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  • Two Cultures?

    The Significance of C. P. Snow

    par F. R. Leavis ...
    Collections series Canto Classics
    In this first annotated edition of F. R. Leavis' famous critique of C. P. Snow's influential argument about 'the two cultures', Stefan Collini reappraises both its literary tactics and its purpose as cultural criticism. The edition will enable new generations of readers to understand what was at stake in the dispute and to appreciate the enduring relevance of Leavis's attack on the goal of ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

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  • The English Novel

    An Introduction

    par Terry Eagleton ...
    Written by one of the world’s leading literary theorists, this book provides a wide-ranging, accessible and humorous introduction to the English novel from Daniel Defoe to the present day.Covers the works of major authors, including Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, Laurence Sterne, Walter Scott, Jane Austen, the Brontës, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • Culture

    par Terry Eagleton ...
    One of our most brilliant minds offers a sweeping intellectual history that argues for the reclamation of culture’s valueCulture is a defining aspect of what it means to be human. Defining culture and pinpointing its role in our lives is not, however, so straightforward. Terry Eagleton, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics, is uniquely poised to take on the challenge. In this keenly ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • 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

    $31.99 CAD

  • To Hell With Culture

    par Herbert Read ...
    Collections series Routledge Classics
    Herbert Read was a maverick character in the cultural life of the twentieth century. A radical leader of the avant garde in the 1930s, and an anarchist revolutionary during the war years, by the time of his death in 1968 he had become a key figure at the heart of the British cultural establishment. To Hell with Culture offers readers an ideal overview of the ideas that marked out this seminal and ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD

  • Laughter and Ridicule

    Towards a Social Critique of Humour

    par Michael Billig ...
    Collections series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    `From Thomas Hobbes′ fear of the power of laughter to the compulsory, packaged "fun" of the contemporary mass media, Billig takes the reader on a stimulating tour of the strange world of humour. Both a significant work of scholarship and a novel contribution to the understanding of the humourous, this is a seriously engaging book′ - David Inglis, University of AberdeenThis delightful book tackles ... En savoir plus

    $131.19 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 Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1830–1914

    Modifié par Joanne Shattock ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The nineteenth century witnessed unprecedented expansion in the reading public and an explosive growth in the number of books and newspapers produced to meet its demands. These specially commissioned essays examine not only the full range and variety of texts that entertained and informed the Victorians, but also the boundaries of Victorian literature: the links and overlap with Romanticism in the ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $36.99 CAD Maintenant $31.99 CAD

  • The Body Economic

    Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel

    par Catherine Gallagher ...
    The Body Economic revises the intellectual history of nineteenth-century Britain by demonstrating that political economists and the writers who often presented themselves as their literary antagonists actually held most of their basic social assumptions in common. Catherine Gallagher demonstrates that political economists and their Romantic and early-Victorian critics jointly relocated the idea of ... En savoir plus

    $48.39 CAD

  • Women's Lives

    The View from the Threshold

    par Carolyn Heilbrun ...
    Collections series Alexander Lectures
    Eve has been supposed to have remarked to Adam as they left the garden, my dear, we are in a state of transition, and of course they were. It is no coincidence that Eve delivers this line. While humanity in every era and stage in history has been marked by a strong sense of itself as being in a state of transition, women have always had a particularly close relationship to changeable terrain. In ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • Rewriting the Victorians

    Theory, History, and the Politics of Gender

    Modifié par Linda M. Shires ...
    Collections series Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature
    This collection of essays, both feminist and historical, analyzes power relations between men and women in the Victorian period. This volume is the first to reshape Victorian studies from the perspective of the postmodern return to history, and is variously influenced by Marxism, sociology, anthropology, and post-structuralist theories of language and subjectivity. It analyzes the struggle for ... En savoir plus

    $94.81 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture

    Modifié par Juliet John ...
    Collections series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture is a major contribution to the dynamic field of Victorian studies. This collection of 37 original chapters by leading international Victorian scholars offers new approaches to familiar themes including science, religion, and gender, and gives space to newer and emerging topics including old age, fair play, and economics. Structured around three ... En savoir plus

    $45.59 CAD