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Style and the Nineteenth-Century British Critic
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... more...
Muscular Christianity
Cambridge University Press 1994; US$ 40.00An extremist mid-Victorian religious philosophy influencing gender, class and national identity. more...
The Language of Criticism (Routledge Revivals)
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 42.95First published in 1966, the Language of Criticism was the first systematic attempt to understand literary criticism through the methods of linguistic philosophy and the later work of Wittgenstein. Literary critical and aesthetic judgements are rational, but are not to be explained by scientific methods. Criticism discovers reasons for a response,... more...
The Life Writing of Otherness
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 49.95Focusing on innovative works by Woolf, Baldwin, Kingston and Winterson, the author analyzes how they each represent the self as unique, collectively "other," and inclusively human, and how these conflicting aspects of selfhood interact. more...
Discourses of Difference
Taylor and Francis 1993; US$ 41.95Unravels 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...
Men of Letters, Writing Lives
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 43.95Trev Lynn Broughton takes an in-depth look at the developments within Victorian auto/biography, and asks what we can learn about the conditions and limits of male literary authority. Providing a feminist analysis of the effects of this literary production on culture, Broughton looks at the increase in professions with a vested interest in the written... more...
The Rise of Literary Journalism in the Eighteenth-Century
Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 44.95Recent years have witnessed a heightened interest in eighteenth-century literary journalism and popular culture. This book provides an account of the early periodical as a literary genre and traces the development of journalism from the 1690s to the 1760s, covering a range of publications by both well-known and obscure writers. The book's central theme... more...
Romantic Autobiography in England
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2009; US$ 99.95Taking into account the popularity and variety of the genre, this collaborative volume considers a wide range of English Romantic autobiographical writers and modes, including working-class autobiography, the familiar essay, and the staged presence. Major writers such as William Wordsworth, De Quincey, and Mary Shelley, and recent additions to the... more...
Time, Narrative, and Emotion in Early Modern England
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2009; US$ 99.95Exploiting a link between early modern concepts of the medical and the literary, David Wood examines the ways that depictions of time expressed in early modern medical texts reveal themselves in contemporary literary works, demonstrating that the early modern recognition of the self as a palpably volatile entity facilitated the realistic portrayal... more...
Women Travel Writers and the Language of Aesthetics, 17161818
Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 40.00This study re-examines the genre of Romantic travel writing through the perspective of women writers. more...









