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Jane Austen
Oxford University Press, UK 2007; US$ 9.99Definitive, concise, and very interesting... From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and importance have stood the test of time. Each book in the series is based upon the biographical... more...
Northanger Abbey
Penguin Group US 2003; US$ 8.00Listen to audio presented by Literary Affairs: Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey . View our feature on Jane Austen. During an eventful season at Bath, young, naive Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her new acquaintances: flirtatious Isabella, who shares Catherine's love of Gothic... more...
Castle Rackrent and Ennui
Penguin Books Ltd 2007; Not AvailableThady Quirk, devoted steward to the decaying estate of the Rackrent family, narrates a riotous story of four generations of a dying dynasty in Castle Rackrent (1800). Thady will defend his masters to the end, but eventually his naivety and blind loyalty cause him to ignore the warning signs as the family?s excesses lead them to ruin. This volume also... more...
Northanger Abbey
Penguin Books Ltd 2006; Not AvailableDuring an eventful season at Bath, young, naïve Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her new acquaintances: flirtatious Isabella, who shares Catherine's love of Gothic romance and horror, and sophisticated Henry and Eleanor Tilney, who invite her to their father's mysterious house,... more...
Literary Magazines and British Romanticism
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 40.00Mark Parker argues that magazines such as the London Magazine and Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine offered an innovative and collaborative space for writers and their work - indeed, magazines became one of the pre-eminent literary vehicles of the 1820s and 1830s. more...
Romanticism and the Human Sciences
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 40.00This book examines the relationship between British Romantic poetry and the human sciences of the period. Maureen McLane offers original readings of major works in the Romantic canon, focusing on their engagement with the philosophical, political and anthropological writing of pre-eminent theorists such as Malthus, Godwin, Burke and others. more...
Romanticism and Slave Narratives
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 40.00The first major attempt to relate canonical Romantic texts to the African diaspora, this study explores connections with literature produced by slaves, slave owners, abolitionists and radical dissenters between 1770 and 1830. Thomas reveals a dialogue between two diverse cultural spheres, and their corresponding systems of thought, epistemology and... more...
Rousseau, Robespierre and English Romanticism
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 40.00This book re-examines Rousseau's influence on the French Revolution and on English Romanticism, through his confessional writings and political theory, and their mediation in the speeches and actions of Robespierre. Gregory Dart shows how the writings of Godwin, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth and Hazlitt engage with the Jacobin tradition after the Terror. more...
British Romanticism and the Science of the Mind
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 32.00In this provocative and original study, poets such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Keats, and novelists such as Jane Austen and Mary Shelley, are shown to have shared a surprising extent of common ground with pioneering brain scientists include Erasmus Darwin and F. J. Gall. more...
Women Writers and the English Nation in the 1790s
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 40.00Keane addresses the work of five women writers of the 1790s and its problematic relationship with the canon of Romantic literature. She explores the negotiations of literate, middle-class women such as Hannah More, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Smith, Helen Maria Williams and Ann Radcliffe with emergent ideas of national literary representation. more...









