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  • An A-Z of Jane Austen

    by Michael Greaney ...
    Jane Austen's richly textured worlds have enchanted readers for centuries and this neatly organised, playful book provides Austen enthusiasts and students alike with a unique insight into the much-loved writer's way with words.Using a lively A-Z structure, Greaney provides fresh angles on familiar Austen themes (D is for dance; M is for matchmaking), casts light on under-examined corners of her ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Technosleep

    Frontiers, Fictions, Futures

    by Catherine Coveney, Michael Greaney, Eric L. Hsu, Robert Meadows, Simon J. Williams ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book draws on a variety of substantive examples from science, technology, medicine, literature, and popular culture to highlight how a new technoscientifically mediated and modified phase and form of technosleep is now in the making – in the global north at least; and to discuss the consequences for our relationships to sleep, the values we accord sleep and the very nature and normativities ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • Sleep and the Novel

    Fictions of Somnolence from Jane Austen to the Present

    by Michael Greaney ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Sleep and the Novel is a study of representations of the sleeping body in fiction from 1800 to the present day which traces the ways in which novelists have engaged with this universal, indispensable -- but seemingly nondescript -- region of human experience. Covering the narrativization of sleep in Austen, the politicization of sleep in Dickens, the queering of sleep in Goncharov, the ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    An A-Z of Jane Austen

    by Michael Greaney ...
    Narrated by Jenny Dunbar ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 10 min

    Bloomsbury presents An A-Z of Jane Austen by Michael Greaney, read by Jenny Dunbar.Jane Austen's richly textured worlds have enchanted readers for centuries and this neatly organised, playful book provides Austen enthusiasts and students alike with a unique insight into the much-loved writer's way with words.Using a lively A-Z structure, Greaney provides fresh angles on familiar Austen themes (D ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Mad, Bad And Sad

    A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present

    by Lisa Appignanesi ...
    Mad, bad and sad. From the depression suffered by Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath to the mental anguish and addictions of iconic beauties Zelda Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe. From Freud and Jung and the radical breakthroughs of psychoanalysis to Lacan's construction of a modern movement and the new women-centred therapies. This is the story of how we have understood mental disorders and extreme ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • 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

  • Jane Austen

    A Life

    by Carol Shields ...
    With the same sensitivity and artfulness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Carol Shields explores the life of a writer whose own novels have engaged and delighted readers for the past two hundred years. In Jane Austen, Shields follows this superb and beloved novelist from her early family life in Steventown to her later years in Bath, her broken engagement, and her intense ... Read more

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  • A Jane Austen Education

    How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter

    by William Deresiewicz ...
    An eloquent memoir of a young man's life transformed by literature.In A Jane Austen Education, Austen scholar William Deresiewicz turns to the author's novels to reveal the remarkable life lessons hidden within. With humor and candor, Deresiewicz employs his own experiences to demonstrate the enduring power of Austen's teachings. Progressing from his days as an immature student to a happily ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Cambridge Introduction to the Novel

    by Marina MacKay ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    Beginning its life as the sensational entertainment of the eighteenth century, the novel has become the major literary genre of modern times. Drawing on hundreds of examples of famous novels from all over the world, Marina MacKay explores the essential aspects of the novel and its history: where novels came from and why we read them; how we think about their styles and techniques, their people, ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Real Jane Austen

    A Life in Small Things

    by Paula Byrne ...
    "A vivacious portrait. . . . Byrne's Austen emerges as a worldly woman, profoundly enmeshed in a wider world than she's often acknowledged to occupy. This is an Austen with a sense for the political as well as for the finer points of sensibility—and one who will be unfamiliar (though never unrecognizable) to many readers." — Publishers WeeklyIn The Real Jane Austen, acclaimed literary biographer ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

    $43.99 CAD

  • Finding Mr Darcy

    Jane Austen's Guide to Dating & Relationships

    by Amanda Hooton ...
    Shortlisted for the APA Book Design Awards for Best Non-fiction 2013It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.Unless, of course, he's gay. Or has a girlfriend. Or is neck deep in twice weekly psychoanalysis and entirely unfit for public interaction.How does the modern day heroine find her way in a dating world where the rules ... Read more

    $8.17 CAD