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  • New Contexts for Eighteenth-Century British Fiction

    'Hearts Resolved and Hands Prepared'

    by Christopher D. Johnson, Paula R. Backscheider, Leslie A. Chilton, Robert A. Erikson, Susan K. Howard, Marta Kvande, James E. May, Melissa Mowry, Alexander Pettit, Charles E. Robinson, Mary Anne Schofield, Rivka Swenson, O M Brack Jr. ...
    New Contexts for Eighteenth-Century British Fiction is a collection of thirteen essays honoring Professor Jerry C. Beasley, who retired from the University of Delaware in 2005. The essays, written by friends, collaborators and former students, reflect the scholarly interests that defined Professor Beasley's career and point to new directions of critical inquiry. The initial essays, which discuss ... Read more

    $140.99 CAD

  • Fighting the Forces

    What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

    by Rhonda V. Wilcox, David Lavery, Camille Bacon Smith, Katrina Busse, S Renee Dechert, Diane DeKelb-Rittenhouse, Lynne Edwards, Greg Erikson, Sarah N. Gatson0, Elyce Rae Helford1, Donald Keller2, Elizabeth Krimmer3, Tanya Kryzywinska4, Justine Larbalestier5, Farah Mendelsohn6, Mary Alice Money7, Karen Eileen Overby8, Patricia Pender9, Lahney Preston-Matto0, Shilpa Raval1, Anita Rose2, Catherine Siemann3, Sarah E. Skwire4, J P. Williams5, Amanda Zweerink6 ...
    For every television series, the original vision grows within a press of forces-both social and artistic expectations, conventions of the business, as well as conventions of the art. Bad television-predictable, commercial, exploitative-simply yields to the forces. Good television, like the character of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, fights them. Fighting the Forces explores the struggle to create ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

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    How Buffy Staked Our Hearts

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    $19.99 CAD

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  • The Lexicographer's Dilemma

    The Evolution of 'Proper' English, from Shakespeare to South Park

    by Jack Lynch ...
    In its long history, the English language has had many lawmakers--those who have tried to regulate or otherwise organize the way we speak. Proper Words in Proper Places offers the first narrative history of these endeavors and shows clearly that what we now regard as the only "correct" way to speak emerged out of specific historical and social conditions over the course of centuries. As historian ... Read more

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  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy

    Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale

    by James B. South ...
    Series Book 4 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    Twenty-three essays by young professional philosophers examine crucial ethical and metaphysical aspects of the Buffyverse (the world of Buffy). Though the show already attracted much scholarly attention, this is the first book to fully disinter the intellectual issues. Designed by Whedon as a multilevel story with most of its meanings deeply buried in heaps of heavy irony, Buffy the Vampire Slayer ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare's First Folio

    Four Centuries of an Iconic Book

    by Emma Smith ...
    This is a biography of a book: the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays printed in 1623 and known as the First Folio. It begins with the story of its first purchaser in London in December 1623, and goes on to explore the ways people have interacted with this iconic book over the four hundred years of its history. Throughout the stress is on what we can learn from individual copies now ... Read more

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  • Bite Me!

    The Unofficial Guide to Buffy the Vampire Slayer

    by Nikki Stafford ...
    Take a deep dive into the TV series that brought us all into the Buffyverse—including an episode guide, a trivia quiz, cast bios, and more!It's been more than a decade since Buffy Summers first walked into the Sunnydale High library and came face-to-face with her Watcher, who told her she was the Chosen One who would save the world from vampires. In the seven seasons that Buffy the Vampire Slayer ... Read more

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  • Literary Names

    Personal Names in English Literature

    by Alastair Fowler ...
    Why do authors use pseudonyms and pen-names, or ingeniously hide names in their work with acrostics and anagrams? How has the range of permissible given names changed and how is this reflected in literature? Why do some characters remain mysteriously nameless? In this rich and learned book, Alastair Fowler explores the use of names in literature of all periods - primarily English but also Latin, ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn

    Edited by Derek Hughes, Janet Todd ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Traditionally known as the first professional woman writer in English, Aphra Behn has now emerged as one of the major figures of the Restoration. She provided more plays for the stage than any other author and greatly influenced the development of the novel with her ground-breaking fiction, especially Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister and Oroonoko, the first English novel set in ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare After Theory

    by David Scott Kastan ...
    The most familiar assertion of Shakespeare scholarship is that he is our contemporary. Shakespeare After Theory provocatively argues that he is not, but what value he has for us must at least begin with a recognition of his distance from us. ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson

    Edited by Greg Clingham ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, first published in 1997, provides an introduction to the works and intellectual life of one of the most challenging and wide-ranging writers in English literary history. Compiler of the first great English dictionary, editor of Shakespeare, biographer and critic of the English poets, author both of the influential journal Rambler and the popular fiction ... Read more

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