Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

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Creatures of Attention: Aesthetics and the Subject before Kant

Creatures of Attention: Aesthetics and the Subject before...

Author: Johannes Wankhammer
ISBN: 9781501775802
Format: Paperback
$86.99

"""The book examines the discourse on attention emerging in the European Enlightenment (1650-1780) with a focus...  Read More >>

Making Modern Spain: Religion, Secularization, and Cultural Production

Making Modern Spain: Religion, Secularization, and Cultural...

Author: Azariah Alfante
ISBN: 9781684484959
Format: Paperback
$82.99

In this elegantly-written study, Alfante explores the work of select nineteenth-century writers, intellectuals,...  Read More >>

Myth and (Mis)Information: Constructing the Medical Professions in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century English Literature and Culture

Myth and (Mis)Information: Constructing the Medical...

Author: Allan Ingram ,  Helen Williams
ISBN: 9781526166821
Format: Hardback
$194.99

This book discusses the various cultural forms and literary works by which information, myth and misinformation...  Read More >>

Creatures of Attention: Aesthetics and the Subject before Kant

Creatures of Attention: Aesthetics and the Subject before...

Author: Johannes Wankhammer
ISBN: 9781501775796
Format: Hardback
$343.20

"""The book examines the discourse on attention emerging in the European Enlightenment (1650-1780) with a focus...  Read More >>

Making Modern Spain: Religion, Secularization, and Cultural Production

Making Modern Spain: Religion, Secularization, and Cultural...

Author: Azariah Alfante
ISBN: 9781684484966
Format: Hardback
$266.99

In this elegantly-written study, Alfante explores the work of select nineteenth-century writers, intellectuals,...  Read More >>

Jane Austen's Men

Jane Austen's Men

Author: Helen Amy
ISBN: 9781398110434
Format: Hardback
$59.49

The lives of the men in Austen’s life, her relationships, how typical they were of men of their time and their impact...  Read More >>

Haunting Ecologies: Victorian Conceptions of Water

Haunting Ecologies: Victorian Conceptions of Water

Author: Ursula Kluwick
ISBN: 9780813950983
Format: Paperback
$92.40

In the nineteenth century, water left its traces on politics, urban reform, societal divisions, and conceptualizations...  Read More >>

Haunting Ecologies: Victorian Conceptions of Water

Haunting Ecologies: Victorian Conceptions of Water

Author: Ursula Kluwick
ISBN: 9780813950976
Format: Hardback
$303.60

Drawing on material ecocriticism, this book argues that Victorian Britons were keenly aware of aquatic agency, recognizing...  Read More >>

Persuasion after Rhetoric in the Eighteenth Century and Romanticism

Persuasion after Rhetoric in the Eighteenth Century...

Author: Yasmin Solomonescu (Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Notre Dame) ,  Stefan H. Uhlig (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California, Davis)
ISBN: 9780192863737
Format: Hardback
$170.95

This edited volume studies how in European literary culture the codified verbal system of rhetoric shifted towards...  Read More >>

Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1830s

Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1830s...

Author: John Gardner (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge) ,  David Stewart (Northumbria University, Newcastle)
ISBN: 9781009268516
Format: Hardback
$232.88

A detailed and engaging exploration of a crucial transitional period between the Romantic and Victorian ages, this...  Read More >>

Overwhelmed: Literature, Aesthetics, and the Nineteenth-Century Information Revolution

Overwhelmed: Literature, Aesthetics, and the Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Professor Maurice S. Lee
ISBN: 9780691259246
Format: Paperback
$49.99

As Lee shows in Overwhelmed, the rapid expansion of print created new relationships between literature and information....  Read More >>

American Literary Misfits: The Alternative Democracies of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Print Cultures

American Literary Misfits: The Alternative Democracies...

Author: D. Berton Emerson
ISBN: 9781469678405
Format: Paperback
$68.20

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The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Politics

The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American...

Author: John D. Kerkering (Loyola University, Chicago)
ISBN: 9781108815260
Format: Paperback
$59.49

This volume addresses the political contexts in which nineteenth-century American literature was conceived, consumed,...  Read More >>

James Fenimore Cooper: A Companion

James Fenimore Cooper: A Companion

Author: Signe O. Wegener
ISBN: 9781476682570
Format: Paperback
$84.70

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Retelling Jane Austen: Essays on Recent Adaptations and Derivative Works

Retelling Jane Austen: Essays on Recent Adaptations...

Author: Tammy Powley ,  April Van Camp
ISBN: 9781476691930
Format: Paperback
$84.70

Fills the gap in Austen scholarship from 2000 to today, demonstrating Austen’s enduring talent and relevancy. The...  Read More >>

Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness

Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness

Author: Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
ISBN: 9781421448206
Format: Hardback
$60.99

"""This work explores how, through shifts in narrative tone and pacing at the conclusions of her novels, Jane Austen...  Read More >>

American Literary Misfits: The Alternative Democracies of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Print Cultures

American Literary Misfits: The Alternative Democracies...

Author: D. Berton Emerson
ISBN: 9781469678399
Format: Hardback
$168.30

Examines an eclectic group of literary texts that have rarely, if ever, been considered representative of ‘the nation’...  Read More >>

Modernism and Finance Capital: British Literature, 1870–1940

Modernism and Finance Capital: British Literature, 1870–1940...

Author: Regina Martin (Denison University, Ohio)
ISBN: 9781009474368
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Interpreting modernism as a historical moment of financial crisis, this book expands the definition of finance capital...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Politics

The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American...

Author: John D. Kerkering (Loyola University, Chicago)
ISBN: 9781108841894
Format: Hardback
$194.06

This volume addresses the political contexts in which nineteenth-century American literature was conceived, consumed,...  Read More >>

Fashion Nation: Picturing the United States in the Long Nineteenth Century

Fashion Nation: Picturing the United States in the Long...

Author: Sandra Tomc
ISBN: 9780472074891
Format: Hardback
$211.20

In the late nineteenth century, the United States was known internationally as a place full of gaudiness and glitter....  Read More >>

Literature and Philosophy in Nineteenth-Century British Culture: Volume II: The Mid-Nineteenth Century

Literature and Philosophy in Nineteenth-Century British...

Author: Peter Garratt ,  Giles Whiteley
ISBN: 9781032548678
Format: Hardback
$294.00

This is the second volume in a three-volume collection of primary sources which examines philosophy and literature...  Read More >>

Literature and Philosophy in Nineteenth-Century British Culture: Volume I: Literature and Philosophy of the Romantic Period

Literature and Philosophy in Nineteenth-Century British...

Author: Monika Class ,  Cian Duffy
ISBN: 9781032548661
Format: Hardback
$294.00

This is the first volume in a three-volume collection of primary sources which examines philosophy and literature...  Read More >>

Literature and Philosophy in Nineteenth-Century British Culture: Volume III: Literature and Philosophy in the ‘Long-Late-Victorian’ Period

Literature and Philosophy in Nineteenth-Century British...

Author: Andrea Selleri
ISBN: 9781032548685
Format: Hardback
$294.00

This is the third in a three-volume collection of primary sources which examines philosophy and literature in nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

Risk in Children’s Adventure Literature

Risk in Children’s Adventure Literature

Author: Elly McCausland
ISBN: 9780367623234
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Risk in Children’s Adventure Literature examines the way in which adults discuss the reading and entertainment habits...  Read More >>

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