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Men of Letters, Writing Livesby Trev Lynn Broughton
Routledge 1998; US$ 41.95An in-depth look at developments within Victorian auto/biography, asking what we can learn about the conditions and limits of male literary authority. more...
Discourses of Differenceby Sara Mills
Routledge 1991; US$ 39.95Unravels the complexities of writings by British women of the `high colonial' period. Sara Mills analyses the writings of three women travellers, extending recent post-colonial and cultural theory in an important and inspiring study. more...
Romantic Periodicals and Print Cultureby Kim Wheatley; Stephen C. Behrendt
Taylor & Francis 2003; US$ 64.95The essays in this collection treat periodical writing as intrinsically worthy of attention not a mere backdrop to the emergence of British Romanticism but a site in which Romantic ideals were challenged, modified, and developed. more...
Knowledge and Indifference in English Romantic Proseby Tim Milnes; Marilyn Butler; James Chandler
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 40.00This ambitious study sheds new light on the way in which the English Romantics dealt with the basic problems of knowledge. Milnes argues that it is in their oscillation between knowledge and indifference that the Romantics prefigure the ambivalent negotiations of modern post-analytic philosophy. more...
The Rise of Literary Journalism in the Eighteenth Centuryby Iona Italia
Taylor & Francis 2005; US$ 161.00This book provides an account of the early periodical as a literary genre. Tracing the development of journalism from the 1690s to the 1760s, it covers a range of publications by well-known writers and obscure hacks. more...
Modern Selvesby Philip Dodd
Frank Cass 1986; US$ 54.95This volume has been organised into three informal sections after my opening essay. The first two sections are devoted to Gender and Autobiography and to the Politics of Autobiography. Each of these sections contains two general studies and an account of an individual work. The third section offers examples of other important ways of making sense of individual works or groups of works. more...
Subjectivitiesby Regenia Gagnier
Oxford University Press 1991; US$ 125.00This comparative analysis draws on working-class autobiography, public and boarding school memoirs, and the canonical autobiographies by women and men in the United Kingdom to define subjectivity and value within social class and gender in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain. Gagnier reconsiders traditional distinctions between mind and body, private desire and public good, aesthetics and utility, and fact and value in the context of everyday life. more...
Contemporary Fiction and the Uses of Theoryby M. Greaney
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2006; US$ 80.00This topical study examines the 'novelizations' of radical literary theory in the work of A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Umberto Eco, John Fowles, Richard Powers and many other leading novelists. It offers a comprehensive analysis of the 'post-theoretical novel', and traces an alternative history of the 'theory revolution' in recent literary fiction. more...
Style and the Nineteenth-Century British Criticby Jason Camlot
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2008; US$ 99.95In analyzing the nonfiction works of writers such as John Wilson, J. S. Mill, De Quincy, Ruskin, Arnold, Pater, and Wilde, Jason Camlot provides an important context for the nineteenth-century critics' changing ideas about style, rhetoric, and technologies of communication. In particular, Camlot shows how new print media affected the Romantic and Victorian critic's sense of self, and how the figure of the professional critic soon subsumed the authority of the polyglot intellectual. more...
Lewis Edwardsby D. Densil Morgan
University of Wales Press 2009; US$ 25.00Lewis Edwards (180987) oedd pennaf ysgolhaig Cymrur bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg ac yn un a gododd safonau y Gymru Ymneilltuol au gosod ar seiliau dysg rhyngwladol. Yn Fethodist Calfinaidd o ran ei fagwraeth ai argyhoeddiadau, yfodd yn ddwfn o dduwioldeb ei gyfnod. more...









