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  • Elizabeth Gaskell’s Unstable Homes

    Fatherhood and Travel in Gaskell’s Short Stories

    by Carolyn Lambert ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines apparently dichotomous aspects of Gaskell’s short stories: her failed fathers and her travel writing. The analysis links these themes by examining the ways in which Gaskell used a complex mix of unstable cultural ideas to demonstrate the fragility of home and family life and to challenge gendered norms.The analysis of Gaskell’s fictional fathers is considered in the context of ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • The Judiciary - An Ordinary Person's Perspective

    by Carolyn Lambert ...
    An Ordinary Person's memoir, based in Dublin, Ireland.It is the story of the author as she is subjected ("allegedly") to a constructive dismissal after she made a complaint to her employer, one of the largest law firms in Ireland. She seeks retribution through the Employment Appeals Tribunal and describes the process and tactics used by both legal sides during the hearing. The author later applies ... Read more

    $5.95 CAD

  • Elizabeth Gaskell’s Smaller Stories

    by Carolyn Lambert ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book re-locates Elizabeth Gaskell’s ‘smaller stories’ in the literary and cultural context of the nineteenth century. While Gaskell is recognised as one of the major novelists of her time, the short stories that make up a large proportion of her published work have not yet received the critical attention they deserve. This study re-claims them as an indispensable part of her literary output ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • Frances Trollope

    by Carolyn Carolyn Lambert ...
    By the standards of any age, Frances (Fanny) Trollope was an extraordinary woman who led an extraordinary life. She did not begin writing until she was 53, but in the 24 years between 1832 and 1856 she produced no fewer than 40 books, comprising 150 volumes. Her impulse was to save her family from financial ruin. / The Mother of the novelist Anthony Trollope, she was born at Stapleton near Bristol ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • For Better, For Worse

    Marriage in Victorian Novels by Women

    Edited by Carolyn Lambert, Marion Shaw ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
    This interdisciplinary volume explores the fictional portrayal of marriage by women novelists between 1800 and 1900. It investigates the ways in which these novelists used the cultural form of the novel to engage with and contribute to the wider debates of the period around the fundamental cultural and social building block of marriage. The collection provides an important contribution to the ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Knowledge and the Future School

    Curriculum and Social Justice

    by Professor Michael Young, Professor David Lambert, Carolyn Roberts, Martin Roberts ...
    Written at a time of uncertainty about the implications of the English government's curriculum policies, Knowledge and the Future School engages with the debate between the government and large sections of the educational community. It provides a forward-looking framework for head teachers, their staff and those involved in training teachers to use when developing the curriculum of individual ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel

    Edited by Deirdre David ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In the Victorian period, the British novel reached a wide readership and played a major role in the shaping of national and individual identity. As we come to understand the ways the novel contributed to public opinion on religion, gender, sexuality and race, we continue to be entertained and enlightened by the works of Dickens, George Eliot, Thackeray, Trollope and many others. This second ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • A Man's Place

    Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England

    by Professor John Tosh ...
    Domesticity is generally treated as an aspect of women’s history. In this fascinating study of the nineteenth-century middle class, John Tosh shows how profoundly men’s lives were conditioned by the Victorian ideal and how they negotiated its many contradictions.Tosh begins by looking at the experience of boyhood, married life, sex, and fatherhood in the early decades of the nineteenth century ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The English in Love

    The Intimate Story of an Emotional Revolution

    by Claire Langhamer ...
    Love has a history. It has meant different things to different people at different moments and has served different purposes. This book tells the story of love at a crucial point, a moment when the emotional landscape changed dramatically for large numbers of people. It is a story based in England, but informed by America, and covers the period from the end of the First World War until the break ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction

    Edited by Andrew Mangham ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In 1859 the popular novelist Wilkie Collins wrote of a ghostly woman, dressed from head to toe in white garments, laying her cold, thin hand on the shoulder of a young man as he walked home late one evening. His novel The Woman in White became hugely successful and popularised a style of writing that came to be known as sensation fiction. This Companion highlights the energy, the impact and the ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Charles Dickens in Context

    Edited by Sally Ledger, Holly Furneaux ...
    Series series Literature in Context
    Charles Dickens, a man so representative of his age as to have become considered synonymous with it, demands to be read in context. This book illuminates the worlds - social, political, economic and artistic - in which Dickens worked. Dickens's professional life encompassed work as a novelist, journalist, editor, public reader and passionate advocate of social reform. This volume offers a detailed ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • The Bigamy Plot

    Sensation and Convention in the Victorian Novel

    by Maia McAleavey ...
    Series Book 100 - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
    The courtship plot dominates accounts of the Victorian novel, but this innovative study turns instead to a narrative phenomenon that upends its familiar conventions: the bigamy plot. In hundreds of novels, plays, and poems published in Victorian Great Britain, husbands or wives thought dead suddenly reappear to their newly remarried spouses. In the sensation fiction of Braddon and Collins, these ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD