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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

  • 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

    $27.99 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

    $29.99 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

  • 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

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  • The Haunted Hotel

    A Mystery of Modern Venice

    by Wilkie Collins ...
    Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 23 September 1889) will never be as well known as one of his friends, a fellow writer named Charles Dickens. But Collins was an established playwright and author in his own right. Collins and Dickens collaborated frequently, but Wilkie also produced hundreds of his own works, ranging from novels to literary articles and short stories, including The Woman in White, ... Read more

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  • The Moonstone

    A Novel

    by Wilkie Collins ...
    The Moonstone is one of the most famous suspense novels of all time: a masterpiece of construction and the ultimate page-turner, it introduced one of the world’s most beloved genres, the detective story.At a party celebrating her eighteenth birthday, Rachel Verinder wears the stunning yellow diamond she unexpectedly inherited from her uncle, Colonel John Herncastle.She is not aware that the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Queen of Hearts

    Enriched edition.

    by Wilkie Collins, Julian Ellers ...
    In 'The Queen of Hearts,' Wilkie Collins masterfully intertwines themes of love, deception, and the complexities of human relationships within the framework of a sensitive portrayal of the life experiences of women in Victorian society. Known for his pioneering contributions to the detective novel, Collins employs a richly descriptive literary style and an intricate narrative structure that blurs ... Read more

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  • No Name

    by Collins, Wilkie ...
    "No Name" is a compelling novel written by Wilkie Collins, first serialized in 1862 and later published as a book. The story follows the plight of Magdalen Vanstone, who is stripped of her inheritance by a legal technicality after the death of her parents. Determined to reclaim her rightful fortune and seek revenge on those who wronged her family, Magdalen adopts various disguises and schemes to ... Read more

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