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By: Helena Woodard

ISBN: 9780313306808
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 1999
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book examines representations of blacks in British literature to illuminate how society viewed blacks during the eighteenth century.


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By: Gavin Jones

ISBN: 9780691143316
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2010
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Argues that poverty has been denied its due as a critical and ideological framework in its own right, despite interest in representations of the lower classes and the marginalized.


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By: Edd C. Applegate

ISBN: 9780313315725
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This reference includes biographical and critical entries for more than 120 American Naturalistic and Realistic novelists.

An introductory essay discusses the history of the Realistic and Naturalistic traditions, points to the difficulty of defining them, and surveys the many authors who have been associated with the two movements.


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By: Clemens Spahr

ISBN: 9781793649546
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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American Romanticism, Education, and Social Reform argues that American Transcendentalism was an attempt to institutionalize and popularize Romantic literary practice. The Transcendentalists tried to make Romantic education the generating idea of society itself, so self-reliance needed to become a cultural practice available to everyone.


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By: William Keach

ISBN: 9780691117669
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2004
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Explores the links between the arbitrary as articulated in linguistic theories on the one hand, and in political discourse about power on the other. This book shows how Enlightenment conceptions of the arbitrary were contested and extended in British Romantic writing.


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By: William Keach

ISBN: 9780691168005
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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This book explores previously unexamined links between the arbitrary as articulated in linguistic theories on the one hand, and in political discourse about power on the other. In particular, Willam Keach shows how Enlightenment conceptions of the arbitrary were contested and extended in British Romantic writing. In doing so, he offers a new paradi


(Hardback)

By: Daniel Hempel

ISBN: 9781785271397
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: Anthem Press
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As the antipode to Europe, Australia provided a radically different and uniquely fertile ground for envisioning places, spaces and societies. 'The Antipodal Utopia' evaluates this complex intellectual history by mapping out how Western visions of Australia evolved from antiquity to the modern period.


(Hardback)

By: Stephen Railton

ISBN: 9780691631103
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Stephen Railton

ISBN: 9780691601397
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Stephen Railton's study of the American Renaissance proposes a fresh way of conceiving the writer as a performing artist and the text as an enactment of the drama of its own performance. Railton focuses on how major prose works of the period are preoccupied with their readers--how they seek to negotiate the conflicted space between the authors, who


(Hardback)

By: Dr. Marit Grtta

ISBN: 9781628924404
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Elizabeth L. Throesch

ISBN: 9781783086238
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2017
Publisher: Anthem Press
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Before Albert Einstein proposed the concept of four-dimensional spacetime, late Victorian scientists, radical philosophers and writers were discussing the possibility of a different kind of fourth dimension. Before Einstein offers the first book-length examination of the impact of pre-Relativity four-dimensional theory on literature and culture at the turn of the twentieth century.


(Paperback)

By: Elizabeth L. Throesch

ISBN: 9781785271786
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: Anthem Press
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Before Albert Einstein proposed the concept of four-dimensional spacetime, late Victorian scientists, radical philosophers and writers were discussing the possibility of a different kind of fourth dimension. Before Einstein offers the first book-length examination of the impact of pre-Relativity four-dimensional theory on literature and culture at the turn of the twentieth century.


(Hardback)

By: Paul C. Gutjahr

ISBN: 9781783085798
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2016
Publisher: Anthem Press
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Bestsellers in Nineteenth Century America seeks to produce for students novels, poems and other printed material that sold extremely well when they first appeared in the United States.


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By: Joseph Frank

ISBN: 9780691145662
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2010
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Investigating the omnipresent religious theme that runs throughout Russian culture, even in the antireligious Chekhov, the author argues that no other major European literature was as much preoccupied as the Russian with the tensions between religion and rationality. He highlights this unique quality of Russian literature and culture.


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By: Denae Dyck

ISBN: 9781350335370
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Denae Dyck

ISBN: 9781350335400
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: John Powell

ISBN: 9780313304224
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2000
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Over the past two decades, the process of cultural development and, in particular, the role of reading has been of growing interest, but recent research has been episodic and idiosyncratic.


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By: Wesley Mott

ISBN: 9780313288364
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 1996
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The middle decades of the nineteenth century, sometimes known as the American Renaissance, yielded some of the most enduring literary works and influential philosophical ideas in American history.


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By: Etta Madden

ISBN: 9780313303036
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 1998
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Examines the evolution of the reading and writing practices of the Shakers within the context of 19th century American culture.


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By: Dr Jane Suzanne Carroll

ISBN: 9781350201828
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Dr Jane Suzanne Carroll

ISBN: 9781350201781
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)

By: Dr David Deutsch

ISBN: 9781474235815
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Matthew C. Salyer

ISBN: 9781498562904
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Brokering Culture radically recontextualizes conventional views of the relationship between the British Empire and the emergence of the nineteenth-century historical novel. The author focuses on how literary translations of eighteenth-century experiences of empire established the genre as a site of critique for nationalism and historical progress.


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By: Matthew C. Salyer

ISBN: 9781498562928
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Brokering Culture radically recontextualizes conventional views of the relationship between the British Empire and the emergence of the nineteenth-century historical novel. The book focuses on how literary translations of eighteenth-century experiences of empire established the genre as a site of critique for nationalism and historical progress.

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