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  • Victorian Nonfiction Prose
    Kathy Rees / Laurence W. Mazzeno / Sue Norton
    The Victorian Era saw a revolution in communication technology. Millions of texts emerged from a complex network of writers, editors, publishers and reviewers, to shape and be shaped by the dynamics of a rapidly industrializing society. Many of these works offer fundamental, often surprising insights into Victorian society. Why, for example, did the innocuously titled Essays...
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    88,02 €

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
    Laurence W. Mazzeno / Prentiss Clark / Sue Norton
    In his 1837 speech 'The American Scholar,' Ralph Waldo Emerson noted, 'life is our dictionary,' encapsulating a body of work that reached well beyond the American 19th century. This comprehensive study explores Emerson as a preacher, poet, philosopher, lecturer, essayist and editor. There are nearly 100 entries on individual texts and their personal, historical and literary ...
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    73,40 €

  • Walt Whitman
    John E. Schwiebert / Laurence W. Mazzeno / Sue Norton
    Walt Whitman created, in various editions of Leaves of Grass, what is arguably the most influential book of poems anywhere in the past 200 years. Whitman absorbed the world, transmuting it into poems that address a spectrum of topics--from democracy and religion to sexuality, gender, class, and identity. He exuberantly incarnated his epoch at the same time as he invoked 'you...
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    87,90 €

  • Herman Melville
    Corey Evan Thompson / Laurence W. Mazzeno / Sue Norton
    This reference work covers both Herman Melville’s life and writings. It includes a biography and detailed information on his works, on the important themes contained therein, and on the significant people and places in his life. The appendices include suggestions for further reading of both literary and cultural criticism, an essay on Melville’s lasting cultural influence, a...
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    73,22 €

  • Alfred Tennyson
    Laurence W. Mazzeno / Sue Norton
    Alfred Tennyson was a poet all his life, writing more than a thousand works in virtually every poetic genre. Considered by his Victorian contemporaries the pre-eminent poet of the age, he has become a canonical figure who is widely read and studied today. Consequently, his poems appear on the syllabi of both survey courses in Victorian literature as well as upper-division an...
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    73,24 €