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  • Objects of Liberty

    British Women Writers and Revolutionary Souvenirs

    by Pamela Buck ...
    Series series EARLY MODERN FEMINISMS
    Objects of Liberty explores the prevalence of souvenirs in British women’s writing during the French Revolution and Napoleonic era. It argues that women writers employed the material and memorial object of the souvenir to circulate revolutionary ideas and engage in the masculine realm of political debate. While souvenir collecting was a standard practice of privileged men on the eighteenth-century ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Romantic Beasts

    Pervasion, Eccentricity, Exhibition

    by Christopher R. Clason, Alastair Hunt, Pamela Buck, John Gardner, Jane Spencer, Allison Dushane, Kathryn Desplanque, Peter Erickson, Frederick Burwick0 ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
    By staging human-animal encounters, Romantic literature and art repeatedly questioned how "human" animals could be and how "animal" humans in fact are. Romantic-era authors and artists often depicted perplexing animal intrusions upon humans. Sometimes the intruders were mystifying or terrifying, like Coleridge’s albatross or Poe’s raven; sometimes they were mundane, as in “The Swallow” by Smith or ... Read more

    $55.79 CAD

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    The Navy Lark: Series 1 and 2

    The Classic BBC Radio Sitcom

    by Lawrie Wyman ...
    Narrated by Leslie Phillips, Jon Pertwee, Stephen Murray, Dennis Price, Heather Chasen, Ronnie Barker, Tenniel Evans, Michael Bates, Richard Caldicot, Pamela Buck, June Tobin, Full Cast ...
    Series series The Navy Lark

    Unabridged

    20 hours 30 min

    The first two series of the vintage seafaring comedy – plus Special The Wrens’ ReunionOne of BBC Radio’s most popular and long-running sitcoms, The Navy Lark sailed the airwaves for an impressive 15 series between 1959 and 1977. Included here are the complete Series 1 and 2, featuring the madcap escapades of the merry crew of HMS Troutbridge, a Royal Navy frigate based on an unnamed island just ... Read more

    $29.51 CAD

  • BNVR: The Butt Non-Verbal Reasoning Test

    The Butt Non-Verbal Reasoning Test

    by Pamela Butt, Romola Bucks ...
    The BNVR Test is a unique non-linguistic approach for identifying whether a cognitive (problem-solving) deficit as well as a linguistic deficit exists in individuals with acquired aphasia. Recognising cognitive deficits in terms of problem-solving may be a key factor in understanding why some individuals overcome their communication difficulties better than others. Failure to recognise problem ... Read more

    $219.86 CAD

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  • The Past Is a Foreign Country – Revisited

    by David Lowenthal ...
    The past remains essential - and inescapable. A quarter-century after the publication of his classic account of man's attitudes to his past, David Lowenthal revisits how we celebrate, expunge, contest and domesticate the past to serve present needs. He shows how nostalgia and heritage now pervade every facet of public and popular culture. History embraces nature and the cosmos as well as humanity. ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction

    Edited by Jerrold E. Hogle ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Gothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. In this volume, fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough and revealing accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying type of fiction from the 1760s (the decade of The Castle of Otranto, the first so-called 'Gothic story') to the end of the twentieth century (an era haunted ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Vimy Trap

    or, How We Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Great War

    by Ian McKay, Jamie Swift ...
    The story of the bloody 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge is, according to many of today’s tellings, a heroic founding moment for Canada. This noble, birth-of-a-nation narrative is regularly applied to the Great War in general. Yet this mythical tale is rather new. “Vimyism”— today’s official story of glorious, martial patriotism—contrasts sharply with the complex ways in which veterans, artists, clerics, ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • Children's Literature

    A Reader's History, from Aesop to Harry Potter

    by Professor Seth Lerer ...
    Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children’s literature. Children’s Literature charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from Aesop’s fables to Mother Goose, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Peter Pan, from Where the Wild Things Are to Harry Potter.The only single-volume work to capture the rich and diverse history of children’s literature in its full ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD

  • The Social Sex

    A History of Female Friendship

    by Marilyn Yalom, Theresa Donovan Brown ...
    "Compelling. . . .clear-headed understanding and appreciation of the deep bonds that women form" from the acclaimed author of How the French Invented Love (Los Angeles Times ).In today's culture, the bonds of female friendship are taken as a given. But only a few centuries ago, the idea of female friendship was completely unacknowledged, even pooh-poohed. Only men, the reasoning went, had the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Context Collapse

    A Poem Containing a History of Poetry

    by Ryan Ruby ...
    **Literary critic Ryan Ruby uncovers the secret history of poetry in a mock-academic verse essay filled with wit and wisdom.One of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2024**Prophet. Entertainer. Courtier. Criminal. Revolutionary. Critic. Scholar. Nobody. Epic in sweep, Context Collapse is the secret history of the poet—from Bronze Age Greece and Renaissance Italy to the cafés of Grub Street and the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Becoming Yellow

    A Short History of Racial Thinking

    by Michael Keevak ...
    The story of how East Asians became "yellow" in the Western imagination—and what it reveals about the problematic history of racial thinkingIn their earliest encounters with Asia, Europeans almost uniformly characterized the people of China and Japan as white. This was a means of describing their wealth and sophistication, their willingness to trade with the West, and their presumed capacity to ... Read more

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  • From Dawn to Decadence

    1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life

    by Jacques Barzun ...
    A stunning five-century study of civilization's cultural retreat." — William Safire, New York TimesHighly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has set down in one continuous narrative the sum of his discoveries and conclusions about the whole of Western culture since 1500.Barzun describes what Western Man wrought from the ... Read more

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