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George Eliot
Oxford University Press, UK 2005; US$ 8.99Novels such as Middlemarch and The Mill on the Floss refect Eliot's complex and sometimes contradictory ideas about society, the artist, the role of women, and the interplay of science and religion. Tim Dolin examines Eliot's life and work and the social and intellectual contexts in which they developed. He also explores the ways in which 'George... more...
Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 29.95Joseph Conrad?s novella, Heart of Darkness , has fascinated critics and readers alike, engaging them in highly controversial debate as it deals with fundamental issues of good and evil, civilisation, race, love and heroism. This classic tale transcends the boundaries of time and place and has inspired famous film and television adaptations emphasising... more...
The Dialect of the Tribe
Oxford University Press, USA 1987; US$ 74.99The bold careers of Henry James, D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett--writers with profoundly unsettled cultural identities--spark Margery Sabin's investigation of values carried through inherited forms of speech. The Dialect of the Tribe offers fresh readings of such great novels as The Golden Bowl, Women in Love, Ulysses, and the Beckett... more...
The Reception of Virginia Woolf in Europe
Continuum International Publishing 2002; US$ 180.00The intellectual scope and cultural impact of British writers cannot be assessed without reference to their European fortunes. These essays, prepared by an international team of scholars, critics and translators, record the ways in which Virginia Woolf has been translated, evaluated and emulated in different national and linguistic areas of Europe.... more...
The Unsung Artistry of George Orwell
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2008; US$ 99.95In a timely and radically new reappraisal of George Orwell's fiction, Loraine Saunders reads Orwell's novels as tales of successful emancipation rather than as fables of failure. Contending that Orwell's artistic achievements have been unjustly overlooked, Saunders brings needed attention to neglected novels such as A Clergyman's Daughter... more...
A Defence of Poetry
ReadHowYouWant 2009; US$ 4.99A brilliant piece of philosophical discussion that displays Shelley's intellect and imagination. The book asserts the ideal nature and essential value of poetry and is Shelleys most important prose work. His arguments are vividly and convincingly presented. more...
Literature, Language, and the Rise of the Intellectual Disciplines in Britain, 1680-1820
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 38.00A literary account of how the modern divide between the sciences and the humanities emerged in the eighteenth century. more...
Modernism, Media, and Propaganda
Princeton University Press 2008; US$ 28.95Though often defined as having opposite aims, means, and effects, modernism and modern propaganda developed at the same time and influenced each other in surprising ways. The professional propagandist emerged as one kind of information specialist, the modernist writer as another. Britain was particularly important to this double history. By secretly... more...
"My unwasht Muse"
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 112.00In the 17th century a profound change took place in the depiction of the body and the erotic. Whilst the metaphysics of Donne and Crashaw represented theology under the sign of the erotic and simultaneously theologized the corporeal, the Cavaliers had severed these alliances since the 1620?s. Influenced by the invention of the stage figure, Don Juan,... more...
For Was I Not Born Here?
Editions Rodopi 2010; US$ 52.00This study centres on the fiction of the New Zealand writer Yvonne du Fresne, the descendant of Danish and Danish-Huguenot families who emigrated to New Zealand in the late-nineteenth century and settled in the Manawatu area. It explores how memories of the past haunt generations of immigrants, and how issues of language, politics, and social norms... more...









