This volume examines women’s prophetic writing as the literary and historical outcome of a discourse of social transformation that conflates religious consciousness, political democratization, and gender identity. Drawing on a substantial corpus that integrates insightful readings of both household…
Hardback – 2016-07-25
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Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
First published in 1979, this book looks at every aspect of the life and work of Elizabeth Gaskell, including her lesser known novels and writings — especially those concerning life in the industrial north of Victorian England. It shows how her work springs from a culture and society which pervades…
Hardback – 2016-07-20
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Routledge Library Editions: The Nineteenth-Century Novel
First published in 1991, this book radically challenged the view of Nana as the story of an old fashioned femme fatale and reinterprets her as a feminist heroine who manages to overturn patriarchy. The author shows how Nana confronts the traditional social order and offers an alternative version.…
Hardback – 2016-07-20
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Routledge Library Editions: The Nineteenth-Century Novel
First published in 1985, this book looks at the ways in which the spate of terrorist activity in the 1880s was reflected in the novels of the time. Oscar Wilde, George Gissing, Henry James and George Bernard Shaw among others gave the terrorist venture a position in one or more of their novels.…
Hardback – 2016-07-20
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Routledge Library Editions: The Nineteenth-Century Novel
First published in 1970, this study demonstrates both the range and essential unity of the works of Mrs. Gaskell. The author analyses the novels of social criticism, the biography of Charlotte Brontë and the novels of country life as distinct expressions of her genius, commenting on recurrent…
Hardback – 2016-07-20
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Routledge Library Editions: The Nineteenth-Century Novel
First published in 2009, this book investigates the cultural significance of nineteenth-century women’s writing and reading practices. Beginning with an examination of non-fictional diaries and the practice of diary writing, it assesses the interaction between the fictional diary and other forms of…
Hardback – 2016-07-20
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Routledge Library Editions: The Nineteenth-Century Novel
Over the first half of the nineteenth century, writers like Austen and Brontë confined their critiques to satirical portrayals of women musicians. Later, however, a marked shift occurred with the introduction of musical female characters where were positively to be feared. First published in 2000,…
Hardback – 2016-07-20
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Routledge Library Editions: The Nineteenth-Century Novel
First published in 1992, this volume of essays celebrates the revival of Edith Wharton’s critical reputation. It offers a variety of approaches to the work of Wharton and examines largely neglected texts. It differs from many other collections of Wharton criticism in its insistence that the entire…
Hardback – 2016-07-20
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Routledge Library Editions: The Nineteenth-Century Novel
This set of 42 volumes, originally published between 1965 and 2009, are authored by renowned international scholars in the field of nineteenth century literature. They explore a variety of authors such as Dickens, Hardy, Brontë, Austen, Gaskell, Zola, Meredith, Eliot, Gissing, Hawthorne, James and…
Hardback – 2016-07-20
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Routledge Library Editions: The Nineteenth-Century Novel
This first critical collection on Delarivier Manley revisits the most heated discussions, adds new perspectives in light of growing awareness of Manley’s multifaceted contributions to eighteenth-century literature, and demonstrates the wide range of thinking about her literary production and…
Hardback – 2016-07-18
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Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature
This book analyzes why the most influential novelists of the long eighteenth century centered their narratives on the theory and practice of gift exchange. Throughout this period, fundamental shifts in economic theories regarding the sources of individual and national wealth along with…
Hardback – 2016-06-27
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Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.…
Paperback – 2016-06-01
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Gender and Genre in Literature