wyszukanych pozycji: 9
A Little Bit of Luck
ISBN: 9781401023126 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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161,89 zł |
Presence of the Present: Topics of the Day in the Victorian Novel
ISBN: 9780814252796 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 864 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Presence of the Present: Topics of the Day in the Victorian Novel is the first comprehensive study of Victorian novelists use of the eras everyday culture and common knowledge in their writings. Victorian novelists knew that the men and women who bought and borrowed their books had an insatiable appetite for reading books about people like themselves in the instantly recognizable world in which they lived. They catered to this appetite by, among other devices, scattering through their pages allusions to people, places, and events in the news at the moment a novel was published, as...
The Presence of the Present: Topics of the Day in the Victorian Novel is the first comprehensive study of Victorian novelists use of the eras e...
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303,68 zł |
Deadly Encounters: Two Victorian Sensations
ISBN: 9780812217568 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Deadly Encounters Two Victorian Sensations Richard D. Altick "Altick's book vividly preserves an important and fascinating element of daily Victorian life. As such, it is the best sort of historical scholarship: the kind that puts us in close touch with a lost world and with people very much like ourselves."--Smithsonian "An engaging study in historical sociology."--Washington Post In July 1861 London newspapers excitedly reported two violent crimes, both the stuff of sensational fiction. One involved a retired army major, his beautiful mistress and her illegitimate child,...
Deadly Encounters Two Victorian Sensations Richard D. Altick "Altick's book vividly preserves an important and fascinating element of daily Victorian ...
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132,50 zł |
Victorian Studies in Scarlet: Murders and Manners in the Age of Victoria
ISBN: 9780393336245 / Angielski / Miękka / 1970 / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the first chapters, Mr. Altick examines the Victorian delight in murder as a social phenomenon. The remainder of the book is constructed around classic murder cases that afford a vivid perspective on the way people lived--and died--in the Age of Victoria. From the beginning of the age, homicide was a national entertainment. Penny broadsheets hawked in the streets highlighted the most gruesome features of crimes; newspapers recounted the most minute details, from the discovery of the body to the execution of the criminal. Real-life murders were quickly adapted for the gaslight... In the first chapters, Mr. Altick examines the Victorian delight in murder as a social phenomenon. The remainder of the book is constructed around ... |
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106,10 zł |
Scholar Adventurers
ISBN: 9780814204351 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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214,38 zł |
Victorian People and Ideas: A Companion for the Modern Reader of Victorian Literature
ISBN: 9780393093766 / Angielski / Miękka / 1974 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. The reputation of the Victorian age in England has undergone many vicissitudes, but it is now higher than ever. In this important study, Richard D. Altick moves us toward an understanding of the social, intellectual, and theological crises that Carlyle and Dickens, Tennyson and Arnold were daily struggling to solve. And the issues were many: the revolution in class structure and class attitudes; the rise of utilitarianism and the evangelical spirit; the crisis in religion, including the Oxford movement and Darwinism; the democratization of culture; the place of art and the artist in an...
The reputation of the Victorian age in England has undergone many vicissitudes, but it is now higher than ever. In this important study, Richard D. Al...
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135,31 zł |
Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle
ISBN: 9780814705629 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. African American Literary Theory is an extraordinary gift to literary studies. It is necessary, authoritative and thorough. The timing of this book is superb --Karla F.C. Holloway, Duke UniversityThe influence of African American literature can be attributed, in no small part, to the literary theorists gathered in this collection. This is a superb anthology that represents a diversity of voices and points of view, and a much needed historical retrospective of how African American literary theory has developed. --Marlon B. Ross, University of MichiganA volume of great conceptual significance...
African American Literary Theory is an extraordinary gift to literary studies. It is necessary, authoritative and thorough. The timing of this book is...
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132,50 zł |
The Art of Literary Research
ISBN: 9780393962406 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. For interested readers who have other vocational plans, its authors-experienced researchers themselves-provide an intimate view of the way professional scholars go about their specialized and challenging tasks. This extensively revised Fourth Edition takes full account of recent developments that have virtually revolutionized certain important areas of the discipline. The computer, as newly written pages demonstrate, not only has eliminated much of the drudgery formerly associated with the gathering, storage, and retrieval of raw data but has made possible many analytical and lexical... For interested readers who have other vocational plans, its authors-experienced researchers themselves-provide an intimate view of the way professi... |
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215,34 zł |
A Literary History of England Vol. 4
ISBN: 9780415046152 / Angielski / Miękka / 1959 / 628 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. First published in 1959. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1959. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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241,30 zł |