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  • How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information

    Commonplace Books, Scrapbooks, and Albums

    de Jillian M. Hess ...
    Series series Oxford Textual Perspectives
    Every literary household in nineteenth-century Britain had a commonplace book, scrapbook, or album. Coleridge called his collection "Fly-Catchers", while George Eliot referred to one of her commonplace books as a "Quarry," and Michael Faraday kept quotations in his "Philosophical Miscellany." Nevertheless, the nineteenth-century commonplace book, along with associated traditions like the scrapbook ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

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  • The Social Life of Books

    Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home

    de Abigail Williams ...
    Series series The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
    "A lively survey…her research and insights make us conscious of how we, today, use books."—John Sutherland, The New York Times Book ReviewTwo centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment and an integral component of domestic social life. In this fascinating and vivid history, Abigail Williams explores the ways in which ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Poetry

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Bernard O'Donoghue ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Poetry, arguably, has a greater range of conceptual meaning than perhaps any other term in English. At the most basic level everyone can recognise it--it is a kind of literature that uses special linguistic devices of organization and expression for aesthetic effect. However, far grander claims have been made for poetry than this--such as Shelley's that the poets 'are the unacknowledged ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

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  • Shakespeare's First Folio

    Four Centuries of an Iconic Book

    de Emma Smith ...
    This is a biography of a book: the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays printed in 1623 and known as the First Folio. It begins with the story of its first purchaser in London in December 1623, and goes on to explore the ways people have interacted with this iconic book over the four hundred years of its history. Throughout the stress is on what we can learn from individual copies now ... Leer más

    $10.49 USD

  • English Literature

    A Student Guide

    de Martin Stephen ...
    Now appearing in its third edition, Martin Stephen's classic text and course companion to English literature has been thoroughly revised and updated, taking account of the changes which have occurred in the subject since publication of the second edition. ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

  • On Life-Writing

    Edición de Zachary Leader ...
    'Life-writing' is a generic term meant to encompass a range of writings about lives or parts of lives, or which provide materials out of which lives or parts of lives are composed. These writings include not only memoir, autobiography, biography, diaries, autobiographical fiction, and biographical fiction, but letters, writs, wills, written anecdotes, depositions, marginalia, lyric poems, ... Leer más

    $28.49 USD

  • Poetry for historians

    Or, W. H. Auden and history

    de Carolyn Steedman ...
    This is a book about the conflict between history and poetry – and historians and poets – in Atlantic World society from the end of the seventeenth century to the present day. Blending historiography and theory, it proceeds by asking: what is the point of poetry as far as historians are concerned? The focus is on W. H. Auden’s Cold War-era history poems, but the book also looks at other poets from ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry

    Edición de Matthew Bevis ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    'I am inclined to think that we want new forms . . . as well as thoughts', confessed Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning in 1845. The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry provides a closely-read appreciation of the vibrancy and variety of Victorian poetic forms, and attends to poems as both shaped and shaping forces. The volume is divided into four main sections. The first section on 'Form' looks ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Painting the Novel

    Pictorial Discourse in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction

    de Jakub Lipski ...
    Series series British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century
    Painting the Novel: Pictorial Discourse in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction focuses on the interrelationship between eighteenth-century theories of the novel and the art of painting – a subject which has not yet been undertaken in a book-length study. This volume argues that throughout the century novelists from Daniel Defoe to Ann Radcliffe referred to the visual arts, recalling specific names ... Leer más

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  • The Oxford Handbook of British Poetry, 1660-1800

    Edición de Jack Lynch ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    In the most comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the poetry published in Britain between the Restoration and the end of the eighteenth century, forty-four authorities from six countries survey the poetry of the age in all its richness and diversity--serious and satirical, public and private, by men and women, nobles and peasants, whether published in deluxe editions or sung on the streets. The ... Leer más

    $41.39 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • A History of English Autobiography

    Edición de Adam Smyth ...
    A History of English Autobiography explores the genealogy of autobiographical writing in England from the medieval period to the digital era. Beginning with an extensive introduction that charts important theoretical contributions to the field, this History includes wide-ranging essays that illuminate the legacy of English autobiography. Organized thematically, these essays survey the multilayered ... Leer más

    $110.99 USD