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  • The Slaughterhouse Cases

    Regulation, Reconstruction, and the Fourteenth Amendment

    by Ronald M. Labbé, Jonathan Lurie ...
    Series series Landmark Law Cases and American Society
    The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1868, sought to protect the rights of the newly freed slaves; but its first important test did not arise until five years later. That test centered on a vitriolic dispute among the white butchers of mid-Reconstruction New Orleans.The rough-and-tumble world of nineteenth-century New Orleans was a sanitation nightmare, with the city’s ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Placing Charlotte Smith

    by Jacqueline M. Labbe, Elizabeth A. Dolan, Melissa Bailes, Stephen Behrendt, Anne Chandler, Val Derbyshire, Rachael Isom, Mary Anne Myers, Lisa Vargo0, Dr Claire Knowles1 ...
    A lively and far-ranging interest in place, space, and situation characterizes the work of Romantic-era British author Charlotte Smith (1749-1806). Featuring ten original essays, an introduction and an epilogue, this volume offers new insights into Smith’s life and work by exploring two central issues: Smith’s place as a foundational writer in her period, and her contribution to the creation of ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • The Old Manor House

    by Charlotte Smith ...
    In The Old Manor House (1794), Charlotte Smith combines elements of the romance, the Gothic, recent history, and culture to produce both a social document and a compelling novel. A “property romance,” the love story of Orlando and Monimia revolves around the Manor House as inheritable property. In situating their romance as dependent on the whims of property owners, Smith critiques a society in ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Reading Jane Austen After Reading Charlotte Smith

    by Jacqueline M. Labbe ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores what it means to read the six major works of Jane Austen, inlight of the ten major works of fiction by Charlotte Smith. It proposes that Smithhad a deep and lasting impact on Austen, but this is not an influence study. Instead,it argues for the possibility that two authors who never met could between themwrite something into being, both responding to and creating a novelistic ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Memory and Memorials

    From the French Revolution to World War One

    by Jr. Shapiro, Jacqueline M. Labbe ...
    Focusing on the "long" nineteenth century, from the French Revolution to the beginnings of Modernism, this book examines the significance of memory in this era of turbulent social change. Through investigation of science, literature, history and the visual arts, the authors explore theories of memory and the cultural and literary resonances of memorializing.Drawing on the work of many of the most ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Systems of Cities and Facility Location

    by P. Hansen, J. Henderson, M. Labbe, J. Peeters, J. Thisse ...
    First Published in 2001. This book contains two essays: the first examines optimal facility location, according to a variety of economic criteria; the second develops a theory of international trade in which a region is regarded as a system of cities. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Memory and Memorials, 1789-1914

    Literary and Cultural Perspectives

    Edited by Matthew Campbell, Jaqueline M. Labbe, Sally Shuttleworth ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative
    Ranging historically from the French Revolution to the beginnings of Modernism, this book examines the significance of memory in an era of furious social change. Through an examination of literature, history and science the authors explore the theme of memory as a tool of social progression. This book offers a fresh theoretical understanding of the period and a wealth of empirical material of use ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

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  • Romanticism

    by Aidan Day ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    Romanticism was a revolutionary intellectual and artistic movement which generated some of the most popular and influential texts in British and American literary history. This clear and engaging guide introduces the history, major writers and critical issues of this crucial era. This fully updated second edition includes:Discussion of a broad range of writers including William Blake, Mary ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to William Wordsworth

    by Emma Mason ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    William Wordsworth is the most influential of the Romantic poets, and remains widely popular, even though his work is more complex and more engaged with the political, social and religious upheavals of his time than his reputation as a 'nature poet' might suggest. Outlining a series of contexts - biographical, historical and literary - as well as critical approaches to Wordsworth, this ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Romanticism, History, Historicism

    Essays on an Orthodoxy

    by Damian Walford Davies ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Romanticism
    The "(re)turn to history" in Romantic Studies in the 1980s marked the beginning of a critical orthodoxy that continues to condition, if not define, our sense of the Romantic period twenty-five years on. Romantic New Historicism’s revisionary engagements have played a central role in the realignment of the field and in the expansion of the Romantic canon. In this major new collection of eleven ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth

    Edited by Stephen Gill ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth provides a wide-ranging account of one of the most famous Romantic poets. Specially commissioned essays cover all the important aspects of this multi-faceted writer; the volume examines his poetic achievement with a chapter on poetic craft, while other chapters focus on the origin of his poetry and on the challenges it presented and continues to present. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry

    by Maureen N. McLane ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    More than any other period of British literature, Romanticism is strongly identified with a single genre. Romantic poetry has been one of the most enduring, best loved, most widely read and most frequently studied genres for two centuries and remains no less so today. This Companion offers a comprehensive overview and interpretation of the poetry of the period in its literary and historical ... Read more

    $28.99 USD