and the moral furor surrounding gambling at the race track. Her book establishes the centrality of the horse as a Victorian cultural icon and explores how through it, dominant ideologies of gender and class are created, promoted, and disrupted.

Dances of the Self in Heinrich von Kleist, E.T.A. Hoffmann and Heinrich Heine (Hardcover, New Ed): Lucia Ruprecht Dances of the Self in Heinrich von Kleist, E.T.A. Hoffmann and Heinrich Heine (Hardcover, New Ed)
Lucia Ruprecht
R4,197 Discovery Miles 41 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Lucia Ruprecht's study is the first monograph in English to analyse the relationship between nineteenth-century German literature and theatrical dance. Combining cultural history with close readings of major texts by Heinrich von Kleist, E.T.A. Hoffmann and Heinrich Heine, the author brings to light little-known German resources on dance to address the theoretical implications of examining the interdiscursive and intermedial relations between the three authors' literary works, aesthetic reflections on dance, and dance of the period. In doing so, she not only shows how dancing and writing relate to one another but reveals the characteristics that make each mode of expression distinct unto itself. Readings engage with literary modes of understanding physical movement that are neglected under the regime of eighteenth-century aesthetic theory, and of classical ballet, setting the human, frail and expressive body against the smoothly idealised neoclassicist ideal. Particularly important is the way juxtaposing texts and performance practice allows for the emergence of meta-discourses about trauma and repetition and their impact on aesthetics and formulations of the self and the human body. Related to this is the author's concept of performative exercises or dances of the self which constitute a decisive force within the formation of subjectivity that is enacted in the literary texts. Joining performance studies with psychoanalytical theory, this book opens up new pathways for understanding Western theatrical dance's theoretical, historical and literary continuum.

George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Psychology - Exploring the Unmapped Country (Hardcover, New Ed): Michael Davis George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Psychology - Exploring the Unmapped Country (Hardcover, New Ed)
Michael Davis
R4,210 Discovery Miles 42 100 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In his study of Eliot as a psychological novelist, Michael Davis examines Eliot's writings in the context of a large volume of nineteenth-century scientific writing about the mind. Eliot, Davis argues, manipulated scientific language in often subversive ways to propose a vision of mind as both fundamentally connected to the external world and radically isolated from and independent of that world. In showing the alignments between Eliot's work and the formulations of such key thinkers as Herbert Spencer, Charles Darwin, T. H. Huxley, and G. H. Lewes, Davis reveals how Eliot responds both creatively and critically to contemporary theories of mind, as she explores such fundamental issues as the mind/body relationship, the mind in evolutionary theory, the significance of reason and emotion, and consciousness. Davis also points to important parallels between Eliot's work and new and future developments in psychology, particularly in the work of William James. In Middlemarch, for example, Eliot demonstrates more clearly than either Lewes or James the way the conscious self is shaped by language. Davis concludes by showing that the complexity of mind, which Eliot expresses through her imaginative use of scientific language, takes on a potentially theological significance. His book suggests a new trajectory for scholars exploring George Eliot's representations of the self in the context of science, society, and religious faith.

The Romantic Poets (Hardcover): Nicola Barber, Patrick Lee-Browne The Romantic Poets (Hardcover)
Nicola Barber, Patrick Lee-Browne
R87 Discovery Miles 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume is part of the Writers in Britain series which introduces children to great literary figures. This title examines the lives of the romantic poets, taking in Blake, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, and Wordsworth and considers the time in which they wrote their poetry.

Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook (Hardcover): Scott Mceathron Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook (Hardcover)
Scott Mceathron
R2,522 Discovery Miles 25 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A tragic tale of cruel fates, touching on rape, illegitimate birth and murder, "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" (1891) shocked its early audiences, but has proved to be one of the most enduring and influential works of English literature. This sourcebook offers an introduction to Thomas Hardy's crucial novel, offering:
*A contextual overview, a chronology and reprinted contemporary documents, including a selection of Hardy's poems
*An overview of the book's early reception and recent critical fortunes, as well as a wide range of reprinted extracts from critical works
Key passages from the novel, reprinted with editorial comment and cross-referenced within the volume to bring contextual and critical issues to bear on the reader's own interpretation of the text
*Suggestions for further reading and a list of relevant web resources.
For students on a wide range of courses, this sourcebook offers the essential stepping-stone from a basic reading knowledge to an advanced understanding of Hardy's best-known novel.

Reading the Text That Isn't There - Paranoia in the Nineteenth-Century Novel (Hardcover): Mike Davis Reading the Text That Isn't There - Paranoia in the Nineteenth-Century Novel (Hardcover)
Mike Davis
R3,913 Discovery Miles 39 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Through a careful examination of the work of the canonical nineteenth-century novelists, Mike Davis traces conspiracies and conspiratorial fantasy from one narrative site to another.

American Flaneur - The Cosmic Physiognomy of Edgar Allan Poe (Hardcover, annotated edition): James Werner American Flaneur - The Cosmic Physiognomy of Edgar Allan Poe (Hardcover, annotated edition)
James Werner
R3,913 Discovery Miles 39 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Contents:
1. The Physiognomy of the Flaneur
2. Neither In Nor Out of the Market
3. The Sacred Fury of the Cosmic Flaneur
4. Physiognomic Revelation: Faces and Interiors
5. Imperfect Readings of Perfect Plots
Notes
Works Cited

The Poems of W.B. Yeats - A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook (Hardcover): Michael O'Neill The Poems of W.B. Yeats - A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook (Hardcover)
Michael O'Neill
R2,581 Discovery Miles 25 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Series Information:
Routledge Literary Sourcebooks

Charles Dickens's David Copperfield - A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook (Hardcover): Richard J. Dunn Charles Dickens's David Copperfield - A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook (Hardcover)
Richard J. Dunn
R2,521 Discovery Miles 25 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Series Information:
Routedge Literary Sourcebooks

Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler - A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook (Hardcover): Christopher Innes Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler - A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook (Hardcover)
Christopher Innes
R2,522 Discovery Miles 25 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Since Hedda Gabler exploded on to European and American stages in the 1890s, the play and its title character have troubled and transfixed audiences, performers and critics the world over. In this Routledge Literary Sourcebook, Christopher Innes balances essential reprinted texts with clear, incisive commentary to:
*set the play within the contexts of Norwegian nationalism, the women's movement and the cultural movement of Naturalism
*examine and emphasize the links between - the performance and criticism of the play, from 1890 to the present
*offer the ideal guide to key passages in the play, showing how a knowledge of the play's contexts, performance history and critical fortunes can give rise to exciting new readings of the text
*prepare readers for further study of the play, with suggestions for reading on specific issues of interest.
No student should be without this guide as they enter the fascinating world of Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen and Naturalist theater.

The Poems of John Keats - A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook (Hardcover, annotated edition): John Strachan The Poems of John Keats - A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook (Hardcover, annotated edition)
John Strachan
R3,024 Discovery Miles 30 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


This Routledge Literary Sourcebook offers the ideal introduction to the work of John Keats, a central figure in English Romanticism and one of the most popular poets in the literary canon.
The Sourcebook is arranged in four sections: Contexts, Interpretations, Key Poems and Further Reading. Each combines clear introductory passgaes with relevant reprinted documents. Key features include:
* A chronology of Keats's life and excerpts from his letters
* An overview of the criticism of his work, from early responses to important recent essays
* Excerpts from a range of critical texts, with explanatory headnotes
* Extensively annotated full texts or key passages from Keats's most widely studied poems
* Helpful recommendations for further reading
Cross-referencing throughout the volume highlights the links between texts, contexts and reception, enabling even beginners to make original and informed readings of Keats's epoque-changing work.

Social Dreaming - Dickens and the Fairy Tale (Hardcover): Elaine Ostry Social Dreaming - Dickens and the Fairy Tale (Hardcover)
Elaine Ostry
R3,916 Discovery Miles 39 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Dickens was known for his incredible imagination and fiery social protest. This book shows how Dickens used the fairy tale to express his political and social views, and helped establish it as an important literary genre for the Victorian Public. Drawing on exciting new criticism by Jack Zipes, Maria Tartar and others, and covering all of Dickens's works, Social Dreaming sheds valuable socio-historical light on the fairy tale as a social tool. This book also includes a lengthy examination of Dickens's periodicals - the most popular middle-class publications in Victorian times - a largely neglected area of Dickens's criticism. The work will be of interest to Dickens scholars, students of Victorian Literature, and children's literature specialists.

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