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  • Andrew Lang

    Writer, Folklorist, Democratic Intellect

    de Dr John Sloan ...
    In a remarkable literary career, Andrew Lang challenged the increasing specialism that accompanied the advance of modernity and science in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, authoring an extraordinary body of rigorous, scholarly works in the fields of social anthropology, folklore, Homeric studies, history, and religion, while simultaneously turning out novels, poems for periodicals, and ... Leer más

    $85.99 USD

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  • The Social Life of Books

    Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 1

    Family Letters, 1905-1931

    de C. S. Lewis ...
    The life and mind of C. S. Lewis have fascinated those who have read his works. This collection of his personal letters reveals a unique intellectual journey. The first of a three-volume collection, this volume contains letters from Lewis's boyhood, his army days in World War I, and his early academic life at Oxford. Here we encounter the creative, imaginative seeds that gave birth to some of his ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • One Hot Summer

    Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858

    de Rosemary Ashton ...
    A unique, in-depth view of Victorian London during the record-breaking summer of 1858, when residents both famous and now-forgotten endured “The Great Stink” togetherWhile 1858 in London may have been noteworthy for its broiling summer months and the related stench of the sewage-filled Thames River, the year is otherwise little remembered. And yet, historian Rosemary Ashton reveals in this ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

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  • The Routledge History of Literature in English

    Britain and Ireland

    de Ronald Carter, John McRae ...
    The Routledge History of Literature in English covers the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, with accompanying language notes which explore the interrelationships between language and literature at each stage. With a span from AD 600 to the present day, it emphasises the growth of literary writing, its traditions, conventions and changing characteristics, and ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • The Oxford Companion to the Brontës

    Anniversary edition

    de Christine Alexander, Margaret Smith ...
    Series series Oxford Companions
    This special edition of The Oxford Companion to the Brontës commemorates the bicentenary of Emily Brontë's birth in July 1818 and provides comprehensive and detailed information about the lives, works, and reputations of the Brontës - the three sisters Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, their father, and their brother Branwell. Expanded entries surveying the Brontës' lives and works are supplemented by ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • The Oxford Companion to English Literature

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $107.99 USD

  • The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes

    de Jonathan Rose ...
    This is a landmark intellectual history of Britain’s working classes from the preindustrial era to the twentieth century. Drawing on workers’ memoirs, social surveys, library registers, and more, Jonathan Rose uncovers which books people read, how they educated themselves, and what they knew. A new preface addresses the continuing relevance of the book amidst the upheavals of the present day.“An ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • An Everyday Life of the English Working Class

    Work, Self and Sociability in the Early Nineteenth Century

    de Carolyn Steedman ...
    This book concerns two men, a stockingmaker and a magistrate, who both lived in a small English village at the turn of the nineteenth century. It focuses on Joseph Woolley the stockingmaker, on his way of seeing and writing the world around him, and on the activities of magistrate Sir Gervase Clifton, administering justice from his country house Clifton Hall. Using Woolley's voluminous diaries and ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Sean O'Casey, Writer at Work

    The Definitive Biography of the Last Great Writer of the Irish Literary Revival

    de Christopher Murray ...
    Christopher Murray's definitive study of Seán O'Casey, the last great writer of the Irish literary revival, provides a strong interpretative context for his life. Murray looks afresh at the Dublin of the 1880s and 1890s in order to provide an authoritative background to O'Casey's childhood. He pays particular attention to the political situation from 1880 to 1922, setting it against O'Casey's own ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Weeping Britannia

    Portrait of a Nation in Tears

    de Thomas Dixon ...
    There is a persistent myth about the British: that we are a nation of stoics, with stiff upper lips, repressed emotions, and inactive lachrymal glands. Weeping Britannia - the first history of crying in Britain - comprehensively debunks this myth. Far from being a persistent element in the 'national character', the notion of the British stiff upper lip was in fact the product of a relatively brief ... Leer más

    $11.39 USD

  • Women Novelists Before Jane Austen

    The Critics and Their Canons

    de Brian Corman ...
    By the time Ian Watt published The Rise of the Novel. in 1957, it was clear that many women novelists before Jane Austen had been overlooked in critical studies of literature and that some of them had been completely forgotten by the reading public. In this book, Brian Corman explores the question of how and why this came about. Corman provides a systematic survey of the reputations of early women ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD