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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “ruth robbins”
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  • The Job

    by Sinclair Lewis ...
    Series series Foundations of Feminist Fiction
    Sinclair Lewis' scandalous tale of Una Golden, who dared to work, marry, divorce and find success in the male-dominated society of New York in the early 1900s.Sinclair Lewis, the first American to win the Nobel Prize for literature, and a writer lauded both for his craft and his principles, wrote The Job as a statement of female empowerment, and self-determination over societal expectation. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Subjectivity

    by Dr Ruth Robbins ...
    Series series Transitions
    Who do you think you are? In Subjectivity, Ruth Robbins explores some of the responses to this fundamental question. In readings of a number of autobiographical texts from the last three centuries, Robbins offers an approachable account of formations of the self which demonstrates that both psychology and material conditions - often in tension with one another - are the building blocks of modern ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Key Concepts in Literary Theory

    Edited by Julian Wolfreys, Ruth Robbins, Kenneth Womack ...
    This book provides students with lucid and authoritative definitions of some of the most significant terms and concepts employed in the study of literary theory. It offers 250 terms from many areas of literary theory, including cultural studies, psychoanalysis, poststructuralism, Marxist and feminist studies, postcolonialism, and other areas of identity politics. In addition, it provides ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Victorian Literary Cultures

    Studies in Textual Subversion

    by Nancy Henry, Martin Bidney, Ruth Robbins, Ira Nadel, Jeanette Shumaker, Joseph Lennon, Troy Bassett, Alexis Weedon, Joseph Wiesenfarth ...
    Victorian Literary Cultures: Studies in Textual Subversion provides readers with close textual analyses regarding the role of subversive acts or tendencies in Victorian literature. By drawing clear cultural contexts for the works under review—including such canonical texts as Dracula, Jane Eyre, Middlemarch, and stories featuring Sherlock Holmes—the critics in this anthology offer groundbreaking ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Pater to Forster, 1873-1924

    by Dr Ruth Robbins ...
    Series series Transitions
    Was the late nineteenth century 'Victorian' or 'modern'? Why did the New Woman disappear from literary history? Where did T. S. Eliot's poetics of the city come from?In this essential guide, Ruth Robbins explores an era often named an 'age of transition' which exists uneasily between the apparent certainties of the Victorians and the advent of a Modernist aesthetics of instability. Robbins ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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  • Arrowsmith

    by Sinclair Lewis ...
    Arrowsmith tells the story of bright and scientifically minded Martin Arrowsmith as he makes his way from a small town in the Midwest to the upper echelons of the scientific community. (He is born in Elk Mills, Winnemac, the same fictional state in which several of Lewis's other novels are set.) Along the way he experiences medical school. He becomes engaged to one woman, cheats on her with ... Read more

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  • MAIN STREET Classic Novels: New Illustrated [Free Audiobook Links]

    by Sinclair Lewis ...
    Series series Classic Novels
    "MAIN STREET" - Popular Classic Novels included Free AudioBook Links, NEW illustrations, Clickable Table of Contents for both the list of included books and their respective chapters.The text and chapters are perfectly set up to match the layout and feel of a physical copy, rather than being haphazardly thrown together for a quick release.Main Street is the metonym for a generic street name (and ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Marguerite de Valois

    by Alexandre Dumas ...
    The novel follows the life of Marguerite de Valois, a French princess who is the daughter of King Henry II and Catherine de' Medici. Marguerite, known as Margot, is married off to Henry of Navarre (later King Henry IV of France) in an attempt to reconcile the Catholic and Protestant factions in France.Against the backdrop of the religious tensions between Catholics and Huguenots (French ... Read more

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  • Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Jonathan Culler ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    What is literary theory? Is there a relationship between literature and culture? In fact, what is literature, and does it matter?These are some of questions addressed by Jonathan Culler in this Very Short Introduction to literary theory. Often a controversial subject, said to have transformed the study of culture and society in the past two decades, literary theory is accused of undermining ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • German Philosophy

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Andrew Bowie ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    German philosophy remains the core of modern philosophy. Without Kant, Frege, Wittgenstein, and Husserl there would be no Anglo-American 'analytical' style of philosophy. Moreover, without Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, the 'Continental Philosophy' of Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, Badiou, and Zizek, which has had major effects on humanities subjects in recent years, is incomprehensible ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Art

    Key Contemporary Thinkers

    Edited by Jonathan Vickery, Diarmuid Costello ...
    The last few decades have witnessed an explosion in ideas and theories on art. Art itself has never been so topical, but much recent thinking remains inaccessible and difficult to use. This book assesses the work of those thinkers (including artists) who have had a major impact on making, criticizing and interpreting art since the 1960s. With entries by leading international experts, this book ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Literary Theory

    by David Carter ...
    Series series Pocket Essential series
    Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction, history, and more. It sounds daunting: all those -isms, long technical words, weird French thinkers, and incomprehensible Germans. Most books ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus