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What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist-The Facts of Daily...
by Daniel Pool  Publisher Comments For every frustrated reader of the great nineteenth-century English novels of Austen, Trollope, Dickens, or the Brontës who has ever wondered whether a duke outranked an earl, when to yell "Tally Ho!" at a fox hunt, or how one landed in "debtor's...
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The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge
by Adam Sisman Publisher Comments The story of the legendary friendship between Wordsworth and Coleridge The friendship between William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge produced dazzling results. From it came Lyrical Ballads, the volume that kick-started the Romantic Movement in...
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Romanticism: A Critical Reader
by Duncan Wu Publisher Comments "Romanticism: A Critical Reader "is designed both as a companion and a supplement to "Blackwell's Romanticism: An Anthology," It deals for the most part with works included in that volume while affording coverage to key elements, including fiction...
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Norman & Charlotte Strouse Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle #2: Sartor Resartus
by Thomas Carlyle Publisher Comments This is volume two of the proposed eight-volume series of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle. Sartor Resartus is arguably Carlyle's most enduring and infuential work: it made his reputation and became the inspiration for Ralph Waldo Emerson and fellow...
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So You Think You Know Thomas Hardy?: A Literary Quizbook
by John Sutherland Publisher Comments A literary quizbook with 600 graded questions to test you on all aspects of Thomas Hardy's six most popular novels. Designed to amuse and divert, the questions and answers take the reader on an imaginative journey into Hardy's world, where hypothesis and...
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Mad Mary Lamb: Lunacy and Murder in Literary London
by Susan Tyler Hitchcock Publisher Comments MARY LAMB--a dutiful daughter, well liked by just about everyone--killed her own mother with a knife. She spent the rest of her life in and out of madhouses, yet the crime and its aftermath opened up a life that no woman of her time or class could have...
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The Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830-1870
by Walter E Houghton Publisher Comments 'It is now forty years, ' Walter Houghton writes, 'since Lytton Strachey decided that we already knew too much about the Victorian era to view its culture as a whole.' Recently the tide has turned and the Victorians have been the subject of sympathetic...
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Victorians a Major Authors Anthology
by Christopher Nassaar Publisher Comments As literary critics have redefined Oscar Wilde as one of the last great Victorians, anthologized works following the major authors' approach cannot ignore his many works, nor those of his mentor, Walter Pater. Christopher Nassaar has compiled a...
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Dickens' Fur Coat and Charlotte's Unanswered Letters: The Rows and Romances of England's Great Victorian Novelists
by Daniel Pool Publisher Comments It was the Best of Times, it was the Worst of Times, but most of all, as Daniel Pool reveals in this delightful new book, it was a time of surprisingly outrageous behavior. Dickens' Fur Coat and Charlotte's Unanswered Letters plunks the reader down in...
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Sartor Resartus (Oxford World's Classics)
by Thomas Carlyle Publisher Comments Sartor Resartus ("The Tailor Retailored") is ostensibly an introduction to a strange history of clothing by the German Professor of Things in General, Diogenes Teufelsdrockh; its deeper concerns are social injustice, the right way of living in the world,...
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Victorian Women Writers and the Classics: The Feminine of Homer (Classical Presences)
by Isobel Hurst Publisher Comments Isobel Hurst examines the role of women writers in the Victorian reception of ancient Greece and Rome, showing that they had a greater imaginative engagement with classical literature than has previously been acknowledged. The restrictions which applied...
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Victorian Afterlives: The Shaping of Influence in Nineteenth-Century Literature
by R Douglas Fairhurst Publisher Comments Questions of survival were much discussed during the nineteenth century, ranging from debates over the likelihood of a personal immortality, to anxieties over the more dispersed and unpredictable aftermath of particular acts and utterances. Victorian...
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Victorian Culture and Society: The Essential Glossary (Arnold Publication)
by Adam C Roberts Publisher Comments This glossary offers an introduction to Victorian culture and society and a route-map to further study. Designed specifically with undergraduates in mind, it contains around 400 short and accessible explanations of key words, events, figures and concepts...
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So You Think You Know Jane Austen?: A Literary Quizbook (Oxford World's Classics)
by John Sutherland Publisher Comments How well do you really know your favorite author? In this new book, ace literary detective turned quizmaster John Sutherland and Austen buff Deirdre Le Faye challenge the reader to find out. Starting with easy, factual questions that test how well you...
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Eminent Victorians (Dover Value Editions)
by Lytton Strachey Publisher Comments An unparalleled manifesto for the modern biographer, Strachey's razor-sharp essays about four prominent Victorians brought him tremendous fame. However, the great pacifist's subjects did not fare as well. In an attempt to challenge 19th-century liberal...
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Victorian Minds
by Gertrude Himmelfarb Publisher Comments A study of intellectuals in crisis and of ideologies in transition, elegant in style and thought. Few works that I know convey the excitement of the intellectual life of 19th-century England as immediately....The essays are remarkable no less for the...
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Victorian Fiction (Contexts)
by Gail Marshall Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-156) and index....
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Studies on China #3: Historical Essays
by Thomas Carlyle Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 789-808) and index....
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Dickens' Fur Coat and Charlotte's Unanswered Letters: The Rows and Romances of England's Great Victorian Novelists
by Daniel Pool Publisher Comments It was the Best of Times, it was the Worst of Times, but most of all, as Daniel Pool reveals in this delightful new book, it was a time of surprisingly outrageous behavior. Dickens' Fur Coat and Charlotte's Unanswered Letters plunks the reader down in...
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On Heroes Hero Worship Heroic
by Thomas Carlyle Publisher Comments The greatest and most enduring of the prophets of the Victorian era, Thomas Carlyle was prescient about the importance of heroism in defining a nation's ambition and character. First published in 1841, his On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in...
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