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  • Women Writers in the Romantic Age

    by John Claiborne Isbell ...
    This groundbreaking book offers a comprehensive review of six hundred and fifty women writers from over fifty national traditions, spanning Europe and the Americas during the transformative years of 1776 to 1848. Framed by revolutionary upheavals, the book explores how women writers shaped and reflected Romanticism’s global currents. It fills a critical scholarly gap, connecting disparate ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Outline of Romanticism in the West

    by John Claiborne Isbell ...
    Navigating the landscape of Romantic literature and art across Europe and the Americas, An Outline of Romanticism in the West invites readers to embark upon a literary journey. Showcasing a breadth of theoretical and contextual approaches to the study of Romanticism, John Isbell provides an insightful contemporary overview of the field, paired with wide-ranging comparative reflections on the art ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Destins de femmes

    French Women Writers, 1750-1850

    by John Claiborne Isbell ...
    Destins de femmes is the first comprehensive overview of French women writers during the turbulent period of 1750-1850. John Isbell provides an essential collection that illuminates the impact women writers had on French literature and politics during a time marked by three revolutions, the influx of Romantic art, and rapid technological change.Each of the book’s thirty chapters introduces a ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Staël, Romanticism and Revolution

    The Life and Times of the First European

    by John Claiborne Isbell ...
    Series Book 146 - Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
    Two centuries of sexism have hidden Staël's place in international history. Straddling the divides of the French Revolution, Napoleonic Europe, emergent nationalism, and European Romanticism, and playing pivotal roles in those movements, she was also a friend of Byron, Jefferson, and Tsar Alexander. Extensive archival research, and a complete contextual overview of Staël's writings, here restore ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Efficient Logistics

    A Key to Vietnam's Competitiveness

    by Luis C. Blancas, John Isbell, Monica Isbell, Hua Joo Tan, Wendy Tao ...
    Series series Directions in Development - Countries and Regions
    Vietnam has attained a strong record of economic growth and poverty reduction since the adoption of market-based economic reforms and pro-poor policies starting in the mid-1980s. Much of this achievement was driven by an untapped, rapidly-growing labor force and the enablement of greater labor participation in higher-productivity sectors of the economy. Yet, as Vietnam has restructured its ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Patience for the Ride

    The Art and Life of Will Johnson

    by John Krajicek, Jason Isbell, Jim James, Tim Rutili, Bonnie Whitmore, Britton Beisenherz, Patterson Hood, Scott Danbom, Mark Hedman, Matt Pence, Brent Best, Craig Finn, Jon Dee Graham, Matt the Electrician, Kathy McCarty, Thor Harris, Anders Parker, Julie Webb, Dan Bailey, Christian Helms, Greg Vanderpool, Matt Stoessel, Darci Ratliff, Scott Vieth, Michael Parker, Don Lee, Darin Bradley, Jenn Bryant, Erv Karwelis, Ricky Ray Jackson, Jessie Johnson ...
    Series series Gary Hartman Texas Music Series, Sponsored by the Center for Texas Music History, Texas State University
    Jason Isbell describes Will Johnson’s songs as a poetic manipulation of language that employs “multi-syllable words used almost as musical instruments [and] detailed images flying at the listener with no time to fully decipher meaning before the next image appears.” Similar sentiments are echoed in many engaging essays shared here by John Krajicek in Patience for the Ride: The Art and Life of Will ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Historical Dictionary of French Literature

    by John Flower ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
    Almost all of us know French literature, even if we don’t know French, because it is probably the second largest and certainly the most translated into English. And, even if we don’t read, we would have seen film and television versions (think Count of Monte-Cristo) and even a musical rendition (Les Mis). So this is a particularly interesting volume in the literature series, since it covers French ... Read more

    $231.99 CAD

  • Jean Racine, Echoes Across Europe

    by John Sayer ...
    Series Book 20 - Medieval and Early Modern French Studies
    Rich with examples of Racine’s impact across generations on stage and page, of the inspiration of leading actors across borders, and of the influence of his tragedies, their mostly classical and biblical themes brought in the finest verse or in translation, on European courts, townships, amateur theatre, education at home and school, opera and oratorio, other literatures, art and sculpture, this ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • The Romantic Revolution

    A History

    by Tim Blanning ...
    Series Book 34 - Modern Library Chronicles
    “A splendidly pithy and provocative introduction to the culture of Romanticism.”—The Sunday Times“[Tim Blanning is] in a particularly good position to speak of the arrival of Romanticism on the Euorpean scene, and he does so with a verve, a breadth, and an authority that exceed every expectation.”—National ReviewFrom the preeminent historian of Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Monsieur Proust's Library

    by Anka Muhlstein ...
    Reading was so important to Marcel Proust that it sometimes seems he was unable to create a personage without a book in hand. Everybody in his work reads: servants and masters, children and parents, artists and physicians. The more sophisticated characters find it natural to speak in quotations. Proust made literary taste a means of defining personalities and gave literature an actual role to play ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • The Culture of the Europeans (Text Only Edition)

    by Donald Sassoon ...
    A magisterial narrative account of the creation and consumption of all forms of ‘culture’ across the European continent over the last two hundred years.This compelling, wide-ranging and hugely ambitious book offers, for the first time ever, an integrated history of the culture produced and consumed by Europeans since 1800, and follows its transformation from an elite activity to a mass market – ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Information Master

    Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Secret State Intelligence System

    by Jacob Soll ...
    Series series Cultures Of Knowledge In The Early Modern World
    "Colbert has long been celebrated as Louis XIV's minister of finance, trade, and industry. More recently, he has been viewed as his minister of culture and propaganda. In this lively and persuasive book, Jake Soll has given us a third Colbert, the information manager."---Peter Burke, University of Cambridge"Jacob Soll gives us a road map drawn from the French state under Colbert. With a stunning ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD