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9781118843260 | Blackwell Pub, May 6, 2015, cover price $74.95

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9781118843192 | Blackwell Pub, May 6, 2015, cover price $24.95

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Product Description: At the turn of the nineteenth century, writers arguing for the abolition of the slave trade and the emancipation of those in bondage used the language of sentiment and the political ideals of the Enlightenment to make their case. This collection investigates the rhetorical features and political complexities of the culture of sentimentality as it grappled with the material realities of transatlantic slavery...read more
By Stephen Ahern (editor)

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9781409455615 | Ashgate Pub Co, June 28, 2013, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: At the turn of the nineteenth century, writers arguing for the abolition of the slave trade and the emancipation of those in bondage used the language of sentiment and the political ideals of the Enlightenment to make their case.

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Product Description: "Anamorphosis in Early Modern Literature" explores the prevalence of anamorphic perspective in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in England. Jen Boyle investigates how anamorphic media flourished in early modern England as an interactive technology and mode of affect in public interactive art, city and garden design, and as a theory and figure in literature, political theory and natural and experimental philosophy...read more

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9781409400691 | Ashgate Pub Co, November 30, 2010, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: "Anamorphosis in Early Modern Literature" explores the prevalence of anamorphic perspective in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in England.

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Product Description: The scientific, political, and industrial revolutions of the Romantic period transformed the status of humans and redefined the concept of species. This book examines literary representations of human and non-human animality in British Romanticism...read more

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9780415507301 | Routledge, April 25, 2012, cover price $160.00 | About this edition: The scientific, political, and industrial revolutions of the Romantic period transformed the status of humans and redefined the concept of species.

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9780691643809, titled "Augustus Caesar in Augustan England: The Decline of a Classical Norm" | Princeton Univ Pr, April 19, 2016, cover price $99.95
9780023156618, titled "Readers, Teachers, Learners: Expanding Literacy in the Secondary Schools" | 2nd edition (Prentice Hall, January 1, 1995), cover price $68.80 | also contains Readers, Teachers, Learners: Expanding Literacy in the Secondary Schools
9780691063447 | Princeton Univ Pr, December 1, 1977, cover price $42.50

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9780691616513, titled "Augustus Caesar in Augustan England: The Decline of a Classical Norm" | Princeton Univ Pr, March 8, 2015, cover price $39.95

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9780813937984 | Univ of Virginia Pr, December 8, 2015, cover price $69.50

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9780813937991 | Univ of Virginia Pr, December 8, 2015, cover price $29.50

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Product Description: When writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries explored the implications of organic and emotional sensitivity, the pain of the body gave rise to unsettling but irresistible questions. Urged on by some of their most deeply felt preoccupations – and in the case of figures like Coleridge and P...read more

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9780415842914 | Routledge, March 5, 2014, cover price $145.00

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9781138203259 | Reprint edition (Routledge, June 15, 2016), cover price $44.95 | About this edition: When writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries explored the implications of organic and emotional sensitivity, the pain of the body gave rise to unsettling but irresistible questions.

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Product Description: The essays in this collection range across literature, aesthetics, music and art, and explore such themes as: the dynamics of change in eighteenth-century aesthetics; time, modernity and the picturesque; the function of graphic ornaments in eighteenth-century texts; imaginary voyages as a literary genre; the genesis of children's literature; the Italian opera and musical theory in Burney's novels; Italian and British art theories; and, patterns of cultural transfers and of book circulation between Britain and Italy in the eighteenth century...read more
By Frank O'Gorman (editor)

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9781443819732 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, May 1, 2010, cover price $67.95 | About this edition: The essays in this collection range across literature, aesthetics, music and art, and explore such themes as: the dynamics of change in eighteenth-century aesthetics; time, modernity and the picturesque; the function of graphic ornaments in eighteenth-century texts; imaginary voyages as a literary genre; the genesis of children's literature; the Italian opera and musical theory in Burney's novels; Italian and British art theories; and, patterns of cultural transfers and of book circulation between Britain and Italy in the eighteenth century.

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Product Description: Britain's Bloodless Revolutions explores the relationship of the emerging category of Literature to the emerging threat of popular violence between the Bloodless Revolution and the Romantic turn from revolution to reform. The book argues that at a time when the political nature of the Bloodless Revolution became a subject of debate - in the period defined by France's famously bloody revolution - 'Literature' emerged as a kind of political institution and constituted a bloodless revolution in its own right...read more

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9781403941077 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 21, 2005, cover price $115.00

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9781137018670 | Palgrave Macmillan, August 21, 2012, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Britain's Bloodless Revolutions explores the relationship of the emerging category of Literature to the emerging threat of popular violence between the Bloodless Revolution and the Romantic turn from revolution to reform.

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9780230110656 | Palgrave Macmillan, February 6, 2013, cover price $100.00

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9781137557643 | Reprint edition (Palgrave Macmillan, September 30, 2015), cover price $39.99

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Product Description: As a result of Napoleon’s campaigns in Italy, Old Master art flooded into Britain and its acquisition became an index of national prestige. Maureen McCue argues that their responses to these works informed the writing of Romantic period authors, enabling them to forge often surprising connections between Italian art, the imagination and the period’s political, social and commercial realities...read more

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9781409468325 | Ashgate Pub Co, November 28, 2014, cover price $109.95 | About this edition: As a result of Napoleon’s campaigns in Italy, Old Master art flooded into Britain and its acquisition became an index of national prestige.

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Product Description: Including classic essays and lively debates, British Romanticism shows that Romantic literature is an interesting and exciting topic to read and study. Combining key pieces from the last 25 years alongside newly written essays offering fresh takes on the area, this book covers the essential topics but with a contemporary and dynamic twist...read more
By Mark Canuel (editor)

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9780415523813 | Routledge, November 25, 2014, cover price $200.00

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9780415523820 | Routledge, December 11, 2014, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Including classic essays and lively debates, British Romanticism shows that Romantic literature is an interesting and exciting topic to read and study.

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By Pamela Clemit (editor)

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9780521516075 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 21, 2011, cover price $110.00

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9780521731621 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 21, 2011, cover price $34.99

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Product Description: Women writers played a central role in the literature and culture of eighteenth-century Britain. Featuring essays on female writers and genres by leading scholars in the field, this Companion introduces readers to the range, significance and complexity of women's writing across multiple genres in Britain between 1660 and 1789...read more

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9781107600980 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 30, 2015, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Women writers played a central role in the literature and culture of eighteenth-century Britain.

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9780199591749 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 10, 2011, cover price $99.00

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9780199683741 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, December 1, 2013, cover price $40.95

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Product Description: This book argues that the term 'Romanticism' should be more culturally-inclusive, recognizing the importance of scientific and medical ideas that helped shape some of the key concepts of the period, such as natural rights, the creative imagination and the sublime...read more

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9781137264282 | Palgrave Macmillan, May 29, 2013, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: This book argues that the term 'Romanticism' should be more culturally-inclusive, recognizing the importance of scientific and medical ideas that helped shape some of the key concepts of the period, such as natural rights, the creative imagination and the sublime.

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Product Description: Challenging literary histories that locate the emergence of fantastic literature in the Romantic period, David Sandner shows that tales of wonder and imagination were extremely popular throughout the eighteenth century. Sandner engages contemporary critical definitions and defenses of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century fantastic literature, demonstrating that a century of debate and experimentation preceded the Romantic's interest in the creative imagination...read more

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9781409428626, titled "Critical Discourses of the Fantastic, 1712–1831" | Ashgate Pub Co, October 1, 2011, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: Challenging literary histories that locate the emergence of fantastic literature in the Romantic period, David Sandner shows that tales of wonder and imagination were extremely popular throughout the eighteenth century.

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