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  • Mind over Matter

    Memory Fiction from Daniel Defoe to Jane Austen

    by Sarah Eron ...
    How do we understand memory in the early novel? Departing from traditional empiricist conceptualizations of remembering, Mind over Matter uncovers a social model of memory in Enlightenment fiction that is fluid and evolving—one that has the capacity to alter personal histories. Memories are not merely imprints of first-hand experience stored in the mind, but composite stories transacted through ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Inspiration in the Age of Enlightenment

    by Sarah Eron ...
    Inspiration in the Age of Enlightenment reconsiders theories of apostrophe and poetic authority to argue that the Augustan age created a new form of inspiration, one that not only changed the relationship of literary production to authority in the modern period but also crucially contributes to defining the movement of secularization in literature from the Renaissance to Romanticism. Seeking to ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Literatures in English

    Edited by Sarah Eron, Nicole N. Aljoe, Suvir Kaul ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Literatures in English brings together essays that respond to consequential cultural and socio-economic changes that followed the expansion of the British Empire from the British Isles across the Atlantic. Scholars track the cumulative power of the slave trade, settlements and plantations, and the continual warfare that reshaped lives in the Americas, ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • Missing Out

    In Praise of the Unlived Life

    by Adam Phillips ...
    A leading psychoanalyst presents a transformative book about the lives we wish we had and what they can teach us about who we are.All of us lead two parallel lives: the one we are actively living, and the one we feel we should have had or might yet have. As hard as we try to exist in the moment, the unlived life is an inescapable presence, a shadow at our heels. And this itself can become the ... Read more

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  • The Language Wars

    A History of Proper English

    by Henry Hitchings ...
    "Chock-full of historical and literary references . . . a fascinating, eye-opening look at the evolution of the English language." ― The Huffington PostThe English language is a battlefield. Since the age of Shakespeare, arguments over correct usage have been bitter, and have always really been about contesting values—morality, politics, and class.The Language Wars examines the present state of ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The History of Emotions

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Thomas Dixon ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Emotions are complex mental states that resist reduction. They are visceral reactions but also beliefs about the world. They are spontaneous outbursts but also culturally learned performances. They are intimate and private and yet gain their substance and significance only from interpersonal and social frameworks. And just as our emotions in ... Read more

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  • Colonial Desire

    Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race

    by Robert J. C. Young ...
    The language of contemporary cultural theory shows remarkable similarities with the patterns of thought which characterised Victorian racial theory. Far from being marked by a separation from the racialised thinking of the past, Colonial Desire shows we are operating in complicity with historical ways of viewing 'the other', both sexually and racially.Colonial Desire is a controversial and bracing ... Read more

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  • Rogues and Early Modern English Culture

    Edited by Craig Dionne, Steve Mentz ...
    "Those at the periphery of society often figure obsessively for those at its center, and never more so than with the rogues of early modern England. Whether as social fact or literary fiction-or both, simultaneously-the marginal rogue became ideologically central and has remained so for historians, cultural critics, and literary critics alike. In this collection, early modern rogues represent the ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • What Every Novelist Needs to Know about Narrators

    by Wayne C. Booth ...
    Series series Chicago Shorts
    Wayne Booth transformed the study of fiction in the twentieth century and wrote some of the most influential and engaging criticism of our time. In What Every Novelist Needs to Know about Narrators, Booth tackles one of the most difficult issues writers of fiction face: the choice of which narrative approach to take in their work. With trademark Booth aplomb, he articulates the methods behind ... Read more

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  • Political Correctness

    A History of Semantics and Culture

    by Geoffrey Hughes ...
    Series Book 24 - The Language Library
    Political Correctness“Geoffrey Hughes has brought together with great panache the very many manifestations of political correctness, both absurd and vicious, and shown how they express a single collective mind-set. His book establishes beyond doubt that there is such a phenomenon, that it has become dominant in our culture, and that it represents a growing tendency to censor public debate and to ... Read more

    $42.00 USD

  • Critical Practice

    by Catherine Belsey ...
    Series series New Accents
    What is poststructuralist theory, and what difference does it make to literary criticism? Where do we find the meaning of the text: in the author's head? in the reader's? Or do we, instead, make meaning in the practice of reading itself? If so, what part do our own values play in the process of interpretation? And what is the role of the text? Catherine Belsey considers these and other questions ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Fiction in the Romantic Period

    Edited by Richard Maxwell, Katie Trumpener ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    While poetry has been the genre most closely associated with the Romantic period, the novel of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries has attracted many more readers and students in recent years. Its canon has been widened to include less well known authors alongside Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Maria Edgeworth and Thomas Love Peacock. Over the last generation, especially, a remarkable ... Read more

    $28.69 USD