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G. Elsie Harrison
The Clue to the Brontës

Originally published in 1948, The Clue to the Brontës was written in part as response to a previous biography of Charlotte Brontë by Mrs Gaskell. The author argues that Gaskell's biography gets it all wro…

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Keith Hanley,
Wordsworth and English Literary Pilgrimage in the Nineteenth Century

Using Wordsworth as a focal point, this book describes how, in the period of Romanticism and beyond, the historical practice of pilgrimage became internalised figuratively and psychologically so as to rep…

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Harriet Fletcher
Gothic Celebrity

Covering literature, visual media and popular culture, this book explores how the Gothic is consistently used to disrupt the narrative of immortality that modern celebrity culture has created and how toge…

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Ada Harrison, Derek Stanford
Anne Brontë

Although the Brontë story had been told many times, originally published in 1959, Ada Harrison and Derek Stanford wrote the first book to be devoted entirely to the life and work of Anne. The youngest of …

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Chris Jordan-Clark
Jane Austen's English Verdure

Why does the landscape matter in Jane Austen's novels? Horticulturist and literary scholar Chris Jordan-Clark offers a much needed and hitherto neglected context for the landscapes in Austen's fiction.Jor…

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Anne-Julia Zwierlein
Lecturing Women in British Fiction, Periodicals and Public Orality, 1870-1910

This book examines the emergence of women as audiences and speakers on the British metropolitan lecture circuit and in mass print representations from 1870 to 1910. Bringing together research on Victorian…

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Alberto Castelli
Beauty in the Western Canon

Dadaist works, such as Duchamp's ready-mades, famously challenge the connection between art and the aesthetic by presenting objects of little or no aesthetic interest, such as urinals, snow shovels, and b…

lieferbar ab 26.8.2026.

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Michael Dirda
The Great Age of Storytelling

With infectious enthusiasm, "the best read person in America"---as Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Dirda has been called---aims to rekindle our passion for classic works of adventure, mystery, fan…

lieferbar ab 14.1.2027.

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Natalie Roxburgh
The Politics of Disinterestedness in Nineteenth-Century Literature

The Politics of Disinterestedness in Nineteenth-Century Literature historicizes the concept of disinterestedness by examining discourses on political economy during and before the 19th century. It argues …

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Lesa Scholl
Medicine, Theology and Wellness in Britain from the Enlightenment to Modernity

Focusing questions of the soul and its relationship to the body in the context of Britain from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, this book exploresthe ways in which medicine and theology…

lieferbar ab 27.5.2027.

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Harriet Fletcher
Gothic Celebrity

**Exploring the provocative intersection of celebrity and the Gothic, this book examines representations of decaying, dead and undead celebrities in literary texts, visual media and popular culture.**As f…

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Stephen Knight
The Chartist Fiction of Ernest Jones

In this comprehensive study, Stephen Knight documents the writing career of Ernest Jones, one of the primary figures within the Chartist movement. While much has been said about Ernest Jones as a politica…

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Jesse Cordes Selbin
Critical Masses

How close reading developed as an essential tool of critical thinking and democratic citizenshipFor the past century, close reading has been seen as a specialized academic enterprise: the invention of pro…

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Peter Conrad
Dickens the Enchanter

'Dickensian is a language, not an adjective. Conrad speaks it fluently.' -- Spectator World'Marvellous... the best book on Dickens since G.K. Chesterton's. -- A. N. Wilson, The OldieA kaleidoscopic invest…

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Victorian Gaslighting

Reads gaslighting as a term, concept, and form of abuse fundamentally tied to the literature and culture of the Victorian British Empire.Victorian Gaslighting is the first literary-cultural history of gas…

lieferbar ab 2.9.2026.

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Chris Jordan-Clark
Jane Austen's English Verdure

Why does the landscape matter in Jane Austen's novels? Horticulturist and literary scholar Chris Jordan-Clark offers a much needed and hitherto neglected context for the landscapes in Austen's fiction.Jor…

lieferbar ab 4.2.2027.

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Piya Pal-Lapinski
Istanbul and the Ottoman Empire in Romantic and Victorian Culture

Piya Pal-Lapinski explores the transformation of the Ottoman empire (and its Byzantine ghosts) during the period 1800-1876 in terms of its crucial impact on British and European transnational identities. …

lieferbar ab 21.1.2027.

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