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  • John Keats and the Perils of Posterity

    by Nicholas Roe ...
    This book begins with an account of the disease that killed Keats and contributed to the enduring myth that he was a doomed genius. Newspaper reports of Keats's death and early 'tribute' poems marking his demise form the substance of successive chapters, as do early attempts at researching and writing a biography of him. Keats's would-be biographers included his publisher John Taylor whose ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • John Keats

    by Nicholas Roe ...
    This landmark biography of celebrated Romantic poet John Keats explodes entrenched conceptions of him as a delicate, overly sensitive, tragic figure. Instead, Nicholas Roe reveals the real flesh-and-blood poet: a passionate man driven by ambition but prey to doubt, suspicion, and jealousy; sure of his vocation while bitterly resentful of the obstacles that blighted his career; devoured by sexual ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Fiery Heart

    The First Life of Leigh Hunt

    by Nicholas Roe ...
    Leigh Hunt is the forgotten giant of English Romanticism. The man Virginia Woolf called the 'spiritual grandfather' of the modern world was descended from black Caribbeans and grew up a child of the American and French revolutions. A poet and radical journalist, he threw off the shackles of the old order and campaigned tirelessly for Irish freedom and the abolition of slavery. Unwilling to see the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Wordsworth and Coleridge

    The Radical Years

    by Nicholas Roe ...
    This volume offers a reappraisal of Wordsworth's and Coleridge's radical careers before their emergence as major poets. Updated, revised, and with new manuscript material, this expanded new edition responds to the most significant critical work on Wordsworth's and Coleridge's radical careers in the three decades since the book first appeared. Fresh material is drawn from newspapers and printed ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • John Keats

    by Nicholas Roe ...
    This landmark biography of celebrated Romantic poet John Keats explodes entrenched conceptions of him as a delicate, overly sensitive, tragic figure. Instead, Nicholas Roe reveals the real flesh-and-blood poet: a passionate man driven by ambition but prey to doubt, suspicion, and jealousy; sure of his vocation while bitterly resentful of the obstacles that blighted his career; devoured by sexual ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • John Keats and Romantic Scotland

    Edited by Katie Garner, Nicholas Roe ...
    Between 22 June and 18 August 1818, John Keats and his friend and collaborator Charles Armitage Brown embarked on an epic walking tour of the English Lake District, South West Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Ayrshire Burns Country, the Scottish Highlands and Western Isles, and the Great Glen north eastwards to Inverness, Beauly, the Black Isle, and Cromarty. During the tour, Keats and Brown both ... Read more

    $56.29 CAD

  • The Animation Studies Reader

    Edited by Nichola Dobson, Annabelle Honess Roe, Amy Ratelle, Caroline Ruddell ...
    The Animation Studies Reader brings together both key writings within animation studies and new material in emerging areas of the field. The collection provides readers with seminal texts that ground animation studies within the contexts of theory and aesthetics, form and genre, and issues of representation. The first section collates key readings on animation theory, on how we might conceptualise ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • John Keats and the Medical Imagination

    Edited by Nicholas Roe ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book presents ten new chapters on John Keats's medical imagination, beginning with his practical engagement with dissection and surgery, and the extraordinary poems he wrote during his 'busy time' at Guy's Hospital 1815-17. The Physical Society at Guy's and the demands of a medical career are explored, as are the lyrical spheres of botany, melancholia, and Keats's strange oxymoronic poetics ... Read more

    $153.99 CAD

  • Leigh Hunt

    Life, Poetics, Politics

    Edited by Nicholas Roe ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Romanticism
    Recent critical and scholarly interest in John Keats has encouraged a resurgence of interest in his friend and mentor, the poet and journalist Leigh Hunt. This timely collection of essays by leading British and North America romanticists explores Hunt's life, writings and cultural significance over the full length of his career, arguing for the recognition of Hunt's importance to British ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Voltaire's Correspondence

    Digital Readings

    by Nicholas Cronk, Glenn Roe ...
    Series series Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections
    Voltaire's correspondence has been described as his 'greatest masterpiece' – but if it is, it is also his least studied. One of the most prodigious correspondences in Western literature, it poses significant interpretative challenges to the critic and reader alike. Considered individually, the letters present a series of complex, subtle, and playful literary performances; taken together, they ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Digital Scholarly Editing in Practice

    Making Oxford University Voltaire

    by Dan Barker, Nicholas Cronk, Glenn Roe ...
    Series series Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
    Scholarly editions in print have long been central to literary studies, produced according to well-established methodologies. In recent decades, digital scholarly editions have gained prominence, with some publishers digitising existing print editions and others creating born-digital resources. The shift from print to digital demands not only new editorial approaches but also sustained attention ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Solutions for the Treatment Resistant Addicted Client

    Therapeutic Techniques for Engaging Challenging Clients

    by Nicholas A. Roes ...
    Help addicts to better their lives, even though they oppose treatment!This useful volume, the result of more than ten years of work in researching and refining the techniques most likely to lead to positive client outcomes, offers field-tested methods for dealing with the most challenging addicted client types. These include hopeless clients, clients considered to be in denial, and those who are ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD