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  • Popular Music Autobiography

    The Revolution in Life-Writing by 1960s' Musicians and Their Descendants

    by Oliver Lovesey ...
    The 1960s saw the nexus of the revolution in popular music by a post-war generation amid demographic upheavals and seismic shifts in technology. Over the past two decades, musicians associated with this period have produced a large amount of important autobiographical writing. This book situates these works -- in the forms of formal autobiographies and memoirs, auto-fiction, songs, and self ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Postcolonial Intellectual

    Ngugi wa Thiong’o in Context

    by Oliver Lovesey ...
    Addressing a neglected dimension in postcolonial scholarship, Oliver Lovesey examines the figure of the postcolonial intellectual as repeatedly evoked by the fabled troika of Said, Spivak, and Bhabha and by members of the pan-African diaspora such as Cabral, Fanon, and James. Lovesey’s primary focus is NgÅ©gÄ© wa Thiong’o, one of the greatest writers of post-independence Africa. NgÅ©gÄ© continues ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Victorian Social Activists' Novels Vol 1

    by Oliver Lovesey ...
    The writers of these novels were involved in various types of activism, using approaches ranging from conservative amelioration to radical militancy. Their works employ a broad variety of genres from the novel of manners, sensation, education and vocation, to allegory, romance and lesbian fiction. Volume 1 includes a general introduction ‘ The Wife’ and ‘Janet Doncaster’. ... Read more

    $331.99 CAD

  • Victorian Social Activists' Novels Vol 4

    by Oliver Lovesey ...
    The writers of these novels were involved in various types of activism, using approaches ranging from conservative amelioration to radical militancy. Their works employ a broad variety of genres from the novel of manners, sensation, education and vocation, to allegory, romance and lesbian fiction. Volume 4 includes ‘Mona Maclean, Medical Student (1892)’. ... Read more

    $331.99 CAD

  • Victorian Social Activists' Novels Vol 2

    by Oliver Lovesey ...
    The writers of these novels were involved in various types of activism, using approaches ranging from conservative amelioration to radical militancy. Their works employ a broad variety of genres from the novel of manners, sensation, education and vocation, to allegory, romance and lesbian fiction. Volume 2 includes ‘Rose Turquand' (1876). ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Victorian Social Activists' Novels Vol 3

    by Oliver Lovesey ...
    The writers of these novels were involved in various types of activism, using approaches ranging from conservative amelioration to radical militancy. Their works employ a broad variety of genres from the novel of manners, sensation, education and vocation, to allegory, romance and lesbian fiction. Volume 3 includes ‘At Sundry Times and in Divers Manners’(1891). ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Postcolonial George Eliot

    by Oliver Lovesey ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines the range of the colonial imaginary in Eliot’s works, from the domestic and regional to ancient and speculative colonialisms. It challenges monolithic, hegemonic views of George Eliot — whose novelistic career paralleled the creation of British India — and also dismissals of the postcolonial as ahistorical. It uncovers often-overlooked colonized figures in the novels. It also ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • Woodstock University

    Edited by Oliver Lovesey ...
    Woodstock University addresses the educational interface of 1969’s iconic Woodstock Festival, as a number of its attendees and performers would later become academics 'with a touch of gray,' and it also considers the role of music in Woodstock’s legacy as the embodiment of 1960s countercultural idealism, escapism, and activism. A self-mythologizing event, as indicated by congratulatory stage ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Popular Music and the Postcolonial

    Edited by Oliver Lovesey ...
    Popular Music and the Postcolonial addresses the often-overlooked relationship between the fields of popular music and postcolonial studies, and it has implications for ethnomusicology, cultural and literary studies, history, sociology, and political economy. Popular music in its many forms exploded in popularity, following developments in sound technology and shifting population demographics, in ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

    Edited by Oliver Lovesey ...
    Series series Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is one of the most important and celebrated authors of postindependence Africa as well as a groundbreaking postcolonial theorist. His work, written first in English, then in Gĩkũyũ, engages with the transformations of his native Kenya after what is often termed the Mau Mau rebellion. It also gives voice to the struggles of all Africans against economic injustice and political ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'A man ... is so in the way in the house!' A vivid and affectionate portrait of a provincial town in early Victorian England, Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford describes a community dominated by its independent and refined women. Undaunted by poverty, but dismayed by changes brought by the railway and by new commercial practices, the ladies of Cranford respond to disruption with both suspicion and ... Read more

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  • Agnes Grey

    by Anne Brontë, Robert Inglesfield ...
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    Drawing directly on her own unhappy experiences, Anne Brontë's first-person narrative describes the almost unbelievable pressures endured by nineteenth-century governesses - the isolation, the frustration, and the insensitive and sometimes cruel treatment meted out by employers and their families. Distinguished by its sharp, often ironic observation of middle-class social behaviour, this deeply ... Read more

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