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Selected Poems Of Bernard Barton, The 'Quaker Poet'

by Christopher Stokes

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 The first ever modern edition of Bernard Bartonâ€™s selected verse, recovering an important figure from the Romantic era. A diverse variety of his unusual and striking poetry is supplemented by letters, reviews and other contextual material, as well as a scholarly introduction and notes.
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Unfinished Austen: Interpreting &Quote;Catharine&Quote;, &Quote;Lady Susan&Quote;, &Quote;The Watsons&Quote; And &Quote;Sanditon&Quote;

by Joanne Wilkes

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 Unfinished Austen is the first detailed study of four texts that Jane Austen left incomplete and unpublished: Catharine, or the Bower (1792â€"3), Lady Susan (1795?), The Watsons (1803â€"4?) and Sanditon (1817).
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Genocide: A Thematic Approach

by John Cox e Thomas Earl Porter

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 The purpose of this volume is not simply to compile yet another wearying chronicle of the horrors that have been committed by our fellow human beings. It is intended to give the needed context to understand why such violence has been perpetrated in the past and why it continues to occur so frequently in the contemporary world.
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The Art Of Wandering - The Writer As Walker

by Merlin Coverley

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 The Art of Wandering is a history of that curious hybrid, the writer as walker. From the Ancient world to the modern day, the role of the walker continues to evolve, from philosopher and pilgrim, vagrant and visionary, to experimentalist and radical. Newly revised and updated edition. ...
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Shifty'S Boys

by Chris Offutt

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 Army-cop-turned-small-town-investigator Mick Hardin returns to the Kentucky hills in this second vividly atmospheric thriller from acclaimed literary crime novelist Chris Offutt...
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Agatha Christie

by Mark Campbell

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 An informed, engaging and accessible introduction to the Christie phenomenon, examining all her novels and short stories. This edition has been updated to include new material on all recent film, TV and literary adaptations....
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Reading Figure In Irish Art In The Long Nineteenth Century

by Tricia Cusack

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 This book examines Irish portraits during the long nineteenth century in which figures read or hold a book. Reading fiction was cast as unmanly, while â€˜silent readingâ€™ allowed women of means to read widely and privately. Portraits of such women helped construct the idea of the â€˜New Womanâ€™ in Ireland.
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Julia Wedgwood, The Unexpected Victorian - The Life And Writing Of A Remarkable Female Intellectual

by Sue Brown

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 The first biography of Julia Wedgwood, the leading Victorian female intellect and writer, niece of Charles Darwin, intimate friend of Robert Browning and mentor of E. M. Forster. The book draws on a mass of unpublished family correspondence offering critical consideration of her ambitious range of non-fiction books, articles and novels.
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Visuality In The Novels Of Austen, Radcliffe, Edgeworth And Burney

by Jessica A. Volz

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 'Visuality in the Novels of Austen, Radcliffe, Edgeworth and Burney' examines the forms and functions of visuality in the novels of Austen, Radcliffe, Edgeworth and Burney. It offers new insights into vision, fiction and depiction by exploring how the visual details in women's novels published between 1778 and 1815 are more telling about gender politics than scholars have previously acknowledged.
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Hawthorne'S Histories, Hawthorne'S World - From Salem To Somewhere Else

by Michael J. Colacurcio

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 Hawthorneâ€™s Histories, Hawthorneâ€™s WorldÂ collects together the essays Professor Colacurcio has written on Hawthorne since the publication of his ground-breaking Province of Piety, elaborating and refining his analyses of how Hawthorneâ€™s most memorable early tales â€œdo history,â€ but proceeding then to explore the later productions of that authorâ€™s distinguished career.
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Great Illustrators Of Edgar Allan Poe

by Jessica Slayton e Tony Magistrale

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 An introduction to some of the most important illustrators producing work inspired by the tales and poems of American writer Edgar Allan Poe from their earliest iterations in the 1880s to the present day
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Selected Poems Of Bernard Barton, The 'Quaker Poet'

by Christopher Stokes

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 The first ever modern edition of Bernard Bartonâ€™s selected verse, recovering an important figure from the Romantic era. A diverse variety of his unusual and striking poetry is supplemented by letters, reviews and other contextual material, as well as a scholarly introduction and notes.
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The The Novels Of Frances Hodgson Burnett - In "The World Of Actual Literature"

by Thomas Recchio

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 <span data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Frances Hodgson Burnett is remembered today as the author of the childrens classic The Secret Garden, but in her lifetime she had a long and successful career as a novelist, dramatist and writer of childrens stories. Of high literary quality, her novels covered a range of genres, including industrial novels, American-themed social novels, historical novels, transatlantic novels and postWorld War I novels. The Novels of Frances Hodgson Burnett reads her novels in the context of the changing literary field in England and the United States in the years between the death of George Eliot in 1880 through to the Great War. Read as a body of literary fiction in relation to Elizabeth Gaskell, Henry James and T. S. Eliot among others, and read in the context of literary realism, historical fiction, the sensation novel and so on, Burnetts novels constitute an important thread that chronicles the changing contexts and forms of English and American fiction from the end of the Victorian period to the Jazz Age of the 1920s."}" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":769,"3":{"1":0},"11":3,"12":0}" data-sheets-textstyleruns="{"1":0}[null,84,{"6":1}]{"1":101}[null,412,{"6":1}]{"1":449}">Frances Hodgson Burnett is remembered today as the author of the childrens classicThe Secret Garden, but in her lifetime she had a long and successful career as a novelist, dramatist and writer of childrens stories. Of high literary quality, her novels covered a range of genres, including industrial novels, American-themed social novels, historical novels, transatlantic novels and postWorld War I novels.The Novels of Frances Hodgson Burnett reads her novels in the context of the changing literary field in England and the United States in the years between the death of George Eliot in 1880 through to the Great War. Read as a body of literary fiction in relation to Elizabeth Gaskell, Henry James and T. S. Eliot among others, and read in the context of literary realism, historical fiction, the sensation novel and so on, Burnetts novels constitute an important thread that chronicles the changing contexts and forms of English and American fiction from the end of the Victorian period to the Jazz Age of the 1920s.
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Novels Of Frances Hodgson Burnett - In "The World Of Actual Literature"

by Thomas Recchio

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 <span data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Frances Hodgson Burnett is remembered today as the author of the children’s classic The Secret Garden, but in her lifetime she had a long and successful career as a novelist, dramatist and writer of children’s stories. Of high literary quality, her novels covered a range of genres, including industrial novels, American-themed social novels, historical novels, transatlantic novels and post-World War I novels. The Novels of Frances Hodgson Burnett reads her novels in the context of the changing literary field in England and the United States in the years between the death of George Eliot in 1880 through to the Great War. Read as a body of literary fiction in relation to Elizabeth Gaskell, Henry James and T. S. Eliot among others, and read in the context of literary realism, historical fiction, the sensation novel and so on, Burnett’s novels constitute an important thread that chronicles the changing contexts and forms of English and American fiction from the end of the Victorian period to the Jazz Age of the 1920s."}" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":769,"3":{"1":0},"11":3,"12":0}" data-sheets-textstyleruns="{"1":0}[null,84,{"6":1}]{"1":101}[null,412,{"6":1}]{"1":449}">Frances Hodgson Burnett is remembered today as the author of the children’s classic The Secret Garden, but in her lifetime she had a long and successful career as a novelist, dramatist and writer of children’s stories. Of high literary quality, her novels covered a range of genres, including industrial novels, American-themed social novels, historical novels, transatlantic novels and post-World War I novels. The Novels of Frances Hodgson Burnett reads her novels in the context of the changing literary field in England and the United States in the years between the death of George Eliot in 1880 through to the Great War. Read as a body of literary fiction in relation to Elizabeth Gaskell, Henry James and T. S. Eliot among others, and read in the context of literary realism, historical fiction, the sensation novel and so on, Burnett’s novels constitute an important thread that chronicles the changing contexts and forms of English and American fiction from the end of the Victorian period to the Jazz Age of the 1920s.
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Fitzgeraldâ€™S Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam - Popularity And Neglect

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 For all its fame in the wider world, Edward FitzGeraldâ€™s â€˜RubÃ¡iyÃ¡t of Omar KhayyÃ¡mâ€™ (1859) has been largely ignored by the academic establishment. This volume explores the reasons for both its popularity and neglect.
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George Eliot'S Grammar Of Being

by Melissa Anne Raines

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 Drawing on original manuscripts and Victorian psychological theory, this study shows that George Eliot was an author who shaped her sentences as carefully as she wanted her public to read them.
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Touching God - Hopkins And Love

by Duc Dau

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 The first book devoted to the study of love in the writings of Gerald Manley Hopkins, â€˜Touching Godâ€™ offers fresh readings of Hopkinsâ€™ poetry by considering love in relation to mutual touch.
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An Anthology Of Nineteenth-Century American Science Writing

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 This anthology is the first collection of primary science articles written by scientists working in America during the nineteenth century.
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Jane Austen And Her Readers, 1786â€“1945

by Katie Halsey

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 â€˜Jane Austen and her Readers, 1786â€"1945â€™ is a study of the history of reading Jane Austenâ€™s novels, focused on the responses of ordinary readers.
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Mapping The Nation - An Anthology Of Indian Poetry In English, 1870â€“1920

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 Focusing specifically on the poetic construction of India, â€˜Mapping the Nationâ€™ offers a broad selection of poetry written by Indians in English during the period 1870â€"1920.
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Anton Chekhov Through The Eyes Of Russian Thinkers - Vasilii Rozanov, Dmitrii Merezhkovskii And Lev Shestov

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 This volume offers modern perspectives, from a strong international team of scholars, on the perception of Anton Chekhov's works by three leading cultural figures of the Silver Age of Russian culture - Vasilii Rozanov, Dmitrii Merezhkovskii and Lev Shestov.
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Decadent Verse - An Anthology Of Late-Victorian Poetry, 1872-1900

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 A critical collection of late-Victorian poetry, fully annotated and explored, bringing to life the often overlooked but integral verse of the period.
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The Constitution Of Shelley'S Poetry - The Argument Of Language In Prometheus Unbound

by Edward T. Duffy

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 â€˜The Constitution of Shelleyâ€™s Poetryâ€™ is a close philosophical reading of â€˜Prometheus Unboundâ€™ from the perspective of the argument or drama of language played out in its pages.
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Spies In The Empire - Victorian Military Intelligence

by Stephen Wade

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 Stephen Wadeâ€™s enthralling book reveals the unsteady foundations of one of the countryâ€™s most prominent and renowned organizations, tracing the various elements that gradually composed the intelligence and political branches of Britainâ€™s Secret Service.
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