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  • Persuasion

    par Jane Austen, Gillian Beer ...
    Collections series
    'In Persuasion, Jane Austen is beginning to discover that the world is larger, more mysterious, and more romantic than she had supposed' Virginia WoolfJane Austen's moving late novel of missed opportunities and second chances centres on Anne Elliot, no longer young and with few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she was persuaded by others to break off her engagement to poor, handsome naval ... En savoir plus

    $5.99 CAD

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  • Alice in Space

    The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll

    par Gillian Beer ...
    Collections series Carpenter Lectures
    The award-winning literary critic takes readers down the rabbit hole of Victorian cultural and intellectual influences on Lewis Carroll's Alice books.In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll created fantastic worlds that continue to live in the minds of readers today. Carroll conceived his Alice books during the 1860s, a time of intense intellectual upheaval ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • On the Origin of Species

    par Charles Darwin ...
    Collections series Oxford World's Classics
    'can we doubt ... that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind?' In the Origin of Species (1859) Darwin challenged many of the most deeply held beliefs of the Western world. His insistence on the immense length of the past and on the abundance of life-forms, present and extinct, dislodged man from his ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • Darwin's Plots

    Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction

    par Gillian Beer ...
    Gillian Beer's classic Darwin's Plots, one of the most influential works of literary criticism and cultural history of the last quarter century, is here reissued in an updated edition to coincide with the anniversary of Darwin's birth and of the publication of The Origin of Species. Its focus on how writers, including George Eliot, Charles Kingsley and Thomas Hardy, responded to Darwin's ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD

  • Between the Acts

    par Virginia Woolf, Gillian Beer ...
    Collections series Penguin Modern Classics
    'One of the great writers of the twentieth century' GuardianIt is June in 1939, and the inhabitants of a country house prepare to host the annual village pageant in its grounds. It will tell the stories of English history, as it does every year. Yet the coming of war broods over the whole community, changing the meaning of past and present, and heralding a new act. Through her characters' ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • The 'Wolfman' and Other Cases

    par Sigmund Freud ...
    Collections series Penguin Modern Classics
    The new Penguin Freud, under Adam Phillips' general editorship, offers a fantastic opportunity to see Freud in a fresh light.This endlessly beguiling, suggestive, thought-provoking writer can be appreciated nowhere more vividly than in The Case Histories: 'Little Hans', 'The Rat Man', 'The Wolf Man' and 'Some Character Types Met within Psychoanalytic Work.' ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • Open Fields

    Science in Cultural Encounter

    par Gillian Beer ...
    Science always raises more questions than it can contain. These challenging essays explore how ideas are transformed as they come under the stress of unforeseen readers. Using a wealth of material from diverse nineteenth- and twentieth- century writing Gillian Beer tracks encounters between science, literature, and other forms of emotional experience. Her analysis discloses issues of chance, ... En savoir plus

    $76.99 CAD

  • On the Origin of Species

    par Charles Darwin ...
    Collections series Oxford World's Classics
    'can we doubt ... that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind?' In the Origin of Species (1859) Darwin challenged many of the most deeply held beliefs of the Western world. His insistence on the immense length of the past and on the abundance of life-forms, present and extinct, dislodged man from his ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • In(ter)discipline

    New Languages for Criticism

    par Gillian Beer ...
    "'Interdisciplinarity' has dynamised the Modern Humanities like no other recent academic trend. Yet, this presents serious challenges involving both translation and affect: how can we transmit facts and interpretations, sense and sensations between disciplines, between different artistic media, between cultures, between the private and the public sphere? What are the advantages, the difficulties, ... En savoir plus

    $89.31 CAD

  • Routledge Revivals: Arguing With The Past (1989)

    Essays in Narrative from Woolf to Sidney

    par Gillian Beer ...
    Collections series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1989, this book analyses fiction and long narrative, drawing on a broad range of writing from earlier periods and on recent narrative theory. Gillian Beer looks at the work of writers as diverse as Thomas Carlyle and Philip Sydney, Samuel Richardson, and George Eliot. Three chapters on Virginia Woolf demonstrate how Woolf’s reading of past literature, philosophy, and science ... En savoir plus

    $71.44 CAD

  • Love and Mr Lewisham

    par H. G. Wells ...
    Young, impoverished and ambitious, science student Mr Lewisham is locked in a struggle to further himself through academic achievement. But when his former sweetheart, Ethel Henderson, re-enters his life his strictly regimented existence is thrown into chaos by the resurgence of old passion. Driven by overwhelming desire, he pursues Ethel passionately, only to find that while she returns his love ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Romance

    par Gillian Beer ...
    Collections series The Critical Idiom Reissued
    First published in 1970, this work provides an overview of the Romance from the medieval period to the 20th century and tracks how the genre has changed with time, including its interaction with other forms of literature such as gothic novels, realism and science fiction. It explores a myriad of writers including Chaucer, Sidney, Tennyson, Shelley, Meredith and Keats and analyses key texts such as ... En savoir plus

    $71.44 CAD