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  • Anthony Trollope

    A Companion

    by Nicholas Birns, John F. Wirenius, Laurence W. Mazzeno ...
    Series series McFarland Companions to 19th Century Literature
    Anthony Trollope's novels and stories entertain while vividly bringing the Victorian era to life. His deep empathy for the underdog led him to subvert conventions, exploring the lives of women, as well as men, and choosing as heroes and heroines outsiders who would be viewed with suspicion by his readers. Trollope's profound insight to human nature made him the first novelist in English to develop ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

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  • The Bronte Myth

    by Lucasta Miller ...
    A fascinating and wonderfully readable deconstruction of the countless myths that have grown up around the Brontës.Since 1857, hardly a year has gone by without some sort of Bronte 'biography' appearing. These range from pious accounts in Victorian conduct books to Freudian pyschobiographies, from plays, films and ballets to tourist brochures and images on tea-towels, from sensation-seeking penny ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to 'Pride and Prejudice'

    Edited by Janet Todd ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Named in many surveys as Britain's best-loved work of fiction, Pride and Prejudice is now a global brand, with film and television adaptations making Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy household names. With a combination of original readings and factual background information, this Companion investigates some of the sources of the novel's power. It explores key themes and topics in detail: money, land, ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen

    Edited by Edward Copeland, Juliet McMaster ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Jane Austen's stock in the popular marketplace has never been higher, while academic studies continue to uncover new aspects of her engagement with her world. This fully updated edition of the acclaimed Cambridge Companion offers clear, accessible coverage of the intricacies of Austen's works in their historical context, with biographical information and suggestions for further reading. Major ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • 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

  • Why She Wrote

    A Graphic History of the Lives, Inspiration, and Influence Behind the Pens of Classic Women Writers

    by Lauren Burke, Hannah K. Chapman ...
    In Why She Wrote, dive into the fascinating, unexpected, and inspiring stories behind the greatest women writers in the English language.This compelling graphic collection features 18 women—including Jane Austen, Louisa May Alcott, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Anne Lister, and more—and asks a simple question: in a time when being a woman writer often meant being undervalued, overlooked, or pigeonholed, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Companion to the Brontës

    Anniversary edition

    by Christine Alexander, Margaret Smith ...
    Series series Oxford Companions
    This special edition of The Oxford Companion to the Brontës commemorates the bicentenary of Emily Brontë's birth in July 1818 and provides comprehensive and detailed information about the lives, works, and reputations of the Brontës - the three sisters Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, their father, and their brother Branwell. Expanded entries surveying the Brontës' lives and works are supplemented by ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Brontës

    Edited by Heather Glen ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The extraordinary works of the three sisters Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë have entranced and challenged scholars, students, and general readers for the past 150 years. This Companion offers a fascinating introduction to those works, including two of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century - Charlotte's Jane Eyre and Emily's Wuthering Heights. In a series of original essays, contributors ... Read more

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  • 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

  • Balfour's World

    Aristocracy and Political Culture at the Fin de Siècle

    by Nancy W. Ellenberger ...
    Arthur James Balfour (1848-1930) was born toward the beginning of Queen Victoria's long reign. At her death in 1901, he was a year away from becoming the first prime minister of the Edwardian era. In the quarter century after hisentry into political life in the 1870s, Britain experienced material changes and a sense of intensifying human interactions as dramatic to his generation as the forces of ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • A Brontë Encyclopedia

    by Robert Barnard, Louise Barnard ...
    A BRONTË ENCYCLOPEDIA“This lively, absorbing, meticulously researched compendium is a rich resource both for the general reader and for the specialist Brontë scholar. It contains much to enlighten and surprise even those who think they know the Brontës well.”Heather Glen, University of Cambridge“Aficionados of all things Brontë must have this encyclopedia on their desks. Even those with just a ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • The Brontës (Authors in Context)

    by Patricia Ingham ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The extraordinary creativity of the Brontë sisters, who between them wrote some of the most enduring fiction in the English language, continues to fascinate and intrigue modern readers. The tragedy of their early deaths adds poignancy to their novels, and in the popular imagination they have become mythic figures. And yet, as Patricia Ingham shows, they were fully engaged with the world around ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD