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  • Reading Children

    Literacy, Property, and the Dilemmas of Childhood in Nineteenth-Century America

    von Patricia Crain
    Serien series Material Texts
    What does it mean for a child to be a "reader" and how did American culture come to place such a high value on this identity? Reading Children offers a history of the relationship between children and books in Anglo-American modernity, exploring long-lived but now forgotten early children's literature, discredited yet highly influential pedagogical practices, the property lessons inherent in Lesen Sie mehr

    37,65 €

  • Reading Children

    Literacy, Property, and the Dilemmas of Childhood in Nineteenth-Century America

    von Patricia Crain
    Serien series Material Texts
    What does it mean for a child to be a "reader" and how did American culture come to place such a high value on this identity? Reading Children offers a history of the relationship between children and books in Anglo-American modernity, exploring long-lived but now forgotten early children's literature, discredited yet highly influential pedagogical practices, the property lessons inherent in Lesen Sie mehr

    41,40 €

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  • How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain

    von Leah Price
    How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who Lesen Sie mehr

    38,51 €

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel

    Bearbeitet von Deirdre David
    Serien series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In the Victorian period, the British novel reached a wide readership and played a major role in the shaping of national and individual identity. As we come to understand the ways the novel contributed to public opinion on religion, gender, sexuality and race, we continue to be entertained and enlightened by the works of Dickens, George Eliot, Thackeray, Trollope and many others. This second Lesen Sie mehr

    26,63 €

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel

    Bearbeitet von John Richetti
    Serien series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In the past twenty years our understanding of the novel's emergence in eighteenth-century Britain has drastically changed. Drawing on new research in social and political history, the twelve contributors to this Companion challenge and refine the traditional view of the novel's origins and purposes. In various ways each seeks to show that the novel is not defined primarily by its realism of Lesen Sie mehr

    Zuvor 29,74 € Jetzt 26,63 €

  • The Cambridge Companion to American Poets

    Bearbeitet von Mark Richardson
    Serien series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to American Poets brings together thirty-one essays on some fifty-four American poets, spanning nearly 400 years, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance poetry. This book also examines such movements in American poetry as modernism, the Harlem (or New Negro) Renaissance, 'confessional' poetry, the Black Mountain School, the New York School, the Beats, and L=A=N=G Lesen Sie mehr

    34,02 €

  • Silences

    von Tillie Olsen
    A landmark survey of disenfranchised literary voices and the forces that seek to silence them—from the influential activist and author of Tell Me a Riddle.With this groundbreaking work, Olsen revolutionized the study of literature by shedding critical light on the writings of marginalized women and working-class people. From the excavated testimony of authors' letters and diaries, Olsen shows us Lesen Sie mehr

    13,69 €

  • A Jury Of Her Peers

    American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx

    Fascinating, incisive, intelligent and never afraid of being controversial, Elaine Showalter introduces us to more than 250 writers. Here are the famous and expected names, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Willa Cather, Dorothy Parker, Flannery O'Connor, Gwendolyn Brooks, Grace Paley, Toni Morrison, and Jodi Picoult. And also many successful and acclaimed yet little-known writers, from the early Lesen Sie mehr

    3,49 €

  • Scare Tactics

    Supernatural Fiction by American Women, With a new Preface

    Scare Tactics identifies an important but overlooked tradition of supernatural writing by American women. Jeffrey Weinstock analyzes this tradition as an essentially feminist attempt to imagine alternatives to a world of limited possibilities. In the process, he recovers the lives and works of authors who were important during their lifetimes and in the development of the American literary Lesen Sie mehr

    27,49 €

  • Lewd and Notorious

    Female Transgression in the Eighteenth Century

    Bearbeitet von Katharine Kittredge
    Accounts of women's transgressive behavior in eighteenth-century literature and social documents have much to teach us about constructions of femininity during the period often identified as having formed our society's gender norms. Lewd and Notorious explores the eighteenth century's shadows, inhabited by marginal women of many kinds and degrees of contrariness. The reader meets Laetitia Lesen Sie mehr

    25,46 €

  • Emily Dickinson in Context

    Bearbeitet von Eliza Richards
    Serien series Literature in Context
    Long untouched by contemporary events, ideas and environments, Emily Dickinson's writings have been the subject of intense historical research in recent years. This volume of thirty-three essays by leading scholars offers a comprehensive introduction to the contexts most important for the study of Dickinson's writings. While providing an overview of their topic, the essays also present Lesen Sie mehr

    111,48 €

  • Subject to Others (Routledge Revivals)

    British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery, 1670-1834

    von Moira Ferguson
    Serien series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1992, Subject to Others considers the intersection between late seventeenth- to early nineteenth-century British female writers and the colonial debate surrounding slavery and abolition. Beginning with an overview that sets the discussion in context, Moira Ferguson then chronicles writings by Anglo-Saxon women and one African-Caribbean ex-slave woman, from between 1670 and 1834, Lesen Sie mehr

    62,52 €