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  • The Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron

    by Jonathon Shears, Alan Rawes ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron offers the latest in critical thinking about the poet that defined the Romantic era across Europe and beyond. The volume presents forty-four groundbreaking essays that enable readers to assess Lord Byron's central position in Romantic traditions and his profound and far-reaching influence on British, European, and world culture. The chapters are organized into ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Romantic Legacy of Paradise Lost

    Reading against the Grain

    by Jonathon Shears ...
    Series series The Nineteenth Century Series
    The Romantic Legacy of Paradise Lost offers a new critical insight into the relationship between Milton and the Romantic poets. Beginning with a discussion of the role that seventeenth and eighteenth-century writers like Dryden, Johnson and Burke played in formulating the political and spiritual mythology that grew up around Milton, Shears devotes a chapter to each of the major Romantic poets, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Great Exhibition, 1851

    A sourcebook

    Edited by Jonathon Shears ...
    Series series Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century
    The Great Exhibition, 1851: A Sourcebook is the first anthology of its kind. It presents a comprehensive array of carefully selected primary documents, sourced from the period before, during and after the Exhibition in Hyde Park in 1851. Drawing on contemporary newspapers and periodicals, the archives of the Royal Commission, diaries, journals, celebratory poems and essays, many of these documents ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Literary Bric-à-Brac and the Victorians

    From Commodities to Oddities

    by Jen Harrison ...
    Series series The Nineteenth Century Series
    What are we to make of the Victorians’ fascination with collecting? What effect did their encounters with the curious, exotic and downright odd have on Victorian writers and their works? The essays in this collection take up these questions by examining the phenomenon of bric-Ã -brac in Victorian literature. The contributors to Literary Bric-Ã -Brac and the Victorians: From Commodities to Oddities ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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    The Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron

    Narrated by Mike Cooper ...

    Unabridged

    28 hours 21 min

    The Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron offers the latest in critical thinking about the poet that defined the Romantic era across Europe and beyond. The volume presents forty-four groundbreaking essays that enable listeners to assess Lord Byron's central position in Romantic traditions and his profound and far-reaching influence on British, European, and world culture.The chapters are organized into ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Ragged London in 1861

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