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Product Description: Great literature is more often praised for compelling depictions of conflict and tragedy than for moving portrayals of happiness and well-being. This collection of verse brings together poems of felicity, capturing what it means to be well in the fullest sense...read more
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9780786495801 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, August 19, 2015, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Great literature is more often praised for compelling depictions of conflict and tragedy than for moving portrayals of happiness and well-being.
Product Description: John Keats (1795-1821), one of the best-loved poets of the Romantic period, is ever alive to words, discovering his purposes as he reads - not only books but also the world around him. Leading Keats scholar Susan J. Wolfson explores the breadth of his works, including his longest ever poem Endymion; subsequent romances, Isabella (a Boccaccio tale with a proto-Marxian edge admired by George Bernard Shaw), the passionate Eve of St Agnes and knotty Lamia; intricate sonnets and innovative odes; the unfinished Hyperion project (Keats's existential rethinking of epic agony); and late lyrics involved with Fanny Brawne, the bright (sometimes dark) star of his last years...read more
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9780521513418 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 31, 2015, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: John Keats (1795-1821), one of the best-loved poets of the Romantic period, is ever alive to words, discovering his purposes as he reads - not only books but also the world around him.
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9780521732796 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 10, 2015, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: John Keats (1795-1821), one of the best-loved poets of the Romantic period, is ever alive to words, discovering his purposes as he reads - not only books but also the world around him.
Product Description: The star of Northanger Abbey is seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland, Jane Austen's youngest and most impressionable heroine. Away from home for the first time, on a visit to Bath with family friends, Catherine, a passionate consumer of novels (especially of the gothic variety), encounters a world in which everything beckons as a readable text: not only books, but also conversations and behaviors, clothes, carriages, estates, and vistas...read more
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9780674725676 | Annotated edition (Belknap Pr, April 28, 2014), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The star of Northanger Abbey is seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland, Jane Austen's youngest and most impressionable heroine.
Product Description: First published in 1818, Frankenstein has spellbound, disturbed, and fascinated readers for generations. One of the most haunting and enduring works ever written in English, it has inspired numerous retellings and sequels in virtually every medium, making the Frankenstein myth familiar even to those who have never read a word of Mary Shelley’s remarkable novel...read more
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9780674055520 | Belknap Pr, October 31, 2012, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: First published in 1818, Frankenstein has spellbound, disturbed, and fascinated readers for generations.
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9780205655281 | 4th edition (Longman Pub Group, October 1, 2009), cover price $56.00 | also contains The Longman Anthology of British Literature: The Romantics and Their Contemporaries
9780321105790 | 2 edition (Longman Pub Group, July 1, 2002), cover price $53.00
9780321067654 | Addison-Wesley, October 1, 1999, cover price $37.00 | also contains Controversial Pain Syndromes of the Arm: Pathogenesis and Surgical Treatment of Resistant Cases
Product Description: In Romantic Interactions, Susan J. Wolfson examines how interaction with other authorsâwhether on the bookshelf, in the embodied company of someone else writing, or in relation to literary celebrityâshaped the work of some of the best-known (and less well-known) writers in the English language...read more
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9780801894732 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, September 17, 2010, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: In Romantic Interactions, Susan J.
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9780801894749 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, September 16, 2010, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: In Romantic Interactions, Susan J.
Product Description: The first standard edition of the writings of Felicia Hemans (1793-1835), this volume marks a revival of interest in, and a new critical appreciation of, one of the most important literary figures of the early nineteenth century. A best-selling poet in England and America, Felicia Hemans was regarded as leading female poet in her day, celebrated as the epitome of national "feminine" values...read more
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9780691050294 | Princeton Univ Pr, December 18, 2000, cover price $77.00
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9780691146652 | Princeton Univ Pr, January 24, 2010, cover price $66.00 | also contains Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Letters, Reception Materials | About this edition: The first standard edition of the writings of Felicia Hemans (1793-1835), this volume marks a revival of interest in, and a new critical appreciation of, one of the most important literary figures of the early nineteenth century.
Product Description: From Longman's Cultural Editions series, come three tales of transformation: Mary Shelleyâs Transformation, Robert Louis Stevensonâs The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Joseph Conradâs The Secret Sharer. In these three nightmarish tales, an uncanny other turns out to be a second self, a sharer of intimate anxieties, repressed energies, dark impulses...read more
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9780321415615 | 1 edition (Longman Pub Group, February 29, 2008), cover price $17.40 | About this edition: From Longman's Cultural Editions series, come three tales of transformation: Mary Shelleyâs Transformation, Robert Louis Stevensonâs The Strange Case of Dr.
Product Description: Reflecting varieties of theory and practice in both verse and prose from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, these essays by many of America's leading literary scholars call for a reinvigorated formalism that can enrich literary studies, open productive routes of commerce with cultural studies, and propel cultural theory out of its thematic ruts...read more
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9780295986487 | Univ of Washington Pr, January 30, 2007, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Reflecting varieties of theory and practice in both verse and prose from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, these essays by many of America's leading literary scholars call for a reinvigorated formalism that can enrich literary studies, open productive routes of commerce with cultural studies, and propel cultural theory out of its thematic ruts.
9780822364740 | Duke Univ Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: In response to trends in criticism in recent decades, this special issue of Modern Language Quarterly contains new essays by prominent literary critics reasserts and refreshes the crucial importance of studying form for a productive understanding of complex issues that have frequently been oversimplified.
Product Description: From Longman's Cultural Editions series, John Keats, edited by Susan J. Wolfson, is the first edition organized to give a sense of the poetâs thinking by interspersing letters, poems, and publications of reviews and contemporary works...read more
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9780321236166 | Longman Pub Group, November 28, 2006, cover price $22.80 | About this edition: From Longman's Cultural Editions series, John Keats, edited by Susan J.
Product Description: This unprecedented comprehensive anthology of short canonical readings on important topics in fin-de-siècle literature offers the most prominent examples of poetry, fiction, prose, and drama for thorough in-depth study. This anticipated collection features non-canonical stories, poems, and articles alongside well-known works by fin-de-siècle authors...read more
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9780321132178 | Longman Pub Group, November 3, 2006, cover price $78.40 | About this edition: This unprecedented comprehensive anthology of short canonical readings on important topics in fin-de-siècle literature offers the most prominent examples of poetry, fiction, prose, and drama for thorough in-depth study.
Product Description: Opening with the revolution-era debates of the 1790s, Borderlines reads Romantic genders across a mobile syntax, tuned to such figures as the stylized "feminine" poetess, the aberrant "masculine" woman, male poets deemed "feminine" or "unmanly," the campy male "effeminate," and hapless or strategic cross-dressers of both sexes...read more
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9780804752978 | 1 edition (Stanford Univ Pr, October 11, 2006), cover price $70.00 | About this edition: Opening with the revolution-era debates of the 1790s, Borderlines reads Romantic genders across a mobile syntax, tuned to such figures as the stylized "feminine" poetess, the aberrant "masculine" woman, male poets deemed "feminine" or "unmanly," the campy male "effeminate," and hapless or strategic cross-dressers of both sexes.
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9780804761055 | Stanford Univ Pr, December 16, 2008, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Opening with the revolution-era debates of the 1790s, Borderlines reads Romantic genders across a mobile syntax, tuned to such figures as the stylized "feminine" poetess, the aberrant "masculine" woman, male poets deemed "feminine" or "unmanly," the campy male "effeminate," and hapless or strategic cross-dressers of both sexes.
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9780321399533 | 2 edition (Longman Pub Group, July 1, 2006), cover price $28.00
Product Description: From Longman's Cultural Editions series, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice , edited by Claudia Johnson and Susan Wolfson, offers the text of the first edition and is extensively annotated in several contexts, from Austen's views, to cultural issues, to first reviews and critical reception...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780321105073 | Longman Pub Group, December 1, 2002, cover price $22.80 | About this edition: From Longman's Cultural Editions series, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice , edited by Claudia Johnson and Susan Wolfson, offers the text of the first edition and is extensively annotated in several contexts, from Austen's views, to cultural issues, to first reviews and critical reception.
Product Description: This parallel text edition of Felicia Hemans’s important dramatic poem presents the 1823 publication alongside a transcription of the original manuscript, offering a unique glimpse at her compositional process. Situated in medieval Spain, in the heat of Moorish-Christian conflicts, this complex political tragedy is both a rich historical narrative and a commentary by the poet on her own post-Napoleonic world...read more
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9781551114422 | Broadview Pr, August 1, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This parallel text edition of Felicia Hemans’s important dramatic poem presents the 1823 publication alongside a transcription of the original manuscript, offering a unique glimpse at her compositional process.
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9781551111377 | Broadview Pr, February 1, 2002, cover price $24.95
Product Description: In The Cambridge Companion to Keats, leading scholars discuss Keats's work in several fascinating contexts: literary history and key predecessors; Keats's life in London's intellectual, aesthetic and literary culture and the relation of his poetry to the visual arts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780521651264 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 30, 2001, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: In The Cambridge Companion to Keats, leading scholars discuss Keats's work in several fascinating contexts: literary history and key predecessors; Keats's life in London's intellectual, aesthetic and literary culture and the relation of his poetry to the visual arts.
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9780521658393 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 28, 2001, cover price $34.99 | About this edition: In The Cambridge Companion to Keats, leading scholars discuss Keats's work in several fascinating contexts: literary history and key predecessors; Keats's life in London's intellectual, aesthetic and literary culture and the relation of his poetry to the visual arts.
Product Description: This anthology brings together three powerfully original figures who vividly capture the spirit and anxieties of their age. Thomas Hood and Winthrop Mackworth Praed write with a self-conscious playfulness about literary history and traditions as well as an active and often satirical engagement with contemporary social and political culture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780822957607 | Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, April 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This anthology brings together three powerfully original figures who vividly capture the spirit and anxieties of their age.
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9780321076731 | Compact edition (Longman Pub Group, December 1, 1999), cover price $61.80
Product Description: Why care about poetic form and its intricacies, other than in nostalgia for a bygone era of criticism? The purpose of this book is to refresh today this care for criticism, applying a historically aware formalist reading to poetic form in Romanticism and showing how in theory and practice Romantic writers addressed, debated, tested, and contested fundamental questions about what is at stake in the poetic forming of language...read more
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9780804726573 | Stanford Univ Pr, March 1, 1997, cover price $39.50 | About this edition: Why care about poetic form and its intricacies, other than in nostalgia for a bygone era of criticism?
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9780804736626 | Stanford Univ Pr, April 1, 1999, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Why care about poetic form and its intricacies, other than in nostalgia for a bygone era of criticism?
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9780801419096 | Cornell Univ Pr, December 1, 1986, cover price $45.00
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