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  • Literature in a Time of Migration

    British Fiction and the Movement of People, 1815–1876

    by Josephine McDonagh ...
    Literature in a Time of Migration offers a profound rethinking of British fiction in light of the new practices of human mobility that reshaped the nineteenth-century world. Building on the growing critical engagement with globalization in literary studies, it confronts the paradox that at a time when transnational human movement occurred globally on an unprecedented scale, British fiction ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

  • Political Gender

    Texts & Contexts

    by Sally Ledger, Josephine Mcdonagh, Jane Spencer ...
    In recent years, feminist scholars, through their insistence on the key role of gender in critical analysis, have brought about a profound revitalization of literary and cultural studies. This text draws together work by leading exponents in the field. The essays explore the operations of gender in the production of knowledge and the formation of cultural representations in a wide variety of ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Nineteenth-Century Radical Traditions

    Edited by Joseph Bristow, Josephine McDonagh ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book takes a fresh look at the progressive interventions of writers in the nineteenth century. From Cobbett to Dickens and George Eliot, and including a host of lesser known figures – popular novelists, poets, journalists, political activists – writers shared a commitment to exploring the potential of literature as a medium in which to imagine new and better worlds. The essays in this volume ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Commodities and Culture in the Colonial World

    Edited by Supriya Chaudhuri, Josephine McDonagh, Brian Murray, Rajeswari Rajan ...
    Series series Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories
    Commodity, culture and colonialism are intimately related and mutually constitutive. The desire for commodities drove colonial expansion at the same time that colonial expansion fuelled technological invention, created new markets for goods, displaced populations and transformed local and indigenous cultures in dramatic and often violent ways.This book analyses the transformation of local cultures ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

    by Anne Brontë ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'he looked up wistfully in my face, and gravely asked - "Mamma, why are you so wicked?"' The mysterious new tenant of Wildfell Hall has a dark secret. But as the captivated Gilbert Markham will discover, it is not the story circulating among local gossips. Living under an assumed name, 'Helen Graham' is the estranged wife of a dissolute rake, desperate to protect her son from his destructive ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

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    by Charlotte Brontë ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
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  • Wuthering Heights

    by Emily Brontë ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'You said I killed you - haunt me, then!' Wuthering Heights is one of the most famous love stories in the English language. It is also one of the most potent revenge narratives. The intense and unbreakable bond between the fiery Catherine Earnshaw and the foundling Heathcliff has startled and fascinated readers since its first publication in 1847. Of uncertain parentage and ethnicity, Heathcliff ... Read more

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    by Jane Austen ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    "He began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention." Pride and Prejudice , one of the most famous love stories of all time, has also proven itself as a treasured mainstay of the English literary canon. With the arrival of eligible young men in their neighbourhood, the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet and their five daughters are turned inside out and upside down. Pride encounters ... Read more

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  • Villette

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    Series series Oxford World's Classics
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  • Northanger Abbey

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