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  • Narrative Structure and Reader Formation in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania

    by Rahel Orgis ...
    Narrative Structure and Reader Formation in Lady Mary Wroth’s Urania offers the first systematic formal and thematic analysis of Wroth’s Urania in its historical context and explores the structural means by which Wroth fashions her readership. The book thus has a dual focus, at once on narrative art and reader formation. It makes two original claims, the first being that the Urania is not the ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Fashioning England and the English

    Literature, Nation, Gender

    Edited by Rahel Orgis, Matthias Heim ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores how literary texts envision England and respond to discourses and conceptions of Englishness and the English nation, especially in relation to gender and language. The essays discuss texts from the fifteenth to the twentieth century and bear witness to changing views of England and the English, highlighting the importance of religion, economy, landscape, the spectre of the ... Read more

    $102.49 CAD

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  • An Unwilling Guest

    by Grace Livingston Hill ...
    An Unwilling Guest by Grace Livingston HillA wonderful wholesome romance“Oh, I love him!” she said to herself, though not aloud, for it was a secret - too dear and sacred to be trusted even to darkness and dust.“I love him better than my soul, and he has gone, gone, gone, forever probably! He does not love me. At least not in that way. But I am glad, glad that he cares for my soul. Oh, what shall ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Feminism, Literature and Rape Narratives

    Violence and Violation

    Edited by Sorcha Gunne, Zoe Brigley Thompson ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    The essays in this volume discuss narrative strategies employed by international writers when dealing with rape and sexual violence, whether in fiction, poetry, memoir, or drama. In developing these new feminist readings of rape narratives, the contributors aim to incorporate arguments about trauma and resistance in order to establish new dimensions of healing. This book makes a vital contribution ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • The Historical Austen

    by William H. Galperin ...
    Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleJane Austen, arguably the most beloved of all English novelists, has been regarded both as a feminist ahead of her time and as a social conservative whose satiric comedies work to regulate rather than to liberate. Such viewpoints, however, do not take sufficient stock of the historical Austen, whose writings, as William Galperin shows, ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • Mary Wollstonecraft, Pedagogy, and the Practice of Feminism

    by Kirstin Hanley ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature
    This study examines Mary Wollstonecraft—generally recognized as the founder of the early feminist movement—by shedding light on her contributions to eighteenth-century instructional literature, and feminist pedagogy in particular. While contemporary scholars have extensively theorized Wollstonecraft’s philosophical and polemic work, little attention has been given to her understanding and ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Women and Gift Exchange in Eighteenth-Century Fiction

    Richardson, Burney, Austen

    by Linda Zionkowski ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature
    This book analyzes why the most influential novelists of the long eighteenth century centered their narratives on the theory and practice of gift exchange. Throughout this period, fundamental shifts in economic theories regarding the sources of individual and national wealth along with transformations in the practices of personal and institutional charity profoundly altered cultural understandings ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Literature and the English Revolution

    Edited by Laura Lunger Knoppers ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This Handbook offers a comprehensive introduction and thirty-seven new essays by an international team of literary critics and historians on the writings generated by the tumultuous events of mid-seventeenth-century England. Unprecedented events-civil war, regicide, the abolition of monarchy, proscription of episcopacy, constitutional experiment, and finally the return of monarchy-led to an ... Read more

    $159.99 CAD

  • Didactic Novels and British Women's Writing, 1790-1820

    Edited by Hilary Havens ...
    Series series Gender and Genre
    Tracing the rise of conduct literature and the didactic novel over the course of the eighteenth century, this book explores how British women used the didactic novel genre to engage in political debate during and immediately after the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. Although didactic novels were frequently conventional in structure, they provided a venue for women to uphold, to ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • New Perspectives on Delarivier Manley and Eighteenth Century Literature

    Power, Sex, and Text

    Edited by Aleksondra Hultquist, Elizabeth Mathews ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature
    This first critical collection on Delarivier Manley revisits the most heated discussions, adds new perspectives in light of growing awareness of Manley’s multifaceted contributions to eighteenth-century literature, and demonstrates the wide range of thinking about her literary production and significance. While contributors reconsider some well-known texts through her generic intertextuality or ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolutions

    Edited by Lisa L. Moore, Joanna Brooks, Caroline Wigginton ...
    This volume brings together an unprecedented gathering of women and men from the Atlantic World during the Age of Revolutions. Featuring hard-to-find writings from colonists and colonized, citizens and slaves, religious visionaries and scandal-dogged actresses, these wide-ranging selections present a panorama of the diverse, vibrant world facing women during the seventeenth and eighteenth ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Mary Wroth and Shakespeare

    Edited by Paul Salzman, Marion Wynne-Davies ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Shakespeare
    Over the last twenty five years, scholarship on Early Modern women writers has produced editions and criticisms, both on various groups and individual authors. The work on Mary Wroth has been particularly impressive at integrating her poetry, prose and drama into the canon. This in turn has led to comparative studies that link Wroth to a number of male and female writers, including of course, ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD