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Race (Transitions)
by Brian Niro  Publisher Comments This dynamic study of the history of the idea of race provides a broad historical overview of the concept from its inception to the present. Brian Niro introduces key theorists and philosophers and a wide variety of literary and theoretical concepts. A...
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Mad Mary Lamb: Lunacy and Murder in Literary London
by Susan Tyl Hitchcock Publisher Comments A confidante to many of Britain's Romantics, Mary Lamb stood at the center of a colorful literary circle. But when she killed her mother, Mary spent the rest of her life in and out of madhouses. This narrative taps into creativity and madness, the...
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The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature (Oxford Illustrated Histories)
by Pat Rogers Publisher Comments The British Literary Heritage is virtually unrivaled in the Western world, and this large, lavishly illustrated volume explores the richness, diversity, and continuity of that tradition, from its first stirrings in Anglo-Saxon poetry to the present day...
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Pope to Burney, 1714-1779: Scriblerians to Bluestockings
by Moyra Haslett Publisher Comments This book defines literature of the eighteenth century as a literature written and received as public conversation. Moyra Haslett discusses and challenges conventional ways of reading the period, particularly in relation to ideas of the public sphere...
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The Crowd
by John Plotz Publisher Comments Plotz, a smart young tenured professor at Johns Hopkins, offers a new history and theory of the crowd in the British literary and political imagination of 19th-century London....
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Come Buy, Come Buy: Shopping and the Culture of Consumption in Victorian Women's Writing
by Krista Lysack Publisher Comments From the 1860s through the early twentieth century, Great Britain saw the rise of the department store and the institutionalization of a gendered sphere of consumption. Come Buy, Come Buy considers representations of the female shopper in British women...
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The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain & Ireland
by Daniel Hahn Publisher Comments When The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain and Ireland first appeared, it was hailed by The Times of London as "the finest reference work of its kind." Now in a new edition, with over 150 more authors and new feature entries by high-profile authors such...
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Renaissance Literature (Blackwell Anthologies)
by Michael Payne Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [1130]-1134) and indexes....
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Repossessing the Romantic Past
by Heather Glen Publisher Comments New work on British Romanticism is often characterised as much by its conscious difference from preceding positions as it is by its approach to or choice of material. As a result, writing neglected or marginalised in one account will be restored to...
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English in Print from Caxton to Shakespeare to Milton
by Valerie Hotchkiss Publisher Comments English in Print from Caxton to Shakespeare to Milton examines the history of early English books, exploring the concept of putting the English language into print with close study of the texts, the formats, the audiences, and the functions of English...
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England's First Family of Writers: Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, Mary Shelley
by Julie A Carlson Synopsis Life and literature were inseparable in the daily lives of Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, and Mary Shelley. In England's First Family of Writers, Julie A. Carlson demonstrates how and why the works of these individuals can best be understood within...
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Arthur's Kingdom of Adventure: The World of Malory's Morte D'Arthur
by Muriel Whitaker Publisher Comments The setting of medieval Arthurian romance, as typified by Malory's Morte Darthur, plays an important part in the creation of the atmosphere ofthe stories, and in intensifying the drama of the action. Professor Whitaker looks at the Arthurianworld which...
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Engines of Instruction, Mischief, and Magic: Children's Literature in England from Its Beginnings to 1839
by Mary V Jackson Publisher Comments When John Newbery published A Little Pretty Pocket-Book in London in 1744 he was onto something new: the writing and marketing of books devoted wholly to children. Although it was the Age of Reason and Newbery and his contemporaries believed that even...
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Outline of English Literature
by Pat Rogers Publisher Comments Britain boasts a literary heritage second to none in the Western world. In this lavishly illustrated volume, the richness, diversity, and continuity of this tradition are explored in depth by some of England's foremost literary scholars. Through the...
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British Writers: Supplement #02: British Writers Supplement 2
by George Stade Publisher Comments This volume is one of an expanding literary reference work of encyclopaedic dimensions which aims to provide critical introductions to the works, lives, and thoughts of the writers who have shaped the cultural heritage of the western world. This edition...
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Short Oxford History of English Literature
by Andrew Sanders Publisher Comments Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, Andrew Sanders notes, had its start by accident. The first writer entombed there (long before it was known by today's name) was Geoffrey Chaucer--so honored not for his works, but because he had lived nearby and had...
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Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing
by Elaine Showalter
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Penguin Guide To English Literature Britain
by Ronald Carter
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Novels of Everyday Life: The Series in English Fiction, 1850-1930
by Laurie Langbauer
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Land and Literature of England: A Historical Account
by Robert Adams
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