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“gail cunningham”

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  • Image and Power

    Women in Fiction in the Twentieth Century

    by Sarah Sceats, Gail Cunningham ...
    Image and Power is an important work of literary and cultural criticism. This collection of essays focuses on some of the major issues addressed by women's writing in the twentieth century, concerning genre, subjectivity and social and cultural expectations, issues which in the past have been regarded from an essentially male perspective. The text introduces women writers whose novels have been ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • Beginning theory

    An introduction to literary and cultural theory: Fourth edition

    by Peter Barry, John McLeod ...
    Series series Beginnings
    Beginning theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for over two decades. This new and expanded fourth edition continues to offer readers the best single-volume introduction to the field. The bewildering variety of approaches, theorists and technical language is lucidly and expertly unravelled. Unlike many books which assume certain positions ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Women Are Up to Something

    How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics

    by Benjamin J.B. Lipscomb ...
    The story of four remarkable women who shaped the intellectual history of the 20th century: Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch. On the cusp of the Second World War, four women went to Oxford to begin their studies: a fiercely brilliant Catholic convert; a daughter of privilege longing to escape her stifling upbringing; an ardent Communist and aspiring novelist with a ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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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

  • The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf

    Edited by Susan Sellers ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Virginia Woolf's writing has generated passion and controversy for the best part of a century. Her novels - challenging, moving, and always deeply intelligent - remain as popular with readers as they are with students and academics. The highly successful Cambridge Companion has been fully revised to take account of new departures in scholarship since it first appeared. The second edition includes ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • 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

    $31.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Children's Literature

    Edited by M. O. Grenby, Andrea Immel ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Some of the most innovative and spell-binding literature has been written for young people, but only recently has academic study embraced its range and complexity. This Companion offers a state-of-the-subject survey of English-language children's literature from the seventeenth century to the present. With discussions ranging from eighteenth-century moral tales to modern fantasies by J. K. Rowling ... Read more

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  • Genders

    by David Glover, Cora Kaplan ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    The concept of gender continues to be a central issue in literary and cultural studies, with a significance that crosses disciplinary boundaries and provokes lively debate. In this fully revised and updated second edition, David Glover and Cora Kaplan offer a lucid and illuminating introduction to ’gender’ and its implications, including:an overview of the critical language and concepts ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Joyce's Ghosts

    Ireland, Modernism, and Memory

    by Luke Gibbons ...
    "A deeply original work . . . part of a refreshing new wave of literary criticism that is written in clear, hospitable prose, driven by genuine passion." — Irish TimesFor decades, James Joyce's modernism has overshadowed his Irishness, as his self-imposed exile and association with the high modernism of Europe's urban centers has led critics to see him almost exclusively as a cosmopolitan figure ... Read more

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  • Literature

    by Peter Widdowson ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    This introductory volume provides an overview of the history of Literature as a cultural concept, and reflects on the contemporary nature, place and function of what the literary might mean for us today. Literature:* offers a concise history of the canonic concept of 'literature' from its earliest origins* illustrates the kinds of theoretical issues which are currently invoked by the term ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Rewriting the Victorians

    Modes of Literary Engagement with the 19th Century

    by Andrea Kirchknopf ...
    The 19th century has become especially relevant for the present--as one can see from, for example, large-scale adaptations of written works, as well as the explosion of commodities and even interactive theme parks. This book is an introduction to the novelistic refashionings that have come after the Victorian age with a special focus on revisions of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Charles Dickens ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • A Companion to Virginia Woolf

    Edited by Jessica Berman ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
    A Companion to Virginia Woolf is a thorough examination of her life, work, and multiple contexts in 33 essays written by leading scholars in the field.Contains insightful and provocative new scholarship and sketches out new directions for future researchApproaches Woolf's writing from a variety of perspectives and disciplines, including modernism, post-colonialism, queer theory, animal studies, ... Read more

    $46.00 USD