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ean: 9780230545120, isbn: 0230545122,

Family Authorship and Romantic Print Culture explores the conjunction of authorship and family life as a distinctive cultural formation of Romantic-era Britain. Through examination of the practices and texts of literary families, the book traces an a...

ean: 9780312161743, isbn: 0312161743,

The High Road situates romantic tourism in Scotland by studying texts that richly demonstrate relevant cultural developments and stand out as compelling intersections of history and personality. Six accounts distinguish a span of 100 years during whi...

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ean: 9780404635497, isbn: 0404635490,

A pioneering assessment of the history of the English novel, Stephen Ahern's new study "Affected Sensibilities" reconsiders the role played by the early British novel in the shift from a culture of libertinism during the Restoration and its aftermath...

ean: 9780714618715, isbn: 0714618713,

This is an account of a journey across the continent from Beguella on the West through Bihe, Ganguella on the West Barotze, the Kalahari Desert, Mashonaland, Manica, Garongoza, Nyasa, the Shire Highlands, to the Mouth of the Zambesi on the East Coast...

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Daniel Chamberlain examines the nature of narrative perspective in a manner that does not presuppose a passive definition of perception. Rather, he considers perspective as a medium through which the potential meanings of texts are disclosed and thro...

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An anthology of 19th- and early 20th-century prose extracts, poems, paintings and early photographs which celebrates the pleasures of romantic travel. Other titles in the series include "The Pleasures of Country Sports", "Safari Adventure" and "Dinin...

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ean: 9783639095081, isbn: 3639095081,

Poetry always remains the heart of literature, a way to express the ideas, the feelings of an age, of a person. This book provides a look over the ideas, and feelings of two enigmatic figures of American literature, of Walt Whitman, and of Allen Gins...

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Conceding that the latter half of the 18th century holds little of true literary value besides the works of Fanny Burney, Ernest Baker nevertheless finds that the period "teems with interest": the public's demand for fiction and the rapidly increasin...

From Book 1: “Hal Elrod is a genius and his book The Miracle Morning has been magical in my life. What Hal has done is taken the best practices, developed over centuries of human consciousness development, and condensed the 'best of the best' into ...

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ean: 9780230200517, isbn: 0230200516,

This book argues that Romantic-era writers used the figure of the minstrel to imagine authorship as a social, responsive enterprise unlike the solitary process portrayed by Romantic myths of the lone genius. Simpson highlights the centrality of the m...

ean: 9781414242347, isbn: 1414242344,

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo...

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ean: 9780859913850, isbn: 0859913856,

`A tour de force of historical scholarship and detective work... so good it sets the mind racing.' LITERARY REVIEW (Frank McLynn, 08/93)Malory's stories of King Arthur and the Round Table have been widely read for centuries, but their author's own li...

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ean: 9781409435761, isbn: 1409435768,

In her examination of neglected diaristic texts, Anne-Marie Millim expands the field of Victorian diary criticism by complicating the conventional notion of diaries as mainly private sources of biographical information. She argues that for Elizabeth ...

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ean: 9781934536452, isbn: 1934536458,

Persian has been a written language since the sixth century B.C. Only Chinese, Greek, and Latin have comparable histories of literacy. Although Persian script changed—first from cuneiform to a modified Aramaic, then to Arabic—from the ninth to th...

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ean: 9781472450630, isbn: 1472450639,

Exploring how Margaret Atwood’s fiction reimagines the figure of the detective and the nature of crime, Jackie Shead shows how the author radically reworks the crime fiction genre. Shead focuses on Surfacing, Bodily Harm, Alias Grace, The Blind Ass...

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ean: 9781588141590, isbn: 1588141594,

Systematic Guide to Reading and Writing Persian Language is a comprehensive guide to reading and writing the script of contemporary Persian. Drawing on years of classroom experience, Mitra Ara introduces and gives detailed instructions to reading, wr...

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A woman is writing a novel. She is the Writer. Each evening, her partner comes home and they talk about her work that day. He is the Reader. Her novel describes a married couple and their attempts to cope with the revelation that the husband has been...

ean: 9780701178857, isbn: 070117885X,

The Orientalist is the extraordinary story of a Jewish man's passion for the Arab world as political extremism swept Europe. Part Quest for Corvo, part Seven Pillars of Wisdom, it unravels the mysterious life of Lev Nussimbaum, a man born on the bord...

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ean: 9780521604284, isbn: 0521604281,

The literary importance of letters did not end with the demise of the eighteenth-century epistolary novel. In the turbulent period between 1789 and 1830, the letter was used as a vehicle for political rather than sentimental expression. Against a bac...

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ean: 9780230222311, isbn: 0230222315,

This ground-breaking collection of essays presents a new 'bookish' literary history, which situates questions about books at the intersection of a range of debates about the role of authors and readers, the organization of knowledge, the vogue for co...