Zbirka: Od 1800 do 1900
371 rezultatov
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William Blake Now(2019) HIGGS, JOHN'If a thing loves, it is infinite' William BlakeA short, impassioned argument for why the visionary artist William Blake is important in the twenty-first centuryVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
E. T. A. Hoffmann(2021)The essays in this volume address a very broad range of E. T. A. Hoffmann’s most significant works, examining them through the lens of “transgression.” His writings, perhaps more than those of any other German Romantic, portrayed the “dark side” of existeVezava: Mehka65,53 € -
Goethe(2016) ROBERTSON, RITCHIE (TAYLOR PROFESSOR OF GERMAN, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)Johann Wolfgang von Goethe lived to the age of 82 and wrote prodigiously in every genre: drama, poetry, fiction, autobiography, travel narrative, translation from French and Italian, and critical essays on art and literature, besides copious letters and dVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information(2022) HESS, JILLIAN M. (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, BRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK)This volume studies an important manuscript form of nineteenth-century England: the commonplace book and its descendent, the scrapbook. It explores the tradition of managing information in nineteenth-century England and excavates notes and drafts of the mVezava: Mehka45,61 € -
Mary Shelley(2022) GORDON, CHARLOTTE (DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH AT ENDICOTT COLLEGE)Famous for her novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley was also infamous in her own time for breaking social and literary conventions, and taking a political and philosophical stance advocating for the rights of women. Charlotte Gordon explores the context and kVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Rhetoric of the Page(2020) MAGUIRE, LAURIE (PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, OXFORD UNIVERSITY AND TUTORIAL FELLOW, PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, OXFORD UNIVERSITY AND TUTORIAL FELLOW, MAGDALEN COLLEGE)A readable account of the book as an object: a history of the page as well as a history of the book. Drawing an arc from the medieval scriptorium to googlebooks, this volume shows the creative and playful opportunities blank spaces on the page afforded reVezava: Trda77,63 € -
Romantic Autopsy(2021) HEGELE, ARDEN (LECTURER, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE, LECTURER, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY)This book considers a moment at the turn of the nineteenth century, when literature and medicine seemed embattled in rivalry, to find the fields collaborating to develop interpretive analogies that saw literary texts as organic bodies and anatomical featuVezava: Trda145,92 € -
Honore de Balzac(2022) BROOKS, PETER (STERLING PROFESSOR OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE EMERITUS, YALE UNIVERSITY)A book on the experience of reading Honoré de Balzac's La Comédie humaine which recounts the process of Peter Brooks's own discovery of Balzac.Vezava: Trda38,00 € -
Whitman in Washington(2020) PRICE, PROF KENNETH M. (HILLEGASS UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR OF AMERICAN LITERATURE, HILLEGASS UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR OF AMERICAN LITERATURE, UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN)This book analyses Whitman's integrated life, writings, and government work in his urban context to reevaluate the writer and the nation's capital in a time of transformation.Vezava: Trda63,66 € -
Teenage Writings(2017) AUSTEN, JANEThe young Jane Austen was a precocious reader, devouring pulp fiction and classic literature, both of which she soon began to imitate and parody. Three volumes of her vivacious teenage writing survive. Devices and themes which appear subtly in her later fVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Charles Dickens(2019) HARTLEY, JENNY (EMERITUS PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON)Jenny Hartley introduces Charles Dickens's life and works, looking at the vitality of his characters and the energy which surges through his writing. Examining the themes running through his books, she considers the institutions which influenced his workVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Oscar's Ghost(2019) LEE, LAURAThe dramatic story of the legal and emotional battle that raged between two of Oscar Wilde's closest friends – both former lovers – following the playwright's deathVezava: Mehka15,41 €
