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  • Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1800s

    Edited by Andrew Stauffer ...
    Series Book 1 - Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition
    How did British literature develop in the wake of the radical 1790s and during the years of war, reaction, and uncertain renewal that constituted the nineteenth century's first decade? The essays in this volume examine the literary forms and cultural formations that emerged during this paradoxical era of aftermath and new beginnings. They reexamine a period within the Romantic period, and within ... Read more

    $90.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Byron

    A Life in Ten Letters

    Narrated by Paul Bellantoni ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 33 min

    Lord Byron was the most celebrated of all the Romantic poets. Troubled, handsome, sexually fluid, disabled, and transgressive, he wrote his way to international fame—and scandal—before finding a kind of redemption in the Greek Revolution. He also left behind the vast trove of thrilling letters (to friends, relatives, lovers, and more) that form the core of this remarkable biography. Published to ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Book Traces

    Nineteenth-Century Readers and the Future of the Library

    Series series Material Texts
    In most college and university libraries, materials published before 1800 have been moved into special collections, while the post-1923 books remain in general circulation. But books published between these dates are vulnerable to deaccessioning, as libraries increasingly reconfigure access to public-domain texts via digital repositories such as Google Books. Even libraries with strong commitments ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Book Traces

    Nineteenth-Century Readers and the Future of the Library

    Series series Material Texts
    In most college and university libraries, materials published before 1800 have been moved into special collections, while the post-1923 books remain in general circulation. But books published between these dates are vulnerable to deaccessioning, as libraries increasingly reconfigure access to public-domain texts via digital repositories such as Google Books. Even libraries with strong commitments ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Virtual Victorians

    Networks, Connections, Technologies

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Exploring how scholars use digital resources to reconstruct the 19th century, this volume probes key issues in the intersection of digital humanities and history. Part I examines the potential of online research tools for literary scholarship while Part II outlines a prehistory of digital virtuality by exploring specific Victorian cultural forms. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Abolitionist Imagination

    Series Book 3 - The Alexis de Tocqueville Lectures on American Politics
    The abolitionists of the mid-nineteenth century have long been painted in extremes--vilified as reckless zealots who provoked the catastrophic bloodletting of the Civil War, or praised as daring and courageous reformers who hastened the end of slavery. But Andrew Delbanco sees abolitionists in a different light, as the embodiment of a driving force in American history: the recurrent impulse of an ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • She

    A History of Adventure

    First published in 1886–87, H. Rider Haggard’s imperial romance follows its English heroes from the quiet rooms of Cambridge to the uncharted interior of Africa in search of a legendary lost city with an ageless white queen. The two men find their way to the ancient city of Kôr, where the beautiful and mysterious Ayesha, “She-who-must-be-obeyed,” rules. Despite her cruelty, both men become ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Networks of Reception in the Eighteenth-Century British Press and Laurence Sterne

    by Mary Newbould ...
    Series series Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections
    Criticism and creativity characterised literary reception in eighteenth-century Britain. The press – periodicals, newspapers, and magazines – harboured the reviewing cultures belonging to the emerging professionalisation of literary criticism. It also provided highly fertile ground for creativity, including imitative items inspired by new publications, while critical reviews often incorporated ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Political Poetess

    Victorian Femininity, Race, and the Legacy of Separate Spheres

    The Political Poetess challenges familiar accounts of the figure of the nineteenth-century Poetess, offering new readings of Poetess performance and criticism. In performing the Poetry of Woman, the mythic Poetess has long staked her claims as a creature of "separate spheres"—one exempt from emerging readings of nineteenth-century women's political poetics. Turning such assumptions on their heads, ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • A History of English Autobiography

    Edited by Adam Smyth ...
    A History of English Autobiography explores the genealogy of autobiographical writing in England from the medieval period to the digital era. Beginning with an extensive introduction that charts important theoretical contributions to the field, this History includes wide-ranging essays that illuminate the legacy of English autobiography. Organized thematically, these essays survey the multilayered ... Read more

    $110.99 USD

  • Critical Forms

    Forms of Literary Criticism, 1750-2020

    Critical Forms is an account of the generic forms in which literary criticism has been undertaken. It examines chiefly Anglophone literary criticism, with comparative discussion of French and German material, from around 1750 to the present and examines prefaces, selections and anthologies, reviews, lectures, dialogues, letters, and life-writing. Though not intended to be an exhaustive history of ... Read more

    $85.99 USD