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  • Robert Seymour and Nineteenth-Century Print Culture

    Sketches by Seymour and Comic Illustration

    par Brian Maidment ...
    Collections series Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
    Robert Seymour and Nineteenth-Century Print Culture is the first book-length study of the original illustrator of Dickens’s Pickwick Papers. Discussion of the range and importance of Seymour’s work as a jobbing illustrator in the 1820s and 1830s is at the centre of the book. A bibliographical study of his prolific output of illustrations in many different print genres is combined with a wide ... En savoir plus

    $83.81 CAD

  • Studies in Victorian and Modern Literature

    A Tribute to John Sutherland

    par Tony Bareham, Michael Caines, Mario Curreli, Simon Eliot, Lara Feigel, David Finkelstein, Simon Frost, Simon Gatrell, Philip Horne, Graham Law, Deirdre Le Faye, David Lodge, Brian Maidment, Karl Miller, K. M. Newton, Robert L. Patten, Fred Schwarzbach, Patrick Scott, Joanne Shattock, Cedric Watts, Alexis Weedon, René Weis, Troy J. Bassett, Linda Hughes, Rosemary Ashton ...
    This book is both a celebration of the life and career of the eminent literary scholar, critic, and journalist John Sutherland and an extension of Sutherland’s work in various fields, including nineteenth- and twentieth-century Anglo-American literature, the publishing industry, and its impact upon creativity and literary puzzles. With contributions from over twenty-five distinguished critics, ... En savoir plus

    $136.99 CAD

  • Drawing on the Victorians

    The Palimpsest of Victorian and Neo-Victorian Graphic Texts

    par Peter W. Sinnema, Christine Ferguson, Linda K. Hughes, Heidi Kaufman, Brian Maidment, Jennifer Phegley, Monika Pietrzak-Franger, Jessica Straley, Kate Flint ...
    Collections series Series in Victorian Studies
    Late nineteenth-century Britain experienced an unprecedented explosion of visual print culture and a simultaneous rise in literacy across social classes. New printing technologies facilitated quick and cheap dissemination of images—illustrated books, periodicals, cartoons, comics, and ephemera—to a mass readership. This Victorian visual turn prefigured the present-day impact of the Internet on how ... En savoir plus

    $87.99 CAD

  • Persistent Ruskin

    Studies in Influence, Assimilation and Effect

    par Keith Hanley ...
    Examining the wide-ranging implications of Ruskin's engagement with his contemporaries and followers, this collection is organized around three related themes: Ruskin's intellectual legacy and the extent to which its address to working men and women and children was realised in practice; Ruskin's followers and their sites of influence, especially those related to the formation of collections, ... En savoir plus

    $83.81 CAD

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  • The Social Life of Books

    Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home

    par Abigail Williams ...
    Collections series The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
    "A lively survey…her research and insights make us conscious of how we, today, use books."—John Sutherland, The New York Times Book ReviewTwo centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment and an integral component of domestic social life. In this fascinating and vivid history, Abigail Williams explores the ways in which ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Novel

    A Biography

    par Michael Schmidt ...
    The 700-year history of the novel in English defies straightforward telling. Geographically and culturally boundless, with contributions from Great Britain, Ireland, America, Canada, Australia, India, the Caribbean, and Southern Africa; influenced by great novelists working in other languages; and encompassing a range of genres, the story of the novel in English unfolds like a richly varied ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books

    par Martin Edwards ...
    "This is an exemplary reference book sure to lead readers to gems of mystery and detective fiction." — Publishers Weekly, starred reviewThis book tells the story of crime fiction published during the first half of the twentieth century. The diversity of this much-loved genre is breathtaking, and so much greater than many critics have suggested. To illustrate this, the leading expert on classic ... En savoir plus

    $2.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

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  • How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $49.49 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction

    Modifié par Andrew Mangham ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In 1859 the popular novelist Wilkie Collins wrote of a ghostly woman, dressed from head to toe in white garments, laying her cold, thin hand on the shoulder of a young man as he walked home late one evening. His novel The Woman in White became hugely successful and popularised a style of writing that came to be known as sensation fiction. This Companion highlights the energy, the impact and the ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • Violent Victorians

    Popular entertainment in nineteenth-century London

    par Rosalind Crone ...
    By drawing attention to the wide range of gruesome, bloody and confronting amusements patronised by ordinary Londoners this book challenges our understanding of Victorian society and culture. From the turn of the nineteenth century, graphic, yet orderly, ‘re-enactments’ of high level violence flourished in travelling entertainments, penny broadsides, popular theatres, cheap instalment fiction and ... En savoir plus

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture

    Modifié par Francis O'Gorman ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    The Victorian era produced artistic achievements, technological inventions and social developments that continue to shape how we live today. This Companion offers authoritative coverage of that period's culture and its contexts in a group of specially commissioned essays reflecting the current state of research in each particular field. Covering topics from music to politics, art to technology, ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $36.99 CAD Maintenant $31.99 CAD

  • The Prose Factory

    Literary Life in Britain Since 1918

    par D J Taylor ...
    ‘An entertaining history of literary life’ Nicholas Shakespeare, Daily TelegraphSpanning a century of literary history, from the pitched battles fought between Eliot-era modernists and Georgian traditionalists to the impact of creative writing degrees and the media don of today and taking in ‘star reviewers’, sniping critics, caballing editors and megalomaniac professors along the way, The Prose ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD