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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Romantic cosmopolitanism Romantic cosmopolitanism Esther Wohlgemut "Romantic Cosmopolitanism shows how cosmopolitanism in the early nineteenth century offers a non-unified formulation of the nation that stands in contrast to more unified models such as Edmund Burke'… OL15441268W
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
Romanticism Romanticism Nicholas Roe "This book is a guide of the Romantic field. It includes 46 chapters offering background and contextual information with detailed readings of Romantic texts. The volume is divided into four parts - '… OL18205573W
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
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
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
Victorian discourses on sexuality and religion Victorian discourses on sexuality and religion Maynard, John xii, 394 p. : 24 cm OL2693758W
Germaine de Staël, George Sand, and the Victorian woman artist Germaine de Staël, George Sand, and the Victorian woman artist Linda M. Lewis "By examining literary portraits of the woman as artist, Linda M. Lewis traces the matrilineal inheritance of four Victorian novelists and poets: George Eliot, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Geraldine J… OL2714538W
Paradise Lost and the Romantic Reader Paradise Lost and the Romantic Reader Lucy Newlyn Was Milton on the side of the angels or the devils? Was he republican or anti-republican, feminist or misogynist? Did he value innocence or experience? This book shows how the Romantic reader respond… OL4273099W
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 most disreputable trade The most disreputable trade Thomas Frank Bonnell "A publishing phenomenon began in Glasgow in 1765. Uniform pocket editions of the English Poets printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis formed the first link in a chain of literary products that has grow… OL5668216W
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