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  • E.S. Dallas Elsewhere

    A Companion to E.S. Dallas in ‘The Times’

    Edited by Graham Law, Jenny Bourne Taylor ...
    Providing a collection of E.S. Dallas's work, this volume explores the significance of the Scottish writer’s practical and theoretical contributions to both the criticism and journalism of the mid-nineteenth century, as well as offering an edited selection of Dallas’s writings in the Victorian press. This book provides a comprehensive listing of around 250 contributions to other periodicals, and ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • E.S. Dallas in The Times

    Edited by Graham Law, Jenny Bourne Taylor ...
    This volume comprises of a substantial selection of E.S. Dallas’s journalism in The Times. Although his reviews were crucial not only in forging the literary reputations of upcoming writers such as different as George Eliot and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, but also in recalibrating the response to well-established authors such as Tennyson and Dickens, Eneas Sweetland Dallas (1827-79) remains arguably ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Law and the Lady

    by Wilkie Collins ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Valeria Woodville's first act as a married woman is to sign her name in the marriage register incorrectly, and this slip is followed by the gradual disclosure of a series of secrets about her husband's earlier life, each of which leads on to another set of questions and enigmas. Her discoveries prompt her to defy her husband's authority, to take the law into into a labyrinthine maze of false clues ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • George Gissing

    Voices of the Unclassed

    Edited by Martin Ryle, Jenny Bourne Taylor ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The Nineteenth-Century Novel
    First published in 2005, this collection of essays brings together British, European and North American literary critics and cultural historians with diverse specialities and interests to demonstrate the range of contemporary perspectives through which George Gissing’s fiction can be viewed. It offers both closely contextualised historical readings and broader cultural and philosophical ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • In Essentials, Unity

    An Economic History of the Grange Movement

    by Jenny Bourne, Paul Finkelman ...
    Series series New Approaches to Midwestern Studies
    The Patrons of Husbandry—or the Grange—is the longest-lived US agricultural society and, since its founding shortly after the Civil War, has had immeasurable influence on social change as enacted by ordinary Americans. The Grange sought to relieve the struggles of small farmers by encouraging collaboration. Pathbreaking for its inclusion of women, the Grange is also well known for its association ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Congress and the People’s Contest

    The Conduct of the Civil War

    by Jonathan Earle, Eric Walther, Lesley J. Gordon, Fergus M. Bordewich, Jenny Bourne, Mischa Honeck, L. Diane Barnes, Chandra Manning, Nikki M. Taylor ...
    Series series Perspectives on the History of Congress, 1801–1877
    The American Civil War was the first military conflict in history to be fought with railroads moving troops and the telegraph connecting civilian leadership to commanders in the field. New developments arose at a moment’s notice. As a result, the young nation’s political structure and culture often struggled to keep up. When war began, Congress was not even in session. By the time it met, the ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Wilkie Collins

    Edited by Jenny Bourne Taylor ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Wilkie Collins was one of the most popular writers of the nineteenth century. He is best known for The Woman in White, which inaugurated the sensation novel in the 1860s, and The Moonstone, one of the first detective novels; but he wrote over 20 novels, plays and short stories during a career that spanned four decades. This Companion offers a fascinating overview of Collins's writing. In a wide ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory

    by Dave Hill, Mike Cole, Michael W. Apple, Jenny Bourne, Ramin Farahmandpur, Ted Hankin, Jane Kelly, Michael Neary, Glenn Rikowski0, Mike Sanders1, Geoff Whitty2 ...
    Postmodernism has become the orthodoxy in educational theory. It heralds the end of grand theories like Marxism and liberalism, scorning any notion of a united feminist challenge to patriachy, of united anti-racist struggle, and of united working-class movements against capitalist exploitation and oppression. For postmodernists, the world is fragmented, history is ended, and all struggles are ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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  • The Haunted Hotel

    by Wilkie Collins ...
    Series series Classic Sensation
    Wilkie Collins' work, The Haunted Hotel, is a classic example of Victorian era literature. It is representative of the genre's penchant for exploring issues of morality and justice in an atmosphere of suspense and uncertainty. In this novel, Collins examines themes of guilt, repentance, and revenge as the characters are forced to confront their own actions and choices. Through his use of vivid ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • The Moonstone (Dream Classics)

    by Wilkie Collins, Dream Classics ...
    Widely regarded as the precursor of the modern mystery and suspense novels, The Moonstone tells of the events surrounding the disappearance of a mysterious (and cursed) yellow diamond. T. S. Eliot called it 'the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels'. It contains a number of ideas which became common tropes of the genre, including a crime being investigated by ... Read more

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  • The Queen of Hearts

    by Wilkie Collins ...
    A novel about a young woman, Jessie Yelverton (also known as the Queen of Hearts), aged 20, who soon inherits an inheritance from her dead parents. Due to a strange set of circumstances, Jessie is forced to stay at her caregiver’s house for six weeks until her 21st birthday. The guardian’s name is Griffith, he is a lawyer and lives with his two older brothers. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • No Name (Mystery Thriller Classic) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Illegitimacy, inheritance, and a bold heroine unraveling family secrets in Victorian England

    by Wilkie Collins, Malcolm Davenby ...
    No Name is one of Wilkie Collins's most intricate sensation novels, a mystery-thriller rooted in the legal and moral anxieties of Victorian England. The plot follows Magdalen and Norah Vanstone, disinherited after the discovery of their illegitimacy, as Magdalen undertakes a daring campaign of disguise, manipulation, and revenge. Combining melodramatic suspense with documentary realism, Collins ... Read more

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