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  • The Dog in the Dickensian Imagination

    by Beryl Gray ...
    Series series The Nineteenth Century Series
    Fascinated by them, unable to ignore them, and imaginatively stimulated by them, Charles Dickens was an acute and unsentimental reporter on the dogs he kept and encountered during a time when they were a burgeoning part of the nineteenth-century urban and domestic scene. As dogs inhabited Dickens’s city, so too did they populate his fiction, journalism, and letters. In the first book-length work ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • The Age of Insight

    The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present

    by Eric Kandel ...
    A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind—our conscious and unconscious thoughts and emotions—and how mind and brain relate to art.At the turn of the century, Vienna was the cultural capital of Europe. Artists and scientists ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Collected Works of John Constable (Delphi Classics)

    by John Constable, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 18 - Delphi Masters of Art
    Celebrated for his iconic depictions of the English countryside, particularly his beloved Stour valley, John Constable helped raise the status of landscape painting. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing digital readers to explore the works of great artists in comprehensive detail. This volume presents Constable’s collected paintings in beautiful ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Art of Intimacy

    The Space Between

    by Stacey D'Erasmo ...
    Series series Art of...
    The first work of nonfiction by Stacey D'Erasmo, author of the New York Times Notable Books Tea and The Sky Below"What is the nature of intimacy, of what happens in the space between us? And how do we, as writers, catch or reflect it on the page?" Stacey D'Erasmo's insightful and illuminating study examines the craft and the contradictions of creating relationships not only between two lovers but ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • New Approaches to the Literary Art of Anne Brontë

    by Barbara A. Suess ...
    Series series The Nineteenth Century Series
    This new essay collection brings together some of the top Brontë scholars working today, as well as new critical voices, to examine the many layers of Anne Brontë's fiction and other writings and to restore Brontë to her rightful place in literary history. Until very recently, Brontë's literary fate has been to live in the critical shadow of her older sisters, Charlotte and Emily, in spite of ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Love and its Critics

    From the Song of Songs to Shakespeare and Milton’s Eden

    by Michael Bryson, Arpi Movsesian ...
    This book is a history of love and the challenge love offers to the laws and customs of its times and places, as told through poetry from the Song of Songs to John Milton’s Paradise Lost. It is also an account of the critical reception afforded to such literature, and the ways in which criticism has attempted to stifle this challenge.Bryson and Movsesian argue that the poetry they explore ... Read more

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  • Victorians in the Mountains

    Sinking the Sublime

    by Ann C. Colley ...
    In her compelling book, Ann C. Colley examines the shift away from the cult of the sublime that characterized the early part of the nineteenth century to the less reverential perspective from which the Victorians regarded mountain landscapes. And what a multifaceted perspective it was, as unprecedented numbers of the Victorian middle and professional classes took themselves off on mountaineering ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • The British Book Trade and Spanish American Independence

    Education and Knowledge Transmission in Transcontinental Perspective

    by Eugenia Roldán Vera ...
    The British Book Trade and Spanish American Independence is a pioneering study of the export of books from Britain to early-independent Spanish America, which considers all phases of production, distribution, reading, and re-writing of British books in the region, and explores the role that these works played in the formation of national identities in the new countries. Analysing in particular the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Shelley's Eye

    Travel Writing and Aesthetic Vision

    by Benjamin Colbert ...
    Series series The Nineteenth Century Series
    Percy Bysshe Shelley joined the deluge of sightseers that poured onto the Continent after Napoleon's defeat in 1814, and over the next eight years Shelley followed major travelling trends, visiting Switzerland in 1816 and Italy from 1818. Shelley's Eye is the first study to address Shelley's participation in the travel culture of Post-Napoleonic Europe, and the first to consider Shelley as an ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Wild Animal Skins in Victorian Britain

    Zoos, Collections, Portraits, and Maps

    by Ann C. Colley ...
    What did the 13th Earl of Derby, his twenty-two-year-old niece, Manchester’s Belle Vue Zoo, and even some ordinary laborers all have in common? All were avid collectors and exhibitors of exotic, and frequently unruly, specimens. In her study of Britain’s craze for natural history collecting, Ann C. Colley makes extensive use of archival materials to examine the challenges, preoccupations, and ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Spenser's Irish Work

    Poetry, Plantation and Colonial Reformation

    by Thomas Herron ...
    Exploring Edmund Spenser's writings within the historical and aesthetic context of colonial agricultural reform in Ireland, his adopted home, this study demonstrates how Irish events and influences operate in far more of Spenser's work than previously suspected. Thomas Herron explores Spenser's relation to contemporary English poets and polemicists in Munster, such as Sir Walter Raleigh, Ralph ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Women, Reading, and the Cultural Politics of Early Modern England

    by Edith Snook ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    A study of the representation of reading in early modern Englishwomen's writing, this book exists at the intersection of textual criticism and cultural history. It looks at depictions of reading in women's printed devotional works, maternal advice books, poetry, and fiction, as well as manuscripts, for evidence of ways in which women conceived of reading in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century ... Read more

    $68.99 USD