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  • Memoirs of Victorian Working-Class Women

    The Hard Way Up

    by Florence s. Boos ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This volume is the first to identify a significant body of life narratives by working-class women and to demonstrate their inherent literary significance. Placing each memoir within its generic, historical, and biographical context, this book traces the shifts in such writings over time, examines the circumstances which enabled working-class women authors to publish their life stories, and places ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • Working-Class Women Poets in Victorian Britain: An Anthology

    by Florence S. Boos ...
    Though working-class women in the nineteenth century included many accomplished and prolific poets, their work has often been neglected by critics and readers in favour of comparable work by men. Questioning the assumption that few poems by working-class women had survived, Florence Boos set out to discover supposedly lost works in libraries, private collections, and archives. Her years of ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • History and Poetics in the Early Writings of William Morris, 1855–1870

    by Florence Saunders Boos ...
    Florence S. Boos’s History and Poetics in the Early Writings of William Morris, 1855–1870 examines Morris’s literary development in the context of his Victorian contemporaries, probing the cross-influences of temperament, cultural ambiance, early reader reactions, and his restless search for an authentic poetic voice. Boos argues that to understand this development, we must understand how Morris ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • History and Community

    Essays in Victorian Medievalism

    Edited by Florence S. Boos ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Historiography
    The essays in this volume, originally published in 1992, examine some of the pervasive implications of Victorian medievalism, and assess its creative manifestations and dual capacities for expression of reformist anger and escapist retreat. Some of the emotional and intllectual reasons for the strong Victorian attraction to ‘medieval’ history and litereature are discussed and emblematic responses ... Read more

    $50.83 CAD

  • The Routledge Companion to William Morris

    Edited by Florence S. Boos ...
    Series series Routledge Art History and Visual Studies Companions
    William Morris (1834–96) was an English poet, decorative artist, translator, romance writer, book designer, preservationist, socialist theorist, and political activist, whose admirers have been drawn to the sheer intensity of his artistic endeavors and efforts to live up to radical ideals of social justice.This Companion draws together historical and critical responses to the impressive range of ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD

  • Teaching William Morris

    by Jason D. Martinek, Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, Susan David Bernstein, Florence Boos, Pamela Bracken, Julie Codell, Hellen Elletson, KellyAnn Fitzpatrick, Amanda Golden0, Imogen Hart1, Elizabeth Helsinger2, James Housefield3, Linda Hughes4, Deanna Kreisel5, David Latham6, William M. Meier7, Morna O'Neill8, Tony Pinkney9, John Plotz0, Michael Robertson1, Michelle Weinroth2 ...
    A prolific artist, writer, designer, and political activist, William Morris remains remarkably powerful and relevant today. But how do you teach someone like Morris who made significant contributions to several different fields of study? And how, within the exigencies of the modern educational system, can teachers capture the interdisciplinary spirit of Morris, whose various contributions hang so ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

  • The Earthly Paradise by William Morris

    by William Morris ...
    This annotated critical edition is the first attempt to make Morris's 42,000-word verse sequence accessible to a modern audience. ... Read more

    $1,003.16 CAD

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  • William Morris

    Morris and the Beauty of Use

    by Arthur Clutton-Brock ...
    Through his eclecticism, William Morris (1834-1896) was one of the most emblematic personalities of the nineteenth century. Painter, architect, poet and engineer, wielding the quill as well as the brush, he jolted Victorian society by discarding standards established by triumphant industry. His commitment to the writing of the Socialist Manifesto was the logical result of the revolution he ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Poetry for historians

    Or, W. H. Auden and history

    by Carolyn Steedman ...
    This is a book about the conflict between history and poetry – and historians and poets – in Atlantic World society from the end of the seventeenth century to the present day. Blending historiography and theory, it proceeds by asking: what is the point of poetry as far as historians are concerned? The focus is on W. H. Auden’s Cold War-era history poems, but the book also looks at other poets from ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Against The Age (Routledge Revivals)

    An Introduction to William Morris

    by Peter Faulkner ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Students new to the work of William Morris will find the full range of his achievements covered in this reissue of Peter Faulkner's excellent biography, first published in 1980. The author has carefully placed Morris in the context of the Victorian age, but has also suggested the relevance of his ideas today. The six chapters are organised biographically and cover all aspects of Morris’s work in ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Ann Radcliffe, Romanticism and the Gothic

    Edited by Dale Townshend, Angela Wright ...
    This book offers unique and fresh perspectives upon the literary productions of one of the most highly remunerated and widely admired authors of the Romantic period, Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823). While drawing upon, consolidating and enriching the critical impulses reflected in Radcliffe scholarship to date, this collection of essays, composed by a range of renowned scholars of the Romantic period, ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Jonathan Swift and the Eighteenth-Century Book

    Edited by Paddy Bullard, James McLaverty ...
    Jonathan Swift lived through a period of turbulence and innovation in the evolution of the book. His publications, perhaps more than those of any other single author, illustrate the range of developments that transformed print culture during the early Enlightenment. Swift was a prolific author and a frequent visitor at the printing house, and he wrote as critic and satirist about the nature of ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD