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The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 22.00This is a clear and informative introduction to Woolf's life, works, and cultural and critical contexts, covering the major works in detail, including To the Lighthouse, Mrs Dalloway, The Waves and the key short stories. All students of Woolf will find this a useful and illuminating overview of the field. more...
Reading the Brontë Body
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 28.00Reading the Brontë Body combines medical anthropology, the history of medicine, and literary analysis to offer a new perspective with which to understand representations of disease and illness found in the novels written by Anne, Emily, and Charlotte Brontë. more...
Versions of Blackness
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 22.00This edition presents a new edition of Oroonoko, with unprecedentedly full and informative commentary. more...
The Practice of Quixotism
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 90.00Using postmodern theory, The Practice of Quixotism explores eighteenth-century women's texts that use quixote narratives, which typically demand that individuals purge their minds of internalized fictions to insist instead that the reality we encounter is inevitably mediated by the texts we have read. more...
Women's Writing in the British Atlantic World
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 29.00Explores the work of women writers in the early modern British Atlantic world. more...
Religion, Reform, and Women's Writing in Early Modern England
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 34.00An important study reclaiming the importance of women in Protestant literary culture. more...
Agatha Christie: Power and Illusion
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 100.00This study shows how she sought to reconcile her attachment to the Victorian past with her recognition of a new society that undermined established order and in doing so gave more opportunities to women, confused class-boundaries, extended tolerance, allowed the cult of pleasure and self-assertion and revealed the ambiguities of respectability. more...
A Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing
Wiley 2008; US$ 228.95This timely volume represents one of the first comprehensive, student-oriented guides to the under-published field of early modern women's writing. Brings together more than twenty leading international scholars to provide the definitive survey volume to the field of early modern women's writing Examines individual texts, including works by Mary... more...
Medieval Lyric
Wiley 2008; US$ 135.95Medieval Lyric is a colourful collection of lyrical poems, carols, and traditional British ballads written between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, together with some twentieth-century American versions of them. A lively and engaging collection of lyrical poems, carols, and traditional British ballads written in between the thirteenth and... more...
A Fine Brush on Ivory
Oxford University Press, UK 2007; US$ 19.00What is it about Jane Austen's writing that brings such pleasure? Jenkyns's sparkling study delights in Austen's craft, wit, and pathos, and explores the subtlety, depth, and innovation that forever mark her out as a supreme storyteller. <i>A Fine Brush on Ivory</i> will enhance the admiration and pleasure of all those who enjoy... more...









