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9781472440563 | Ashgate Pub Co, March 30, 2017, cover price $149.95

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9781472440570 | Reprint edition (Ashgate Pub Co, March 30, 2017), cover price $49.95

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9780233003702 | Nov edition (Andre Deutsch Ltd, April 1, 2014), cover price $39.95

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9780062025814 | 1 edition (William Morrow & Co, February 5, 2013), cover price $26.99

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9780062025838 | Reissue edition (William Morrow & Co, October 22, 2013), cover price $15.99

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Product Description: George Eliot’s writing process was meticulous in all of its phases, from manuscript to published text. Each of her extensive novels has a delicately crafted syntax, for she shaped her individual sentences as carefully as she wanted her public to read them...read more

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9780857289681, titled "George Eliot's Grammar of Being" | Anthem Pr, February 1, 2011, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: George Eliot’s writing process was meticulous in all of its phases, from manuscript to published text.

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9781783080748, titled "George Eliot's Grammar of Being" | Anthem Pr, December 1, 2013, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: George Eliot’s writing process was meticulous in all of its phases, from manuscript to published text.

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Product Description: This study examines Mary Wollstonecraft―generally recognized as the founder of the early feminist movement―by shedding light on her contributions to eighteenth-century instructional literature, and feminist pedagogy in particular...read more

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9780415893350 | Routledge, May 7, 2013, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: This study examines Mary Wollstonecraft―generally recognized as the founder of the early feminist movement―by shedding light on her contributions to eighteenth-century instructional literature, and feminist pedagogy in particular.

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Product Description: In its exploration of legal issues presented in novels of the Brontë sisters, this book represents a significant and original contribution to the study, not just of the Brontës and the mid-nineteenth century 'woman's novel', but also the situation of women in nineteenth century English law and the debates which moved around its prospective reform...read more

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9780230251472 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 15, 2012, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: In its exploration of legal issues presented in novels of the Brontë sisters, this book represents a significant and original contribution to the study, not just of the Brontës and the mid-nineteenth century 'woman's novel', but also the situation of women in nineteenth century English law and the debates which moved around its prospective reform.

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Product Description: Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61) was one of the most important poets of the nineteenth century and has recently undergone a major critical reappraisal. In this new study, Simon Avery examines a range of her poems, both well known and less familiar, drawn from across her career, in order to explore the concern with the search for a meaningful home which underpins much of her writing...read more

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9780746312018 | Northcote House Pub Ltd, October 2, 2013, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61) was one of the most important poets of the nineteenth century and has recently undergone a major critical reappraisal.

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9780746312063 | Northcote House Pub Ltd, December 3, 2011, cover price $19.95
9780582404700 | Taylor & Francis, July 1, 2003, cover price $75.95

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Product Description: Combining an analysis of literature and art, this book contends that the 'domesticated landscape' is key to understanding women's complex negotiation of private and public life in a period of revolution and transition. As more women became engaged in horticultural and botanical pursuits, the meaning of gardens - recognized here both as sites of pleasure and labor, and as conceptual and symbolic spaces - became more complex...read more

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9780521768658 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 14, 2011, cover price $104.99 | About this edition: Combining an analysis of literature and art, this book contends that the 'domesticated landscape' is key to understanding women's complex negotiation of private and public life in a period of revolution and transition.

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Presents a guide to Jane Austen's work in the context of her contemporary world
By Edward Copeland (editor) and Juliet McMaster (editor)

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9780521763080 | 2 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, February 14, 2011), cover price $105.00
9780521495172 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 13, 1997, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Presents a guide to Jane Austen's work in the context of her contemporary world

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9780521746502 | 2 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, February 14, 2011), cover price $28.99
9780521498678 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Presents a guide to Jane Austen's work in the context of her contemporary world

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Product Description: This new collection assembles fourteen original essays on Elizabeth Gaskell and her work by some of the leading Gaskell scholars, including Joanne Shattock and Alan Shelston. It also introduces the work of younger scholars exploring the varied discourses, ideologies, and contexts that characterize Gaskell's writing...read more
By Sandro Jung (editor)

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9789038216294 | Academia Pr Scientific Pub, November 11, 2010, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: This new collection assembles fourteen original essays on Elizabeth Gaskell and her work by some of the leading Gaskell scholars, including Joanne Shattock and Alan Shelston.

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Product Description: Anne, Emily, and Charlotte Brontë's literary representations of illness and disease reflect the major role illness played in the lives of the Victorians and its frequent reoccurrence within the Brontës' personal lives. An in-depth analysis of the history of nineteenth-century medicine provides the necessary cultural context to understand these representations, giving modern readers a sense of how health, illness, and the body were understood in Victorian England...read more
By Maria H. Frawley (foreword by) and Beth E. Torgerson

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9780230103283 | Palgrave Macmillan, July 15, 2010, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Anne, Emily, and Charlotte Brontë's literary representations of illness and disease reflect the major role illness played in the lives of the Victorians and its frequent reoccurrence within the Brontës' personal lives.

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Product Description: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." -Pride and Prejudice The question of marriage lies at the center of Jane Austen's novels. The issues bound up in the pursuit of love, happiness, money, and status were those of her day and informed the plots and morals of her work...read more

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9781847252180 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, July 8, 2009, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

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9780138072728, titled "Sex in the Bible: An Introduction to What the Scriptures Teach Us About Sexuality" | Olympic Marketing Corp, January 1, 1984, cover price $1.98 | also contains Sex in the Bible: An Introduction to What the Scriptures Teach Us About Sexuality

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"Discovering Literature" introduces students to the diversity of their literary culture, represented here by an accessible blend of classic favourites, contemporary pieces, and works from outside the mainstream. Through its discussions, expanded canon, variety of critical perspectives, and juxtapositions of similar works by authors from different periods or traditions, the book encourages investigations of literature.

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9780132197342, titled "Discovering Literature: Fiction, Poetry, and Drama" | Prentice Hall, January 1, 1993, cover price $40.90 | also contains Discovering Literature: Fiction, Poetry, and Drama, The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Jane Austen | About this edition: "Discovering Literature" introduces students to the diversity of their literary culture, represented here by an accessible blend of classic favourites, contemporary pieces, and works from outside the mainstream.

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9780826429339 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, September 1, 2008, cover price $21.95

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Product Description: "Discovering Literature" introduces students to the diversity of their literary culture, represented here by an accessible blend of classic favourites, contemporary pieces, and works from outside the mainstream. Through its discussions, expanded canon, variety of critical perspectives, and juxtapositions of similar works by authors from different periods or traditions, the book encourages investigations of literature...read more

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9780132197342, titled "Discovering Literature: Fiction, Poetry, and Drama" | Prentice Hall, January 1, 1993, cover price $40.90 | also contains Discovering Literature: Fiction, Poetry, and Drama, The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Jane Austen | About this edition: "Discovering Literature" introduces students to the diversity of their literary culture, represented here by an accessible blend of classic favourites, contemporary pieces, and works from outside the mainstream.

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Product Description: Jon Spence's fascinating biography of Jane Austen paints an intimate portrait of the much-loved novelist. Spence's meticulous research has, perhaps most notably, uncovered evidence that Austen and the charming young Irishman Tom Lefroy fell in love at the age of twenty and that the relationship inspired Pride and Prejudice, one of the most celebrated works of fiction ever written...read more

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9781852853945 | Hambledon Pr, April 1, 2003, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Jane Austen was a great novelist and one of the central figures of English literature, but she herself lived a quiet and uneventful life, mostly in the two Hampshire villages of Steventon and Chawton.
9780125976404, titled "Immunobiology of the Complement System: An Introduction for Research and Clinical Medicine" | Academic Pr, November 1, 1986, cover price $76.00 | also contains Immunobiology of the Complement System: An Introduction for Research and Clinical Medicine

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9781847250469 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, May 5, 2007, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Jon Spence's fascinating biography of Jane Austen paints an intimate portrait of the much-loved novelist.
9781852855611 | Hambledon Pr, December 15, 2006, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Jane Austen was a very great novelist and one of the central figures of English literature, but she herself lived a quiet and uneventful life, mostly in the two Hampshire villages of Steventon and Chawton.

This literary biographical study of mid-Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell places her writing in the context of her attitudes towards creative production, her relationship with publishers, and her literary friendships, as well as examining those events of her life which fed into her work.

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9780333695821 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 7, 2002, cover price $42.00 | About this edition: This literary biographical study of mid-Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell places her writing in the context of her attitudes towards creative production, her relationship with publishers, and her literary friendships, as well as examining those events of her life which fed into her work.

In these essays, McMaster's recurring concern is with the interpenetration of intelligence with emotion among Austen's characters. The book explores Austen's popularity in our culture and then moves on to an examination of all the novels, of the operation of love and the articulation of desire.

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9780333599266 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 18, 1995, cover price $189.00 | About this edition: In these essays, McMaster's recurring concern is with the interpenetration of intelligence with emotion among Austen's characters.

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Product Description: "Discovering Literature" introduces students to the diversity of their literary culture, represented here by an accessible blend of classic favourites, contemporary pieces, and works from outside the mainstream. Through its discussions, expanded canon, variety of critical perspectives, and juxtapositions of similar works by authors from different periods or traditions, the book encourages investigations of literature...read more

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9780132197342 | Prentice Hall, January 1, 1993, cover price $40.90 | also contains The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Jane Austen, The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Jane Austen | About this edition: "Discovering Literature" introduces students to the diversity of their literary culture, represented here by an accessible blend of classic favourites, contemporary pieces, and works from outside the mainstream.

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Product Description: A Reading of Jane Austen (first published by Peter Owen in 1975) has established itself with critics and readers as an outstanding contribution to the growing literature on this author, full of fresh and stimulating perceptions. Central to the word is Bar

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9780485120325 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, December 1, 2000, cover price $42.95 | About this edition: A Reading of Jane Austen (first published by Peter Owen in 1975) has established itself with critics and readers as an outstanding contribution to the growing literature on this author, full of fresh and stimulating perceptions.
9780720601343, titled "A Reading of Jane Austen" | Peter Owen Ltd, May 1, 1975, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In this new critical study, Barbara Hardy suggests that Jane Austen, while making no claims to innovation, transformed the art of fiction and created the modern novel.

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