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  • Astronomy Education Volume 1

    Evidence-based instruction for introductory courses

    by Travis Rector, Erik Brogt, Erin Galyen, Adrienne Gauthier, Edward Prather, Colin Wallace, Douglas Duncan, Kevin Lee, Michelle Nichols, Christine Shupla, Steven Kortenkamp, Matthew Wenger, Wayne Schlingman, Patrick Durrell, Mark SubbaRao, Andrew Puckett, Michelle Wooten, Nicole Vogt, Kim Coble, Caty Pilachowski, Laura Trouille, Thomas Nelson, Julie Feldt, John Keller, Marc Buie, Carie Cardamone, Bethany Cobb Kung, Karen Masters, Kate Meredith, Kelly Borden, Patricia Udomprasert, Alyssa Goodman, Ned Ladd, Stella Offner, Harry Houghton, Erin Johnson, Susan Sunbury, Julia Plummer, Erika Wright, Philip Sadler, Philip Rosenfield, Curtis Wong, Janelle Bailey, Rica French, Bryan Mendez, Angela Speck ...
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    Astronomy is a popular subject for non-science majors in the United States, often representing a last formal exposure to science. Research has demonstrated the efficacy of active learning, but college astronomy instructors are often unaware of the tools and methods they can use to increase student comprehension and engagement. This is particularly true of two-year college instructors and faculty ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Reading for Health

    Medical Narratives and the Nineteenth-Century Novel

    by Erika Wright ...
    Series series Series in Victorian Studies
    In Reading for Health: Medical Narratives and the Nineteenth-Century Novel, Erika Wright argues that the emphasis in Victorian Studies on disease as the primary source of narrative conflict that must be resolved has obscured the complex reading practices that emerge around the concept of health. By shifting attention to the ways that prevention of illness and the preservation of well-being operate ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction

    Edited by Andrew Mangham ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In 1859 the popular novelist Wilkie Collins wrote of a ghostly woman, dressed from head to toe in white garments, laying her cold, thin hand on the shoulder of a young man as he walked home late one evening. His novel The Woman in White became hugely successful and popularised a style of writing that came to be known as sensation fiction. This Companion highlights the energy, the impact and the ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Brontës (Authors in Context)

    by Patricia Ingham ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The extraordinary creativity of the Brontë sisters, who between them wrote some of the most enduring fiction in the English language, continues to fascinate and intrigue modern readers. The tragedy of their early deaths adds poignancy to their novels, and in the popular imagination they have become mythic figures. And yet, as Patricia Ingham shows, they were fully engaged with the world around ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Shock, Memory and the Unconscious in Victorian Fiction

    by Jill L. Matus ...
    Series Book 69 - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
    Jill Matus explores shock in Victorian fiction and psychology with startling results that reconfigure the history of trauma theory. Central to Victorian thinking about consciousness and emotion, shock is a concept that challenged earlier ideas about the relationship between mind and body. Although the new materialist psychology of the mid-nineteenth century made possible the very concept of a ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Precocious Children and Childish Adults

    Age Inversion in Victorian Literature

    by Claudia Nelson ...
    Especially evident in Victorian-era writings is a rhetorical tendency to liken adults to children and children to adults. Claudia Nelson examines this literary phenomenon and explores the ways in which writers discussed the child-adult relationship during this period.Though far from ubiquitous, the terms “child-woman,” “child-man,” and “old-fashioned child” appear often enough in Victorian ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Reading Jane Austen

    by Jenny Davidson ...
    Series series Reading Writers and their Work
    Whether you're new to Austen's work or know it backwards and forwards already, this book provides a clear, full and highly engaging account of how Austen's fiction works and why it matters. Exploring new pathways into the study of Jane Austen's writing, novelist and academic Jenny Davidson looks at Austen's work through a writer's lens, addressing formal questions about narration, novel writing, ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens

    Edited by John O. Jordan ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens contains fourteen specially-commissioned chapters by leading international scholars, who together provide diverse but complementary approaches to the full span of Dickens's work, with particular focus on his major fiction. The essays cover the whole range of Dickens's writing, from Sketches by Boz through The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Separate chapters ... Read more

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  • The Hidden Jane Austen

    by John Wiltshire ...
    In this major study, leading Austen scholar John Wiltshire offers new interpretations of Jane Austen's six novels, Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1816), Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (1818). Much recent criticism of Austen has concentrated on the social, historical and intellectual context of her work, but Wiltshire turns attention back to ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Victorian Women's Fiction

    Marriage, Freedom, and the Individual

    by Shirley Foster ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature
    Focusing on the ways in which female novelists have, in their creative work, challenged or scrutinised contemporary assumptions about their own sex, this book's critical interest in women’s fiction shows how mid-nineteenth-century women writers confront the conflict between the pressures of matrimonial ideologies and the often more attractive alternative of single or professional life. In arguing ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell

    Edited by Jill L. Matus ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In the last few decades Elizabeth Gaskell has become a figure of growing importance in the field of Victorian literary studies. She produced work of great variety and scope in the course of a highly successful writing career that lasted for about twenty years from the mid-1840s to her unexpected death in 1865. The essays in this Companion draw on recent advances in biographical and bibliographical ... Read more

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  • The Pleasures of Memory

    Learning to Read with Charles Dickens

    by Sarah Winter ...
    What are the sources of the commonly held presumption that reading literature should make people more just, humane, and sophisticated? Rendering literary history responsive to the cultural histories of reading, publishing, and education, The Pleasures of Memory illuminates the ways in which Dickens’s serial fiction shaped not only the popular practice of reading for pleasure and instruction but ... Read more

    $29.69 USD