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The Routledge Companion to Jane Austen

The Routledge Companion to Jane Austen

First published anonymously as ‘a lady’ Jane Austen is now among the world’s most famous and highly revered authors. The Routledge Companion to Jane Austen provides wide-ranging coverage of Jane Austen’s works reception and legacy with chapters that draw on the latest literary research and theory and represent foundational and authoritative scholarship as well as new approaches to an author whose works provide seemingly endless inspiration for reinterpretation adaptation and appropriation. The Companion provides up-to-date work by an international team of established and emerging Austen scholars and includes exciting chapters not just on Austen in her time but on her ongoing afterlife whether in the academy and the wider world of her fans or in cinema new media and the commercial world. Parts within the volume explore Jane Austen in her time and within the literary canon; the literary critical and theoretical study of her novels unpublished writing and her correspondence; and the afterlife of her work as exemplified in film digital humanities and new media. In addition the Companion devotes special attention to teaching Jane Austen.

GBP 205.00
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Jane Austen A Style in History

Jane Austen A Style in History

From 1809 until just before her death Jane Austen lived in a small all-female household at Chawton where reading aloud was the evening's entertainment and a crucial factor in the way Austen formed and modified her writing. This book looks in detail at Jane Austen's style. It discusses her characteristic abstract vocabulary her adaptations of Johnsonian syntax and how she came to make her most important contribution to the technique of fiction free indirect discourse. The book draws extensively on historical sources especially the work of writers like Johnson Hugh Blair and Thomas Sheridan and analyses how Austen negotiated her path between the fundamentally masculine concerns of eighteenth-century prescriptivists and her own situation of a female writer reading her work aloud to a female audience. | Jane Austen A Style in History

GBP 38.99
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Jane Austen and Critical Theory

Jane Austen and Critical Theory

Jane Austen and Critical Theory is a collection of new essays that addresses the absence of critical theory in Austen studies—an absence that has limited the reach of Austen criticism. The collection brings together innovative scholars who ask new and challenging questions about the efficacy of Austen’s work. This volume confronts mythical understandings of Austen as Dear Aunt Jane the early twentieth-century legacy of Austen as a cultural salve and the persistent habit of reading her works for advice or instruction. The authors pursue a diversity of methods encourage us to build new kinds of relationships to Austen and her writings and demonstrate how these relationships might generate new ideas and possibilities—ideas and possibilities that promise to expand the ways in which we deploy Austen. The book specifically reminds us of the vital importance of Austen and her fiction for central concerns of the humanities including the place of the individual within civil society the potential for new identities and communities the urgency to address racial and sexual oppression and the need to imagine more just futures. Chapter 4 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license.

GBP 35.99
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The Literary Economy of Jane Austen and George Crabbe

The Literary Economy of Jane Austen and George Crabbe

Though Jane Austen (1775-1817) and the poet George Crabbe (1754-1832) each wrote during the Napoleonic Wars no full-length study has considered the importance of these pivotal events to their writing. In The Literary Economy of Jane Austen and George Crabbe the author argues that both writers were unusually responsive to the economic anxieties specific to wartime occasioned especially by the Napoleonic trade embargo imposed on Britain from 1806 to 1812 and shared a particular concern with the economizing of space. The author's term 'spatial economy' refers to the practice of turning available resources to the best possible account which these authors applied even to the practice of writing as they strove to preserve space on the page (Austen in her letters and Crabbe in the couplet). Their work displays a preoccupation with boundaries pressure and containment which also informs economic treatises published during this period. Through close readings and fresh contextual and historical analysis that draws on the ideas of contemporary thinkers such as Thomas Malthus William Spence William Cobbett Arthur Young and Humphrey Repton Winborn not only establishes a close affinity between Austen and Crabbe but makes a convincing case for rethinking the relationship between the novel and poetry during the Romantic period.

GBP 11.99
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Character and Conflict in Jane Austen's Novels A Psychological Approach

Character and Conflict in Jane Austen's Novels A Psychological Approach

In Character and Conflict in Jane Austen's Novels Bernard J. Paris offers an analysis of the protagonists in four of Jane Austen's most popular novels. His analysis reveals them to be brilliant mimetic creations who often break free of the formal and thematic limitations placed upon them by Austen. Paris traces the powerful tensions between form theme and mimesis in Mansfield Park Emma Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion. Paris uses Northrop Frye's theory of comic forms to analyze and describe the formal structure of the novels and Karen Horney's psychological theories to explore the personalities and inner conflicts of the main characters. The concluding chapter turns from the characters to their creator employing the Horneyan categories of self-effacing detached and expansive personality types to interpret Jane Austen's own personality. Readers of Jane Austen will find much that is new and challenging in this study. It is one of the few books to recognize and pay tribute to Jane Austen's genius in characterization. Anyone who reads this book will come away with a new understanding of Austen's heroines as imagined human beings and also with a deeper feeling for the troubled humanity of the author herself. | Character and Conflict in Jane Austen's Novels A Psychological Approach

GBP 130.00
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English Novel Vol II The Smollett to Austen

English Novel Vol II The Smollett to Austen

The English Novel Volume II: Smollett to Austen collects a series of previously-published essays on the early eighteenth-century novel in a single volume reflecting the proliferation of theoretical approaches since the 1970s. The novel has been the object of some of the most exciting and important critical speculations and the eighteenth-century novel has been at the centre of new approaches both to the novel and to the period between 1750 and 1800. Richard Kroll's introduction seeks to frame the contributions by reference to the most significant critical discussions. These include: the general importance of 'sentimentalism' as a cultural movement after 1750; its relationship to the emergence of the Gothic novel as a specific genre or mode; the rapid rise in the number of women novelists in the later eighteenth century; the relationship between the novel as mediator of social relations and the idea of the 'public sphere'; the relationship between novelistic codes and the massive growth of a consumerist society; the class conflicts of writers like Smollett; the effect on the novel of the new 'British' nation; and the effects of the French Revolution and the subsequent political debates on writers like Wollstonecraft Godwin and Austen. This collection will be of interest to students of the later enlightenment and also to all who are interested in late eighteenth-century radicalism and the general relationship between literature history and politics. | English Novel Vol II The Smollett to Austen

GBP 180.00
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Geometric Puzzle Design

Geometric Puzzle Design

This book discusses how to design good geometric puzzles: two-dimensional dissection puzzles polyhedral dissections and burrs. It outlines major categories of geometric puzzles and provides examples sometimes going into the history and philosophy of those examples. The author presents challenges and thoughtful questions as well as practical design and woodworking tips to encourage the reader to build his own puzzles and experiment with his own designs. Aesthetics phychology and mathematical considerations all factor into the definition of the quality of a puzzle. | Geometric Puzzle Design

GBP 180.00
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Jane Austen's Emma

Jane Austen's Emma

First published in 1968 Jane Austen’s Emma is a critical study of Miss Austen’s last completed novel. While often pausing to analyse and comment on major contemporary critics Dr. Burrows provides a detailed insight into this outstanding novel. He has clarified certain of the book’s qualities placing detail back into its proper context and perspective. Comic relief is contrasted with the serious and the sensitivity and capacity for change of her chief personages and the subtle use of such of Austen’s words as ‘sensible’ and ‘amiable’ are deftly treated. A select bibliography is included. This book will be of interest to students of literature women’s studies gender studies as well as to casual readers of Jane Austen’s novels. | Jane Austen's Emma

GBP 85.00
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The Media Workflow Puzzle How It All Fits Together

The Media Workflow Puzzle How It All Fits Together

This edited collection brings together a team of top industry experts to provide a comprehensive look at the entire media workflow from start to finish. The Media Workflow Puzzle gives readers an in-depth overview of the workflow process from production to distribution to archiving. Pulling from the expertise of twenty contributing authors and editors the book covers topics including content production postproduction systems media asset management content distribution and archiving and preservation offering the reader an understanding of all the various elements and processes that go into the media workflow ecosystem. It concludes with an exploration of the possibilities for the future of media workflows and the new opportunities it may bring. Professionals and students alike looking to understand how to manage media content for its entire lifecycle will find this an invaluable resource. | The Media Workflow Puzzle How It All Fits Together

GBP 34.99
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Jane Eyre's Fairytale Legacy at Home and Abroad Constructions and Deconstructions of National Identity

Jane Eyre's Fairytale Legacy at Home and Abroad Constructions and Deconstructions of National Identity

Exploring the literary microcosm inspired by Brontë's debut novel Jane Eyre's Fairytale Legacy at Home and Abroad focuses on the nationalistic stakes of the mythic and fairytale paradigms that were incorporated into the heroic female bildungsroman tradition. Jane Eyre Abigail Heiniger argues is a heroic changeling indebted to the regional pre-Victorian fairy lore Charlotte Brontë heard and read in Haworth an influence that Brontë repudiates in her last novel Villette. While this heroic figure inspired a range of female writers on both sides of the Atlantic Heiniger suggests that the regional aspects of the changeling were especially attractive to North American writers such as Susan Warner and L. M. Montgomery who responded to Jane Eyre as part of the Cinderella tradition. Heiniger contrasts the reactions of these white women writers with that of Hannah Crafts whose Jane Eyre-influenced The Bondwoman's Narrative rejects the Cinderella model. Instead Heiniger shows Crafts creates a heroic female bildungsroman that critiques fairytale narratives from the viewpoint of the obscure oppressed workers who remain forever outside the tales of wonder produced for middle-class consumption. Heiniger concludes by demonstrating how Brontë's middle-class American readers projected the self-rise ethic onto Jane Eyre miring the novel in nineteenth-century narratives of American identity formation. | Jane Eyre's Fairytale Legacy at Home and Abroad Constructions and Deconstructions of National Identity

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An Analysis of Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities

An Analysis of Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Despite having no formal training in urban planning Jane Jacobs deftly explores the strengths and weaknesses of policy arguments put forward by American urban planners in the era after World War II. They believed that the efficient movement of cars was of more value in the development of US cities than the everyday lives of the people living there. By carefully examining their relevance in her 1961 book The Death and Life of Great American Cities Jacobs dismantles these arguments by highlighting their shortsightedness. She evaluates the information to hand and comes to a very different conclusion that urban planners ruin great cities because they don’t understand that it is a city’s social interaction that makes it great. Proposals and policies that are drawn from planning theory do not consider the social dynamics of city life. They are in thrall to futuristic fantasies of a modern way of living that bears no relation to reality or to the desires of real people living in real spaces. Professionals lobby for separation and standardization splitting commercial residential industrial and cultural spaces. But a truly visionary approach to urban planning should incorporate spaces with mixed uses together with short walkable blocks large concentrations of people and a mix of new and old buildings. This creates true urban vitality. | An Analysis of Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities

GBP 6.50
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Planning and Designing the IP Broadcast Facility A New Puzzle to Solve

Planning and Designing the IP Broadcast Facility A New Puzzle to Solve

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the technology architecture physical facility changes and – most importantly – the new media management workflows and business processes to support the entire lifecycle of the IP broadcast facility from an engineering and workflow perspective. Fully updated this second edition covers the technological evolutions and changes in the media broadcast industry including the new standards and specifications for live IP production the SMPTE ST2110 suite of standards the necessity of protecting against cyber threats and the expansion of cloud services in opening new possibilities. It provides users with the necessary information for planning organizing producing and distributing media for the modern broadcast facility. Key features of this text include: Strategies to implement a cost-effective live and file-based production and distribution system. A cohesive big-picture viewpoint that helps you identify how to overcome the challenges of upgrading your plant. The impact live production is having on the evolution to IP. Case studies serve as recommendations and examples of use. New considerations in engineering and maintenance of IP and file-based systems. Those in the fields of TV cable IT engineering and broadcast engineering will find this book an invaluable resource as will students learning how to set up modern broadcast facilities and the workflows of contemporary broadcasting. | Planning and Designing the IP Broadcast Facility A New Puzzle to Solve

GBP 29.99
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An Introduction to the English Novel Volume I

An Introduction to the English Novel Volume I

First published in 1951 (this edition in 1967) this book forms the first part of Arnold Kettle’s An Introduction to the English Novel. Since the novel like every other literary form is a product of history the book opens with a discussion of how and why the novel developed in England in the eighteenth century as well as the function and background of prose fiction. The third part of the book examines six great novels from Jane Austen to George Eliot. ‘A serious and rewarding study. ’ The Times Literary Supplement ‘His examination of some eighteenth century writers and analysis of six famous novels- from Emma to Middlemarch- have wit authority and a sensitivity that compel the reader’s attention. ’ Dublin Magazine | An Introduction to the English Novel Volume I

GBP 35.99
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Women’s Letters as Life Writing 1840–1885

Women’s Letters as Life Writing 1840–1885

Examining letter collections published in the second half of the nineteenth century Catherine Delafield rereads the life-writing of Frances Burney Charlotte Brontë Mary Delany Catherine Winkworth Jane Austen and George Eliot situating these women in their epistolary culture and in relation to one another as exemplary women of the period. She traces the role of their editors in the publishing process and considers how a model of representation in letters emerged from the publication of Burney’s Diary and Letters and Elizabeth Gaskell’s Life of Brontë. Delafield contends that new correspondences emerge between editors/biographers and their biographical subjects and that the original epistolary pact was remade in collaboration with family memorials in private and with reviewers in public. Women’s Letters as Life Writing addresses issues of survival and choice when an archive passes into family hands tracing the means by which women’s lives came to be written and rewritten in letters in the nineteenth century. | Women’s Letters as Life Writing 1840–1885

GBP 38.99
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Sex Class and Culture

Sex Class and Culture

First published in 1986 Sex Class and Culture is a collection of Marxist feminist essays that develops an original critical theory and applies it to literature the visual arts and mass media. Lillian Robinson was the first American critic to suggest the essential connections among sex class and race as forces that shape works of art and the critical response to them. In applying her theory to particular texts she considers topics from the Renaissance epic to the Regency romance from Jane Austen to contemporary feminist poets and from factory workers’ memoirs to TV images of career women and housewives. The essays are insightful because Robinson clearly knows this wide assortment of texts cares about their significance and writes about them with wit. They are irreverent because she asserts the feminist critic’s permanent responsibility to ask So What? and they are controversial because she constantly addresses that question to our most powerful and respectable institutions – social and literary. This book will be of interest to students of literature history gender studies and sexuality studies.

GBP 105.00
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Celia in Search of a Husband: By a Modern Antique

Celia in Search of a Husband: By a Modern Antique

This ground-breaking nineteenth-century volume is of considerable scholarly interest as an example of a femino-centric popular novel. Celia in Search of a Husband is a high-spirited and entertaining example of an anti-Jacobin novel written at the height of the backlash against female intellectuals during the Napoleonic wars. Despite this hostile climate the author sought to acknowledge the importance of female education and independence whilst at the same time endorsing the traditional Christian teaching that a wife should be subordinate to her husband. Although second wave feminists prioritized the progressive writers with whom they more readily identified more recent scholarship has rightly paid close attention to conservative or moralist writers such as Miss Byron and recognized how influential they were. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary this edition of Celia in Search of a Husband contributes to this scholarship on the literary history of women’s writing and will be a welcome to those with a particularly interest in women’s writing satiric novels and spoofs and Jane Austen. | Celia in Search of a Husband: By a Modern Antique

GBP 120.00
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Crimes and Mathdemeanors

Crimes and Mathdemeanors

A collection of short detective stories for young adults who are interested in applying high school level mathematics and physics to solving mysteries. The main character is Ravi a 14-year-old math genius who helps the local police solve cases. Each chapter is a detective story with a mathematical puzzle at its core that Ravi is able to solve. The author invites the reader to solve the case on his or her own and then explains the mathematics used to find the solution to the puzzle. Illustrated by Karl H. Hofmann | Crimes and Mathdemeanors

GBP 175.00
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Philadelphia Patricians and Philistines 1900-1950

Philadelphia Patricians and Philistines 1900-1950

An unorthodox historian known and respected for his work on the grand conflicts of nations and civilizations John Lukacs has peopled a smaller canvas in this volume with seven colourful figures who flourished in Philadelphia before 1950. Their stories are framed by chapters that describe the city in 1900 and in 1950. The Philadelphians selected are a political boss Boies Penrose; a magazine mogul Edward Bok; an elegant writer Agnes Repplier; an impetuous diplomat William C. Bullitt; a lawyer George Wharton Pepper; a prophet of decline Owen Wister; and a great art collector Albert C. Barnes. The political boss was perhaps the most monumental political figure of his age. The magazine mogul was the most famous embodiment of the American success story during his lifetime. The now almost forgotten writer was the Jane Austen of the essay. The diplomat was the most brilliant of ambassadors. The terrible-tempered collector was a radical proponent of his unusual theory of art. Through these seven portraits Lukacs paints a picture of Philadelphia that is like all living things having the power to change out of recognition and yet remain the same. This work is a must read for all historians and Philadelphians. | Philadelphia Patricians and Philistines 1900-1950

GBP 145.00
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The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion shows how the affective turn in the humanities applies to literary studies. Deftly combining the scientific elements with the literary the book provides a theoretical and topical introduction to reading literature and emotion. Looking at a variety of formats including novels drama film graphic fiction and lyric poetry the book also includes focus on specific authors such as Shakespeare Chaucer Jane Austen Virginia Woolf and Viet Thanh Nguyen. The volume introduces the theoretical groundwork covering such categories as affect theory affective neuroscience cognitive science evolution and history of emotions. It examines the range of emotions that play a special role in literature including happiness fear aesthetic delight empathy and sympathy as well as aspects of literature (style narrative voice and others) that bear on emotional response. Finally it explores ethical and political concerns that are often intertwined with emotional response including racism colonialism disability ecology gender sexuality and trauma. This is a crucial guide to the ways in which new interdisciplinary understandings of emotion and affect—in fields from neuroscience to social theory—are changing the study of literature and of the ways those new understandings are impacted by work on literature also.

GBP 205.00
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Touch Sexuality and Hands in British Literature 1740–1901

Touch Sexuality and Hands in British Literature 1740–1901

From Robert Lovelace’s uninvited hand-grasps in Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa to to Basil Hallward’s first encounter with Dorian Gray literary depictions of touching hands in British literature from the 1740s to the 1890s communicate emotional dimensions of sexual experience that reflect shifting cultural norms associated with gender roles sexuality​ and sexual expression. But what is the relationship between hands tactility and sexuality in Victorian literature? And how do we best interpret ​what those touches communicate between characters? This volume addresses these questions by asserting a connection between the prevalence of violent sexually charged touches in eighteenth-century novels such as those by Eliza Haywood Samuel Richardson and Frances Burney and growing public concern over handshake etiquette in the nineteenth century evident in works by ​Jane Austen the Brontës George Eliot Elizabeth Gaskell Thomas Hardy Oscar Wilde and Flora Annie Steel. This book takes an interdisciplinary approach that combines literary analysis with close analyses of paintings musical compositions and nonfictional texts​ such as etiquette books and scientific treatises​ to make a case for the significance of tactility to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century perceptions of selfhood and sexuality. In doing so it draws attention to the communicative nature of skin-to-skin contact ​as represented in literature and traces a trajectory of meaning from the forceful grips that violate female characters in eighteenth-century novels to the consensual embraces common in Victorian ​and neo-Victorian literature. | Touch Sexuality and Hands in British Literature 1740–1901

GBP 38.99
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Narrating Friendship and the British Novel 1760-1830

Narrating Friendship and the British Novel 1760-1830

Friendship has always been a universal category of human relationships and an influential motif in literature but it is rarely discussed as a theme in its own right. In her study of how friendship gives direction and shape to new ideas and novel strategies of plot character formation and style in the British novel from the 1760s to the 1830s Katrin Berndt argues that friendship functions as a literary expression of philosophical values in a genre that explores the psychology and the interactions of the individual in modern society. In the literary historical period in which the novel became established as a modern genre friend characters were omnipresent reflecting enlightenment philosophy’s definition of friendship as a bond that civilized public and private interactions and was considered essential for the attainment of happiness. Berndt’s analyses of genre-defining novels by Frances Brooke Mary Shelley Sarah Scott Helen Maria Williams Charlotte Lennox Walter Scott Jane Austen and Maria Edgeworth show that the significance of friendship and the increasing variety of novelistic forms and topics represent an overlooked dynamic in the novel’s literary history. Contributing to our understanding of the complex interplay of philosophical socio-cultural and literary discourses that shaped British fiction in the later Hanoverian decades Berndt’s book demonstrates that novels have conceived the modern individual not in opposition to but in interaction with society continuing Enlightenment debates about how to share the lives and the experiences of others. | Narrating Friendship and the British Novel 1760-1830

GBP 46.99
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Jungian Literary Criticism The Essential Guide

Jungian Literary Criticism The Essential Guide

In Jungian Literary Criticism: the essential guide Susan Rowland demonstrates how ideas such as archetypes the anima and animus the unconscious and synchronicity can be applied to the analysis of literature. Jung’s emphasis on creativity was central to his own work and here Rowland illustrates how his concepts can be applied to novels poetry myth and epic allowing a reader to see their personal psychological and historical contribution. This multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach challenges the notion that Jungian ideas cannot be applied to literary studies exploring Jungian themes in canonical texts by authors including Shakespeare Jane Austen and W. B. Yeats as well as works by twenty-first century writers such as in digital literary art. Rowland argues that Jung’s works encapsulate realities beyond narrow definitions of what a single academic discipline ought to do and through using case studies alongside Jung’s work she demonstrates how both disciplines find a home in one another. Interweaving Jungian analysis with literature Jungian Literary Criticism explores concepts from the shadow to contemporary issues of ecocriticism and climate change in relation to literary works and emphasises the importance of a reciprocal relationship. Each chapter concludes with key definitions themes and further reading and the book encourages the reader to examine how worldviews change when disciplines combine. The accessible approach of Jungian Literary Criticism: the essential guide will appeal to academics and students of literary studies Jungian and post-Jungian studies literary theory environmental humanities and ecocentrism. It will also be of interest to Jungian analysts and therapists in training and in practice. | Jungian Literary Criticism The Essential Guide

GBP 39.99
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