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  • Novel Politics

    Democratic Imaginations in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

    by Isobel Armstrong ...
    Novel Politics aims to change the current consensus of thinking about the nineteenth-century novel. This assumes that the novel is structured by bourgeois ideology and morality, so that its default position is conservative and hegemonic. Such critique comes alike from Marxists, readers of nineteenth-century liberalism, and critics making claims for the working-class novel, and systematically under ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Victorian Poetry

    Poetry, Poetics and Politics

    by Isobel Armstrong ...
    In Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics, Isobel Armstrong rescued Victorian poetry from its longstanding sepia image as ‘a moralised form of romantic verse' and unearthed its often subversive critique of nineteenth-century culture and politics. In this uniquely comprehensive and theoretically astute new edition, Armstrong provides an entirely new preface that notes the key advances in ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • Form and Feeling in Modern Literature

    Essays in Honour of Barbara Hardy

    by Isobel Armstrong ...
    "Essays, short stories and poems by eminent creative writers, critics and scholars from three continents celebrate the literary achievements of Barbara Hardy, the foremost exponent of close critical reading in the latter half of the twentieth century and today. Her work, as the essays in the volume bear witness, encompasses 19th and 20th century British fiction, poetry, and Shakespeare. In ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • The Major Victorian Poets: Reconsiderations (Routledge Revivals)

    by Isobel Armstrong ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1969, this edition collection brings together a series of essays offering a re-evaluation of Victorian poetry in the light of early 20th Century criticism. The essays in this collection concentrate upon the poets whose reputations suffered from the great redirection of energy in English criticism initiated in this century by Eliot, Richards and Leavis. What theses poets wrote ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Victorian Glassworlds

    Glass Culture and the Imagination 1830-1880

    by Isobel Armstrong ...
    Isobel Armstrong's startlingly original and beautifully illustrated book tells the stories that spring from the mass-production of glass in nineteenth-century England. Moving across technology, industry, local history, architecture, literature, print culture, the visual arts, optics, and philosophy, it will transform our understanding of the Victorian period. The mass production of glass in the ... Read more

    $82.99 CAD

  • New Feminist Discourses

    Critical Essays on Theories and Texts

    Edited by Isobel Armstrong ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature
    This collection of new feminist essays represents the work of young critics researching and teaching in British Universities. Aiming to set the agenda for feminist criticism in the nineties, the essays debate themes crucial to the development of feminist thought: among them, the problems of gendered knowledge and the implications of accounts of gendered language, cultural restraints on the ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Anna Letitia Barbauld

    New Perspectives

    by Stephen Bygrave, E. J. Clery, Jocelyn Harris, Sonia Hofkosh, Naomi Lightman, Sabine Volk-Birke, Joanna Wharton, Isobel Armstrong, Isobel Grundy, Felicity James, Scott Krawczyk, Michelle Levy, Rachel Trethewey, Dr Gillian Dow ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    Anna Letitia Barbauld: New Perspectives is the first collection of essays on poet and public intellectual Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743–1825). By international scholars of eighteenth-century and Romantic British literature, these new essays survey Barbauld’s writing from early to late: her versatility as a stylist, her poetry, her books for children, her political writing, her performance as editor ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry

    Edited by Matthew Bevis ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    'I am inclined to think that we want new forms . . . as well as thoughts', confessed Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning in 1845. The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry provides a closely-read appreciation of the vibrancy and variety of Victorian poetic forms, and attends to poems as both shaped and shaping forces. The volume is divided into four main sections. The first section on 'Form' looks ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • English Literature

    A Student Guide

    by Martin Stephen ...
    Now appearing in its third edition, Martin Stephen's classic text and course companion to English literature has been thoroughly revised and updated, taking account of the changes which have occurred in the subject since publication of the second edition. ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry

    by Linda K. Hughes ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    Victorian poetry was read and enjoyed by a much larger audience than is sometimes thought. Publication in widely-circulating periodicals, reprinting in book reviews, and excerpting in novels and essays ensured that major poets such as Tennyson, Browning, Hardy and Rossetti were household names, and they remain popular today. The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry provides an accessible ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Coleridge and the Philosophy of Poetic Form

    by Ewan James Jones ...
    Series Book 106 - Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
    Ewan James Jones argues that Coleridge engaged most significantly with philosophy not through systematic argument, but in verse. Jones carries this argument through a series of sustained close readings, both of canonical texts such as Christabel and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and also of less familiar verse, such as Limbo. Such work shows that the essential elements of poetic expression - a ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Romanticism, History, Historicism

    Essays on an Orthodoxy

    by Damian Walford Davies ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Romanticism
    The "(re)turn to history" in Romantic Studies in the 1980s marked the beginning of a critical orthodoxy that continues to condition, if not define, our sense of the Romantic period twenty-five years on. Romantic New Historicism’s revisionary engagements have played a central role in the realignment of the field and in the expansion of the Romantic canon. In this major new collection of eleven ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD