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Revisiting Richardson

by Rebecca Anne Barr, Bonnie Latimer, Declan Kavanagh, Heather Ann Ladd, Amelia Dale, Samuel Rowe, Kerry Sinanan, Sarah Berkowitz, E. Derek Taylor0 ...

Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
The preoccupations of eighteenth-century novelist Samuel Richardson—the inequities of gender and sexuality; race and white femininity; masculinity, sadism, and control; religion and selfhood; authorship and artistic form—continue to resonate with contemporary readers. This fresh collection reconsiders his oeuvre, expanding and significantly updating critical debate on its meaning and importance. ... Read more

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The preoccupations of eighteenth-century novelist Samuel Richardson—the inequities of gender and sexuality; race and white femininity; masculinity, sadism, and control; religion and selfhood; authorship and artistic form—continue to resonate with contemporary readers. This fresh collection reconsiders his oeuvre, expanding and significantly updating critical debate on its meaning and importance.
... Read more
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Fifty Shades of June

50 of the best poems about the month of June

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Sara Teasdale, Hafiz, James Whitcomb Riley, Wilford Scawen Blunt, William Cowper, Frances Cecilia Cowper, Emily Dickinson, Charlotte Smith ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe, Eve Karpf ...

Unabridged

1 hour 6 min

The sixth month of the Gregorian calendar heralds a new season – Summer. Lengthening days, Sunshine days, Glorious days!In this month our classic poets flex their lexicons with verse that describes all manner of events. The weather may be warm or windy, showers, squalls and storms may momentarily darken skies with grey foreboding but Nature will soon be at work again on a palette of such bright ... Read more

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The sixth month of the Gregorian calendar heralds a new season – Summer. Lengthening days, Sunshine days, Glorious days!In this month our classic poets flex their lexicons with verse that describes all manner of events. The weather may be warm or windy, showers, squalls and storms may momentarily darken skies with grey foreboding but Nature will soon be at work again on a palette of such bright
... Read more
Figures of Buddhist Modernity in Asia

by Dr. Ian G. Baird, Corey L. Bell, Dr. Stephen C. Berkwitz, Dr. Anya Bernstein, Dr. Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia, Jane E. Caple, Jack Meng-Tat Chia, Dr. Sienna Craig, Dr. William Elison, Christoph Emmrich, Grant Evans, Paul J. Farrelly, Dr. Jane M. Ferguson, Gareth Fisher, Daniel G. Friedrich, Florence Galmiche, Dr. Michele R. Gamburd, Professor Holly Gayley, Professor David N. Gellner, Tim Graf, Elizabeth Guthrie, Elizabeth J. Harris, Dr. Sandya Hewamanne, Professor Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa, Dr. Sarah H. Jacoby, Michael Jerryson, Professor Irving Chan Johnson, Hiroko Kawanami, Professor Daniel W. Kent, Susanne Ryuyin Kerekes, Hwansoo Ilmee Kim, Tongthida Krawengit, Judy Ledgerwood, Jun-Youb (JY) Lee, Jacques P. Leider, Dr. Chiara Letizia, Sarah LeVine, Professor Charlene Makley, John Marston, Levi McLaughlin, Dr. David L. McMahan, Dr. Leigh Miller, John K. Nelson, Carina Pichler, Dr. Visisya Pinthongvijayakul, Justin R. Ritzinger, Dr. Roger Casas (Ruiz), Dr. Gregory A. Scott, Arthid Sheravanichkul, Nicolas Sihlé, Jessica Starling, Gitanjali Surendran, Professor Nicola Tannenbaum, Dr. Antonio Terrone, Dr. Ashley Thompson, Professor Jonathan S. Walters, Holly High, Brian J. Nichols, Stefania Travagnin ...

This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers will encounter artists, psychologists, social workers, part-time priests, healers, and librarians as ... Read more

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This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers will encounter artists, psychologists, social workers, part-time priests, healers, and librarians as
... Read more
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Fifty Shades of London

50 of the best poems about London

by Samuel Johnson, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Robert Herrick, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, George Eliot, Lord Alfred Douglas, Coventry Patmore, Willa Cather, Ernest Radford, Katharine Tynan ...

Narrated by Ghizela Rowe, David Shaw-Parker, Richard Mitchley ...

Unabridged

1 hour 48 min

This vast and teeming metropolis that many of us call home sits astride a small river on a small island anchored off the north-west shores of Europe. Yet its very name ‘London’ is famed, admired and known worldwide. Its growth from hamlet, town, fortification, city and centre of Empire is one of rich reward. Within its ever-changing borders that are forever moving outwards are gems of architecture ... Read more

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This vast and teeming metropolis that many of us call home sits astride a small river on a small island anchored off the north-west shores of Europe. Yet its very name ‘London’ is famed, admired and known worldwide. Its growth from hamlet, town, fortification, city and centre of Empire is one of rich reward. Within its ever-changing borders that are forever moving outwards are gems of architecture
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Poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The

Hugely influential co-founder of the Romantic movement in England

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner ...

Unabridged

1 hour 5 min

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born on October 21st, 1772 in Ottery St Mary in Devon.As a child he was an early and devoted reader and, after being schooled at Christ's Hospital, a charity school, he attended, from 1791, Jesus College, Cambridge and the following year won the Browne Gold Medal for an ode on the slave trade.He was great friends with the poet Robert Southey, indeed they formed a plan, ... Read more

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born on October 21st, 1772 in Ottery St Mary in Devon.As a child he was an early and devoted reader and, after being schooled at Christ's Hospital, a charity school, he attended, from 1791, Jesus College, Cambridge and the following year won the Browne Gold Medal for an ode on the slave trade.He was great friends with the poet Robert Southey, indeed they formed a plan,
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Fifty Shades of November

50 of the best poems about the month of November

by A E Housman, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Trumbell Stickney, Ewart Alan Mackintosh, John Keble, Matthew Arnold, Edward Thomas, Amy Lowell, Sara Teasdale, James Thomson ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe, Laurel Lefkow ...

Unabridged

1 hour 14 min

The eleventh month of the Gregorian year brings the change from Autumn into Winter. Landscapes are scrubbed of colour and all their frills, the statued forms of trees are the grammar, the structure of her ways. Days shorten, nights lengthen and for our classic poets there is work to be done.Across fifty poems our classic poets including Matthew Arnold, Thomas Hardy, Herman Melville, Anna Laetitia ... Read more

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The eleventh month of the Gregorian year brings the change from Autumn into Winter. Landscapes are scrubbed of colour and all their frills, the statued forms of trees are the grammar, the structure of her ways. Days shorten, nights lengthen and for our classic poets there is work to be done.Across fifty poems our classic poets including Matthew Arnold, Thomas Hardy, Herman Melville, Anna Laetitia
... Read more
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Poets of the Eighteenth Century, The - Volume I

by Robert Burns, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Gideon Wagner, Ghizela Rowe ...

Unabridged

1 hour 50 min

For many in Europe the focus has shifted west to the Americas, both by settlement and by war against the indigenous tribes. And then between themselves.Democracy would be reborn by the American War of Independence. In the East India becomes the stage for further expansion. For our wordsmiths the world had become a wider page on which to write their thoughts. Coleridge, Pope, Southey, Wordsworth ... Read more

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For many in Europe the focus has shifted west to the Americas, both by settlement and by war against the indigenous tribes. And then between themselves.Democracy would be reborn by the American War of Independence. In the East India becomes the stage for further expansion. For our wordsmiths the world had become a wider page on which to write their thoughts. Coleridge, Pope, Southey, Wordsworth
... Read more
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Poetry of Febuary, The

by Edith Nesbit, Sara Teasdale, Samuel Taylor Coleridge ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe ...

Series series Month in Verse
Unabridged

37 min

The second month of the year in the Gregorian calendar, brings not only the shortest month but for lovers everywhere, Valentine’s day. On this and other themes our poets including Hopkins, Nesbit, Teasdale, Coleridge and Dickinson have much to say. Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe. The tracks are; February - An Introduction; Lines On Observing a Blossom On The First of ... Read more

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The second month of the year in the Gregorian calendar, brings not only the shortest month but for lovers everywhere, Valentine’s day. On this and other themes our poets including Hopkins, Nesbit, Teasdale, Coleridge and Dickinson have much to say. Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe. The tracks are; February - An Introduction; Lines On Observing a Blossom On The First of
... Read more

The Language Wars

A History of Proper English

by Henry Hitchings ...

"Chock-full of historical and literary references . . . a fascinating, eye-opening look at the evolution of the English language." ― The Huffington PostThe English language is a battlefield. Since the age of Shakespeare, arguments over correct usage have been bitter, and have always really been about contesting values—morality, politics, and class.The Language Wars examines the present state of ... Read more

$23.19 CAD

"Chock-full of historical and literary references . . . a fascinating, eye-opening look at the evolution of the English language." ― The Huffington PostThe English language is a battlefield. Since the age of Shakespeare, arguments over correct usage have been bitter, and have always really been about contesting values—morality, politics, and class.The Language Wars examines the present state of
... Read more
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

$31.99 CAD

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
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain

by Leah Price ...

How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who ... Read more

$49.49 CAD

How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who
... Read more
The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel

Edited by John Richetti ...

Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
In the past twenty years our understanding of the novel's emergence in eighteenth-century Britain has drastically changed. Drawing on new research in social and political history, the twelve contributors to this Companion challenge and refine the traditional view of the novel's origins and purposes. In various ways each seeks to show that the novel is not defined primarily by its realism of ... Read more

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In the past twenty years our understanding of the novel's emergence in eighteenth-century Britain has drastically changed. Drawing on new research in social and political history, the twelve contributors to this Companion challenge and refine the traditional view of the novel's origins and purposes. In various ways each seeks to show that the novel is not defined primarily by its realism of
... Read more

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