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Politics and Value in English Studies
Cambridge University Press 1993; US$ 29.00The impact of the 'theory industry' on English studies, and its implications for the future. more...
The Routledge Concise History of Nineteenth Century Literature
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 28.95Nineteenth-century Britain saw the rise of secularism, the development of a modern capitalist economy, multi-party democracy, and an explosive growth in technological, scientific and medical knowledge. It also witnessed the emergence of a mass literary culture which changed permanently the relationships between writers, readers and publishers. Focusing... more...
The Complete Short Fiction
Penguin Books Ltd 2003; Not AvailableFairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners - the stories collected in this volume made Oscar Wilde's name as a writer of fiction, showing breathtaking dexterity in a wide range of literary styles. Victorian moral justice is comically inverted in 'Lord Arthur Savile's Crime' and 'The Canterville Ghost', and society's materialism... more...
The Textual Condition of Nineteenth-Century Literature
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 128.00In this important new book, Guy and Small develop a new account of literary creativity in the late nineteenth century, one that combines concepts generated by text-theorists concerning the embodied nature of textuality with the empirical insights of text-editors and book historians. Through these developments, which the authors term the ?textual turn,?... more...
Wuthering Heights
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 6.99I am Heathcliff - he's always, always in my mind ...'Discovered on the streets of Liverpool, Heathcliff is rescued by Mr Earnshaw and taken to the remote Yorkshire farmhouse of Wuthering Heights. Earnshaw's daughter Catherine rapidly forms a passionate attachment to him, but when Catherine's brother takes over the Heights, Heathcliff... more...
Urbanism in the Preindustrial World
University of Alabama Press 2009; US$ 47.50A baseline study of the growth of preindustrial cities worldwide. This work employs a subset of preindustrial cities on many continents to answer questions archaeologists grapple with concerning the populating and growth of cities before industrialization. It further explores how scholars differently conceive and execute their research on the population... more...
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