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  • Belief in Evidence in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

    de Geoffrey A. Baker ...
    Series series Law and Literature
    What makes us believe anything told to us by another person? How does this work in scenes of judgment where we operate almost exclusively with report from others, like a trial by jury? Thomas Reid declared in 1785 that 'we give the name of evidence to whatever is a ground of belief', and such defining formulations both echo and were echoed by seminal writings on the law of evidence. The ideas of ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • The Aesthetics of Clarity and Confusion

    Literature and Engagement since Nietzsche and the Naturalists

    de Geoffrey A. Baker ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    What should literature with political aims look like? This book traces two rival responses to this question, one prizing clarity and the other confusion, which have dominated political aesthetics since the late nineteenth century. Revisiting recurrences of the avant-garde experimentalism versus critical realism debates from the twentieth century, Geoffrey A. Baker highlights the often violent ... Leer más

    $80.09 USD

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  • The Language Wars

    A History of Proper English

    de Henry Hitchings ...
    "Chock-full of historical and literary references . . . a fascinating, eye-opening look at the evolution of the English language." ― The Huffington PostThe English language is a battlefield. Since the age of Shakespeare, arguments over correct usage have been bitter, and have always really been about contesting values—morality, politics, and class.The Language Wars examines the present state of ... Leer más

    $17.29 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Secret Selves

    Confession and Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Autobiography

    de Oliver S. Buckton ...
    Focusing on the representation of same-sex desire in Victorian autobiographical writing, Oliver Buckton offers significant new readings of works by some of the most influential figures in late-nineteenth-century literature and culture. Combining original research, careful historical analysis, and contemporary theories of autobiography, gender, and sexual identity, he provides nuanced studies of ... Leer más

    $28.49 USD

  • Novel Politics

    Democratic Imaginations in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

    de Isobel Armstrong ...
    Novel Politics aims to change the current consensus of thinking about the nineteenth-century novel. This assumes that the novel is structured by bourgeois ideology and morality, so that its default position is conservative and hegemonic. Such critique comes alike from Marxists, readers of nineteenth-century liberalism, and critics making claims for the working-class novel, and systematically under ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

  • Lewd and Notorious

    Female Transgression in the Eighteenth Century

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Fiction in the Romantic Period

    Edición de Richard Maxwell, Katie Trumpener ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    While poetry has been the genre most closely associated with the Romantic period, the novel of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries has attracted many more readers and students in recent years. Its canon has been widened to include less well known authors alongside Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Maria Edgeworth and Thomas Love Peacock. Over the last generation, especially, a remarkable ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Desire and Domestic Fiction

    A Political History of the Novel

    de Nancy Armstrong ...
    Desire and Domestic Fiction argues that far from being removed from historical events, novels by writers from Richardson to Woolf were themselves agents of the rise of the middle class. Drawing on texts that range from 18th-century female conduct books and contract theory to modern psychoanalytic case histories and theories of reading, Armstrong shows that the emergence of a particular form of ... Leer más

    $51.29 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Useful Knowledge

    The Victorians, Morality, and the March of Intellect

    de Alan Rauch ...
    Nineteenth-century England witnessed an unprecedented increase in the number of publications and institutions devoted to the creation and the dissemination of knowledge: encyclopedias, scientific periodicals, instruction manuals, scientific societies, children’s literature, mechanics’ institutes, museums of natural history, and lending libraries. In Useful Knowledge Alan Rauch presents a social, ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • The Pleasures of Memory

    Learning to Read with Charles Dickens

    de Sarah Winter ...
    How did this nineteenth-century novelist change the way we think? "A fine contribution to the sociology of literature . . . Highly recommended." — ChoiceWhat are the sources of the commonly held presumption that reading literature should make people more just, humane, and sophisticated? Looking at literary history in relation to the cultural histories of reading, publishing, and education, The ... Leer más

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