The tie-in to an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this richly illustrated study incorporates more than two hundred prints, paintings, drawings, and illuminated books by poet, artist, and mystic William Blake, accompanied by introductory essays on Blake the man, his role in the political and social upheavals of his era, his innovative printing techniques, and his visionary art. (view table of contents)

Presents scholars, students and general readers with the major fiction for adults, much of the best of juvenile fiction, and a selection of the educational and occasional writings of Maria Edgeworth.

A young Swiss scientist's discovery of the cause of generation leads to the creation of a hideous monster (view table of contents)

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Product Description: This is the first and only complete edition of all the published writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, the mother of the feminist movement. Wollstonecraft's writings include fiction, journalism, reviews, and diaries, and confirm her place in history as a signinficant force in the young rationalist movement in education and politics...read more

Product Description: This is the first and only complete edition of all the published writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, the mother of the feminist movement. Wollstonecraft's writings include fiction, journalism, reviews, and diaries, and confirm her place in history as a signinficant force in the young rationalist movement in education and politics...read more

Product Description: In this collection of critical essays, four scholars of Romanticism address the problematic concept of "history" within the specific context of Romantic studies. In so doing, the authors interrogate the methods and assumptions of both "new" and "old" historicism, providing alternative ways of reading the literary past...read more

A seven volume set of books containing all the known published writings and translations of Mary Wollstonecraft, who is generally recognised as the mother of the feminist movement. She was also an acute observer of the political upheavals of the French revolution and advocated educational reform.

Product Description: This work considers the canon of English studies and its implications both for the way literature is learned in universities and the way it is read elsewhere. It looks at what texts should be studied and who should determine them.

Product Description: It is often said that Jane Austen in the countryside remained isolated from the great events of her time. But as Marilyn Butler points out in Jane Austen and the War of Ideas, Austen was not isolated from reading novels, and novels carried controversy...read more

Product Description: Cambridge English Prose Texts consists of volumes devoted to selections of non-fictional English prose of the late sixteenth to the mid nineteenth centuries. The series provides students, primarily though not exclusively those of English literature, with the opportunity of reading significant prose writers who, for a variety of reasons (not least their generally being unavailable in suitable editions), are rarely studied, but whose influence on their times was very considerable...read more

Product Description: This study takes a fresh look at one of the most fertile periods in English literature, and questions the validity of grouping such diverse talents as Blake, Keats, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Byron, Scott, and Austen under the critical label of `Romantic'.