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Knowing books: the consciousness of mediation in eighteenth-century Britain
Hardback. English.
Published
Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press; Oxford: Oxford Creative Marketing [distributor], 2011
Compellingly argued, original in its approach and insights, thoroughly researched, and ranging widely in the theoretical voices it invokes, this book...
Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764-1820: the import of terror
Hardback. English.
Published
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013
Shedding new light upon the genesis of the Gothic, Angela Wright examines the roles translation and military conflict played in its development in Britain...
Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Victorian gothic stage
Hardback. English.
Published
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
Bram Stoker worked in the theatre for most of his adult life, as theatre reviewer in Dublin in the 1870s and as business manager at London's Royal Lyceum...
Stuart succession literature: moments and transformations
Hardback. English.
Published
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019
This volume considers the great era of succession literature: the years of the Stuart dynasty (1603 and 1714) in which six monarchs were crowned and one...
Literature, nationalism, and memory in early modern England and Wales
Hardback. English.
Published
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004
The Tudor era has long been associated with the rise of nationalism in England, yet writing of the period often involved the denigration and denial of...
Writing China: essays on the Amherst Embassy (1816) and Sino-British cultural relations
Hardback. English.
Published
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2016
New essays on the cultural representations of the relationship between Britain and China in the nineteenth century, focusing on the Amherst diplomatic...
Metropolitan art and literature, 1810-1840: cockney adventures
Hardback. English.
Published
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012
This title expands upon existing notions of Cockneys and the 'Cockney School' in the late Romantic period by exploring some of the broader ramifications...
The late poetry of the Lake Poets: romanticism revised
Hardback. English.
Published
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013
Challenging the academically accepted view that the early poems of the Lake Poets were the most significant, Tim Fulford focuses on the importance and...
Reading for health: medical narratives and the nineteenth-century novel
Hardback. English.
Published
Athens: Ohio University Press, 2016
Erika Wright argues that the emphasis in Victorian studies on disease as the primary source of narrative conflict that must be resolved has obscured the...
True relations: reading, literature, and evidence in seventeenth-century England
Hardback. English.
Published
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013
This volume pairs a methodological inquiry with historical analysis of specific case histories connecting fact to fiction in the early modern period....
