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  • British Literature and Technology, 1600-1830

    par Kristin M. Girten, Aaron R. Hanlon, Laura Francis, Erik L. Johnson, Thomas A. Oldham, Zachary M. Mann, Kevin MacDonnell, Emily M. West, Deven M. Parker0, Jamison Kantor1, Joseph Drury2 ...
    Collections series Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures
    Enlightenment-era writers had not yet come to take technology for granted, but nonetheless were—as we are today—both attracted to and repelled by its potential. This volume registers the deep history of such ambivalence, examining technology’s influence on Enlightenment British literature, as well as the impact of literature on conceptions of, attitudes toward, and implementations of technology. ... En savoir plus

    $42.99 CAD

  • Honor, Romanticism, and the Hidden Value of Modernity

    par Jamison Kantor ...
    Collections series Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
    Despite our preconceptions, Romantic writers, artists, and philosophers did not think of honor as an archaic or regressive concept, but as a contemporary, even progressive value that operated as a counterpoint to freedom, a well-known preoccupation of the period's literature. Focusing on texts by William Godwin, William Wordsworth, Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Mary Prince, and Mary Seacole, this ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Fiction in the Romantic Period

    Modifié par Richard Maxwell, Katie Trumpener ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    While poetry has been the genre most closely associated with the Romantic period, the novel of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries has attracted many more readers and students in recent years. Its canon has been widened to include less well known authors alongside Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Maria Edgeworth and Thomas Love Peacock. Over the last generation, especially, a remarkable ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $37.99 CAD Maintenant $31.99 CAD

  • Romanticism, History, Historicism

    Essays on an Orthodoxy

    par Damian Walford Davies ...
    Collections series Routledge Studies in Romanticism
    The "(re)turn to history" in Romantic Studies in the 1980s marked the beginning of a critical orthodoxy that continues to condition, if not define, our sense of the Romantic period twenty-five years on. Romantic New Historicism’s revisionary engagements have played a central role in the realignment of the field and in the expansion of the Romantic canon. In this major new collection of eleven ... En savoir plus

    $114.04 CAD

  • The Fate of Progress in British Romanticism

    par Mark Canuel ...
    What did Romantic writers mean when they wrote about "progress" and "perfection"? This book shows how Romantic writers inventively responded to familiar ideas about political progress which they inherited from the eighteenth century. Whereas earlier writers such as Voltaire and John Millar likened improvements in political institutions to the progress of the sciences or refinement of manners, the ... En savoir plus

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  • The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism

    Modifié par Stuart Curran ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This new edition of The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism has been fully revised and updated and includes two wholly new essays, one on recent developments in the field, and one on the rapidly expanding publishing industry of this period. It also features a comprehensive chronology and a fully up-to-date guide to further reading. For the past decade and more the Companion has been a much ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $36.99 CAD Maintenant $31.99 CAD

  • Gender and Space in British Literature, 1660-1820

    par Mona Narain, Karen Gevirtz ...
    Collections series British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century
    Between 1660 and 1820, Great Britain experienced significant structural transformations in class, politics, economy, print, and writing that produced new and varied spaces and with them, new and reconfigured concepts of gender. In mapping the relationship between gender and space in British literature of the period, this collection defines, charts, and explores new cartographies, both geographic ... En savoir plus

    $116.79 CAD

  • Culture and Society

    Coleridge to Orwell

    par Raymond Williams ...
    Acknowledged as a masterpiece of materialist criticism, this book delves into the complex ways economic reality shapes the imagination. Surveying two hundred years of history and English literature – from George Eliot to George Orwell – Williams provides insights into the social and economic forces that have shaped British culture and society. Provocative and revolutionary in its day, this work ... En savoir plus

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  • What's Wrong with Benevolence

    Happiness, Private Property, and the Limits of Enlightenment

    par David Stove ...
    Is benevolence a virtue? In many cases it appears to be so. But when it comes to the enlarged benevolence” of the Enlightenment, David Stove argues that the answer is clearly no. In this insightful, provocative essay, Stove builds a case for the claim that when benevolence is universal, disinterested and external, it regularly leads to the forced redistribution of wealth, which in turn leads to ... En savoir plus

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  • The Historical Novel

    par Jerome de Groot ...
    Collections series The New Critical Idiom
    The historical novel is an enduringly popular genre that raises crucial questions about key literary concepts, fact and fiction, identity, history, reading, and writing. In this comprehensive, focused guide, Jerome de Groot offers an accessible introduction to the genre and critical debates that surround it, including:the development of the historical novel from early eighteenth-century works ... En savoir plus

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel

    Modifié par Deirdre David ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • Forgetfulness

    Making the Modern Culture of Amnesia

    par Professor Francis O'Gorman ...
    Forgetfulness is a book about modern culture and its profound rejection of the past. It traces the emergence in recent history of the idea that what is important in human life and work is what will happen in the future.Francis O'Gorman shows how forgetting has been embraced as a requirement for modern existence and how our education, as well as life with fast-moving technology, further disconnects ... En savoir plus

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