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  • Teaching Later British Literature

    A Thematic Approach

    by Albert D. Pionke ...
    There are few more intimidating moments in an English teacher’s career than those in which they learn that they have been assigned ‘the survey’ for the first time. Distilling scores of years of literary history and thousands of pages of literary texts into a coherent semester can seem impossible at first. Add to this the fact that few teachers at the high school level receive in-depth instruction ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Teaching Later British Literature

    A Thematic Approach

    by Albert D. Pionke ...
    There are few more intimidating moments in an English teacher’s career than those in which they learn that they have been assigned ‘the survey’ for the first time. Distilling scores of years of literary history and thousands of pages of literary texts into a coherent semester can seem impossible at first. Add to this the fact that few teachers at the high school level receive in-depth instruction ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Teaching Later British Literature

    A Thematic Approach

    by Albert D. Pionke ...
    Designed for both first-time teachers of survey courses in later British literature and more experienced instructors seeking a new way to approach familiar material, ''Teaching Later British Literature' seeks to recapture the interconnectedness within and among Romantic, Victorian and Modern literature. Focusing on some of the defining historical, intellectual and artistic preoccupations that ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ritual Culture of Victorian Professionals

    Competing for Ceremonial Status, 1838-1877

    by Albert D. Pionke ...
    Focusing on the middle decades of the nineteenth century, Albert D. Pionke's book historicizes the relationship of ritual, class, and public status in Victorian England. His analysis of various discourses related to professionalization suggests that public ritual flourished during the period, especially among the burgeoning ranks of Victorian professions. As Pionke shows, magazines, court cases, ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • The Socio-Literary Imaginary in 19th and 20th Century Britain

    Victorian and Edwardian Inflections

    Edited by Maria Bachman, Albert Pionke ...
    Series series Among the Victorians and Modernists
    At once an invitation and a provocation, The Socio-Literary Imaginary represents the first collection of essays to illuminate the historically and intellectually complex relationship between literary studies and sociology in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. During the ongoing emergence of what Thomas Carlyle, in "Signs of the Times" (1829), pejoratively labeled a new "Mechanical Age ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Victorian Secrecy

    Economies of Knowledge and Concealment

    by Denise Tischler Millstein ...
    Whether commercial, personal, political, professional, or spiritual, knowledge was capital for the Victorians in their ongoing project of constructing a modern information-based society. Victorian Secrecy explores the myriad ways in which knowledge was both zealously accumulated and jealously guarded by individuals, institutions, and government entities in Victorian Britain. Offering a wide ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

  • Thomas Carlyle and the Idea of Influence

    by Paul E. Kerry, Albert D. Pionke, Megan Dent, Mark Allison, Laura Beer, Michael Bentley, Laura H. Clarke, Elizabeth J. Deis0, Lowell T. Frye1, Stephanie Hicks2, Marylu Hill3, Ulrike I. Hill4, Ralph Jessop5, Tim Sommer6, Madeleine Emerald Thiele7, John M. Ulrich8, Chris R. Vanden Bossche9, Brian Young0, Kazuo Yokouchi1 ...
    That Thomas Carlyle was influential in his own lifetime and continues to be so over 130 years after his death is a proposition with which few will disagree. His role as his generation’s foremost interpreter of German thought, his distinctive rhetorical style, his approach to history via the “innumerable biographies” of great men, and his almost unparalleled record of correspondence with ... Read more

    $158.09 CAD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel

    Edited by Deirdre David ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In the Victorian period, the British novel reached a wide readership and played a major role in the shaping of national and individual identity. As we come to understand the ways the novel contributed to public opinion on religion, gender, sexuality and race, we continue to be entertained and enlightened by the works of Dickens, George Eliot, Thackeray, Trollope and many others. This second ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1830–1914

    Edited by Joanne Shattock ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The nineteenth century witnessed unprecedented expansion in the reading public and an explosive growth in the number of books and newspapers produced to meet its demands. These specially commissioned essays examine not only the full range and variety of texts that entertained and informed the Victorians, but also the boundaries of Victorian literature: the links and overlap with Romanticism in the ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel

    Edited by John Richetti ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In the past twenty years our understanding of the novel's emergence in eighteenth-century Britain has drastically changed. Drawing on new research in social and political history, the twelve contributors to this Companion challenge and refine the traditional view of the novel's origins and purposes. In various ways each seeks to show that the novel is not defined primarily by its realism of ... Read more

    Was $37.99 CAD Now $31.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel

    Edited by Lisa Rodensky ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Much has been written about the Victorian novel, and for good reason. The cultural power it exerted (and, to some extent, still exerts) is beyond question. The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel contributes substantially to this thriving scholarly field by offering new approaches to familiar topics (the novel and science, the Victorian Bildungroman) as well as essays on topics often overlooked ... Read more

    $49.59 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture

    Edited by Juliet John ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture is a major contribution to the dynamic field of Victorian studies. This collection of 37 original chapters by leading international Victorian scholars offers new approaches to familiar themes including science, religion, and gender, and gives space to newer and emerging topics including old age, fair play, and economics. Structured around three ... Read more

    $45.59 CAD