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By: Walter Benjamin
ISBN: 9781847923868
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2015
UK Publication Date: 5th November 2015
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Features 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', 'The Task of the Translator' and 'Theses on the Philosophy of History', as well as essays on Kafka, storytelling, Baudelaire, Brecht's epic theatre, and Proust.
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By: James McFarlane
ISBN: 9780140138320
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1991
UK Publication Date: 30th May 1991
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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An exploration of the ideas, groupings and the social tensions that shaped the transformation of life caused by the changes of modernity in art, science, politics and philosophy
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By: John Ruskin
ISBN: 9781857152791
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2005
Publisher: Everyman
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Ruskin was not merely the most important anglophone art critic and social commentator of the late nineteenth century: for his admirers - who included Proust - he was a Tolstoyan figure with the magic of an artist and the moral authority of a sage.
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By: Jeffrey S. Cramer
ISBN: 9781640093836
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2020
UK Publication Date: 7th July 2020
Publisher: Counterpoint
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By: Dr Madeleine Pelling
ISBN: 9781350528871
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An exploration of contemporary re-imaginings of 18th-century narratives, culture, ideas and values across film, television, historical fiction and gaming, this book uncovers and challenges the period's cultural legacies today.
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By: Hollis Robbins
ISBN: 9780143105992
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2017
UK Publication Date: 7th September 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Isaiah Berlin
ISBN: 9780712665445
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2000
UK Publication Date: 7th September 2000
Publisher: Vintage
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This work makes available in printed form Isaiah Berlin's most famous lecture series, the Mellon Lectures, delivered in Washington in 1965, recorded by the BBC and broadcast several times.
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By: Jeremy Dauber
ISBN: 9780805242782
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2013
Publisher: Schocken Books
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By: Meredith Farmer
ISBN: 9781517907556
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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By: Meredith Farmer
ISBN: 9781517907549
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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By: Professor David Carter
ISBN: 9781743325797
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2018
Publisher: Sydney University Press
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Combining literary criticism with book history, Carter and Osborne explore how Australian authors and their books fared in the US market from the 1840s through to the 1940s, most notably in the 1880s and 1890s and then between the two World Wars.
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By: Garnet Rees
ISBN: 9780708306017
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 1976
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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By: Linda Peterson
ISBN: 9780691140179
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2009
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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During the nineteenth century, women authors for the first time achieved professional status, secure income, and public fame. This book examines the various ways women writers negotiated the market realities of authorship, and looks at the myths and models women writers constructed to elevate their place in the profession.
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By: Ioan M. Williams
ISBN: 9780708310410
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 1989
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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By: Antoine Traisnel
ISBN: 9781517909642
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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Antoine Traisnel reveals how the drive to contain and record disappearing animals was a central feature and organizing pursuit of the nineteenth-century U.S. cultural canon. Capture offers a critical genealogy of the dominant representation of animals as elusive, precarious, and endangered that came to circulate widely in the nineteenth century.
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By: Antoine Traisnel
ISBN: 9781517909635
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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Antoine Traisnel reveals how the drive to contain and record disappearing animals was a central feature and organizing pursuit of the nineteenth-century U.S. cultural canon. Capture offers a critical genealogy of the dominant representation of animals as elusive, precarious, and endangered that came to circulate widely in the nineteenth century.
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By: Maria Edgeworth
ISBN: 9780872208773
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2007
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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Tells the story of three generations of the Rackrent family from the perspective of their servant, Thady Quirk, during the middle of the eighteenth century in Ireland. This book contains annotations, an introduction and a bibliography.
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By: Maria Edgeworth
ISBN: 9780872208780
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2007
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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Tells the story of three generations of the Rackrent family from the perspective of their servant, Thady Quirk, during the middle of the eighteenth century in Ireland.
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By: Joan Passey
ISBN: 9781786839916
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2023
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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In the nineteenth century, Cornwall was seen as a foreign nation on Englands doorstep and imagined as a haunted place, full of ghosts, ghouls, monsters, and legends. This book explores how Gothic authors drew on this to create a Cornish Gothic tradition.
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By: Vybarr Cregan-Reid
ISBN: 9780719090516
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2013
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Details the discovery of The epic of Gilgamesh, and explores the broader tensions concerning history and time that it highlighted in Victorian culture -- .
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By: William A. Cohen
ISBN: 9780816650132
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2009
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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By: Philip S. Foner
ISBN: 9781556523526
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2000
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
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By: Teresa Fuentes Peris
ISBN: 9780708320594
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2008
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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Analyses the 'waste versus profit' concept (as propounded by the British author Samuel Smiles and which found many supporters in mid-nineteenth century Spain) in the four novels of the "Torquemada" series, by Benito Perez Galdos.
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By: Jesse Rosenthal
ISBN: 9780691171708
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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