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  • The Irish Revival

    A Complex Vision

    by Joseph Valente, Marjorie Howes, Brian Ó Conchubhair, Gregory Castle, Karen Steele, Mary Mullen, Paige Reynolds0, Gregory Dobbins1, Kelly Sullivan2, Tina O’Toole3, Anne Fogarty4, Abby Bender5 ...
    Series series Irish Studies
    The Irish Revival has inspired a richly diverse and illuminating body of scholarship that has enlarged our understanding of the movement and its influence. The general tenor of recent scholarly work has involved an emphasis on inclusion and addition, exploring previously neglected texts, authors, regional variations, and international connections. Such work, while often excellent, tends to see ... Read more

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  • Israelites in Erin

    Exodus, Revolution, and the Irish Revival

    by Abby Bender ...
    Series series Irish Studies
    From the late nineteenth century through the early twentieth century, the story of the Israelites’ liberation from bondage in Egypt served as the archetypal narrative for the birth of the Irish nation. Exodus was critical to both colonial and anticolonial conceptions of Ireland and Irishness. Although the Irish–Israelite analogy has been cited often, a thorough exploration has never before been ... Read more

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  • Inventing Ireland

    The Literature of a Modern Nation

    by Declan Kiberd ...
    Kiberd - one of Ireland's leading critics and a central figure in the FIELD DAY group with Brian Friel, Seamus Deane and the actor Stephen Rea - argues that the Irish Literary Revival of the 1890-1922 period embodied a spirit and a revolutionary, generous vision of Irishness that is still relevant to post-colonial Ireland. This is the perspective from which he views Irish culture. His history of ... Read more

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  • The Historical Novel

    by Jerome de Groot ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    The historical novel is an enduringly popular genre that raises crucial questions about key literary concepts, fact and fiction, identity, history, reading, and writing. In this comprehensive, focused guide, Jerome de Groot offers an accessible introduction to the genre and critical debates that surround it, including:the development of the historical novel from early eighteenth-century works ... Read more

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  • After the Victorians

    Private Conscience and Public Duty in Modern Britain

    Edited by Peter Mandler, Susan Pedersen ...
    Written by a team of eminent historians, these essays explore how ten twentieth-century intellectuals and social reformers sought to adapt such familiar Victorian values as `civilisation', `domesticity', `conscience' and `improvement' to modern conditions of democracy, feminism and mass culture. Covering such figures as J.M. Keynes, E.M. Forster and Lord Reith of the BBC, these interdisciplinary ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Bloomsbury Group

    Edited by Victoria Rosner ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Named after a small neighborhood in London where its members settled as young adults, the Bloomsbury Group produced an impressive body of work that yielded British Post-Impressionist painting, literary modernism, the field of macroeconomics, and a new direction for public taste in art. This Companion offers a comprehensive guide to the intellectual and social contexts surrounding Bloomsbury and ... Read more

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  • A Brief Take on the Australian Novel

    by Jean-François Vernay ...
    Grab the popcorn, sit back and let the story of Australian literature roll ... From Jean-Francois Vernay, "A Brief Take on the Australian Novel" offers a sweeping view of Australian writing since colonialism. Written from an outsider's perspective, this single-authored overview will appeal to readers through its playful, jargon-free and potentially contentious account of the Australian novel. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture

    Edited by Francis O'Gorman ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    The Victorian era produced artistic achievements, technological inventions and social developments that continue to shape how we live today. This Companion offers authoritative coverage of that period's culture and its contexts in a group of specially commissioned essays reflecting the current state of research in each particular field. Covering topics from music to politics, art to technology, ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1830–1914

    Edited by Joanne Shattock ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The nineteenth century witnessed unprecedented expansion in the reading public and an explosive growth in the number of books and newspapers produced to meet its demands. These specially commissioned essays examine not only the full range and variety of texts that entertained and informed the Victorians, but also the boundaries of Victorian literature: the links and overlap with Romanticism in the ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siècle

    Edited by Gail Marshall ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Situated between the Victorians and Modernism, the fin de siècle is an exciting and rewarding period to study. In the literature and art of the 1890s, the processes of literary and cultural change can be seen in action. In this, more than any previous decade, literature was an active and controversial participant within debates over morality, aesthetics, politics and science, as Victorian ... Read more

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  • The Twentieth Century in Poetry

    by Peter Childs ...
    Until now, most teaching has focused on the novel as the most useful way of raising issues of gender, ethnicity, theory, nationality, politics and social class. In The Twentieth Century in Poetry Peter Childs places literature in a wider social context and demonstrates that all poetry is historically produced and consumed and is part of our understanding of society and identity. This student ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture

    Edited by Juliet John ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture is a major contribution to the dynamic field of Victorian studies. This collection of 37 original chapters by leading international Victorian scholars offers new approaches to familiar themes including science, religion, and gender, and gives space to newer and emerging topics including old age, fair play, and economics. Structured around three ... Read more

    $41.39 USD