Author: Lewin George Maine (M.A., Vicar of St. Lawrence, Reading.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Catalogue
Author: Maggs BrosPublisher:
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Nation & Novel
Author: Patrick ParrinderPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199264856
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
Patrick Parrinder traces English prose fiction from its late medieval origins through its stories of rogues and criminals, family rebellions and suffering heroines, to the contemporary novels of immigration. He provides both a comprehensive survey and a new interpretation of the importance of the English novel.
Jane Austen: A Family Record
Author: Deirdre Le FayePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521534178
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
This book is the outcome of years of research in Austen archives, and stems from the original family biography by W. and R. A. Austen-Leigh, Jane Austen: her Life and Letters. Jane Austen, A Family Record was first published in 1989, and this new edition incorporates information that has come to light since then, and provides new illustrations and updated family trees. Le Faye gives a detailed account of Austen s life and literary career. She has collected together documented facts as well as the traditions concerning the novelist, and places her within the context of a widespread, affectionate and talented family group. Readers will learn how Austen transformed the stuff of her peaceful life in the Hampshire countryside into six novels that are amongst the most popular in the English language. This fascinating record of Austen and her family will be of great interest to general readers and scholars alike.
The Spectator
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
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A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
Novel Environments
Author: Jayne HildebrandPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019288848X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The environment concept has shaped humanity's relationship to the natural world and has drawn attention to the effects of human actions on our natural surroundings. But when did we learn that we live in an environment? While scholars have often located the emergence of the environment concept in twentieth-century ecological and political thought, Novel Environments: Science, Description, and Victorian Fiction reconstructs a longer—and a specifically literary—history. It was in the descriptive worldmaking of the Victorian novel that the environment was first transformed from an abstraction into a vivid object of imagination and feeling. Engaging the scientific theories of their contemporaries, Mary Russell Mitford, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and Robert Louis Stevenson turned to detailed description—from gardens and landscapes to weather and atmospheres-to model interactions between life and its surroundings. Far from merely furnishing static background, the descriptive apparatus of the Victorian novel imagined the nonhuman environment as dynamically involved with human action, feeling, and development. In making this argument, Novel Environments recovers the scientific vocabulary the Victorians used to name the surroundings of living organisms. The word "environment" dominates our own way of speaking about the nonhuman world, but nineteenth-century scientific writers and novelists availed themselves of a richer conceptual lexicon, which included "environment" along with less familiar concepts such as "milieu," "medium," and "circumstance." Jayne Hildebrand traces the development of Victorian environmental thought from the earliest theorization of physical surroundings as a dynamic influence in the life sciences, through the idea of a singular "medium" in mid-century organicism, to the conception of the planet as an environmental system at the fin-de-siècle. By showing how novelistic description helped to produce the modern environment concept, Hildebrand sheds new light on the relationship between Victorian literature and the life sciences, and reveals how literary form has shaped the ecological ideas through which we apprehend the nonhuman world.
Jane Austen's Letters
Author: Jane AustenPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199576076
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 695
Book Description
The fourth edition of Jane Austen's Letters incorporates the findings of new scholarship to enrich our understanding of Austen and give us the fullest view yet of her life and family. The biographical and topographical indexes have been updated, a new subject index has been created, and the contents of the notes added to the general index.
Nation and Migration
Author: Juliet ShieldsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190272554
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Nation and Migration provides a literary history for a nation that still considers itself a land of immigrants, exploring the significant contributions of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales to the development of a British Atlantic literature and culture
A Berkshire Village
Author: Lewin G MainePublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781020874826
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This charming and nostalgic book takes readers on a journey through the history of a quaint Berkshire village, from its colonial beginnings to the present day. With vivid descriptions and fascinating anecdotes, A Berkshire Village is a delightful read for anyone interested in local history and Americana. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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