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  • Romantic Beasts

    Pervasion, Eccentricity, Exhibition

    par Christopher R. Clason, Alastair Hunt, Pamela Buck, John Gardner, Jane Spencer, Allison Dushane, Kathryn Desplanque, Peter Erickson, Frederick Burwick0 ...
    Collections series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
    By staging human-animal encounters, Romantic literature and art repeatedly questioned how "human" animals could be and how "animal" humans in fact are. Romantic-era authors and artists often depicted perplexing animal intrusions upon humans. Sometimes the intruders were mystifying or terrifying, like Coleridge’s albatross or Poe’s raven; sometimes they were mundane, as in “The Swallow” by Smith or ... En savoir plus

    $55.79 CAD

  • Time in Romantic Theatre

    par Frederick Burwick ...
    Collections series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The shift in temporal modalities of Romantic Theatre was the consequence of internal as well as external developments: internally, the playwright was liberated from the old imperative of “Unity of Time” and the expectation that the events of the play must not exceed the hours of a single day; externally, the new social and cultural conformance to the time-keeping schedules of labour and business ... En savoir plus

    $153.69 CAD

  • Rewriting Crusoe

    The Robinsonade across Languages, Cultures, and Media

    par Robert Mayer, Rivka Swenson, Patrick A. Gill, Przemyslaw Uscinski, Frederick Burwick, Marta Pellerdi, Lora E. Geriguis, Krzysztof Skonieczny, Jennifer Preston Wilson, Ian Kinane, Daniel Cook ...
    Collections series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
    Published in 1719, Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe is one of those extraordinary literary works whose importance lies not only in the text itself but in its persistently lively afterlife. German author Johann Gottfried Schnabel—who in 1731 penned his own island narrative—coined the term “Robinsonade” to characterize the genre bred by this classic, and today hundreds of examples can be identified worldwide ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • Romantic Automata

    Exhibitions, Figures, Organisms

    par Frederick Burwick, Ashley Shams, Peter Erickson, Wendy C. Nielsen, Erin M. Goss, Kate Singer, Kathryn S. Freeman, Stefani Engelstein, Lenora Hanson, Christina Maria Weiler ...
    Collections series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
    For most of the eighteenth century, automata were deemed a celebration of human ingenuity, feats of science and reason. Among the Romantics, however, they prompted a contradictory apprehension about mechanization and contrivance: such science and engineering threatened the spiritual nature of life, the source of compassion in human society. A deep dread of puppets and the machinery that propels ... En savoir plus

    $40.99 CAD

  • A History of Romantic Literature

    par Frederick Burwick ...
    Collections series Blackwell History of Literature
    Historical Narrative Offers Introduction to Romanticism by Placing Key Figures in Overall Social ContextGoing beyond the general literary survey, A History of Romantic Literature examines the literatures of sensibility and intensity as well as the aesthetic dimensions of horror and terror, sublimity and ecstasy, by providing a richly integrated account of shared themes, interests, innovations, ... En savoir plus

    $143.99 CAD

  • Romanticism

    Keywords

    par Frederick Burwick ...
    Collections series Keywords in Literature and Culture (KILC).
    To gain an understanding of any literary era, one should be exposed to the language of its time and place in history. This is especially critical when considering the innovations in creativity introduced during Europe’s Romantic era. Romanticism: Keywords offers readers an invaluable collection of 73 key terms most frequently discussed by authors of the Romantic period – and most often deliberated ... En savoir plus

    $131.99 CAD

  • British Drama of the Industrial Revolution

    par Frederick Burwick ...
    Between the advent of the French Revolution and the short-lived success of the Chartist Movement, overworked and underpaid labourers struggled to achieve solidarity and collective bargaining. That history has been told in numerous accounts of the age, but never before has it been told in terms of the theatre of the period. To understand the play lists of a theatre, it is crucial to examine the ... En savoir plus

    $115.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    Modifié par Frederick Burwick ...
    Collections series Oxford Handbooks
    A practical and comprehensive reference work, the Oxford Handbook provides the best single-volume source of original scholarship on all aspects of Coleridge's diverse writings. Thirty-seven chapters, bringing together the wisdome of experts from across the world, present an authoritative, in-depth, and up-to-date assessment of a major author of British Romanticism. The book is divided into ... En savoir plus

    $47.99 CAD

  • Romantic Drama

    Acting and Reacting

    par Frederick Burwick ...
    Drama in the Romantic period underwent radical changes affecting theatre performance, acting, and audience. Theatres were rebuilt and expanded to accommodate larger audiences, and consequently acting styles and the plays themselves evolved to meet the expectations of the new audiences. This book examines manifestations of change in acting, stage design, setting, and the new forms of drama. Actors ... En savoir plus

    $56.99 CAD

  • Women Constructing Men

    Female Novelists and Their Male Characters, 1750 - 2000

    par Sarah S. G. Frantz, Katherine Bode, Frederick Burwick, Rainer Emig, Roxanne Harde, Angela Laflen, Shawn Lisa Maurer, Ellen McWilliams, Sara Pearson0, Virginia Richter1, George E. Haggerty2, Dr Sarah Ailwood3 ...
    Female novelists have always invested as much narrative energy in constructing their male characters-heroes and villains-as in envisioning their female protagonists, but this fact has received very little scholarly attention to date. In Women Constructing Men, scholars from Australia, Canada, Germany, Great Britain and the United States begin to sketch the outline of a new literary history of ... En savoir plus

    $62.99 CAD

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  • The Oxford Companion to English Literature

    Modifié par Dinah Birch ...
    Collections series Oxford Companions
    The Oxford Companion to English Literature has long been established as the leading reference resource for students, teachers, scholars, and general readers of English literature. It provides unrivalled coverage of all aspects of English literature - from writers, their works, and the historical and cultural context in which they wrote, to critics, literary theory, and allusions. For the seventh ... En savoir plus

    $31.29 CAD

  • Literary Names

    Personal Names in English Literature

    par Alastair Fowler ...
    Why do authors use pseudonyms and pen-names, or ingeniously hide names in their work with acrostics and anagrams? How has the range of permissible given names changed and how is this reflected in literature? Why do some characters remain mysteriously nameless? In this rich and learned book, Alastair Fowler explores the use of names in literature of all periods - primarily English but also Latin, ... En savoir plus

    $30.99 CAD