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The Upstairs Room
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 15.99Really, we dont have to keep worrying about the time, Gordon. Lets just sit here together. Okay? For a little while. London is sinking, theres constant rain, and everyone is trying to escape. Gordon, an American writer, finds himself holed up in the attic room of a half-way house, awaiting forged papers and safe passage back to the... more...
Recreating Jane Austen
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 26.00Recreating Jane Austen is a book for readers who know and love Austen's work. Stimulated by the recent crop of film and television versions of Austen's novels, John Wiltshire examines how her work has been 'recreated' in another age and medium. more...
A Literary History of Women's Writing in Britain, 1660-1789
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 26.00Drawing on three decades of feminist scholarship, Susan Staves provides a comprehensive history of women's writing in Britain from the Restoration to the French Revolution. Arranged chronologically to emphasize the historical and literary contexts, this magisterial work includes a comprehensive bibliography and list of modern editions of the authors... more...
Alfred and Emily
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99I think my father's rage at the trenches took me over, when I was very young, and has never left me. Do children feel their parents' emotions? Yes, we do, and it is a legacy I could have done without. What is the use of it? It is as if that old war is in my own memory, my own consciousness. In this extraordinary book, the 2007 Nobel Laureate Doris... more...
Shaggy Muses
Random House Publishing Group 2009; US$ 24.95?You?ll call this sentimental?perhaps?but then a dog somehow represents the private side of life, the play side,? Virginia Woolf confessed to a friend. And it is this private, playful side, the richness and power of the bond between five great women writers and their dogs, that Maureen Adams celebrates in this deeply engaging book. In Shaggy Muses,... more...
Revolutions in Taste, 1773-1818
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2009; US$ 99.95In her wide-ranging study of women's prose writing during the Romantic period, Fiona Price shows that Joanna Baillie, Anna Letitia Barbauld, Frances Burney, and many others not only shaped and informed the aesthetics of Romanticism but did so by using undervalued genres such as the romance and gothic novel. Price's reassessment of their significance,... more...
Reading the Nation in English Literature
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 34.95This volume contains primary materials and introductory essays on the historical, critical and theoretical study of "national literature", focusing on the years 1550 ? 1850 and the impact of ideas of nationhood from this period on contemporary literature and culture. The book is helpfully divided into three comprehensive parts. Part One contains... more...
Blickling Concordance
Continuum International Publishing 2009; US$ 70.00This Concordance is a complete wordlist of the Blickling homiletic texts, which date from the late 10th century making them one of the earliest extant examples of prose writings in English. Each word is cited in standard dictionary form, expanded grammatically and referenced by line and page number to R. J. Kelly’s edition and translation of... more...
Women and Literature in Britain, 15001700
Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 32.00First comprehensive introduction to women's role in, and access to, literary culture in early modern Britain. more...
The Loss Library
Random House Struik 2011; US$ 10.00Thought-provoking essays on unfinished stories more...









