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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...
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...
Secret Selves
The University of North Carolina Press 1998; US$ 45.00Focusing on the representation of same-sex desire in Victorian autobiographical writing, Oliver Buckton offers significant new readings of works by some of the most influential figures in late-nineteenth-century literature and culture. Combining original research, careful historical analysis, and contemporary theories of autobiography, gender, and... more...
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...
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...
Modernism and the Post-Colonial
Continuum International Publishing 2007; US$ 100.00This book considers the shifts in aesthetic representation over the period 1885-1930 that coincide both with the rise of literary Modernism and imperialism's high point. If it is no coincidence that the rise of the novel accompanied the expansion of empire in the eighteenth-century, then the historical conditions of fiction as the empire waned... more...
Teaching the Early Modern Period
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 32.95This innovative project unites leading scholars of English, History and French to examine the challenges of teaching early modern literature, history and culture within higher education. The volume sets out a variety of approaches to teaching the period and aims to revitalize the connection between teaching and research. more...
Of Course You're Still Cool, Honey
F+W Media 2011; US$ 12.95In a relationship, it's all about the give and take. He gives you plenty of opportunities to make fun of his embarrassing behavior and you take the high road--choosing a little white lie over raining on his socks-with-sandals parade. It's touching, really. It's true. You'd do anything for your modern-day Superman . . . whether it's cheering on his... more...
Modern Selves
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 57.95This book discusses gender and autobiography, and the politics of autobiography. It offers examples of ways of making sense of individual works or groups of works. more...
Katie's War
The O'Brien Press 1997; US$ 10.19When Katie's father returns from the Great War, he is shell-shocked, his personality destroyed. Now, four years later he has more or less recovered, but another war is breaking out, this time at home in Ireland. The Treaty with the British has been signed by Michael Collins, but many disagree with it and want to continue the war for full independence.... more...









