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  • Frances Trollope

    Beyond “Domestic Manners”

    Edited by Tamara Wagner ...
    Long overshadowed by her more widely read and reprinted son Anthony, Frances Trollope is almost exclusively remembered for her travel writing and especially for the notoriously controversial Domestic Manners of the Americans. Her impressively prolific career as a writer, however, covered and transgressed several genres, and spanned the early 1830s right through until the mid-1850s. A contemporary ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Charlotte Yonge

    Rereading Domestic Religious Fiction

    Edited by Tamara Wagner ...
    Charlotte Yonge, a dedicated religious, didactic, and domestic novelist, has become one of the most effectively rediscovered Victorian women writers of the last decades. Her prolific output of fiction does not merely give a fascinatingly different insight into nineteenth-century popular culture; it also yields a startling complexity. This compels a reappraisal of the parameters that have long been ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • 1650-1850

    Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 25)

    Series Book 25 - 1650-1850
    Volume 25 of 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era investigates the local textures that make up the whole cloth of the Enlightenment. Ranging from China to Cheltenham and from Spinoza to civil insurrection, volume 25 celebrates the emergence of long-eighteenth-century culture from particularities and prodigies. Unfurling in the folds of this volume is a special ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel

    Edited by Deirdre David ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In the Victorian period, the British novel reached a wide readership and played a major role in the shaping of national and individual identity. As we come to understand the ways the novel contributed to public opinion on religion, gender, sexuality and race, we continue to be entertained and enlightened by the works of Dickens, George Eliot, Thackeray, Trollope and many others. This second ... 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

  • Slumming

    Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London

    by Seth Koven ...
    In the 1880s, fashionable Londoners left their elegant homes and clubs in Mayfair and Belgravia and crowded into omnibuses bound for midnight tours of the slums of East London. A new word burst into popular usage to describe these descents into the precincts of poverty to see how the poor lived: slumming. In this captivating book, Seth Koven paints a vivid portrait of the practitioners of slumming ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel

    Edited by Lisa Rodensky ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Much has been written about the Victorian novel, and for good reason. The cultural power it exerted (and, to some extent, still exerts) is beyond question. The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel contributes substantially to this thriving scholarly field by offering new approaches to familiar topics (the novel and science, the Victorian Bildungroman) as well as essays on topics often overlooked ... Read more

    $44.99 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

  • The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture

    Edited by Juliet John ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture is a major contribution to the dynamic field of Victorian studies. This collection of 37 original chapters by leading international Victorian scholars offers new approaches to familiar themes including science, religion, and gender, and gives space to newer and emerging topics including old age, fair play, and economics. Structured around three ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Frances Burney

    Edited by Peter Sabor ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Frances Burney (1752–1840) was the most successful female novelist of the eighteenth century. Her first novel Evelina was a publishing sensation; her follow-up novels Cecilia and Camilla were regarded as among the best fiction of the time and were much admired by Jane Austen. Burney's life was equally remarkable: a protegee of Samuel Johnson, lady-in-waiting at the court of George III, later wife ... Read more

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  • A New Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture

    Edited by Herbert F. Tucker ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
    A NEW COMPANION TO VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTUREThe Victorian period was a time of rapid cultural change, which resulted in a huge and varied literary output. A New Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture offers experienced guidance to the literature of nineteenth-century Britain and its social and historical context. This revised and expanded edition comprises contributions from over 30 ... Read more

    $178.00 USD

  • Charles Dickens in Context

    Edited by Sally Ledger, Holly Furneaux ...
    Series series Literature in Context
    Charles Dickens, a man so representative of his age as to have become considered synonymous with it, demands to be read in context. This book illuminates the worlds - social, political, economic and artistic - in which Dickens worked. Dickens's professional life encompassed work as a novelist, journalist, editor, public reader and passionate advocate of social reform. This volume offers a detailed ... Read more

    $36.09 USD