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1) Jane Austen, the secret radical

Author

Kelly, Helena

Pub. Date

2017.

Language

English

Appears on list

Women's History Month

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Description

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A brilliant, illuminating reassessment of the life and work of Jane Austen that makes clear how Austen has been misread for the past two centuries and that shows us how she intended her books to be read, revealing, as well, how subversive and daring—how truly radical—a writer she was.
In this fascinating, revelatory work, Helena Kelly—dazzling Jane Austen authority—looks past the grand houses, the pretty young women, past the...

2) The political thought of Samuel Taylor Coleridge a selection byR.J. White

Author

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Publisher

J. Cape

Pub. Date

[1938]

Language

English

3) The great tradition in English literature from Shakespeare to Shaw

Author

Rubinstein, Annette T

Series

Modern reader paperbacks MR-20

Publisher

[Monthly Review Press]

Pub. Date

[1969]

Language

English

4) Twentieth century interpretations of Hard times: a collection of critical essays

Author

Gray, Paul Edward

Series

Spectrum book
Twentieth century interpretations

Publisher

Prentice-Hall

Pub. Date

[1969]

Language

English

5) The social ideals of Alfred Tennyson as related to his time

Author

Gordon, William Clark

Publisher

Haskell House

Pub. Date

1966.

Language

English

6) The American vision: actual and ideal society in nineteenth-century fiction

Author

Kaul, A. N

Series

Yale publications in American studies ; 7

Publisher

Yale University Press

Pub. Date

1963.

Language

English

7) Vulnerable people: a view of American fiction since 1945

Author

Hendin, Josephine

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Pub. Date

1978.

Language

English

8) Literature and morality

Author

Farrell, James T

Publisher

Vanguard Press

Pub. Date

1947.

Language

English

9) Virginia Woolf and the real world

Author

Zwerdling, Alex

Publisher

University of California Press

Pub. Date

[1986]

Language

English

10) The city in the American novel, 1789-1900: a study of American novels portraying contemporary conditions in New York, Phioladelphia, and Boston

Author

Dunlap, George Arthur

Publisher

Russell & Russell

Pub. Date

1965.

Language

English

11) Coleridge to Catch-22: images of society

Author

Colmer, John

Publisher

St. Martin's Press

Pub. Date

[1978]

Language

English

12) Breaking bread with the dead: a reader's guide to a more tranquil mind

Author

Jacobs, Alan

Publisher

Penguin Books

Pub. Date

2020.

Language

English

Description

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"W.H. Auden once wrote that "art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead." In his brilliant and compulsively readable new treatise BREAKING BREAD WITH THE DEAD, distinguished professor and author Alan Jacobs shows us that engaging with the great writings of the past might help us live less anxiously in the present. Today we are battling too much information, a society changing at lightning speed, algorithms aimed at shaping our every move,...