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  • E.S. Dallas Elsewhere

    A Companion to E.S. Dallas in ‘The Times’

    Edited by Graham Law, Jenny Bourne Taylor ...
    Providing a collection of E.S. Dallas's work, this volume explores the significance of the Scottish writer’s practical and theoretical contributions to both the criticism and journalism of the mid-nineteenth century, as well as offering an edited selection of Dallas’s writings in the Victorian press. This book provides a comprehensive listing of around 250 contributions to other periodicals, and ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • E.S. Dallas in The Times

    Edited by Graham Law, Jenny Bourne Taylor ...
    This volume comprises of a substantial selection of E.S. Dallas’s journalism in The Times. Although his reviews were crucial not only in forging the literary reputations of upcoming writers such as different as George Eliot and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, but also in recalibrating the response to well-established authors such as Tennyson and Dickens, Eneas Sweetland Dallas (1827-79) remains arguably ... Read more

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  • The Law and the Lady

    by Wilkie Collins ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Valeria Woodville's first act as a married woman is to sign her name in the marriage register incorrectly, and this slip is followed by the gradual disclosure of a series of secrets about her husband's earlier life, each of which leads on to another set of questions and enigmas. Her discoveries prompt her to defy her husband's authority, to take the law into into a labyrinthine maze of false clues ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • George Gissing

    Voices of the Unclassed

    Edited by Martin Ryle, Jenny Bourne Taylor ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The Nineteenth-Century Novel
    First published in 2005, this collection of essays brings together British, European and North American literary critics and cultural historians with diverse specialities and interests to demonstrate the range of contemporary perspectives through which George Gissing’s fiction can be viewed. It offers both closely contextualised historical readings and broader cultural and philosophical ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • In Essentials, Unity

    An Economic History of the Grange Movement

    by Jenny Bourne, Paul Finkelman ...
    Series series New Approaches to Midwestern Studies
    The Patrons of Husbandry—or the Grange—is the longest-lived US agricultural society and, since its founding shortly after the Civil War, has had immeasurable influence on social change as enacted by ordinary Americans. The Grange sought to relieve the struggles of small farmers by encouraging collaboration. Pathbreaking for its inclusion of women, the Grange is also well known for its association ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Congress and the People’s Contest

    The Conduct of the Civil War

    by Jonathan Earle, Eric Walther, Lesley J. Gordon, Fergus M. Bordewich, Jenny Bourne, Mischa Honeck, L. Diane Barnes, Chandra Manning, Nikki M. Taylor ...
    Series series Perspectives on the History of Congress, 1801–1877
    The American Civil War was the first military conflict in history to be fought with railroads moving troops and the telegraph connecting civilian leadership to commanders in the field. New developments arose at a moment’s notice. As a result, the young nation’s political structure and culture often struggled to keep up. When war began, Congress was not even in session. By the time it met, the ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Wilkie Collins

    Edited by Jenny Bourne Taylor ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Wilkie Collins was one of the most popular writers of the nineteenth century. He is best known for The Woman in White, which inaugurated the sensation novel in the 1860s, and The Moonstone, one of the first detective novels; but he wrote over 20 novels, plays and short stories during a career that spanned four decades. This Companion offers a fascinating overview of Collins's writing. In a wide ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory

    by Dave Hill, Mike Cole, Michael W. Apple, Jenny Bourne, Ramin Farahmandpur, Ted Hankin, Jane Kelly, Michael Neary, Glenn Rikowski0, Mike Sanders1, Geoff Whitty2 ...
    Postmodernism has become the orthodoxy in educational theory. It heralds the end of grand theories like Marxism and liberalism, scorning any notion of a united feminist challenge to patriachy, of united anti-racist struggle, and of united working-class movements against capitalist exploitation and oppression. For postmodernists, the world is fragmented, history is ended, and all struggles are ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

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  • The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice

    by Wilkie Collins ...
    Is there no explanation of the mystery of The Haunted Hotel? Is The Haunted Hotel the tale of a haunting -- or the tale of a crime? The ghost of Lord Montberry haunts the Palace Hotel in Venice --- or does it? Montberry's beautiful-yet-terrifying wife, the Countess Narona, and her erstwhile brother are the center of the terror that fills the Palace Hotel. Are their malefactions at the root of the ... Read more

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  • The Moonstone

    by Wilkie Collins ...
    Widely regarded as the precursor of the modern mystery and suspense novels, The Moonstone tells of the events surrounding the disappearance of a mysterious (and cursed) yellow diamond. T. S. Eliot called it 'the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels'. It contains a number of ideas which became common tropes of the genre, including a crime being investigated by ... Read more

    $3.95 USD

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  • The Queen of Hearts

    by Wilkie Collins ...
    "The Queen of Hearts", title of Collins´ work first published in 1859, is also the school nickname of Jessie Yelverton, who arranges to stay for six weeks with her elderly guardian, Griffith, a retired lawyer. Griffith lives with his two brothers, Owen the clergyman and Morgan the doctor, in an isolated house in South Wales. Griffith's son, George, is in love with Jessie and the three brothers set ... Read more

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  • No Name

    by Wilkie Collins ...
    No Name by Wilkie Collins No Name is a novel by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1862. Illegitimacy is a major theme of the novel. It was originally serialised in Charles Dickens' magazine All the Year Round before book publication.Scene One begins in 1846, at Combe-Raven in West Somerset, the country residence of the wealthy Vanstone family: Andrew Vanstone, his wife, and their two daughters. ... Read more

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