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Mansfield Park: The Illustrated Edition
Sourcebooks 2010; US$ 0.99This special edition of Mansfield Park includes the famous illustrations by Henry Matthew Brock, originally created in 1898. Brock and his brothers were all successful illustrators of the day and often posed for each other using costumes, props and furniture in their Cambridge studio. Brocks older brother Charles joined him in illustrating other... more...
English Romantic Poets
Oxford University Press 1975; US$ 39.99Compiles critical essays on the Romantic Age and the individual works of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats. more...
Success Secrets of Sherlock Holmes
Penguin Group US 2011; US$ 12.99If you loved Mastermind and want more insight into how to think like Sherlock Holmes... Genius. Renaissance man. Iconoclast. Master of detection. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle funneled much of his real-life genius-and the brilliance of others around him-into Sherlock Holmes, creating a character greater than the sum of his parts. In this... more...
Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Jane Austen
Continuum International Publishing 2008; US$ 19.95Whether you've read Jane Austen once or read her yearly, or if you simply yearn to be Elizabeth or Mr. Darcy, this new Bedside Companion will make a perfect match. Janeite and newcomer alike will revel in the entertaining capsules of each of Austen's beloved novel s, along with information on such important subjects... more...
William Blake on His Poetry and Painting
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2010; US$ 55.00Blake was not only a poet, but also a prolific commentator on both his own art and art in general. This is the first text to discuss all of the writings except the annotations to Reynolds' Discourses, covered in a previous volume, Blake's Margins (McFarland, 2009). Topics include his opinions on his predecessors and his contemporaries, his... more...
A History of Victorian Literature
Wiley 2009; US$ 179.95Incorporating 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... more...
The Stillbirth of Capital
Stanford University Press 2011; US$ 24.95This book targets one of the humanities' most widely held premises: namely, that the European Enlightenment laid the groundwork for modern imperialism. It argues instead that the Enlightenment's vision of empire calls our own historical and theoretical paradigms into question. While eighteenth-century British India has not received nearly the same... more...
Shaw, Plato, and Euripides
University Press of Florida 2012; US$ 74.95Ever since its 1905 premiere on the London stage, Bernard Shaw's controversial drama Major Barbara has proved puzzling to audiences and critics alike. More than a century later there is still wide critical disagreement about the play's meaning and the ideas it engenders. Sidney Alberts groundbreaking new book provides a daring and novel... more...
Beard Fetish in Early Modern England
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 104.95Beard Fetish in Early Modern England: Sex, Gender, and Registers of Value uniquely focuses on representations of facial hair for early modern culture and analyzes the role fetish plays in naturalizing categories like sex and gender. Author Johnston explores how beards in all their variety-including beardlessness and female beards-are freighted with... more...
Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 119.95The fourteen essays included in Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture re-orients scholarly understanding of Robert Burns by focusing on the reception and representation of the Scottish poet and songwriter in the Americas. Divided into five sections, the volume explores: transatlantic concerns in Burns's own work; Burns's early publication... more...









