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  • Impolite Periodicals

    Reading for Rudeness in the Eighteenth Century

    de Emrys D. Jones, Adam James Smith, Katarina Stenke, Anthony Pollock, Jennifer Batt, Claire Knowles, Richard Squibbs, Jennifer Buckley0, Laura Davies1, Amélie Junqua2, Charlotte Roberts3, Manushag Powell4 ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
    Studies of the eighteenth-century periodical have long tended to understand the form according to the period’s own insistence on adhering to and promoting politeness. In contrast, this collection reads for impoliteness, revealing a more nuanced, granular, and dynamic view of eighteenth-century periodicals such as Addison and Steele’s popular The Spectator, and a fuller sense of their value within ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • The 18th Century Today

    Literature and Media from Beauty and the Beast to Bridgerton

    Edición de Dr Madeleine Pelling, Dr Emrys D. Jones ...
    Exploring how 18th-century forms and narrative are taken-up, recycled and re-visioned in contemporary media, this book asks which histories are told and by whom. Through essays from international and multidisciplinary scholars and interviews with industry professionals, The 18th Century Today asks what function modern media performs when depicting the 18th century in our current world. Can such ... Leer más

    $93.99 USD

  • Stage Mothers

    Women, Work, and the Theater, 1660–1830

    de Gilli Bush-Bailey, Marilyn Francus, Judith Hawley, Jade Higa, Emrys D. Jones, Ellen Malenas Ledoux, Kathryn Lowerre, Helen E.M. Brooks, J.D. Philopsen, Laura J. Rosenthal ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    Stage Mothers explores the connections between motherhood and the theater both on and off stage throughout the long eighteenth century. Although the realities of eighteenth-century motherhood and representations of maternity have recently been investigated in relation to the novel, social history, and political economy, the idea of motherhood and its connection to the theatre as a professional, ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

  • Intimacy and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Literary Culture

    Public Interiors

    Edición de Emrys D. Jones, Victoria Joule ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book provides an expansive view of celebrity’s intimate dimensions. In the process, it offers a timely reassessment of how notions of private and public were negotiated by writers, readers, actors and audiences in the early to mid-eighteenth century. The essays assembled here explore the lives of a wide range of figures: actors and actresses, but also politicians, churchmen, authors and ... Leer más

    $98.99 USD

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  • Children's Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Kimberley Reynolds ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Children's literature takes many forms - works adapted for children in antiquity, picture books and pop-ups - and now includes the latest online games and eBooks. This vast and amorphous subject is both intimately related to other areas of literary and cultural investigation but also has its own set of concerns, issues and challenges. From familiar authors including Beatrix Potter and Roald Dahl, ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • The Language Wars

    A History of Proper English

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $17.29 USD

  • Bad Friend

    How Women Revolutionized Modern Friendship

    de Tiffany Watt Smith ...
    A smart and thought-provoking memoir, history, and cultural critique about the turmoil and complexity of female friendshipOur culture today is inundated with narratives about the strength of female friendship, whether through images of girl power, BFFs, or work wives. Yet cultural historian Tiffany Watt Smith has always found her own life much messier. She has had dramatic friend breakups, ... Leer más

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  • Defining the World

    The Extraordinary Story of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary

    de Henry Hitchings ...
    "[A] marvelous account" of Johnson's towering achievement, nearly a decade of labor and linguistic fact-finding, presented by "a buoyant, zestful writer" ( The Boston Globe).By the early eighteenth century, France and Italy had impressive lexicons, but there was no authoritative dictionary of English. Impelled by a mixture of national pride and commercial expedience, the prodigious polymath ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Children's Literature

    Edición de M. O. Grenby, Andrea Immel ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Some of the most innovative and spell-binding literature has been written for young people, but only recently has academic study embraced its range and complexity. This Companion offers a state-of-the-subject survey of English-language children's literature from the seventeenth century to the present. With discussions ranging from eighteenth-century moral tales to modern fantasies by J. K. Rowling ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Cruelty & Laughter

    Forgotten Comic Literature and the Unsentimental Eighteenth Century

    de Simon Dickie ...
    Eighteenth-century British culture is often seen as polite and sentimental—the creation of an emerging middle class. Simon Dickie disputes these assumptions in Cruelty and Laughter, a wildly enjoyable but shocking plunge into the forgotten comic literature of the age. Beneath the surface of Enlightenment civility, Dickie uncovers a rich vein of cruel humor that forces us to recognize just how ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Art of Feminism

    Images that Shaped the Fight for Equality, 1857–2017

    de Helena Reckitt, Lucinda Gosling, Hilary Robinson ...
    A survey of feminist art from suffrage posters to The Dinner Party and beyond: "Lavishly produced images . . . indispensable to scholars, critics and artists." — Art MonthlyOnce again, women are on the march. And since its inception in the nineteenth century, the women's movement has harnessed the power of images to transmit messages of social change and equality to the world.From highlighting the ... Leer más

    $12.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A Brief Take on the Australian Novel

    de Jean-François Vernay ...
    Grab the popcorn, sit back and let the story of Australian literature roll ... From Jean-Francois Vernay, "A Brief Take on the Australian Novel" offers a sweeping view of Australian writing since colonialism. Written from an outsider's perspective, this single-authored overview will appeal to readers through its playful, jargon-free and potentially contentious account of the Australian novel. ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD