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  • William Hayley

    A Biographer’s Influence on Life Writing and Romantic Networks in the Long Eighteenth Century

    Edited by Lisa Gee, Mark Crosby ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This volume of essays reassesses William Hayley’s contribution to the literary and artistic history of the long eighteenth century and situates his work and influence in a broader cultural and, specifically, life writing context. In his biographies of Milton, Cowper, Romney, Thomas Alphonso Hayley, and in his autobiography, Hayley is concerned with recuperating and memorializing his subjects. He ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

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  • The Social Life of Books

    Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home

    by Abigail Williams ...
    Series series The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
    "A lively survey…her research and insights make us conscious of how we, today, use books."—John Sutherland, The New York Times Book ReviewTwo centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment and an integral component of domestic social life. In this fascinating and vivid history, Abigail Williams explores the ways in which ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft

    by Claire Tomalin ...
    The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft is the acclaimed bestselling biography by Claire TomalinWinner of the Whitbread First Book PrizeWitty, courageous and unconventional, Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the most controversial figures of her day. She published A Vindication of the Rights of Women; travelled to revolutionary France and lived through the Terror and the destruction of the ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • A Room Of One's Own (annotated)

    The Virginia Woolf Library Annotated Edition

    by Virginia Woolf ...
    Series Book 57 - The Virginia Woolf Library
    This annotated edition of the landmark inquiry into the women's role in society by one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers, Virginia Woolf's classic A Room of One's Own features an introduction by English and Women's Studies professor Susan Gubar, perfect for critical analysis in classrooms and beyond.“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”In A Room of ... Read more

    Was $9.99 USD Now $5.99 USD

  • Edwardian Turn Of Mind

    by Samuel Hynes ...
    The Edwardian Turn of Mind brilliantly evokes the cultural temper of an age. The years between the death of Queen Victoria and the outbreak of the First World War witnessed a turbulent and dramatic struggle between the old and the new. Samuel Hynes considers the principal areas of conflict - politics, science, the arts and the relations between men and women - and fills them with a wide-ranging ... Read more

    $19.09 USD

  • The Politics of Parody

    A Literary History of Caricature, 1760–1830

    by David Francis Taylor ...
    Series series The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
    This engaging study explores how the works of Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, and others were taken up by caricaturists as a means of helping the eighteenth-century British public make sense of political issues, outrages, and personalities. The first in-depth exploration of the relationship between literature and visual satire in this period, David Taylor's book explores how great texts, seen through ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764–1820

    The Import of Terror

    by Angela Wright ...
    Series Book 99 - Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
    In describing his proto-Gothic fiction, The Castle of Otranto (1764), as a translation, Horace Walpole was deliberately playing on national anxieties concerning the importation of war, fashion and literature from France in the aftermath of the Seven Years' War. In the last decade of the eighteenth century, as Britain went to war again with France, this time in the wake of revolution, the ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Three Guineas (annotated)

    The Virginia Woolf Library Annotated Edition

    by Virginia Woolf, Mark Hussey ...
    Series Book 56 - The Virginia Woolf Library
    Three Guineas is written as a series of letters in which Virginia Woolf ponders the efficacy of donating to various causes to prevent war — and a statement of feminine purpose.Annotated and introduced by feminist literary scholar Jane Marcus, this is an ideal edition for the college classroom and beyond.In reflecting on her situation as the "daughter of an educated man" in 1930s England, Woolf ... Read more

    Was $10.99 USD Now $6.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of British Poetry, 1660-1800

    Edited by Jack Lynch ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    In the most comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the poetry published in Britain between the Restoration and the end of the eighteenth century, forty-four authorities from six countries survey the poetry of the age in all its richness and diversity--serious and satirical, public and private, by men and women, nobles and peasants, whether published in deluxe editions or sung on the streets. The ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Reading 1759

    Literary Culture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain and France

    Edited by Shaun Regan ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    Reading 1759 investigates the literary culture of a remarkable year in British and French history, writing, and ideas. Familiar to many as the British “year of victories” during the Seven Years’ War, 1759 was also an important year in the histories of fiction, philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics. Reading 1759 is the first book to examine together the range of works written and published during this ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Soft

    A Brief History of Sentimentality

    by Ferdinand Mount ...
    '[An] erudite, immensely entertaining book...Mount makes for a delightful guide' -- Literary ReviewFrom troubadours to Twitter: a thousand years of feelings, fads and furious sentiment, from renowned essayist Ferdinand Mount.Whatever we think we feel, you can be sure that the past has had a part to play in it. In Soft, Ferdinand Mount tells the millennium-long history of emotion through delightful ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

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  • Bodies Politic

    Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650–1900

    by Roy Porter ...
    Series series Picturing History
    In this historical tour de force, now available in B-format paperback, Roy Porter takes a critical look at representations of the body in health, disease and death in Britain from the mid-seventeenth to the twentieth century. Porter argues that great symbolic weight was attached to contrasting conceptions of the healthy and diseased body, and that such ideas were mapped onto antithetical notions ... Read more

    $13.99 USD