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  • A Greeting of the Spirit

    Selected Poetry of John Keats with Commentaries

    by Susan J. Wolfson ...
    A Times Literary Supplement Book of the YearA renowned Keats scholar illuminates the poet’s extraordinary career, in a new edition featuring seventy-eight verse selections with commentary.John Keats’s career as a published poet spanned scarcely more than four years, cut short by his death early in 1821 at age twenty-five. Yet in this time, he produced a remarkable—and remarkably wide-ranging—body ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Romanticism's Generative Reading

    by Susan J. Wolfson ...
    An exploration of the generative energy of literary texts, from Frankenstein’s origin stories and Jane Austen’s loose ends to the genius of William EmpsonIn Romanticism’s Generative Reading, Susan Wolfson convenes an innovative array of subjects, texts, and cultural situations: lightning, Frankenstein, textual editing, Shakespeare read by girls, and William Empson’s revelatory influence. Wolfson ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • On Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

    The First of a New Genus

    by Susan J. Wolfson ...
    Series series Core Knowledge
    Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) made a pioneering and durably influential argument for women’s equality. Emerging from the turbulent decade of the French Revolution, her vindication delivered a systematic critique of the treatment of women across time and place. Drawing on extensive experience teaching and writing about Wollstonecraft, Susan J. Wolfson offers new ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Romantic Interactions

    Social Being and the Turns of Literary Action

    by Susan J. Wolfson ...
    In Romantic Interactions, Susan J. Wolfson examines how interaction with other authors—whether on the bookshelf, in the embodied company of someone else writing, or in relation to literary celebrity—shaped the work of some of the best-known (and less well-known) writers in the English language.Working across the arc of Long Romanticism, from the 1780s to the 1840s, this lively study involves ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Reading John Keats

    by Susan J. Wolfson ...
    Series series Reading Writers and their Work
    John Keats (1795–1821), one of the best-loved poets of the Romantic period, is ever alive to words, discovering his purposes as he reads - not only books but also the world around him. Leading Keats scholar Susan J. Wolfson explores the breadth of his works, including his longest ever poem Endymion; subsequent romances, Isabella (a Boccaccio tale with a proto-Marxian edge admired by George Bernard ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Frankenstein and STEAM

    Essays for Charles E. Robinson

    by Robin Hammerman, Susan J. Wolfson, Mark A. McCutcheon, Lisa Crafton, Siobhan Watters, Lisbeth Chapin, L. Adam Mekler, Brian Bates ...
    Charles E. Robinson, Professor Emeritus of English at The University of Delaware, definitively transformed study of the novel Frankenstein with his foundational volume The Frankenstein Notebooks and, in nineteenth century studies more broadly, brought heightened attention to the nuances of writing and editing. Frankenstein and STEAM consolidates the generative legacy of his later work on the novel ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • On Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

    The First of a New Genus

    by Susan J. Wolfson ...
    Series series Core Knowledge
    Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) made a pioneering and durably influential argument for women’s equality. Emerging from the turbulent decade of the French Revolution, her vindication delivered a systematic critique of the treatment of women across time and place. Drawing on extensive experience teaching and writing about Wollstonecraft, Susan J. Wolfson offers new ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Romantic Shades and Shadows

    by Susan J. Wolfson ...
    Haunting’s consequences for the literary imagination.Reading is a weirdly phantasmic trade: animating words to revive absent voices, rehearing the past, fantasizing a future. In Romantic Shades and Shadows, Susan J. Wolfson explores spectral language, formations, and sensations, defining an apparitional poetics in the finely grained textures of writing and their effects on present reading.Framed ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • Don Juan

    by Lord Byron ...
    Byron's exuberant masterpiece tells of the adventures of Don Juan, beginning with his illicit love affair at the age of sixteen in his native Spain and his subsequent exile to Italy. Following a dramatic shipwreck, his exploits take him to Greece, where he is sold as a slave, and to Russia, where he becomes a favourite of the Empress Catherine who sends him on to England. Written entirely in ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Tales From Shakespeare

    by Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Sylvan Barnet ...
    THE SIGNET CLASSIC SHAKESPEARE SERIESThe Work of the World’s Greatest DramatistA great way to enjoy twenty of Shakespeare’s timeless plays, this volume is a retelling of the stories in prose by the famous nineteenth-century brother and sister Charles and Mary Lamb. Keeping Shakespeare’s own words whenever possible but making the plots and language easily accessible, this entertaining and readable ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • Felicia Hemans

    Selected Poems, Letters, Reception Materials

    Edited by Susan J. Wolfson ...
    The first standard edition of the writings of Felicia Hemans (1793-1835), this volume marks a revival of interest in, and a new critical appreciation of, one of the most important literary figures of the early nineteenth century. A best-selling poet in England and America, Felicia Hemans was regarded as leading female poet in her day, celebrated as the epitome of national "feminine" values. ... Read more

    $95.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Keats

    Edited by Susan J. Wolfson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In The Cambridge Companion to Keats, leading scholars discuss Keats's work in several fascinating contexts: literary history and key predecessors; Keats's life in London's intellectual, aesthetic and literary culture; the relation of his poetry to the visual arts; the critical traditions and theoretical contexts within which Keats's life and achievements have been assessed. These specially ... Read more

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