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  • The Portrait in Fiction of the Romantic Period

    by Joe Bray ...
    Beginning with the premise that the portrait was undergoing a shift in both form and function during the Romantic age, Joe Bray examines how these changes are reflected in the fiction of writers such as Maria Edgeworth, Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott, Elizabeth Hamilton and Amelia Opie. Bray considers portraiture in a broad sense as encompassing caricature and the miniature, as well as the classic ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Epistolary Novel

    Representations of Consciousness

    by Joe Bray ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature
    The epistolary novel is a form which has been neglected in most accounts of the development of the novel. This book argues that the way that the eighteenth-century epistolary novel represented consciousness had a significant influence on the later novel. Critics have drawn a distinction between the self at the time of writing and the self at the time at which events or emotions were experienced. ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Language of Jane Austen

    by Joe Bray ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Joe Bray’s careful analysis of Jane Austen’s stylistic techniques reveals that the genius of her writing is far from effortless; rather he makes the case for her as a meticulous craftswoman and a radical stylistic pioneer. Countering those who have detected in her novels a dominant, authoritative perspective, Bray begins by highlighting the complex, ever-shifting and ambiguous nature of the point ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • The Female Reader in the English Novel

    From Burney to Austen

    by Joe Bray ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature
    This book examines how reading is represented within the novels of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Contemporary accounts portrayed the female reader in particular as passive and impressionable; liable to identify dangerously with the world of her reading. This study shows that female characters are often active and critical readers, and develop a range of strategies for reading ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Gija Dictionary

    Gija is a traditional language of the East Kimberley in the north-west of Australia. It is a landscape of weathered hills hugged by spinifex, startling rocky outcrops, hidden waterholes and dry riverbeds that turn to raging torrents in the wet season. Gija country extends north of Warmun (Turkey Creek) in the upper reaches of the Ord and Dunham rivers, south to Halls Creek and west to Lansdowne ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Ma(r)king the Text

    The Presentation of Meaning on the Literary Page

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 2000, this volume is a unique collection of essays which draws our attention to the importance of those textual elements traditionally ignored in literary criticism. These include punctuation, footnotes, epigraphs, typography, cover design, white space and marginalia; features which significantly affect the meaning of a literary text.The first section of the book opens with a ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature

    Series series Routledge Literature Companions
    What is experimental literature? How has experimentation affected the course of literary history, and how is it shaping literary expression today? Literary experiment has always been diverse and challenging, but never more so than in our age of digital media and social networking, when the very category of the literary is coming under intense pressure. How will literature reconfigure itself in the ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Violated

    A Novel

    Unabridged

    7 hours 2 min

    Bill Pronzini is crime-writing royalty. His more than eighty published novels have won or been nominated for Edgar, Hammett, Anthony, Shamus, and Macavity awards—a clean sweep of the crime fiction award field—and received rave reviews from critics. He crafts masterful stories, often from multiple perspectives, in which the human condition is on full display. The Violated is no exception.In Echo ... Read more

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    The Accidental Vikings

    Narrated by Joe Pitts ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 3 min

    Alfie and Kat’s school trip takes an unexpected turn when they’re whisked back to a Viking village in this exciting time-slip adventure from bestselling author Karen McCombie.Things take a weird turn for Alfie and Kat when they get separated from the rest of their group on a school trip to the Viking Museum. The models around them start to come to life, and at first Kat is sure they’re being ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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