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eBooks by Anne Jacobs

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  • The Victorian Novel On File

    Secrets, Hoards, and Information Storage

    by Priyanka Anne Jacob ...
    The Victorian Novel On File argues that the nineteenth-century information explosion shapes the novel form. In a world teeming with data, the novel is a storage medium, cluttered with detail and accumulating more than it can use. The fictional things that have been read as insignificant should be seen instead as vessels of information, embedding the text with potential. This study weaves together ... Read more

    $80.39 CAD

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  • The Walker

    On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City

    by Matthew Beaumont ...
    From Charles Dickens’ London to today’s megacities, a fascinating exploration of what urban walking tells us about modern life—for fans of Rebecca Solnit, Olivia Laing’s The Lonely City, and literary history.“A labyrinthine journey into the literature of walking and thinking,” as seen in the lives and works of Edgar Allan Poe, Virginia Woolf, Ray Bradbury, and other literary greats (Guardian) ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Hauntology

    Ghosts of Futures Past

    by Merlin Coverley ...
    Ghosts and specters, the eerie and the occult. Why is contemporary culture so preoccupied by the supernatural, so captivated by the revenants of an earlier age, so haunted? The concept of Hauntology has evolved since first emerging in the 1990s, and has now entered the cultural mainstream as a shorthand for our new-found obsession with the recent past. But where does this term come from and what ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel

    Edited by Deirdre David ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In the Victorian period, the British novel reached a wide readership and played a major role in the shaping of national and individual identity. As we come to understand the ways the novel contributed to public opinion on religion, gender, sexuality and race, we continue to be entertained and enlightened by the works of Dickens, George Eliot, Thackeray, Trollope and many others. This second ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain

    by Leah Price ...
    How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who ... Read more

    $33.69 CAD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to the Novel

    by Marina MacKay ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    Beginning its life as the sensational entertainment of the eighteenth century, the novel has become the major literary genre of modern times. Drawing on hundreds of examples of famous novels from all over the world, Marina MacKay explores the essential aspects of the novel and its history: where novels came from and why we read them; how we think about their styles and techniques, their people, ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Children's Literature

    Edited by M. O. Grenby, Andrea Immel ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Some of the most innovative and spell-binding literature has been written for young people, but only recently has academic study embraced its range and complexity. This Companion offers a state-of-the-subject survey of English-language children's literature from the seventeenth century to the present. With discussions ranging from eighteenth-century moral tales to modern fantasies by J. K. Rowling ... Read more

    Was $35.99 CAD Now $31.99 CAD

  • Women's Lives

    The View from the Threshold

    by Carolyn Heilbrun ...
    Series series Alexander Lectures
    Eve has been supposed to have remarked to Adam as they left the garden, my dear, we are in a state of transition, and of course they were. It is no coincidence that Eve delivers this line. While humanity in every era and stage in history has been marked by a strong sense of itself as being in a state of transition, women have always had a particularly close relationship to changeable terrain. In ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Domestic Space Reader

    Edited by Chiara Briganti, Kathy Mezei ...
    Tune in to HGTV, visit your local bookstore's magazine section, or flip to the 'Homes' section of your weekend newspaper, and it becomes clear: domestic spaces play an immense role in our cultural consciousness. The Domestic Space Reader addresses our collective fascination with houses and homes by providing the first comprehensive survey of the concept across time, cultures, and disciplines.This ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Novel

    Edited by Eric Bulson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This Companion focuses on the novel as a global genre with a 2,000-year history. The first section includes an examination of the various genres out of which it emerged (epic, history, romance, the picaresque) and the different ways in which fiction and realism (magical, hyper, and social) were developed in response to specific political, social, and economic forces. The second section focuses on ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Good Form

    The Ethical Experience of the Victorian Novel

    by Jesse Rosenthal ...
    What do we mean when we say that a novel's conclusion "feels right"? How did feeling, form, and the sense of right and wrong get mixed up, during the nineteenth century, in the experience of reading a novel? Good Form argues that Victorian readers associated the feeling of narrative form—of being pulled forward to a satisfying conclusion—with inner moral experience. Reclaiming the work of a ... Read more

    $42.39 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens

    Edited by John O. Jordan ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens contains fourteen specially-commissioned chapters by leading international scholars, who together provide diverse but complementary approaches to the full span of Dickens's work, with particular focus on his major fiction. The essays cover the whole range of Dickens's writing, from Sketches by Boz through The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Separate chapters ... Read more

    Was $36.99 CAD Now $31.99 CAD