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“peter w graham”

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  • The Leslie A. Marchand Memorial Lectures, 2000–2015

    A Legacy in Byron Studies

    by Peter X. Accardo, John Clubbe, Hermione de Almeida, Peter W. Graham, Kay Redfield Jamison, Malcolm Kelsall, Alice Levine, Romulus Linney, Marsha Manns, Jerome J. McGann, John R. Murray, Marios Byron Raizs, Charles E. Robinson, Carl Woodring ...
    This unique collection of lectures honors the pioneering work in Byron studies of Leslie Alexis Marchand, who has had an enduring influence on the appreciation and study of Lord Byron for sixty years. Generations of readers and writers have come to Byron through his biographies and his edition of the poet’s letters and journals. All admirers of Byron respond to the verve, dash, and immediacy of ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Jane Austen & Charles Darwin

    Naturalists and Novelists

    by Peter W. Graham ...
    Are Jane Austen and Charles Darwin the two great English empiricists of the nineteenth century? Peter W. Graham poses this question as he brings these two icons of nineteenth-century British culture into intellectual conversation in his provocative new book. Graham shows that while the one is generally termed a naturalist (Darwin's preferred term for himself) and the other a novelist, these ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

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    A Life

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    With the same sensitivity and artfulness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Carol Shields explores the life of a writer whose own novels have engaged and delighted readers for the past two hundred years. In Jane Austen, Shields follows this superb and beloved novelist from her early family life in Steventown to her later years in Bath, her broken engagement, and her intense ... Read more

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  • Christopher Marlowe : Poet & Spy

    Poet & Spy

    by Park Honan ...
    Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy is the most thorough and detailed life of Marlowe since John Bakeless's in 1942. It has new material on Marlowe in relation to Canterbury, also on his home life, schooling, and six and a half years at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and includes fresh data on his reading, teachers, and early achievements, including a new letter with a new date for the famous ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Romanticism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael Ferber ...
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    What is Romanticism? In this Very Short Introduction Michael Ferber answers this by considering who the romantics were and looks at what they had in common -- their ideas, beliefs, commitments, and tastes. He looks at the birth and growth of Romanticism throughout Europe and the Americas, and examines various types of Romantic literature, music, painting, religion, and philosophy. Focusing on ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Novel

    A Biography

    by Michael Schmidt ...
    The 700-year history of the novel in English defies straightforward telling. Geographically and culturally boundless, with contributions from Great Britain, Ireland, America, Canada, Australia, India, the Caribbean, and Southern Africa; influenced by great novelists working in other languages; and encompassing a range of genres, the story of the novel in English unfolds like a richly varied ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Jane Austen, Game Theorist

    by Michael Suk-Young Chwe ...
    How the works of Jane Austen show that game theory is present in all human behaviorGame theory—the study of how people make choices while interacting with others—is one of the most popular technical approaches in social science today. But as Michael Chwe reveals in his insightful new book, Jane Austen explored game theory's core ideas in her six novels roughly two hundred years ago—over a century ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature

    by Elizabeth Kantor ...
    What PC English professors don't want you to learn from . . .- Beowulf: If we don't admire heroes, there's something wrong with us- Chaucer: Chivalry has contributed enormously to women's happiness- Shakespeare: Some choices are inherently destructive (it's just built into the nature of things)- Milton: Our intellectual freedoms are Christian, not anti-Christian, in origin- Jane Austen: Most men ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Oxford Companion to English Literature

    Edited by Dinah Birch ...
    Series series Oxford Companions
    The Oxford Companion to English Literature has long been established as the leading reference resource for students, teachers, scholars, and general readers of English literature. It provides unrivalled coverage of all aspects of English literature - from writers, their works, and the historical and cultural context in which they wrote, to critics, literary theory, and allusions. For the seventh ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to 'Pride and Prejudice'

    Edited by Janet Todd ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Named in many surveys as Britain's best-loved work of fiction, Pride and Prejudice is now a global brand, with film and television adaptations making Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy household names. With a combination of original readings and factual background information, this Companion investigates some of the sources of the novel's power. It explores key themes and topics in detail: money, land, ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Byron

    Child of Passion, Fool of Fame

    by Benita Eisler ...
    In this masterful portrait of the poet who dazzled an era and prefigured the modern age of celebrity, noted biographer Benita Eisler offers a fuller and more complex vision than we have yet been afforded of George Gordon, Lord Byron.Eisler reexamines his poetic achievement in the context of his extraordinary life: the shameful and traumatic childhood; the swashbuckling adventures in the East; the ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen

    Edited by Edward Copeland, Juliet McMaster ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Jane Austen's stock in the popular marketplace has never been higher, while academic studies continue to uncover new aspects of her engagement with her world. This fully updated edition of the acclaimed Cambridge Companion offers clear, accessible coverage of the intricacies of Austen's works in their historical context, with biographical information and suggestions for further reading. Major ... Read more

    $28.69 USD