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  • Thomas Hardy and Victorian Communication

    Letters, Telegrams and Postal Systems

    by Karin Koehler ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores the relationship between Thomas Hardy’s works and Victorian media and technologies of communication – especially the penny post and the telegraph. Through its close analysis of letters, telegrams, and hand-delivered notes in Hardy’s novels, short stories, and poems, it ties together a wide range of subjects: technological and infrastructural developments; material culture; ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Nineteenth-Century Communications: A Documentary History, 1780–1918

    Volume II: Invention, Innovation, Transformation

    Edited by Nicola Kirkby, Karin Koehler, Eleanor Hopkins, Kathleen McIlvenna, Ellen Smith, Harriet M. Thompson ...
    This volume foregrounds the close, and mutually informing, relationships between mediated communication and technological innovation during the nineteenth century. It draws attention to the fact that communication was a driver of innovation, but also considers how communication practices adapted to new media and technologies. The following themes and subjects are covered:The development of the ... Read more

    $107.99 CAD

  • Nineteenth-Century Communications: A Documentary History, 1780–1918

    Volume III: Cultures of Communication

    Edited by Kathleen McIlvenna, Karin Koehler, Eleanor Hopkins, Nicola Kirkby, Ellen Smith, Harriet M. Thompson ...
    This volume illuminates some of the manifold ways in which Britain’s communication infrastructure affected everyday life in nineteenth-century Britain. Accordingly, it highlights socio-economic, cultural, and material repercussions of selected aspects of mediated communication. It covers:The rise and role of the communication worker and the Post Office’s status as Britain’s largest employer as ... Read more

    $107.99 CAD

  • Nineteenth-Century Communications: A Documentary History, 1780–1918

    Volume I: Reforming the Mails

    Edited by Karin Koehler, Nicola Kirkby, Kathleen McIlvenna, Eleanor Hopkins, Ellen Smith, Harriet Thompson ...
    This volume focuses on the development of mail services between ca. 1780 and 1860. It takes as its starting point John Palmer’s proposal to reform the mail coach system in the 1780s. As part of this volume, the following themes and subjects are covered:Mail services prior to the introduction of the penny post, including the rise and fall of the mail coach; correspondence and surveillance during ... Read more

    $107.99 CAD

  • Nineteenth-Century Communications: A Documentary History, 1780–1918

    Volume IV: Nation, Empire, Globe

    Edited by Ellen Smith, Karin Koehler, Nicola Kirkby, Eleanor Hopkins, Harriet M. Thompson, Kathleen McIlvenna ...
    This volume pays particular attention to Britain’s embeddedness—and role in shaping—a rapidly expanding global communications network. In particular, it reflects the links between communications and Britain’s imperial and colonial projects. It covers:The development of imperial communication routes and infrastructures as well as, in the late nineteenth-century, the introduction of imperial penny ... Read more

    $107.99 CAD

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    by Raymond Williams ...
    Raymond Williams begins his brilliantly perceptive study of the English novel in the 1840s, a period of rapid social change brought on by the Industrial Revolution, the struggle for democratic reform, and the growth of cities and towns. Unsettling, indeed critical, for individuals and communities alike, this process of change prompted the novelists of the time to explore new forms of writing. The ... Read more

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  • The English Novel

    An Introduction

    by Terry Eagleton ...
    Written by one of the world’s leading literary theorists, this book provides a wide-ranging, accessible and humorous introduction to the English novel from Daniel Defoe to the present day.Covers the works of major authors, including Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, Laurence Sterne, Walter Scott, Jane Austen, the Brontës, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, ... Read more

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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

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  • Mary Shelley

    Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters

    by Anne K. Mellor ...
    An innovative, beautifully written analysis of Mary Shelley's life and works which draws on unpublished archival material as well as Frankenstein and examines her relationship with her husband and other key personalities. ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction

    Edited by Andrew Mangham ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In 1859 the popular novelist Wilkie Collins wrote of a ghostly woman, dressed from head to toe in white garments, laying her cold, thin hand on the shoulder of a young man as he walked home late one evening. His novel The Woman in White became hugely successful and popularised a style of writing that came to be known as sensation fiction. This Companion highlights the energy, the impact and the ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley

    Edited by Esther Schor ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
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  • A Life with Mary Shelley

    by Barbara Johnson ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    In 1980, deconstructive and psychoanalytic literary theorist Barbara Johnson wrote an essay on Mary Shelley for a colloquium on the writings of Jacques Derrida. The essay marked the beginning of Johnson's lifelong interest in Shelley as well as her first foray into the field of "women's studies," one of whose commitments was the rediscovery and analysis of works by women writers previously ... Read more

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