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Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden
Scarecrow Press 2011; US$ 64.99In Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden : A Children's Classic at 100 , some of the most respected scholars of children's literature consider Burnett's seminal work from modern critical perspectives. Contributors examine the works and authors that influenced Burnett, identify authors who have drawn on The Secret Garden in their... more...
Strathallan
Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2008; US$ 99.00A novel, which addresses central themes of adultery, obsession and inheritance. It follows the fortunes of Matilda Melbourne who displays virtue, delicacy and an unwavering commitment to the sometimes ruthless demands of parental authority. more...
The Corinna of England, or a Heroine in the Shade; A Modern Romance
Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2008; US$ 75.00A novel that helps you understand the British reaction to Corinne as well as of its cultural, social and gender implications. more...
The History of Ned Evans
Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2009; US$ 99.00Ned Evans is a rags-to-riches hero, whose early existence in poverty in Wales is dramatically changed when he saves the beautiful Lady Cecilia Rivers from an assault and is invited to Ireland by her father. After spending time with the great and the good of Irish society, Ned travels to America where his fortunes once more reverse. more...
The Victim of Fancy
Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2009; US$ 75.00The Victim of Fancy was first published in December 1787 and, despite favourable reviews, has not been published since. Cook's new scholarly edition of this forgotten novel will be of paramount importance in allowing new insights into the form of the sentimental novel as it actually existed in the 1780s, and not as it is often perceived. more...
Ethnic Modernisms
Palgrave Macmillan 2002; US$ 105.00This study explores a new understanding of modernism and ethnicity as put forward in the transnational and diasporic writings of Anzia Yezierska, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jean Rhys. In its selection of three modernists from apparently different cultural backgrounds, it is meant to make us rethink the role of modernism in terms of ethnicity and displacement.... more...
The History of British Women's Writing, 700-1500
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00This volume focuses on women's literary history in Britain between 700 and 1500. It brings to the fore a wide range of women's literary activity undertaken in Latin, Welsh and Anglo-Norman alongside that of the English vernacular, demanding a rethinking of the traditions of literary history, and ultimately the concept of 'writing' itself. more...
Bloodknots
Arsenal Pulp Press 2012; US$ 16.95Ferocious stories about family, abandonment, and reunion. more...
The Influence of French Culture on Willa Cather
The Edwin Mellen Press 2007; US$ 159.95This is the first full-length study to address the complex issues involved in Cathers relationship to France and to the many French writers (Zola, Flaubert, Sand, France, Mérimée, Loti, etc.) that keep cropping up in her literary and journalistic output. The author traces the intellectual and artistic roots that nourished Cathers... more...









