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Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Harold Bloom Seven critical essays bringing various interpretations to the novel about a monster created by a scientist. OL14942132W
Jane Austen's Anglicanism Jane Austen's Anglicanism Laura Mooneyham White In her re-examination of Jane Austen's Anglicanism, Laura Mooneyham White suggests that engaging with Austen's world in all its strangeness and remoteness reveals the novelist's intensely different p… OL15538392W
Terrorism and insurgency in Indian-English literature Terrorism and insurgency in Indian-English literature Alex Tickell "This book is an interdisciplinary study of representations of terrorism and political violence in the fiction and journalism of colonial India. Focusing on key historical episodes such as the Calcut… OL15951766W
Literary authors, parliamentary reporters Literary authors, parliamentary reporters Nikki Hessell "Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Hazlitt and Charles Dickens all worked as parliamentary reporters, but their experiences in the press gallery have not received much scrutiny. Nikki … OL16014490W
Novel histories Novel histories Lisa Kasmer Novel Histories: British Women Writing History, 1760–1830 argues that British women’s history and historical fiction in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries changed not only the shape b… OL16298907W
Thinking about other people in nineteenth-century British writing Thinking about other people in nineteenth-century British writing Adela Pinch "Nineteenth-century life and literature are full of strange accounts that describe the act of one person thinking about another as an ethically problematic, sometimes even a dangerously powerful thin… OL16964803W
Virginia Woolf, modernity and history Virginia Woolf, modernity and history Angeliki Spiropoulou "This new study analyses the representation of the past and the practice of historiography in the fiction and critical writings of Virginia Woolf, and draws parallels between Woolf's historiographica… OL16984013W
The child writer from Austen to Woolf The child writer from Austen to Woolf Christine Alexander,Juliet McMaster xv, 312 pages : 24 cm OL18316716W
The fountain light The fountain light J. Robert Barth "These original essays, written in honor of distinguished scholar John L. Mahoney, explore the intersection of Romanticism and religion. They range from broad considerations of this relationship in s… OL19163232W
Romantic natural histories Romantic natural histories William Wordsworth,Charles Darwin,Ashton Nichols Includes texts from 1750 to 1859 by Gilbert White, John Aikin, Anna (Aikin) Barbauld, Joseph Priestley, Oliver Goldsmith, Erasmus Darwin, Thomas Bewick, William Blake, William Wordsworth, William Bar… OL19428080W
Victorian pain Victorian pain Rachel Ablow "The nineteenth century introduced developments in science and medicine that made the eradication of pain conceivable for the first time. This new understanding of pain brought with it a complex set … OL19746857W
Ireland and romanticism Ireland and romanticism Jim Kelly "This collection by leading scholars in the field provides a fascinating and ground-breaking introduction to current research in Irish Romantic studies. It proves the international scope and aestheti… OL19859531W
Men in wonderland Men in wonderland Catherine Robson "Fascination with little girls pervaded Victorian culture. For many, girls represented the true essence of childhood or bygone times of innocence; but for middle-class men, especially writers, the in… OL221910W
British women writers and the reception of ancient Egypt, 1840-1910 British women writers and the reception of ancient Egypt, 1840-1910 Molly Youngkin "Focusing on British women writers' knowledge of ancient Egypt, Molly Youngkin shows how British women writers' encounters with textual and visual representations of ancient Egyptian women such as Ha… OL22318244W
A brief guide to Agatha Christie A brief guide to Agatha Christie Nigel Cawthorne Agatha Christie's 80 novels and short-story collections have sold over 2 billion copies in more than 45 languages, more than any other author. When Christie finally killed off her Belgian detective, … OL24422488W
Another Kind of Love Another Kind of Love Christopher Craft In a study that will be of interest to all those concerned with the politics of gender, the history of sexuality, and the erotics of reading, Christopher Craft investigates questions fundamental to a… OL3933812W
British Romanticism and the science of the mind British Romanticism and the science of the mind Richardson, Alan In this provocative and original study, Alan Richardson examines an entire range of intellectual, cultural, and ideological points of contact between British Romantic literary writing and the pioneer… OL3961290W
The madwoman in the attic The madwoman in the attic Sandra M. Gilbert Discusses the works of Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Emily Dickinson. OL545633W
The rescue of Romanticism The rescue of Romanticism Kenneth Daley "Valuable and timely in its long historical and critical perspective on the legacy of romanticism to Victorian art and thought, The Rescue of Romanticism is the first book-length study of the close i… OL6209472W
Literature, technology, and magical thinking, 1880-1920 Literature, technology, and magical thinking, 1880-1920 Pamela Thurschwell "In this book Pamela Thurschwell examines the intersection of literary culture, the occult and new technology at the fin-de-siecle. Thurschwell argues that technologies such as the telegraph and the … OL7798553W
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