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  • Sensibility and Female Poetic Tradition, 1780–1860

    The Legacy of Charlotte Smith

    by Claire Knowles ...
    Arguing that the end of the eighteenth-century witnessed the emergence of an important female poetic tradition, Claire Knowles analyzes the poetry of several key women writing between 1780 and 1860. Knowles provides important context by demonstrating the influence of the Della Cruscans in exposing the constructed and performative nature of the trope of sensibility, a revelation that was met with ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Della Cruscan Poetry, Women and the Fashionable Newspaper

    by Claire Knowles ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores Della Cruscan poetry in the late eighteenth-century literary scene. A sociable, ornate, and deeply theatrical type of poetry, Della Cruscanism was associated with writers like Robert Merry, Mary Robinson, and Hannah Cowley. While Merry is the poet most commonly associated with the Della Cruscan school, this book argues that Della Cruscanism was a movement dominated by female ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Placing Charlotte Smith

    by Jacqueline M. Labbe, Elizabeth A. Dolan, Melissa Bailes, Stephen Behrendt, Anne Chandler, Val Derbyshire, Rachael Isom, Mary Anne Myers, Lisa Vargo0, Dr Claire Knowles1 ...
    A lively and far-ranging interest in place, space, and situation characterizes the work of Romantic-era British author Charlotte Smith (1749-1806). Featuring ten original essays, an introduction and an epilogue, this volume offers new insights into Smith’s life and work by exploring two central issues: Smith’s place as a foundational writer in her period, and her contribution to the creation of ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Impolite Periodicals

    Reading for Rudeness in the Eighteenth Century

    by Emrys D. Jones, Adam James Smith, Katarina Stenke, Anthony Pollock, Jennifer Batt, Claire Knowles, Richard Squibbs, Jennifer Buckley0, Laura Davies1, Amélie Junqua2, Charlotte Roberts3, Manushag Powell4 ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
    Studies of the eighteenth-century periodical have long tended to understand the form according to the period’s own insistence on adhering to and promoting politeness. In contrast, this collection reads for impoliteness, revealing a more nuanced, granular, and dynamic view of eighteenth-century periodicals such as Addison and Steele’s popular The Spectator, and a fuller sense of their value within ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • A Watershed Moment for Social Policy and Human Rights?

    Where Next for the UK Post-COVID

    by Amy Clair, Jasmine Fledderjohann, Bran Knowles ...
    With the ideological shift to neoliberalism and the introduction of austerity measures following the Global Recession, the UK has experienced divestment in the National Health Service, growing food bank use, increasing housing problems and growing inequities in access to digital services. These inequities have been both highlighted and compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic.Questioning the ideology ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • St. Cuthbert's

    Enriched edition. Unveiling the Mysteries of a Northumbrian Saint and the Medieval World

    by Robert E. Knowles, Claire Montrose ...
    In "St. Cuthbert's," Robert E. Knowles embarks on an evocative exploration of the life and legacy of St. Cuthbert, a revered figure in early Christian Britain. Through a blend of historical narrative and lyrical prose, Knowles intricately weaves the saint's life story with the socio-political landscape of 7th-century Northumbria. His vivid characterizations and attention to detail create a rich ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Improving the Menopause Experience Through Nutrition and Lifestyle

    The Triangle of Hormonal Health

    by Claire Snowdon-Darling, Laura Knowles ...
    Why is HRT not working for me? Why is my digestive health so important for a healthy menopause? Why am I becoming allergic to everything I eat? How do I navigate my emotions around menopause?Many women's questions and symptoms around the menopause have often been disregarded by traditional medical care. This pivotal guide calls upon the latest scientific and nutritional research to provide a ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

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  • The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry

    by Linda K. Hughes ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    Victorian poetry was read and enjoyed by a much larger audience than is sometimes thought. Publication in widely-circulating periodicals, reprinting in book reviews, and excerpting in novels and essays ensured that major poets such as Tennyson, Browning, Hardy and Rossetti were household names, and they remain popular today. The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry provides an accessible ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry

    Edited by Matthew Bevis ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    'I am inclined to think that we want new forms . . . as well as thoughts', confessed Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning in 1845. The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry provides a closely-read appreciation of the vibrancy and variety of Victorian poetic forms, and attends to poems as both shaped and shaping forces. The volume is divided into four main sections. The first section on 'Form' looks ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Shakespeare on Page and Stage

    Selected Essays

    by Prof Stanley Wells ...
    This volume presents a winning selection of the very best essays from the long and distinguished career of Stanley Wells, one of the most well-known and respected Shakespeare scholars in the world. Wells's accomplishments include editing the entire canon of Shakespeare plays for the ground-breaking Oxford Shakespeare, and over his lifetime he has made significant contributions to debates over ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Plotting Early Modern London

    New Essays on Jacobean City Comedy

    by Dieter Mehl ...
    Series series Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
    With the publication of Brian Gibbons's Jacobean City Comedy thirty-five years ago, the urban satires by Ben Jonson, John Marston and Thomas Middleton attained their 'official status as a Renaissance subgenre' that was distinct, by its farcical humour and ironic tone, from 'citizen comedy' or 'London drama' more generally. This retrospective genre-building has proved immensely fruitful in the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Staging Romantic Chameleons and Imposters

    by William D. Brewer ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Examining chameleonic identities as seen in theatrical performances and literary texts during the Romantic period, this study explores cultural attitudes toward imposture and how it reveals important and much-debated issues about this time period. Brewer shows chameleonism evoked anxieties about both social instability and British selfhood. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD