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  • Drawing on the Victorians

    The Palimpsest of Victorian and Neo-Victorian Graphic Texts

    de Peter W. Sinnema, Christine Ferguson, Linda K. Hughes, Heidi Kaufman, Brian Maidment, Jennifer Phegley, Monika Pietrzak-Franger, Jessica Straley, Kate Flint ...
    Series series Series in Victorian Studies
    Late nineteenth-century Britain experienced an unprecedented explosion of visual print culture and a simultaneous rise in literacy across social classes. New printing technologies facilitated quick and cheap dissemination of images—illustrated books, periodicals, cartoons, comics, and ephemera—to a mass readership. This Victorian visual turn prefigured the present-day impact of the Internet on how ... Leer más

    $71.99 USD

  • Evolution and Imagination in Victorian Children's Literature

    de Jessica Straley ...
    Series Libro 103 - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
    Evolutionary theory sparked numerous speculations about human development, and one of the most ardently embraced was the idea that children are animals recapitulating the ascent of the species. After Darwin's Origin of Species, scientific, pedagogical, and literary works featuring beastly babes and wild children interrogated how our ancestors evolved and what children must do in order to repeat ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

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  • What Art Is

    de Arthur C. Danto ...
    What is it to be a work of art? Renowned author and critic Arthur C. Danto addresses this fundamental, complex question. Part philosophical monograph and part memoiristic meditation, What Art Is challenges the popular interpretation that art is an indefinable concept, instead bringing to light the properties that constitute universal meaning. Danto argues that despite varied approaches, a work of ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Gulliver’s Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World

    de Swift ...
    First published in 1726, “Gulliver's Travels - Into Several Remote Nations of the World” is a prose satire by Jonathan Swift that satirises human nature and the "travellers' tales" genre of literature popular at the time. Swift's best known work, it was incredibly successful when first published and remains a much-loved classic of English literature. Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) was an Anglo-Irish ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • White Fang

    A Timeless Tale of Wild Survival and Unbreakable Spirit

    de Jack London ...
    Born in the wild. Raised by instinct. Saved by love. White Fang is Jack London's unforgettable story of a wolf-dog's journey from the frozen Yukon wilderness into the heart of humanity. A tale of transformation, this powerful novel traces White Fang's struggle for survival, trust, and identity, told with raw beauty and poetic realism. Through hardship, fear, and cruelty, White Fang learns that ... Leer más

    $1.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Captain America and the Struggle of the Superhero

    Critical Essays

    Edición de Robert G. Weiner ...
    For more than 60 years, Captain America was one of Marvel Comics' flagship characters, representing truth, strength, liberty, and justice. The assassination of his alter ego, Steve Rogers, rocked the comic world, leaving numerous questions about his life and death.This book discusses topics including the representation of Nazi Germany in Captain America Comics from the 1940s to the 1960s; the ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Beauty and the Beast

    Illustrated Edition

    de Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve ...
    'Beauty and the Beast' is a magical tale of love, understanding, and triumph. Late one night a merchant becomes lost in the woods and stumbles upon a seemingly deserted castle. Hungry and tired, he enters the castle and finds a feast laid out on a grand table. Finding no one else in the castle, he eats the food himself. In the morning as he leaves he finds a beautiful rose bush in the garden and ... Leer más

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  • Tarzan the Terrible

    de Edgar Rice Burroughs ...
    might take their last stand against the encroaching multitudes of men that had steadily spread themselves over the surface of the earth, wresting the hunting grounds from the lower orders, from the moment that the first ape shed his hair and ceased to walk upon his knuckles. Even the species with which Tarzan was familiar showed here either ... Leer más

    $0.99 USD

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  • Contemporary Art and Memory

    Images of Recollection and Remembrance

    de Joan Gibbons ...
    Whether exploring the intimate recollections which make up the artist's own life history or questioning the way the gallery and museum present public memory, contemporary art, it would seem, is haunted by the past. "Contemporary Art and Memory" is the first accessible survey book to explore the subject of memory as it appears in its many guises in contemporary art. Looking at both personal and ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • Children's Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Kimberley Reynolds ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Children's literature takes many forms - works adapted for children in antiquity, picture books and pop-ups - and now includes the latest online games and eBooks. This vast and amorphous subject is both intimately related to other areas of literary and cultural investigation but also has its own set of concerns, issues and challenges. From familiar authors including Beatrix Potter and Roald Dahl, ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • 149 Paintings You Really Need to See in North America

    (So You Can Ignore the Others)

    de Julian Porter, Stephen Grant ...
    Tour North America’s greatest museums and galleries in the company of two incomparable guides.This lively companion highlights the essential paintings, by some of the world’s greatest painters, from Giotto to Picasso, on display in North American museums and galleries.Julian Porter has had a life-long passion for art. He worked for seven years as a student tour guide in Europe and since has ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Blinky Bill Grows Up

    de Dorothy Wall ...
    Series series Blinky Bill
    The Second Book in the series of 3.The character of Blinky first appeared in Brooke Nicholls' 1933 book, Jacko - the Broadcasting Kookaburra, which was illustrated by Wall. Wall then featured Blinky Bill in a series of her own books, including Blinky Bill: The Quaint Little Australian, Blinky Bill Grows Up, and Blinky Bill and Nutsy. The books are considered quintessential Australian children's ... Leer más

    $2.14 USD

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