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  • Nonbinary Jane Austen

    by Chris Washington ...
    Series series Forerunners: Ideas First
    A bold and provocative analysis of Jane Austen as an early gender abolitionistChris Washington reads Jane Austen differently than we have classically understood her: rather than the doyen of the cisheteronormative marriage plot, the author theorizes how Austen envisions a nonbinary future that traverses the two-sex model of gender that we can supposedly see solidifying in the eighteenth century. ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Romanticism and Speculative Realism

    Edited by Chris Washington, Prof Anne C. McCarthy ...
    Romanticism and Speculative Realism features a range of scholars working at the intersection of literary poetics and philosophy. It considers how the writing of the Romantic era reconceptualizes the human imagination, the natural world, and the language that correlates them in radical ways that can advance current speculative debates concerning new ontologies and new materialisms.In their wide ... Read more

    $49.69 CAD

  • Romantic Revelations

    Visions of Post-Apocalyptic Life and Hope in the Anthropocene

    by Chris Washington ...
    Romantic Revelations shows that the nonhuman is fundamental to Romanticism’s political responses to climatic catastrophes. Exploring what he calls "post-apocalyptic Romanticism," Chris Washington intervenes in the critical conversation that has long defined Romanticism as an apocalyptic field. "Apocalypse" means "the revelation of a perfected world," which sees Romanticism’s back-to-nature ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

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  • All About Love

    Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion

    by Lisa Appignanesi ...
    Unruly, unpredictable, love is a maddening deity. In this insightful and eloquent meditation on that many-splendored thing, Lisa Appignanesi draws on history, philosophy, psychology, literature, popular culture, and her own experience in order to tangle with love's paradoxes through the span of our lives.Beginning with the rose-tinted raptures of first love, she proceeds to love in marriage, the ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • A Natural History of the Romance Novel

    by Pamela Regis ...
    The romance novel has the strange distinction of being the most popular but least respected of literary genres. While it remains consistently dominant in bookstores and on best-seller lists, it is also widely dismissed by the critical community. Scholars have alleged that romance novels help create subservient readers, who are largely women, by confining heroines to stories that ignore issues ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Collected Shorter Fiction of Leo Tolstoy, Volume II

    Introduction by John Bayley

    by Leo Tolstoy ...
    Translated by Alymer Maude, Louise Maude, Nigel Cooper ...
    Ranging in scope from lengthy novellas to fables and folktales only a few pages long, Leo Tolstoy’s short fiction provides a marvelous opportunity to become closely acquainted with Russia’s great novelist.Volume 2 of the Collected Shorter Fiction reveals howTolstoy’s growing spiritual preoccupations flowered into a series of extraordinary late masterpieces that equal anything in the earlier novels ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Gilbert and Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic after Thirty Years

    Edited by Annette R. Federico ...
    When it was published in 1979, Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imaginationwas hailed as a pathbreaking work of criticism, changing the way future scholars would read Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, the Brontës, George Eliot, and Emily Dickinson. This thirtieth-anniversary collection adds both valuable reassessments and ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • On Marriage

    by Devorah Baum ...
    A compulsively readable, startling, and philosophically rich book about marriage, from an acclaimed critic and filmmaker“Baum is an erudite and entertaining guide through the landscape of marriage. . . . A fascinating exploration.”—Stephanie Merritt, The Guardian“As far back as our history books go, we have no record of a time preceding marriage. Isn’t that an extraordinary fact?” So writes ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Jane Austen

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Tom Keymer ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Jane Austen wrote six of the best-loved novels in the English language, as well as a smaller corpus of works unpublished in her day, including three volumes of witty, non-realist juvenilia and the innovative, unfinished Sanditon. She pioneered new techniques for representing voices, minds, and hearts in narrative prose, and was a penetrating satirist of social tensions and trends in an era ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • Close Reading

    The Reader

    by John Crowe Ransom, Cleanth Brooks, Kenneth Burke ...
    An anthology of exemplary readings by some of the twentieth century’s foremost literary critics, Close Reading presents a wide range of responses to the question at the heart of literary criticism: how best to read a text to understand its meaning. The lively introduction and the selected essays provide an overview of close reading from New Criticism through poststructuralism, including works of ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • A Companion to Jane Austen

    Edited by Claudia L. Johnson, Clara Tuite ...
    Series Book 172 - Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
    Reflecting the dynamic and expansive nature of Austen studies, A Companion to Jane Austen provides 42 essays from a distinguished team of literary scholars that examine the full breadth of the English novelist's works and career.Provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date array of Austen scholarshipFunctions both as a scholarly reference and as a survey of the most innovative speculative ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Women and Romance

    The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel

    by Laurie Langbauer ...
    Series series Reading Women Writing
    According to Laurie Langbauer, the notion of romance is vague precisely because it represents the chaotic negative space outside the novel that determines its form. Addressing questions of form, Langbauer reads novels that explore the interplay between the novel and romance: works by Charlotte Lennox, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and George Meredith. She considers key issues ... Read more

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