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  • Cruelty & Laughter

    Forgotten Comic Literature and the Unsentimental Eighteenth Century

    by Simon Dickie ...
    Eighteenth-century British culture is often seen as polite and sentimental—the creation of an emerging middle class. Simon Dickie disputes these assumptions in Cruelty and Laughter, a wildly enjoyable but shocking plunge into the forgotten comic literature of the age. Beneath the surface of Enlightenment civility, Dickie uncovers a rich vein of cruel humor that forces us to recognize just how ... Read more

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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

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  • How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain

    by Leah Price ...
    How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who ... Read more

    $22.39 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel

    Edited by John Richetti ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In the past twenty years our understanding of the novel's emergence in eighteenth-century Britain has drastically changed. Drawing on new research in social and political history, the twelve contributors to this Companion challenge and refine the traditional view of the novel's origins and purposes. In various ways each seeks to show that the novel is not defined primarily by its realism of ... Read more

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  • The Brontës (Authors in Context)

    by Patricia Ingham ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The extraordinary creativity of the Brontë sisters, who between them wrote some of the most enduring fiction in the English language, continues to fascinate and intrigue modern readers. The tragedy of their early deaths adds poignancy to their novels, and in the popular imagination they have become mythic figures. And yet, as Patricia Ingham shows, they were fully engaged with the world around ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • A Voice from the Attic

    by Robertson Davies ...
    A collection of essays "filled with pleasantly rambling opinions about everything from self-help books to erotica" from the celebrated Canadian author ( The Chronicle Journal).An urbane, robust, and wonderfully opinionated voice from Canada, sometimes called "America's attic," speaks here of the delights of reading, and of what mass education has done to readers today, to taste, to books, to ... Read more

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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

  • A Room Of One's Own (annotated)

    The Virginia Woolf Library Annotated Edition

    by Virginia Woolf ...
    Series series 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

    $9.99 USD

  • Lewd and Notorious

    Female Transgression in the Eighteenth Century

    Edited by Katharine Kittredge ...
    Accounts of women's transgressive behavior in eighteenth-century literature and social documents have much to teach us about constructions of femininity during the period often identified as having formed our society's gender norms. Lewd and Notorious explores the eighteenth century's shadows, inhabited by marginal women of many kinds and degrees of contrariness. The reader meets Laetitia ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Romanticism and Gender

    by Anne K. Mellor ...
    Taking twenty women writers of the Romantic period, Romanticism and Gender explores a neglected period of the female literary tradition, and for the first time gives a broad overview of Romantic literature from a feminist perspective. ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • A History of Victorian Literature

    by James Eli Adams ...
    Series Book 11 - Blackwell History of Literature
    Incorporating a broad range of contemporary scholarship, A History of Victorian Literature presents an overview of the literature produced in Great Britain between 1830 and 1900, with fresh consideration of both major figures and some of the era's less familiar authors. Part of the Blackwell Histories of Literature series, the book describes the development of the Victorian literary movement and ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

  • The Practice of Satire in England, 1658–1770

    by Ashley Marshall ...
    An exhaustive study of satire in the long eighteenth century.Outstanding Academic Title, ChoiceIn The Practice of Satire in England, 1658–1770, Ashley Marshall explores how satire was conceived and understood by writers and readers of the period. Her account is based on a reading of some 3,000 works, ranging from one-page squibs to novels. The objective is not to recuperate particular minor works ... Read more

    $35.99 USD