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  • Victorians in the Mountains

    Sinking the Sublime

    de Ann C. Colley ...
    In her compelling book, Ann C. Colley examines the shift away from the cult of the sublime that characterized the early part of the nineteenth century to the less reverential perspective from which the Victorians regarded mountain landscapes. And what a multifaceted perspective it was, as unprecedented numbers of the Victorian middle and professional classes took themselves off on mountaineering ... Leer más

    $84.99 USD

  • The Odyssey and Dr. Novak

    A Memoir

    de Ann C. Colley ...
    One summer afternoon in northern England in 1946, when Ann Colley was a child, she met a man from Czechoslovakia named Dr. Novak. This encounter launched her lifelong fascination with Central and Eastern Europe, one that resulted in her spending two years, in 1995 and 2000, teaching at universities in Poland and Ukraine. In The Odyssey and Dr. Novak, Colley records personal experiences, ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Wild Animal Skins in Victorian Britain

    Zoos, Collections, Portraits, and Maps

    de Ann C. Colley ...
    What did the 13th Earl of Derby, his twenty-two-year-old niece, Manchester’s Belle Vue Zoo, and even some ordinary laborers all have in common? All were avid collectors and exhibitors of exotic, and frequently unruly, specimens. In her study of Britain’s craze for natural history collecting, Ann C. Colley makes extensive use of archival materials to examine the challenges, preoccupations, and ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD

  • Robert Louis Stevenson and the Colonial Imagination

    de Ann C. Colley ...
    In her distinguished and hauntingly rendered book, Ann C. Colley provides a fresh insight into Stevenson's multi-voiced South Seas fiction, as well as into the particulars and complications of living within a newly established site of Empire. Bringing to light information from the archives of the London Missionary Society and from other sources, such as the Royal Geographical Society (London), the ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Coleridge and the Geometric Idiom

    Walking with Euclid

    de Ann C. Colley ...
    Series Libro 139 - Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
    When Coleridge described the landscapes he passed through while scrambling among the fells, mountains, and valleys of Britain, he did something unprecedented in Romantic writing: to capture what emerged before his eyes, he enlisted a geometric idiom. Immersed in a culture still beholden to Euclid's Elements and schooled by those who subscribed to its principles, he valued geometry both for its ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

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  • How to Read Novels Like a Professor

    A Jaunty Exploration of the World’s Favorite Literary Form

    de Thomas C. Foster ...
    The follow-up and companion volume to the New York Times bestselling How to Read Literature Like a Professor—a lively and entertaining guide to understanding and dissecting novels to make everyday reading more enriching, satisfying, and funOf all the literary forms, the novel is arguably the most discussed . . . and fretted over. From Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote to the works of Jane Austen, ... Leer más

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  • Memory and Complicity

    Migrations of Holocaust Remembrance

    de Debarati Sanyal ...
    "A sophisticated, nuanced, and beautifully written account of the intersecting legacies of genocide and colonialism in postwar France." —Michael Rothberg, author of Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of DecolonizationSince World War II, French and Francophone literature and film have repeatedly sought not to singularize the Holocaust as the paradigm of historical trauma ... Leer más

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  • Lewis Carroll and the Victorian Stage

    Theatricals in a Quiet Life

    de Richard Foulkes ...
    Series series The Nineteenth Century Series
    Author of the enduringly popular Alice books, mathematician, Anglican cleric, and pioneer photographer, Lewis Carroll maintained a lifelong enthusiasm for the theatre. Lewis Carroll and the Victorian Stage is the first book to focus on Carroll's irresistible fascination with all things theatrical, from childhood charades and marionettes to active involvement in the dramatisation of Alice, ... Leer más

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  • Mimesis

    The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (New Expanded Edition)

    de Erich Auerbach, Edward W. Said ...
    Traducido por Willard R. Trask ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to Virginia Woolf depicted reality has taught generations how to read Western literature. This new expanded edition includes a substantial essay in introduction ... Leer más

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  • The Leading Lady

    Dinah's Story

    de Betty White, Tom Sullivan ...
    Hollywood icon Betty White and actor Tom Sullivan present the story of a guide dog named Dinah and the extraordinary difference she made in every life she touched.Beloved actress Betty White is a bona fide television pioneer, but throughout her life, her heart has always been with the animals. One of the most enriching episodes in her career as an animal-rights advocate arrived with actor Tom ... Leer más

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  • The Daemon Knows

    Literary Greatness and the American Sublime

    de Harold Bloom ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND KIRKUS REVIEWSHailed as “the indispensable critic” by The New York Review of Books, Harold Bloom—New York Times bestselling writer and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University—has for decades been sharing with readers and students his genius and passion for understanding literature and ... Leer más

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  • Beasts of Burden

    Animal and Disability Liberation

    de Sunaura Taylor ...
    A bold and beautifully written inquiry into the intertwined struggles for animal and disability justice—challenging what it means to be humanIn this provocative and original work, artist, activist, and scholar Sunaura Taylor, “Judith Butler meets St. Francis of Assisi” (The New Yorker), explores the profound connections between animal liberation and disability justice. With keen insight and ... Leer más

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