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  • Fatal Errors; or Poor Mary-Anne. A Tale of the Last Century

    by Elizabeth Hays Lanfear

    Edited by Timothy Whelan, Felicity James ...
    Series series Chawton House Library: Women's Novels
    In December 2015 a novel by Elizabeth Hays (c. 1765-1825) that has eluded scholars of women novelists of the 1790s for more than a century was finally discovered in the British Library. Fatal Errors was written in the late 1790s by the sister of Mary Hays, but not published until 1819 under her married name, Lanfear, and has therefore been completely overlooked until now. There has been ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Writing Lives Together

    Romantic and Victorian auto/biography

    Edited by Felicity James, Julian North ...
    Series series Life Writing
    A diary entry, begun by a wife and finished by a husband; a map of London, its streets bearing the names of forgotten lives; biographies of siblings, and of spouses; a poem which gives life to long-dead voices from the archives. All these feature in this volume as examples of ‘writing lives together’: British life writing which has been collaboratively authored and/or joins together the lives of ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Anna Letitia Barbauld

    New Perspectives

    by Stephen Bygrave, E. J. Clery, Jocelyn Harris, Sonia Hofkosh, Naomi Lightman, Sabine Volk-Birke, Joanna Wharton, Isobel Armstrong, Isobel Grundy, Felicity James, Scott Krawczyk, Michelle Levy, Rachel Trethewey, Dr Gillian Dow ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    Anna Letitia Barbauld: New Perspectives is the first collection of essays on poet and public intellectual Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743–1825). By international scholars of eighteenth-century and Romantic British literature, these new essays survey Barbauld’s writing from early to late: her versatility as a stylist, her poetry, her books for children, her political writing, her performance as editor ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

  • Religious Dissent and the Aikin-Barbauld Circle, 1740–1860

    Edited by Felicity James, Ian Inkster ...
    Recent criticism is now fully appreciating the nuanced and complex contribution made by Dissenters to the culture and ideas of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Britain. This is the first sustained study of a Dissenting family - the Aikins - from the 1740s to the 1860s. Essays by literary critics, historians of religion and science, and geographers explore and contextualize the ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

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  • Romanticism and Caricature

    by Ian Haywood ...
    Series Book 103 - Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
    Ian Haywood explores the 'Golden Age' of caricature through the close reading of key, iconic prints by artists including James Gillray, George and Robert Cruikshank, and Thomas Rowlandson. This approach both illuminates the visual and ideological complexity of graphic satire and demonstrates how this art form transformed Romantic-era politics into a unique and compelling spectacle of corruption, ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Love and Madness

    The Murder of Martha Ray, Mistress of the Fourth Earl of Sandwich

    by Martin Levy ...

    $6.99 USD

  • Elizabeth Is Missing

    One of the Eighteenth Century's Greatest Mysteries—Solved!

    by Lillian de la Torre ...
    The true story of the eighteenth-century English maidservant at the center of a fascinating criminal mystery.On New Year's Day, 1753, Elizabeth Canning disappeared. An eighteen-year-old girl, she was unremarkable in every respect, from her appearance to her disposition, but she was about to become the most famous person in London. When she reappeared one month later, starving and ill, she claimed ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Vindication

    A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft

    by Lyndall Gordon ...
    "Gordon relates Wollstonecraft's story with the same potent mixture of passion and reason her subject personified . . . Wonderful, and deeply sobering." — New York Times Book ReviewThe founder of modern feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was the most famous woman in Europe and America in her time. Yet her reputation over the years has suffered—until now. Acclaimed biographer Lyndall Gordon ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel

    Edited by Deirdre David ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In the Victorian period, the British novel reached a wide readership and played a major role in the shaping of national and individual identity. As we come to understand the ways the novel contributed to public opinion on religion, gender, sexuality and race, we continue to be entertained and enlightened by the works of Dickens, George Eliot, Thackeray, Trollope and many others. This second ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Mary Wollstonecraft

    A Revolutionary Life

    by Janet Todd ...
    The combination of Mary Wollstonecraft works, with her efforts to live a revolutionary inner and outer life has no equal. In her richly detailed, all-encompassing biography of the first major feminist in England, Mary Wollstonecraft, Janet Todd highlights her intellectual and sexual dilemmas, her glamorous and tumultuous life and loves.Since the first publication of Mary Wollstonecraft: A ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Poe

    A Life Cut Short

    by Peter Ackroyd ...
    Gothic, mysterious, theatrical, fatally flawed, and dazzling, the life of Edgar Allan Poe, one of America’s greatest and most versatile writers, is the ideal subject for Peter Ackroyd. Poe wrote lyrical poetry and macabre psychological melodramas; invented the first fictional detective; and produced pioneering works of science fiction and fantasy. His innovative style, images, and themes had a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • 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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