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  • The Rise Of The Novel

    Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding

    by Ian Watt ...
    This is the story of a most ingenious invention: the novel. Desribed for the first time in The Rise of The Novel, Ian Watt's landmark classic reveals the origins and explains the success of the most popular literary form of all time.In the space of a single generation, three eighteenth-century writers -- Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding -- invented an entirely new genre of ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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    Cliche

    Enhance Your Mindset, Drive, and Joy By Unlocking the Psychology and Neuroscience Behind Common Phrases

    by Ian Watts ...
    Narrated by Alex Hyde-White, Aaron Landon, Dean Gallagher, Edwin Kojo Andrews, Harriet Fraser, Jason Manuel Olazabal, Karen Tooley Curry, Molly Secours, Paul Rogan, Tristan Wright ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 32 min

    Are you tired of hearing the same old clichés and wondering if they actually have the power to transform your life?In Cliché, entrepreneur, business growth consultant, and breakthrough coach Ian Watts uncovers the surprising truth: those familiar sayings you’ve heard all your life carry the keys to mindset transformation, drive for personal growth, and lasting joy.Backed by psychological insights ... Read more

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  • The Infidel and the Professor

    David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought

    by Dennis C. Rasmussen ...
    The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships—and how it influenced modern thoughtDavid Hume is widely regarded as the most important philosopher ever to write in English, but during his lifetime he was attacked as “the Great Infidel” for his skeptical religious views and deemed unfit to teach the young. In contrast, Adam Smith was a revered professor of moral philosophy, and is now ... 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

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  • Reading 1759

    Literary Culture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain and France

    Edited by Shaun Regan ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    Reading 1759 investigates the literary culture of a remarkable year in British and French history, writing, and ideas. Familiar to many as the British “year of victories” during the Seven Years’ War, 1759 was also an important year in the histories of fiction, philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics. Reading 1759 is the first book to examine together the range of works written and published during this ... Read more

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  • Wollstonecraft

    Philosophy, Passion, and Politics

    by Sylvana Tomaselli ...
    A compelling portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft that shows the intimate connections between her life and workMary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, first published in 1792, is a work of enduring relevance in women's rights advocacy. However, as Sylvana Tomaselli shows, a full understanding of Wollstonecraft’s thought is possible only through a more comprehensive appreciation of ... Read more

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  • The Common Pursuit

    by F. R. Leavis ...
    F. R. Leavis was the chief editor of Scrutiny, which between 1932 and 1953 had some claim on being the most influential literary journal in the English-speaking world.The Common Pursuit is a selection of Leavis's essays from Scrutiny, including his robust defence of Milton against T. S. Eliot, his deeply-felt engagement with Shakespeare, and his severe strictures on attempts to import sociology ... Read more

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  • Gendering the Nation

    Identity Politics and English Comic Theatre of the Long Eighteenth Century

    by Chandrava Chakravarty ...
    Gendering the Nation studies the role of the comic theatre in Britain during the long eighteenth century as a nation-building discourse. It evaluates the impact of the cultural phenomenon of Sentimentality on the English comic stage in conceptualising gendered identities for the men and women of a polite, genteel nation. The book analyses certain popular comic plays of the time to ascertain the ... Read more

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  • The Carlyles at Home and Abroad

    by Rodger L. Tarr ...
    The Carlyles at Home and Abroad explores the extensive influence of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh Carlyle in England and Scotland, Europe, and the United States. The contributors explore a wide range of topics, such as aesthetics, history, biography, literature, travel writing, feminism and race. The result is a volume that offers a fresh assessment of the couple as national and international ... Read more

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  • Prepossessing Henry James

    The Strange Freedom

    by Julián Jiménez Heffernan ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
    The novels of Henry James are filled with ghosts, but most of them escape dramatic treatment. These elusive specters are the voices of precursors that haunt his narratives, compromising their constitutive freedom. The Strange Freedom is an examination of the ways James’s fiction is prepossessed by some major voices of the English literary tradition: those of Shakespeare, Richardson, Fielding, ... Read more

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  • A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)

    Enriched edition. Exploring the literary landscape of the 19th century

    by George Saintsbury, Roderick Lancaster ...
    In "A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)," George Saintsbury undertakes a comprehensive examination of literary movements, notable authors, and cultural shifts that shaped the landscape of the 19th century. This work is characterized by its erudite yet accessible prose, allowing readers to engage deeply with the intricacies of Romanticism, Realism, and Modernism. Saintsbury ... Read more

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