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  • Young Adult Gothic Fiction

    Monstrous Selves/Monstrous Others

    Edición de Michelle J. Smith, Kristine Moruzi ...
    Series series Gothic Literary Studies
    This collection is the first to focus exclusively on twenty-first-century young adult Gothic fiction. The essays demonstrate how the contemporary resurgence of the Gothic signals anxieties about (and hopes for) young people in the twenty-first century. Changing conceptions of young adults as liminal figures, operating between the modes of child and adult, can be mobilised when combined with Gothic ... Leer más

    $30.09 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Literary Cultures and Nineteenth-Century Childhoods

    Edición de Kristine Moruzi, Michelle J. Smith ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Literary Cultures and Nineteenth-Century Childhoods explores the construction of the child and the development of texts for children in the nineteenth century through the application of fresh theoretical approaches and attention to aspects of literary childhoods that have only recently begun to be illuminated. This scope enables examination of the child in canonical nineteenth-century novels by ... Leer más

    $152.09 USD

  • From Colonial to Modern

    Transnational Girlhood in Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand Literature, 1840-1940

    de Kristine Moruzi, Clare Bradford, Michelle J. Smith ...
    Through a comparison of Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand texts published between 1840 and 1940, From Colonial to Modern develops a new history of colonial girlhoods revealing how girlhood in each of these emerging nations reflects a unique political, social, and cultural context.Print culture was central to the definition, and redefinition, of colonial girlhood during this period of rapid ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Victorian Environments

    Acclimatizing to Change in British Domestic and Colonial Culture

    Edición de Grace Moore, Michelle J. Smith ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection will draw attention to new ideas in both Victorian studies and in the emerging area of literature and the environment. Adopting a broad interpretation of the term ‘environment’ the work aims to draw together new approaches to Victorian texts and cultures that conceptualise and are influenced by environments ranging from rural to urban, British to Antipodean, and from the ... Leer más

    $116.09 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Children's Literature

    Edición de M. O. Grenby, Andrea Immel ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Some of the most innovative and spell-binding literature has been written for young people, but only recently has academic study embraced its range and complexity. This Companion offers a state-of-the-subject survey of English-language children's literature from the seventeenth century to the present. With discussions ranging from eighteenth-century moral tales to modern fantasies by J. K. Rowling ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Constructing Girlhood through the Periodical Press, 1850-1915

    de Kristine Moruzi ...
    Series series Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
    Focusing on six popular British girls' periodicals, Kristine Moruzi explores the debate about the shifting nature of Victorian girlhood between 1850 and 1915. During an era of significant political, social, and economic change, girls' periodicals demonstrate the difficulties of fashioning a coherent, consistent model of girlhood. The mixed-genre format of these magazines, Moruzi suggests, allowed ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

  • Children's Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Kimberley Reynolds ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Children's literature takes many forms - works adapted for children in antiquity, picture books and pop-ups - and now includes the latest online games and eBooks. This vast and amorphous subject is both intimately related to other areas of literary and cultural investigation but also has its own set of concerns, issues and challenges. From familiar authors including Beatrix Potter and Roald Dahl, ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • What It Means to Be Human

    Historical Reflections from the 1800s to the Present

    de Joanna Bourke ...
    In 1872, a woman known only as "An Earnest Englishwoman" published a letter titled "Are Women Animals?" in which she protested against the fact that women were not treated as fully human. In fact, their status was worse than that of animals: regulations prohibiting cruelty against dogs, horses, and cattle were significantly more punitive than laws against cruelty to women. The Earnest Englishwoman ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Between Women

    Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England

    de Sharon Marcus ...
    Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other's hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that described the dangerous pleasures of corporal punishment. A few had sexual relationships with each other, exchanged rings and vows, willed each other property, and lived together in long-term partnerships described as marriages. But, as Sharon Marcus ... Leer más

    $23.09 USD

  • How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $32.39 USD

  • Adaptation and Appropriation

    de Julie Sanders ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    From the apparently simple adaptation of a text into film, theatre or a new literary work, to the more complex appropriation of style or meaning, it is arguable that all texts are somehow connected to a network of existing texts and art forms. In this new edition Adaptation and Appropriation explores:multiple definitions and practices of adaptation and appropriationthe cultural and aesthetic ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • City of Dreadful Delight

    Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London

    de Judith R. Walkowitz ...
    Series series Women in Culture and Society
    From tabloid exposes of child prostitution to the grisly tales of Jack the Ripper, narratives of sexual danger pulsated through Victorian London. Expertly blending social history and cultural criticism, Judith Walkowitz shows how these narratives reveal the complex dramas of power, politics, and sexuality that were being played out in late nineteenth-century Britain, and how they influenced the ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD