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Product Description: In this 2nd edition of her classic work Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics, Isobel Armstrong provides: a new preface that notes key directions in Victorian poetry criticism – the turn to form, the turn to affect and the emotions, cosmopolitan and global impulses, and the attention to optical culture an afterword devoted to the Fin de Siècle, discussing Michael Field and Vernon Lee, the late epics of Swinburne and Morris, and a selection of Hardy lyrics a full bibliography for the last twenty years, taking into account in particular the work of Herbert Tucker, Yopie Prins, Cornelia Pearsall, Catherine Robson, Mike Sanders, Danny Karlin, Ana Vadillo and Marion Thain...read more

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9780415525886 | 2 revised edition (Routledge, August 8, 2016), cover price $195.00 | About this edition: In this 2nd edition of her classic work Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics, Isobel Armstrong provides: a new preface that notes key directions in Victorian poetry criticism – the turn to form, the turn to affect and the emotions, cosmopolitan and global impulses, and the attention to optical culture an afterword devoted to the Fin de Siècle, discussing Michael Field and Vernon Lee, the late epics of Swinburne and Morris, and a selection of Hardy lyrics a full bibliography for the last twenty years, taking into account in particular the work of Herbert Tucker, Yopie Prins, Cornelia Pearsall, Catherine Robson, Mike Sanders, Danny Karlin, Ana Vadillo and Marion Thain.
9780415030168 | Routledge, October 1, 1993, cover price $170.00 | About this edition: In a work that is uniquely comprehensive and theoretically astute, Isobel Armstrong rescues Victorian poetry from its longstanding sepia image as `a moralised form of romantic verse', and unearths its often subversive critique of nineteenth-century culture and politics.

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9780415144254 | Routledge, May 1, 1996, cover price $45.95 | About this edition: In a work that is uniquely comprehensive and theoretically astute, Isobel Armstrong rescues Victorian poetry from its longstanding sepia image as `a moralised form of romantic verse', and unearths its often subversive critique of nineteenth-century culture and politics.

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Product Description: This collection of new feminist essays represents the work of young critics researching and teaching in British Universities. Aiming to set the agenda for feminist criticism in the nineties, the essays debate themes crucial to the development of feminist thought: among them, the problems of gendered knowledge and the implications of accounts of gendered language, cultural restraints on the representation of sexuality, women’s agency, cultural and political change, a feminist aesthetics and new readings of race and class...read more
By Isobel Armstrong (editor)

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9780415521666 | 1 edition (Routledge, July 17, 2012), cover price $155.00 | About this edition: This collection of new feminist essays represents the work of young critics researching and teaching in British Universities.
9780415526425 | 1 edition (Routledge, June 6, 2012), cover price $1800.00 | About this edition: Reissuing seminal works originally published between 1979 and 1994, Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature offers a selection of scholarship from a time of great change in feminist studies and literary studies.
9780415067409 | Routledge, July 1, 1992, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: This collection of new feminist essays represents the work of young British critics.

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9780415752275 | Routledge, July 17, 2012, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: This collection of new feminist essays represents the work of young critics researching and teaching in British Universities.
9780415067416 | Routledge, July 1, 1992, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: This collection of feminist essays represents the work of young British critics.

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Product Description: First published in 1969, this edition collection brings together a series of essays offering a  re-evaluation of Victorian poetry in the light of early 20th Century criticism. The essays in this collection concentrate upon the poets whose reputations suffered from the great redirection of energy in English criticism initiated in this century by Eliot, Richards and Leavis...read more
By Isobel Armstrong (editor)

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9780415667937 | Routledge, April 13, 2011, cover price $170.00 | About this edition: First published in 1969, this edition collection brings together a series of essays offering a  re-evaluation of Victorian poetry in the light of early 20th Century criticism.

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9780415670500 | Reprint edition (Routledge, November 22, 2012), cover price $46.95 | About this edition: First published in 1969, this edition collection brings together a series of essays offering a  re-evaluation of Victorian poetry in the light of early 20th Century criticism.

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Product Description: Anne Home Hunter (1741-1821) was one of the most successful song writers of the second half of the eighteenth century, most famously as the poet who wrote the lyrics of many of Haydn's songs. However her work, which included many more serious, lyrical and romantic poems has been largely forgotten...read more
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9781846311918 | Liverpool Univ Pr, July 15, 2009, cover price $99.95 | About this edition: Anne Home Hunter (1741-1821) was one of the most successful song writers of the second half of the eighteenth century, most famously as the poet who wrote the lyrics of many of Haydn's songs.

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A study of the works of Angela Carter - the inventive British novelist of her generation. It argues that one key to a better understanding of Carter's writings is the extraordinary intelligence with which she read the cultural signs of our times. It also explores the roots of Carter's originality, covering her novels as well as some short stories.

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9780746311455 | 2 edition (Northcote House Pub Ltd, December 15, 2006), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A study of the works of Angela Carter - the inventive British novelist of her generation.
9780746307274 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, September 1, 1996, cover price $15.00

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Presents a study in English of one of the most original and exciting writers to have emerged in Britain. This work provides an introduction to the whole range of Ian McEwan's work, examining his novels, short stories and screenplays in depth and tracing his development.

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9780746311653 | 2 edition (Northcote House Pub Ltd, September 30, 2010), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Presents a study in English of one of the most original and exciting writers to have emerged in Britain.
9780746307427 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, September 1, 1996, cover price $13.00

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Building on the formula of 'York Notes', this Advanced series introduces students to more sophisticated analysis and wider critical perspectives. The notes enable students to appreciate contrasting interpretations of the text and to develop their own critical thinking.

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9780582329133 | Gardners Books, August 23, 2001, cover price $10.15 | About this edition: Building on the formula of 'York Notes', this Advanced series introduces students to more sophisticated analysis and wider critical perspectives.

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Product Description: This ground-breaking new work offers a spirited and severe critique of the turn to an anti-aesthetic in theoretical writing and asserts that it has now become an intellectual necessity to rethink the aesthetic and remake aesthetic discourse. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780631220527 | Blackwell Pub, October 1, 2000, cover price $62.95 | About this edition: This ground-breaking new work offers a spirited and severe critique of the turn to an anti-aesthetic in theoretical writing and asserts that it has now become an intellectual necessity to rethink the aesthetic and remake aesthetic discourse.

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9780631220534 | Blackwell Pub, March 1, 2001, cover price $52.95 | About this edition: This ground-breaking new work offers a spirited and severe critique of the turn to an anti-aesthetic in theoretical writing and asserts that it has now become an intellectual necessity to rethink the aesthetic and remake aesthetic discourse.

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By Isobel Armstrong (editor) and Bryan Loughrey (editor)

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9780746309018 | Northcote House Pub Ltd, August 1, 2000, cover price $19.95

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Product Description: This study show the ways in which Edward Bond's work has involved a continual search for the appropriate dramatic forms with which to explore the most pressing political, ethical and social questions of our culture.
By Isobel Armstrong (editor) and Bryan Loughrey (editor)

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9780746308837 | Northcote House Pub Ltd, August 1, 2000, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This study show the ways in which Edward Bond's work has involved a continual search for the appropriate dramatic forms with which to explore the most pressing political, ethical and social questions of our culture.

By Isobel Armstrong (editor), Joseph Bristow (editor) and Cath Sharrock (editor)

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9780198112907 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 27, 1997, cover price $44.95

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9780198184836 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, November 1, 1998), cover price $35.00

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Product Description: This collection of twelve critical essays on women's poetry of the eighteenth century and enlightenment is the first to range widely over individual poets and to undertake a comprehensive exploration of their work. Experiment with genre and form, the poetics of the body, the politics of gender, revolutionary critique, and patronage, are themes of the collection, which includes discussions of the distinctive projects of Mary Leapor, Ann Yearsley, Helen Maria Williams, Joanna Baillie, Charlotte Smith, Anna Barbauld and Lucy Aikin...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Isobel Armstrong (editor) and Virginia Blain (editor)

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9780312212827 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 15, 1998, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: This collection of twelve critical essays on women's poetry of the eighteenth century and enlightenment is the first to range widely over individual poets and to undertake a comprehensive exploration of their work.

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Product Description: This book gives a historical and critical introduction to the genre of crime fiction, from Edgar Allan Poe's first detective story The Murders in the Rue Morgue in 1841 to the present day. It concentrates chiefly on three branches of Crime Fiction: the classic detective whodunit, the thriller in which the protagonist is opposed either to a powerful conspiracy or to society at large, and the hardboiled private-eye story, or detective thriller, which mixes aspects of the other two...read more

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9780746308547 | Northcote House Pub Ltd, December 1, 1997, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This book gives a historical and critical introduction to the genre of crime fiction, from Edgar Allan Poe's first detective story The Murders in the Rue Morgue in 1841 to the present day.

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9780746307892 | Northcote House Pub Ltd, June 1, 1997, cover price $19.95

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Product Description: A short, lucid and stimulating account of the life and poetic career of the greatest Elizabethan poet, whose Shepheardes Calendar (1579) inaugurated a revolution in English poetry, and whose unfinished Faerie Queene (1590-96) was the longest and most accomplished poem written in the sixteenth century...read more

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9780746307502 | Northcote House Pub Ltd, September 1, 1996, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A short, lucid and stimulating account of the life and poetic career of the greatest Elizabethan poet, whose Shepheardes Calendar (1579) inaugurated a revolution in English poetry, and whose unfinished Faerie Queene (1590-96) was the longest and most accomplished poem written in the sixteenth century.

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9780746307168 | Northcote House Pub Ltd, September 1, 1996, cover price $19.95

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9780746307519 | Northcote House Pub Ltd, September 1, 1996, cover price $19.95

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9780746307779 | Northcote House Pub Ltd, September 1, 1996, cover price $19.95

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9780746307373 | Northcote House Pub Ltd, September 1, 1996, cover price $19.95

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Product Description: Focusing on the works of Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Ellen Wood and Rhoda Broughton, Professor Lynn Pykett uses feminist literary history and theory and a cultural studies approach to show how the developments of the last twenty years or so have enabled the sensation novel of the 1860s to be re-viewed as a genre...read more

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9780746307250, titled "Sensation Novel: From the Woman in White to the Moonstone" | Northcote House Pub Ltd, September 1, 1996, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Focusing on the works of Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Ellen Wood and Rhoda Broughton, Professor Lynn Pykett uses feminist literary history and theory and a cultural studies approach to show how the developments of the last twenty years or so have enabled the sensation novel of the 1860s to be re-viewed as a genre.

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Product Description: Armstrong proposes a theory of the language of 19th- century poetry derived from Romantic philosophy in this highly original and important new study.Partial contents:^R Wordsworth's complexity: Prelude (1805), Book VI; Blakes's simplicity: Jerusalem, Chapter 1; Shelley's perplexity:^R Prometheus Unbound; Browning, the fracture of subject and object: Sordello, Book III; Tennyson, the collapse of object and subject:^R In Memoria...read more

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9780389202936 | Barnes & Noble Imports, October 1, 1982, cover price $50.50 | About this edition: Armstrong proposes a theory of the language of 19th- century poetry derived from Romantic philosophy in this highly original and important new study.

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Product Description: In the years covered by this volume high Victorian poetry reached it's prolific peak and stimulated a corresponding abundance of critical comment. As poets turned to new themes and new modes of presenting them, critics sought to redifine the function of poetry in their time and nowhere with greater immediacy and sense of the cultural issues at stake than in the periodicals...read more
By Isobel Armstrong (editor)

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9780485111316 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, June 1, 1972, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: In the years covered by this volume high Victorian poetry reached it's prolific peak and stimulated a corresponding abundance of critical comment.

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