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  • Women and the Shaping of the Nation's Young

    Education and Public Doctrine in Britain 1750–1850

    by Mary Hilton ...
    Series series Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
    Researchers have neglected the cultural history of education and as a result women's educational works have been disparaged as narrowly didactic and redundant to the history of ideas. Mary Hilton's book serves as a corrective to these biases by culturally contextualising the popular educational writings of leading women moralists and activists including Sarah Fielding, Hester Mulso Chapone, ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • Opening The Nursery Door

    by Mary Hilton, Morag Styles, Victor Watson ...
    Opening the Nursery Door is a fascinating collection of essays inspired by the discovery of a tiny archive: the nursery library of Jane Johnson 1707-1759, wife of a Lincolnshire vicar. It has captured the scholarly interest of social anthropologists, historians, literary scholars, educationalists and archivists as it has opened up a range of questions about the nature of childhood within English ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • Potent Fictions

    Children's Literacy and the Challenge of Popular Culture

    Edited by Mary Hilton ...
    Today's children spend more time than ever before watching television, playing computer games and reading comic and pulp fiction. Many of these are directly designed by the toy and media industry. Are children therefore simply being manipulated? There is widespread concern that because of these kinds of popular fiction, children do not read `quality' literature, resulting in lower standards of ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • All Things Weird & Strange

    by Stephanie Hansen, Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Shelly X Leonn, Michael Hilton, Amanda Lance, LL Montez ...
    Six authors. Six extraordinary stories.Throughout history, storytellers have shared visions of wondrous worlds just beyond the edge of reality. This anthology continues that tradition.Within its pages, you'll find two stories of celebrities facing heartbreak in futuristic and fantastical worlds, two of power and ability and their inherent possibilities, and two of space exploration and disasters ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Contemporary Adolescent Literature and Culture

    The Emergent Adult

    Edited by Maria Nikolajeva, Mary Hilton ...
    Series series Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
    Offering a wide range of critical perspectives, this volume explores the moral, ideological and literary landscapes in fiction and other cultural productions aimed at young adults. Topics examined are adolescence and the natural world, nationhood and identity, the mapping of sexual awakening onto postcolonial awareness, hybridity and trans-racial romance, transgressive sexuality, the sexually ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • Educating the Child in Enlightenment Britain

    Beliefs, Cultures, Practices

    Edited by Mary Hilton, Jill Shefrin ...
    Series series Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
    Posing a challenge to more traditional approaches to the history of education, this interdisciplinary collection examines the complex web of beliefs and methods by which culture was transmitted to young people in the long eighteenth century. Expanding the definition of education exposes the shaky ground on which some historical assumptions rest. For example, studying conventional pedagogical texts ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • Practical Visionaries

    Women, Education and Social Progress, 1790-1930

    by Pam Hirsch, Mary Hilton ...
    Series series Women And Men In History
    An examination of women educationists in nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain. Working with new paradigms opened up by feminist scholarship, it reveals how women leaders were determined to transform education in the quest for a better society. Previous scholarship has either neglected the contributions of these women or has misplaced them. Consequently intellectual histories of education ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • The Chaldean Magician

    Enriched edition. An Adventure in Rome in the Reign of the Emperor Diocletian

    by Ernst Eckstein, Oliver Hilton ...
    Translated by Mary J. Safford ...
    In "The Chaldean Magician," Ernst Eckstein crafts a richly textured narrative that delves into the themes of magic, mystery, and the interplay between fate and free will. Set against a backdrop of ancient Mesopotamia, the novel employs a lyrical prose style that evokes the mysticism of the era while seamlessly blending historical and fantastical elements. Eckstein's exploration of Chaldean culture ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture

    Edited by Juliet John ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture is a major contribution to the dynamic field of Victorian studies. This collection of 37 original chapters by leading international Victorian scholars offers new approaches to familiar themes including science, religion, and gender, and gives space to newer and emerging topics including old age, fair play, and economics. Structured around three ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Slumming

    Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London

    by Seth Koven ...
    In the 1880s, fashionable Londoners left their elegant homes and clubs in Mayfair and Belgravia and crowded into omnibuses bound for midnight tours of the slums of East London. A new word burst into popular usage to describe these descents into the precincts of poverty to see how the poor lived: slumming. In this captivating book, Seth Koven paints a vivid portrait of the practitioners of slumming ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Speech, Print and Decorum in Britain, 1600--1750

    Studies in Social Rank and Communication

    by Elspeth Jajdelska ...
    Filling an important gap in the history of print and reading, Elspeth Jajdelska offers a new account of the changing relationship between speech, rank and writing from 1600 to 1750. Jajdelska draws on anthropological findings to shed light on the different ways that speech was understood to relate to writing across the period, bringing together status and speech, literary and verbal decorum, ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Imagining women readers, 1789–1820

    Well-regulated minds

    by Richard Ritter ...
    Imagining women readers reassesses the cultural significance of women’s reading in the period 1789–1820. From the turbulent years following the French Revolution to the fiction of Jane Austen, this book charts the rise of a self-regulating reader, who possesses both moral and cultural authority. Rather than an unproductive leisure activity, for the writers discussed in this study the act of ... Read more

    $146.99 CAD