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The Novels of Walter Scott and his Literary Relations - Mary Brunton, Susan Ferrier and Christian Johnstone (Hardcover): A.... The Novels of Walter Scott and his Literary Relations - Mary Brunton, Susan Ferrier and Christian Johnstone (Hardcover)
A. Monnickendam
R1,805 Discovery Miles 18 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Using a wealth of diverse source material this book comprises an innovative critical study which, for the first time, examines Scott through the filter of his female contemporaries. It not only provides thought-provoking ideas about their handling of, for example, the love-plot, but also produces a different, more sombre Scott.

Romantic Migrations - Local, National, and Transnational Dispositions (Hardcover, First): M. Wiley Romantic Migrations - Local, National, and Transnational Dispositions (Hardcover, First)
M. Wiley
R1,401 Discovery Miles 14 010 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Analyzing real, speculative, and imaginary schemes of migration to and from Britain, "Romantic Migrations" addresses three interrelated movements: between France and Britain after the French Revolution, between Britain and North America after the American Revolution, and between West Africa and Britain after English slavery was outlawed. At this time and within these spaces, radical changes destabilized Britons' sense of individual, local, and national selfhood. Wiley ably illuminates how the British literature of migration registered the destabilizations and negotiated new possibilities for international, transnational, or global selves in a new and still-changing world.

English Literary Sexology - Translations of Inversion, 1860-1930 (Hardcover): H Bauer English Literary Sexology - Translations of Inversion, 1860-1930 (Hardcover)
H Bauer
R1,408 Discovery Miles 14 080 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

It is well known that much of our modern vocabulary of sex emerged within nineteenth-century German sexology. But how were the 'German ideas' translated and transmitted into English culture? This study provides an examination of the formation of sexual theory between the 1860s and 1930s and its migration across national and disciplinary boundaries.

The Apocalypse in England - Revelation Unravelling, 1700-1834 (Hardcover): C. Burdon The Apocalypse in England - Revelation Unravelling, 1700-1834 (Hardcover)
C. Burdon
R4,020 Discovery Miles 40 200 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The Apocalypse of John is perhaps the most alluring and dangerous text in any scripture. This study looks at English responses to it in political pamphlets and scholarly exegesis, in poetry and preaching and visual art. Those who set out to find enduring meaning in the book failed. Yet in the post-Christian re-writings of Revelation by Shelley and Blake, John's own dynamic of unveiling comes to life, subverting the structures of power and reading built on the visions of Patmos.

Ireland and Romanticism - Publics, Nations and Scenes of Cultural Production (Hardcover, New): J. Kelly Ireland and Romanticism - Publics, Nations and Scenes of Cultural Production (Hardcover, New)
J. Kelly
R1,415 Discovery Miles 14 150 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

"This collection by leading scholars in the field provides a fascinating and ground-breaking introduction to current research in Irish Romantic studies. It proves the international scope and aesthetic appeal of Irish writing in this period, and shows the importance of Ireland to wider currents in Romanticism"--

Innocence and Rapture - The Erotic Child in Pater, Wilde, James, and Nabokov (Hardcover, 2005 ed.): K. Ohi Innocence and Rapture - The Erotic Child in Pater, Wilde, James, and Nabokov (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
K. Ohi
R1,403 Discovery Miles 14 030 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Taking as its focus the erotic child in decadent aesthetics, this book explores the sexual and political stakes of an aestheticistexperience of rapture. Ohi examines the power of the work of art to transport, to disorient, to move, to extort the equivocal pleasuresof self-loss. He also explores how the beautiful child offers partisans of 'art for art's sake' an emblem for the ecstatic and erotic, even the queer possibilities of art. Aestheticism's erotic child is thus in stark contrast to the innocent child of today's ideology, who secures the claims of identity against the very disorientations celebrated by aestheticism. Articulating aesthetic transport through the desiring and desired child, aestheticism interrogates the ideology underpinning sexual oppression.

George Eliot and Intoxication - Dangerous Drugs for the Condition of England (Hardcover): K. McCormack George Eliot and Intoxication - Dangerous Drugs for the Condition of England (Hardcover)
K. McCormack
R2,655 Discovery Miles 26 550 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Throughout George Eliot's fiction, not only do a remarkable number of her characters act under the influence of unwise consumption of alcohol and opium, but drugs also recur often as metaphors and allusions. Together, they create an extensive pattern of drug/disease references that represent socio-political problems as diseases in a social body and solutions to those problems (especially solutions that depend on some kind of written language) as volatile remedies that retain the potential to either kill or cure.

The Romantic Idea of a University - England and Germany, 1770-1850 (Hardcover): M Hofstetter The Romantic Idea of a University - England and Germany, 1770-1850 (Hardcover)
M Hofstetter
R1,394 Discovery Miles 13 940 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

What are universities for? Should they prepare people for careers, or expand their minds by exposing them to a broad curriculum? This book reveals that this debate is not new, but was fought nearly 200 years ago in England and Germany. In both countries, the tendency towards pre-professionalism in education was countered by romantic writers who provided their own idea of a university. Examining the role of romantic thought at universities, this book tells the stories of such key figures as Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Fichte.

Twisted Words - Torture and Liberalism in Imperial Britain (Hardcover): Katherine Judith Anderson Twisted Words - Torture and Liberalism in Imperial Britain (Hardcover)
Katherine Judith Anderson
R1,923 Discovery Miles 19 230 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Charles Dickens - Hard Times/Bleak House (Hardcover, 1st Ed. 2015): Nicholas Marsh Charles Dickens - Hard Times/Bleak House (Hardcover, 1st Ed. 2015)
Nicholas Marsh
R2,856 Discovery Miles 28 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This stimulating study takes a fresh look at two of Dickens' most widely-studied texts. Part I uses carefully selected short extracts for close textual analysis, while Part II examines the historical and literary contexts and key criticism. The volume is an ideal introductory guide for those who are studying Dickens' novels for the first time.

The Problem of Poetry in the Romantic Period (Hardcover): M. Storey The Problem of Poetry in the Romantic Period (Hardcover)
M. Storey
R1,387 Discovery Miles 13 870 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This book provides a lively exploration of the way in which several of the major British Romantic poets confront the writing and theorising of poetry. The question 'What is a poet?' is asked and answered with great frequency and variety; invariably there is an underlying sense of unease, often in the shadow, as it were, of Wordsworth's lines: We poets in our youth begin in gladness;/ But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness . The apparent confidence of the manifestoes is undermined by the self-doubts of much of the poetry, ranging from Coleridge to John Clare.

Encounters in the Victorian Press - Editors, Authors, Readers (Hardcover, 2005 ed.): L. Brake, J Codell Encounters in the Victorian Press - Editors, Authors, Readers (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
L. Brake, J Codell
R1,418 Discovery Miles 14 180 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

"Encounters in the Victorian Periodical Press" focuses on the unique characteristic of the Victorian periodical press--its development of encounters between and among readers, editors, and authors. Encounters promoted dialogue among diverse publics, differing by class, gender, professional and political interests, and ethnicity. Through encounters, the press emerged to become a central public space for debates about society, politics, culture, public order, and foreign and imperial affairs. This book captures the richness of these interactions and a variety of voices and opinions.

Sealskin and Shoddy - Working Women in the American Nineteenth Century Labor Press, 1870-1920 (Hardcover): Ann Schofield Sealskin and Shoddy - Working Women in the American Nineteenth Century Labor Press, 1870-1920 (Hardcover)
Ann Schofield
R2,571 Discovery Miles 25 710 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

As industrialization transformed American life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, increasing numbers of women sought employment outside the home and many were drawn into the labor movement. This collection of twenty-five stories published in union journals offers a portrait both of women's experiences as wage-earners and of the conflicts, values, and aspirations that touched their lives in this period of massive social upheaval. Written by reformers, union officials, and popular fiction writers, the stories present an uneasy synthesis of labor movement virtues with domestic ideals of femininity, females assertiveness with female subordination, and moralizing with romantic fantasy.

The Mayor of Casterbridge (Paperback, 2nd edition): Rebecca Warren The Mayor of Casterbridge (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Rebecca Warren
R210 Discovery Miles 2 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

York Notes Advanced have been written by acknowledged literature experts for the specific needs of advanced level and undergraduate students. They offer a fresh and accessible approach to the Study of English literature. Building on the successful formula of York Notes, this Advanced series introduces students to more sophisticated analysis and wider critical perspectives. This enables students to appreciate contrasting interpretations of the text and to develop their own critical thinking. York Notes Advanced help to make the study of literature more fulfilling and lead to exam success. They will also be of interest to the general reader, as they cover the widest range of popular literature titles. Key Features: Study methods - Introduction to the text - Summaries with critical notes - Themes and techniques - Textual analysis of key passages - Author biography - Historical and literary background - Modern and historical critical approaches - Chronology - Glossary of literary terms. General Editors: Martin Gray - Head of Literary Studies, University of Luton; Professor A.N. Jeffares - Emeritus Professor of English, University of Stirling.

Scott, Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter (Hardcover, 2005 ed.): S. Oliver Scott, Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
S. Oliver
R2,658 Discovery Miles 26 580 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Scott, Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter is an innovative study of Scott's and Byron's poetical engagement with borders (actual and metaphorical) and the people living on and around them. The author discusses Scott's edited collection of Border Ballads, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border and his narrative poetry, and Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage , cantos 1 and 2, his Eastern Tales, and his late, utopian South-Sea poem The Island. This fascinating study provides a detailed exegesis of the importance of borders to these leading poets and the public, during the early years of the Nineteenth-Century, with an emphasis on reciprocal literary influences, and on attitudes towards cultural instability.

The British Short Story (Hardcover): Emma Liggins, Andrew Maunder, Ruth Robbins The British Short Story (Hardcover)
Emma Liggins, Andrew Maunder, Ruth Robbins
R3,023 Discovery Miles 30 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"The short story remains a crucial if neglected - part of British literary heritage. This accessible and up-to-date critical overview maps out the main strands and figures that shaped the British short story and novella from the 1850s to the present. It offers new readings of both classic and forgotten texts in a clear, jargon-free way"--Provided by publisher.

Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Volume II: 1801-1806 (Hardcover): Coleridge Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Volume II: 1801-1806 (Hardcover)
Coleridge; Edited by Griggs
R8,214 Discovery Miles 82 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is a reprint of the authoritative six-volume edition of the Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Superbly edited by Earl Leslie Griggs, each volume contains illustrations, appendices, and an index.

Romantic Indians - Native Americans, British Literature, and Transatlantic Culture 1756-1830 (Hardcover): Tim Fulford Romantic Indians - Native Americans, British Literature, and Transatlantic Culture 1756-1830 (Hardcover)
Tim Fulford
R5,021 Discovery Miles 50 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Romantic Indians considers the views that Britons, colonists, and North American Indians took of each other during a period in which these people were in a closer and more fateful relationship than ever before or since. It is, therefore, also a book about exploration, empire, and the forms of representation that exploration and empire gave rise to-in particular the form we have come to call Romanticism, in which 'Indians' appear everywhere. It is not too much to say that Romanticism would not have taken the form it did without the complex and ambiguous image of Indians that so intrigued both the writers and their readers. Most of the poets of the Romantic canon wrote about them-not least Southey, Wordsworth, and Coleridge; so did many whom we have only recently brought back to attention-including Bowles, Hemans, and Barbauld. Yet Indians' formative role in the aesthetics and politics of Romanticism has rarely been considered. Tim Fulford aims to bring that formative role to our attention, to show that the images of native peoples that Romantic writers received from colonial administrators, politicians, explorers, and soldiers helped shape not only these writers' idealizations of 'savages' and tribal life, but also their depictions of nature, religion, and rural society. The romanticization of Indians soon affected the way that real native peoples were treated and described by generations of travellers who had already, before reaching the Canadian forest or the mid-western plains, encountered the literary Indians produced back in Britain. Moreover, in some cases Native Americans, writing in English, turned the romanticization of Indians to their own ends. This book highlights their achievement in doing so-featuring fascinating discussions of several little-known but brilliant Native American writers.

Victorian Keats - Manliness, Sexuality and Desire (Hardcover): J Najarian Victorian Keats - Manliness, Sexuality and Desire (Hardcover)
J Najarian
R1,411 Discovery Miles 14 110 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This book explores the sexual implications of reading Keats. Keats was lambasted by critics throughout the 19th century for his sensuousness and his 'effeminacy'. The Victorians simultaneously identified with, imitated, and distrusted the 'unmanly' poet. Writers, among them Alfred Lord Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Addington Symonds, Walter Pater, and Wilfred Owen came to terms with Keats's work by creating out of the 'effeminate' poet a sexual and literary ally.

Thackeray the Writer - From Journalism to Vanity Fair (Hardcover): E. Harden Thackeray the Writer - From Journalism to Vanity Fair (Hardcover)
E. Harden
R2,652 Discovery Miles 26 520 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This book conveys Thackeray's development as a book reviewer, journalist, art exhibition critic, short-story writer, satirical essayist and novelist a development that culminates in the creation of his masterpiece, Vanity Fair one of the glories of English imaginative writing. Articulating the connections between these vigorous and lively youthful works, and the growth of Thackeray as an increasingly profound participant observer, Harden reveals the exuberant imaginative growth and deepening understanding of a supremely perceptive critic of human social life.

Byron (Paperback): Jane Stabler Byron (Paperback)
Jane Stabler
R1,605 Discovery Miles 16 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Often seen as the exception to generalisations about Romanticism, Byron's poetry - and its intricate relationship with a brilliant, scandalous life - has remained a source of controversy throughout the twentieth century. This book brings together recent work on Byron by leading British and American scholars and critics, guiding undergraduate students and sixth-form pupils through the different ways in which new literary theory has enriched readings of Byron's work, and showing how his poetry offers a rewarding focus for questions about the relationship between historical contexts and literary form in the Romantic period. Diverse and fresh perspectives on canonical texts such as Don Juan, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Manfred are included together with stimulating analyses of less well-known narrative poems, lyrics and dramas. A clearly structured introduction traces key developments in Byron criticism and locates the essays within wider debates in Romantic studies. Detailed headnotes to each essay and a guide to further reading help to orientate the reader and offer pointers for further discussion. The collection will enable students of English literature, Romantic studies and nineteenth-century cultural studies to assess the contribution that different critical methodologies have made to our understanding of individual poems by Byron, as well as concepts like the Byronic hero and evolving definitions of Romanticism.

Elizabeth Gaskell - A Literary Life (Hardcover): S Foster Elizabeth Gaskell - A Literary Life (Hardcover)
S Foster
R1,397 Discovery Miles 13 970 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This literary biographical study examines the life and works of the mid-Victorian woman novelist, Elizabeth Gaskell, whose popularity is now well established. It places her writing in the context of her attitudes towards creative production, her relationship with publishers, and her literary friendships, as well as examining those events of her life which fed into her work. It pays particular attention to the ways in which she sought to reconcile the conflicting demands made upon her, as woman and as artist.

Women and Spirituality in the Writing of More, Wollstonecraft, Stanton, and Eddy (Hardcover): A. Ingham Women and Spirituality in the Writing of More, Wollstonecraft, Stanton, and Eddy (Hardcover)
A. Ingham
R1,409 Discovery Miles 14 090 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This groundbreaking book explores the philosophical writing of four female reformers, identifying how their spiritual representations of the feminine attempted to authorize and empower women.  Championing the benefits of well educated Christian women, Hannah More, Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Mary Baker Eddy constructed an idiom through which to represent the spiritual equality of the male and female.  Arleen M. Ingham critically investigates how these writers challenged historical identity formations and highlighted the potential for female influence in the private "and "public sphere. 

Victorian Print Media - A Reader (Hardcover, New): John Plunkett, Andrew King Victorian Print Media - A Reader (Hardcover, New)
John Plunkett, Andrew King
R5,113 Discovery Miles 51 130 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Victorian culture was dominated by an ever expanding world of print. A tremendous increase in the volume of books, newspapers, and periodicals, was matched by the corresponding development of the first mass reading public. It has long been acknowledged that the growth of the popular publishing industry played an instrumental role in the success of most major Victorian novelists. Traditional critical positions have, nevertheless, recently expanded into a much broader field concerned with media history, book studies, modes of textual production and consumption, and concepts of "popular literature." One of most notable current critical trends is a renewed interest in the importance of all aspects of nineteenth-century print culture.
Victorian Print Media: A Reader collects primary sources from nineteenth century journals, newspapers, and periodicals into an anthology that can be used for teaching purposes, but is also intended to complement and encourage ongoing research. The extracts are organized into ten thematically arranged sections. Each section addresses a specific conceptual or historical issue, such as the impact of serial publication upon practices of reading and authorship. The sections demonstrate the multiple factors upon which the aesthetics of print media depended, making this anthology of use to all researchers, teachers, and students of the period.

The Theatre of Shelley (Hardcover, New): Jacqueline Mulhallen The Theatre of Shelley (Hardcover, New)
Jacqueline Mulhallen
R1,095 Discovery Miles 10 950 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This is the first full-length study of Shelley's plays in performance. It offers a rich, meticulously researched history of Shelley's role as a playwright and dramatist and a reassessment of his "closet dramas" as performable pieces of theatre. With chapters on each of Shelley's dramatic works, the book provides a thorough discussion of the poet's stagecraft, and analyses performances of his plays from the Georgian period to today. In addition, Mulhallen offers details of the productions Shelley saw in England and Italy, many not identified before, as well as a vivid account of the actors and personalities that constituted the theatrical scene of his time. Her research reveals Shelley as an extraordinarily talented playwright, whose fascination with contemporary theatrical theory and practice seriously challenges the notion that he was a reluctant dramatist. This study is a major contribution to recent reassessments of Shelley's work and an invaluable resource for anybody interested in Romantic writing and the history of theatre.

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