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The Age of Capital, 1848-1875by Eric J. HobsbawmISBN 0297769928 (0-297-76992-8)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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The Age of Caricature: Satirical Prints in the Reign of George IIIby Diana DonaldISBN 0300071787 (0-300-07178-7)
Softcover, Yale University Press
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Alice in Wonderland Classic Libraryby Lewis CarrollISBN 0307171116 (0-307-17111-6)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Alice's Adventures In Wonderlandby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 0312018215 (0-312-01821-5)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures In Wonderland'Book summary:Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is for most children pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll's putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, pursuing "The dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new." There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle, and the Mad Hatter, among a multitude of other characters--extinct, fantastical, and commonplace creatures. Alice journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her strange experiences. But they turn out to be "curiouser and curiouser," seemingly without moral or sense.
For more than 130 years, children have reveled in the delightfully non-moralistic, non-educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn, Alice's new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the "regular course" in school: Reeling, Writhing, and branches of Arithmetic-Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Carroll believed John Tenniel's illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally, Carroll's instincts were good; the masterful drawings are inextricably tied to the well-loved story. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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The Annotated Pride and Prejudiceby Jane Austen, David M. ShapardISBN 0307278107 (0-307-27810-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Annotated Pride and Prejudice'Book summary:This first-ever fully annotated edition of one of the most beloved novels in the world is a sheer delight for Jane Austen fans. Here is the complete text of Pride and Prejudice with more than 2,300 annotations on facing pages, including:
" Explanations of historical context
Rules of etiquette, class differences, the position of women, legal and economic realities, leisure activities, and more.
" Citations from Austens life, letters, and other writings
Parallels between the novel and Austens experience are revealed, along with writings that illuminate her beliefs and opinions.
" Definitions and clarifications
Archaic words, words still in use whose meanings have changed, and obscure passages are explained.
" Literary comments and analyses
Insightful notes highlight Austens artistry and point out the subtle ways she develops her characters and themes.
" Maps and illustrations
of places and objects mentioned in the novel.
" An introduction, a bibliography, and a detailed chronology of events
Of course, one can enjoy the novel without knowing the precise definition of a gentleman, or what it signifies that a character drives a coach rather than a hack chaise, or the rules governing social interaction at a ball, but readers of The Annotated Pride and Prejudice will find that these kinds of details add immeasurably to understanding and enjoying the intricate psychological interplay of Austens immortal characters.
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Banditsby E. J. HobsbawmISBN 0297178504 (0-297-17850-4)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France, 1885 to World War Iby Roger ShattuckISBN 0224615262 (0-224-61526-2)
Hardcover, Cape
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The Boer Warby Denis JuddISBN 0246108681 (0-246-10868-1)
Hardcover, Hart-Davis, MacGibbon
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British Labour History, 1815-1914by E. H. HuntISBN 0297777866 (0-297-77786-6)
Softcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837by Linda ColleyISBN 0300107595 (0-300-10759-5)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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A Century of the Scottish People, 1830-1950by T. Christopher SmoutISBN 0300037740 (0-300-03774-0)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Charles Dickens' Great Expectationsby Charles DickensISBN 0312080824 (0-312-08082-4)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Charles Dickens' Great Expectations'Book summary:Adopted at more than 1,000 colleges and universities, Bedford/St. Martin's innovative Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism series has introduced more than a quarter of a million students to literary theory and earned enthusiastic praise nationwide. Along with an authoritative text of a major literary work, each volume presents critical essays, selected or prepared especially for students, that approach the work from several contemporary critical perspectives, such as gender criticism and cultural studies. Each essay is accompanied by an introduction (with bibliography) to the history, principles, and practice of its critical perspective. Every volume also surveys the biographical, historical, and critical contexts of the literary work and concludes with a glossary of critical terms. New editions reprint cultural documents that contextualize the literary works and feature essays that show how critical perspectives can be combined.[via]More editions of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations:
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City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian Londonby Judith R. Walkowitz, Catherine R. StimpsonISBN 0226871460 (0-226-87146-0)
Softcover, University of Chicago Press
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Victorian London was a world where long-standing traditions of class and gender were challenged by a range of public spectacles, mass media scandals, new commercial spaces, and a proliferation of new sexual categories and identities. In the midst of this changing culture, women of many classes challenged the traditional privileges of elite males and
asserted their presence in the public domain.
An important catalyst in this conflict, argues Walkowitz, was W. T. Stead's widely read 1885 article about child prostitution. Capitalizing on the uproar caused by the piece and the volatile political climate of the time, women spoke of sexual danger, articulating their own grievances against men, inserting themselves into the public discussion of sex to an unprecedented extent, and gaining new entree to public spaces and journalistic practices. The ultimate manifestation of class anxiety and gender antagonism came in 1888 with the tabloid tales of Jack the Ripper. In between, there were quotidien stories of sexual possibility and urban adventure, and Walkowitz examines them all, showing how women were not simply figures in the imaginary landscape of male spectators, but also central actors in the stories of metropolotin life that reverberated in courtrooms, learned journals, drawing rooms, street corners, and in the letters columns of the daily press.
A model of cultural history, this ambitious book will stimulate and enlighten readers across a broad range of interests.More editions of City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London:
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The Communist Manifestoby Friedrich Engels, K. Marx, John E. ToewsISBN 0312157118 (0-312-15711-8)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Communist Manifesto'Book summary:Does the closing of the cold war era open up the possibility of reading the Communist Manifesto in new ways? In the first teaching edition of the post-Cold War era, Toews proposes new guidelines for reassessing the work to help students reconstruct the meaning of the Manifesto in its time and at the close of the twentieth century. Together with the complete text of the work, this brief volume includes some key foundational documents by Hegel, Feverbach, Marx, Engels, and others that show the evolution of and influences on Marxist theory over time. The editor's introduction traces the trajectory of Marx's thought from the 1830s onward, while providing background on the political, social, and intellectual contexts of which the Manifesto was a historical product.[via]More editions of The Communist Manifesto:
The Darkened Room: Women, Power and Spiritualism in Late Victorian Englandby Alex OwenISBN 0226642054 (0-226-64205-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Desperate Remediesby Thomas HardyISBN 0312194943 (0-312-19494-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Emmaby Jane Austen, Alistair M. DuckworthISBN 0312207573 (0-312-20757-3)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emma'Book summary:Of all Jane Austen's heroines, Emma Woodhouse is the most flawed, the most infuriating, and, in the end, the most endearing. Pride and Prejudice's Lizzie Bennet has more wit and sparkle; Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey more imagination; and Sense and Sensibility's Elinor Dashwood certainly more sense--but Emma is lovable precisely because she is so imperfect. Austen only completed six novels in her lifetime, of which five feature young women whose chances for making a good marriage depend greatly on financial issues, and whose prospects if they fail are rather grim. Emma is the exception: "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her." One may be tempted to wonder what Austen could possibly find to say about so fortunate a character. The answer is, quite a lot.
For Emma, raised to think well of herself, has such a high opinion of her own worth that it blinds her to the opinions of others. The story revolves around a comedy of errors: Emma befriends Harriet Smith, a young woman of unknown parentage, and attempts to remake her in her own image. Ignoring the gaping difference in their respective fortunes and stations in life, Emma convinces herself and her friend that Harriet should look as high as Emma herself might for a husband--and she zeroes in on an ambitious vicar as the perfect match. At the same time, she reads too much into a flirtation with Frank Churchill, the newly arrived son of family friends, and thoughtlessly starts a rumor about poor but beautiful Jane Fairfax, the beloved niece of two genteelly impoverished elderly ladies in the village. As Emma's fantastically misguided schemes threaten to surge out of control, the voice of reason is provided by Mr. Knightly, the Woodhouse's longtime friend and neighbor. Though Austen herself described Emma as "a heroine whom no one but myself will much like," she endowed her creation with enough charm to see her through her most egregious behavior, and the saving grace of being able to learn from her mistakes. By the end of the novel Harriet, Frank, and Jane are all properly accounted for, Emma is wiser (though certainly not sadder), and the reader has had the satisfaction of enjoying Jane Austen at the height of her powers. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780-1850by Leonore Davidoff, Catherine HallISBN 0226137333 (0-226-13733-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780-1850'Book summary:"Family Fortunes is a major groundbreaking study that will become a classic in its field. I was fascinated by the information it provided and the argument it established about the role of gender in the construction of middle-class values, family life, and property relations.[via]
"The book explores how the middle class constructed its own institutions, material culture and values during the industrial revolution, looking at two settingsurban manufacturing Birmingham and rural Essexboth centers of active capitalist development. The use of sources is dazzling: family business records, architectural designs, diaries, wills and trusts, newspapers, prescriptive literature, sermons, manuscript census tracts, the papers of philanthropic societies, popular fiction, and poetry.
"Family Fortunes occupies a place beside Mary Ryan's The Cradle of the Middle Class and Suzanne Lebsock's Free Women of Petersburg. It provides scholars with a definitive study of the middle class in England, and facilitates a comparative perspective on the history of middle-class women, property, and the family."Judith Walkowitz, Johns Hopkins UniversityMore editions of Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780-1850:
The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857by Jean Paul Sartre, Carol CosmanISBN 0226735109 (0-226-73510-9)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857'Book summary:Seen by many as the culmination of Sartre's thought and project, and viewed by Sartre himself as an attempt to answer the question, "What, at this point in time, can we know about a man?" this monumental work continues to perplex its fascinated critics and admirers, who have argued about its precise nature. However, as reviews of the first volume in this translation agreed, whatever The Family Idiot may be called"a dialectic" (Fredric Jameson, New York Times Book Review); "biography, philosophy, or politics? Surely . . . all of these together" (Renee Winegarten, Commentary); "a new form of fiction?" (Victor Brombert, Times Literary Supplement); or simply, "mad, of course" (Julian Barnes, London Review of Books)its prominent place in intellectual history is indisputable.[via]
Volume 3 consists of "School Years" and "Preneurosis," which are the second and third books of part 2 of the original French work. In vivid detail, Sartre renders Flaubert's secondary-school experiences and relationships: his part in a student rebellion against the faculty, his teenage infatuation with Romantic literature, his friendships and rivalries with his classmates, and the ironies inherent in the schoolboys' bourgeois existence. Sartre then discusses Flaubert's years at law school, where he studied at his father's insistence. This volume also contains Sartre's most sustained analysis of Madame Bovary. Sartre's approach to his complex subject, whether jaunty or judicious, psychoanalytical or political, is captured in all of its rich variety in Carol Cosman's translation.More editions of The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857:
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Fins de Siecle: How Centuries End, 1400-2000by Asa Briggs, Daniel SnowmanISBN 0300082630 (0-300-08263-0)
Softcover, Yale University Press
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Flaubert and Madame Bovary: A Double Portraitby Francis SteegmullerISBN 0226771377 (0-226-77137-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Flaubert's Parrotby Julian BarnesISBN 0224022229 (0-224-02222-9)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flaubert's Parrot'Book summary:Just what sort of book is Flaubert's Parrot, anyway? A literary biography of 19th-century French novelist, radical, and intellectual impresario Gustave Flaubert? A meditation on the uses and misuses of language? A novel of obsession, denial, irritation, and underhanded connivery? A thriller complete with disguises, sleuthing, mysterious meetings, and unknowing targets? An extended essay on the nature of fiction itself?
On the surface, at first, Julian Barnes's book is the tale of an elderly English doctor's search for some intriguing details of Flaubert's life. Geoffrey Braithwaite seems to be involved in an attempt to establish whether a particularly fine, lovely, and ancient stuffed parrot is in fact one originally "borrowed by G. Flaubert from the Museum of Rouen and placed on his worktable during the writing of Un coeur simple, where it is called Loulou, the parrot of Felicité, the principal character of the tale."
What begins as a droll and intriguing excursion into the minutiae of Flaubert's life and intellect, along with an attempt to solve the small puzzle of the parrot--or rather parrots, for there are two competing for the title of Gustave's avian confrere--soon devolves into something obscure and worrisome, the exploration of an arcane Braithwaite obsession that is perhaps even pathological. The first hint we have that all is not as it seems comes almost halfway into the book, when after a humorously cantankerous account of the inadequacies of literary critics, Braithwaite closes a chapter by saying, "Now do you understand why I hate critics? I could try and describe to you the expression in my eyes at this moment; but they are far too discoloured with rage." And from that point, things just get more and more curious, until they end in the most unexpected bang.
One passage perhaps best describes the overall effect of this extraordinary story: "You can define a net in one of two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally, you would say that it is a meshed instrument designed to catch fish. But you could, with no great injury to logic, reverse the image and define the net as a jocular lexicographer once did: he called it a collection of holes tied together with string." Julian Barnes demonstrates that it is possible to catch quite an interesting fish no matter how you define the net. --Andrew Himes [via]
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From the Classicists to the Impressionists: Art and Architecture in the 19th Centuryby Elizabeth Gilmore HoltISBN 0300036922 (0-300-03692-2)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian Englandby Amanda VickeryISBN 0300102224 (0-300-10222-4)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England'Book summary:Winner of the Longman History Today Prize in 1998, Amanda Vickery's The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England is an outstanding study of a crucial period in modern women's history. Roy Porter described this book as "the most important thing in English feminist history in the last ten years." Readers familiar with the feminist analysis of women's lives in the late 18th to mid-19th century will find some of the commonplaces of that viewpoint called into question: the rise of "separate spheres" of male and female experience, for example, or the social construction of motherhood in the 18th century. At once scholarly and readable, The Gentleman's Daughter takes its readers on a vivid and well-illustrated tour of "genteel" Georgian society, bringing that world to life through what Vickery identifies as the "terms set out in their own letters by genteel women." Those terms structure the seven sections of the book: "Gentility", "Love and Duty', "Fortitude and Resignation" (which includes a notable discussion of the experience of pregnancy), "Prudent Economy", "Elegance", "Civility and Vulgarity", and "Propriety". "Our battles were not necessarily theirs," Vickery reminds us, striking her convincing balance between a feminist interest in the restriction and rebellion of women's lives and their own ways of finding meaning and pleasure in the gender distinctions of Georgian culture. --Vicky Lebeau, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Goblin Marketby Christina Georgina Rossetti, Arthur RackhamISBN 0245598847 (0-245-59884-7)
Hardcover, Harrap
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Goblin Market'Book summary:One hundred years ago, Rossetti was Britain's most popular poet, described by Virginia Woolf as "the first of our English Poetesses". 'Goblin Market' is her best-known poem. [via]
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Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857by Jean-Paul Sartre, Carol CosmanISBN 0226735095 (0-226-73509-5)
Hardcover, University of Chicago Press
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Hard Timesby Charles DickensISBN 0312132611 (0-312-13261-1)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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The Heart of Darknessby Joseph Conrad, Ross C. MurfinISBN 0312114915 (0-312-11491-5)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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Heart of Darknessby Ross C. Murfin, Joseph ConradISBN 0312007612 (0-312-00761-2)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heart of Darkness'Book summary:If asked to describe the way in which the study of literature is changing, most of us willing to venture an answer would say that it is becoming more theortical. Without some kind of theoretical underpinning, literary criticism runs the riskof being impressionistic, even illogical [via]
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A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Societyby Mary PooveyISBN 0226675262 (0-226-67526-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society'Book summary:How did the fact become modernity's most favored unit of knowledge? How did description come to seem separable from theory in the precursors of economics and the social sciences?[via]
Mary Poovey explores these questions in A History of the Modern Fact, ranging across an astonishing array of texts and ideas from the publication of the first British manual on double-entry bookkeeping in 1588 to the institutionalization of statistics in the 1830s. She shows how the production of systematic knowledge from descriptions of observed particulars influenced government, how numerical representation became the privileged vehicle for generating useful facts, and how beliefwhether figured as credit, credibility, or credulityremained essential to the production of knowledge.
Illuminating the epistemological conditions that have made modern social and economic knowledge possible, A History of the Modern Fact provides important contributions to the history of political thought, economics, science, and philosophy, as well as to literary and cultural criticism.More editions of A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society:
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Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priestby Adrian DesmondISBN 0201959879 (0-201-95987-9)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest'Book summary:T. H. Huxley (18251895) was Darwins bloody-fanged bulldog. His giant scything intellect shook a prim Victorian society; his Devils gospel of evolution outraged. He put agnostic into the vocabulary and cave men into the public consciousness. Adrian Desmonds fiery biography with its panoramic view of Dickensian life explains how this agent provocateur rose to become the centurys greatest prophet.Synoptic in its sweep and evocative in its details, Desmonds biography reveals the poverty and opium-hazed tragedies of young Tom Huxleys life as well as the accolades and triumphs of his later years. The drug-grinders apprentice knew sots and scandals and breakdowns that signaled a genius close to madness. As surgeons mate on the cockroach-infested frigate Rattlesnake, he descended into hell on the Barrier Reef, but was saved by a golden-haired girl in the penal colony.Huxley pulled himself up to fight Darwins battles in the 1860s, but left Darwin behind on the most inflammatory issues. He devasted angst-ridden Victorian society with his talk of ape ancestors, and tantalized and tormented thousands-from laborers to ladies of society, cardinals to Karl Marxwith his scintillating lectures. Out of his provocations came our image of science warring with theology. And out of them, too, came the Wests new faith-agnosticism (he coined the new word).Champion of modern education, creator of an intellectually dominant profession, and president of the Royal Society, in Desmonds hands Huxley epitomizes the rise of the middle classes as the clawed power from the Anglican elite. His modern godless universe, intriguing and terrifying, millions of years in the making, was explored in his laboratory at South Kensington; his last pupil, H. G. Wells, made it the foundation of twentieth-century science fiction.Touching the crowning achievements and the crushing depths of both the man and his times, this is the epic story of a courageous genius whose life summed up the social changes from the Victorian to the modern age. Written with enormous zest and passion, Huxley is about the making of our modern Darwinian world.[via]More editions of Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest:
The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classesby Jonathan RoseISBN 0300098081 (0-300-09808-1)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Invention of Peace: Reflections on War and International Orderby Michael HowardISBN 0300088663 (0-300-08866-3)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Invention of Peace: Reflections on War and International Order'Book summary:"War appears to be as old as mankind, but peace is a modern invention," claimed Sir Henry Maine in the middle of the 19th century. In his short, polemic book The Invention of Peace: Reflections on War and International Order, Michael Howard develops Maine's argument, and while not completely endorsing it, he convincingly argues that peace "is certainly a far more complex affair than war."
At just over a hundred pages, The Invention of Peace is more of an essay than a book, and its massive historical sweep will undoubtedly irritate some readers. Beginning in A.D. 800, when war "was recognized as an intrinsic part of the social order," it extends to 2000, when "militant nationalist movements or conspiratorial ones" suggest that in the near future "armed conflict becomes highly probable." However, Howard's credentials for writing this type of macro reflection on war and international relations are impeccable. Having fought in Italy during the Second World War, he has held several chairs of History and War Studies, and remains the president of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. His many books include War in European History and a translation of von Clausewitz's classic On War.
With such qualifications, it is hardly surprising that Howard remains tied to the beliefs of the European Enlightenment, while also acknowledging that "the peace invented by the thinkers of the Enlightenment, an international order in which war plays no part, had been a common enough aspiration for visionaries throughout history, but it has been regarded by political leaders as a practicable or indeed desirable goal only during the past two hundred years." As Howard thoughtfully picks his way through the complex negotiations throughout European history that led to the brief eruption of peace into an otherwise uninterrupted state of war, he hopes that "Kant was right, and that, whatever else may happen, 'a seed of enlightenment' will always survive." Let's hope that he's right. --Jerry Brotton, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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The Invention of Telepathyby Roger LuckhurstISBN 0199249628 (0-19-924962-8)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Ireland since the Famineby F. S. L. LyonsISBN 0297002236 (0-297-00223-6)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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Jude the Obscureby Thomas HardyISBN 0312446616 (0-312-44661-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Karl Marx: Selected Writingsby David McLellanISBN 0198782659 (0-19-878265-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Legsby William KennedyISBN 0224012703 (0-224-01270-3)
Hardcover, Cape
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Life and Times of William IVby Anne SomersetISBN 0297778390 (0-297-77839-0)
Hardcover, Tuttle Pub
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Little Womenby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0307122131 (0-307-12213-1)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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London 1900: The Imperial Metropolisby Jonathan SchneerISBN 0300089031 (0-300-08903-1)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Lords of Human Kind: Black Man, Yellow Man, and White Man in an Age of Empireby Victor Gordon KiernanISBN 023105940X (0-231-05940-X)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Love Stories: Sex Between Men Before Homosexualityby Jonathan Ned KatzISBN 0226426165 (0-226-42616-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Making a Social Body: British Cultural Formation, 1830-1864by Mary PooveyISBN 0226675246 (0-226-67524-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Making a Social Body: British Cultural Formation, 1830-1864'Book summary:With much recent work in Victorian studies focused on gender and class differences, the homogenizing features of 19th-century culture have received relatively little attention. In Making a Social Body, Mary Poovey examines one of the conditions that made the development of a mass culture in Victorian Britain possible: the representation of the population as an aggregatea social body. Drawing on both literature and social reform texts, she analyzes the organization of knowledge during this period and explores its role in the emergence of the idea of the social body.[via]
Poovey illuminates the ways literary genres, such as the novel, and innovations in social thought, such as statistical thinking and anatomical realism, helped separate social concerns from the political and economic domains. She then discusses the influence of the social body concept on Victorian ideas about the role of the state, examining writings by James Phillips Kay, Thomas Chalmers, and Edwin Chadwick on regulating the poor. Analyzing the conflict between Kay's idea of the social body and Babbage's image of the social machine, she considers the implications of both models for the place of Victorian women. Poovey's provocative readings of Disraeli's Coningsby, Gaskell's Mary Barton, and Dickens's Our Mutual Friend show that the novel as a genre exposed the role gender played in contemporary discussions of poverty and wealth.
Making a Social Body argues that gender, race, and class should be considered in the context of broader concerns such as how social authority is distributed, how institutions formalize knowledge, and how truth is defined.More editions of Making a Social Body: British Cultural Formation, 1830-1864:
Men and Womenby Robert BrowningISBN 0199110190 (0-19-911019-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Moby Dickby Herman Melville, John Bryant, Haskell SpringerISBN 0205514081 (0-205-51408-1)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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Mujercitas / Little Womenby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0307349942 (0-307-34994-2)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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Napoleon III and His Carnival Empireby John BiermanISBN 031203900X (0-312-03900-X)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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A New England?: Peace And War 1886-1918by G.R. SearleISBN 0199284407 (0-19-928440-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Old Regime and the Revolution: Notes on the French Revolution and Napoleonby Francois Furet, Francoise Melonio, Alexis De Tocqueville, Alan S. KahanISBN 0226805336 (0-226-80533-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Old Regime and the Revolution : The Complete Textby Alexis de Tocqueville, Alan S. Kahan, Francois Furet, Francoise MelonioISBN 0226805298 (0-226-80529-8)
Hardcover, University of Chicago Press
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The Oxford History of the British Empire: The 19th Centuryby William Roger Louis, Andrew Porter, Alaine LowISBN 0199246785 (0-19-924678-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford History of the British Empire: The 19th Century'Book summary:Volume III covers the long watershed of the nineteenth century, from the American independence of the 1780s to the eve of world war in 1914. This period saw Britain's greatest expansion as an empire-builder and a dominant world power.
We begin with several thematic chapters--some are on Britain while others consider the empire's periphery--exploring the key dynamics of British expansion that made imperial influence possible and imperial rule prevalent. The volume also studies the economic, cultural, and institutional frameworks that shaped Britain's overseas empire. Focus then shifts to the principal areas of imperial activity overseas, including both white-settler and tropical colonies, and the question of how British interests and imperial rule shaped the political, social, and economic histories of individual regions. The themes include economics, institutions, defense, technology, imperial and colonial cultures, science, and exploration. The volume examines not only the formal empire, stretching from Australasia and the West Indies to India and the African colonies, but also China and Latin America, which were the central components of Britain's "informal" empire.
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The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. It deals with the interaction of British and non-western societies from the Elizabethan era to the late twentieth century, provides a balanced treatment of the ruled as well as the rulers, and takes into account the significance of the Empire for the peoples of the British Isles. All five of the volumes in this series fully explore economic and social as well as political trends. [via]More editions of The Oxford History of the British Empire: The 19th Century:
Peter the Great: A Biographyby Lindsey HughesISBN 030010300X (0-300-10300-X)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism And the Culture of the Modernby Alex OwenISBN 0226642046 (0-226-64204-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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In answering this question for the first time, The Place of Enchantment breaks new ground in its consideration of the role of occultism in British culture prior to World War I. Rescuing occultism from its status as an "irrational indulgence" and situating it at the center of British intellectual life, Owen argues that an involvement with the occult was a leitmotif of the intellectual avant-garde. Carefully placing a serious engagement with esotericism squarely alongside revolutionary understandings of rationality and consciousness, Owen demonstrates how a newly psychologized magic operated in conjunction with the developing patterns of modern life. She details such fascinating examples of occult practice as the sex magic of Aleister Crowley, the pharmacological experimentation of W. B. Yeats, and complex forms of astral clairvoyance as taught in secret and hierarchical magical societies like the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
Through a remarkable blend of theoretical discussion and intellectual history, Owen has produced a work that moves far beyond a consideration of occultists and their world. Bearing directly on our understanding of modernity, her conclusions will force us to rethink the place of the irrational in modern culture.An intelligent, well-argued and richly detailed work of cultural history that offers a substantial contribution to our understanding of Britain. Nick Freeman, Washington TimesMore editions of The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism And the Culture of the Modern:
The Prelude: A Parallel Textby William Wordsworth, J.C. MaxwellISBN 0300027567 (0-300-02756-7)
Softcover, Yale University Press
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Rebellion in the Backlandsby Euclides Da CunhaISBN 0226124444 (0-226-12444-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Religion and Society in England: 1850-1914by Hugh McLeodISBN 031215805X (0-312-15805-X)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Russia in the Age of Peter the Greatby Lindsey HughesISBN 0300075391 (0-300-07539-1)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Sartre and Flaubertby Hazel Estella BarnesISBN 0226037207 (0-226-03720-7)
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The Scarlet Letterby Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ross C. MurfinISBN 0312256930 (0-312-25693-0)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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Scenes of Seduction: Prostitution, Hysteria, and Reading Difference in the Nineteenth-Century Franceby Jann MatlockISBN 0231072074 (0-231-07207-4)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Sexology in Culture: Labelling Bodies and Desiresby Lucy Bland, Laura L. DoanISBN 0226056678 (0-226-05667-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Sexology Uncensored: The Documents of Sexual Scienceby Lucy Bland, Laura L. DoanISBN 0226056694 (0-226-05669-4)
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Treasure Islandby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0237522829 (0-237-52282-9)
Softcover, Evans Publishing Group
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Turn of the Screwby Henry JamesISBN 0312138334 (0-312-13833-4)
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Turn of the Screwby Peter G. Beidler, Henry JamesISBN 0312080832 (0-312-08083-2)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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The Turn of the Screw: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticismby Peter G. Beidler, Henry JamesISBN 0312406916 (0-312-40691-6)
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Unmodern Observationsby Friedrich Nietzsche, William ArrowsmithISBN 0300043112 (0-300-04311-2)
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Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creationby James A. SecordISBN 0226744116 (0-226-74411-6)
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Victorian Thingsby Asa BriggsISBN 0226074838 (0-226-07483-8)
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The Vintner's Luckby Elizabeth KnoxISBN 0312264100 (0-312-26410-0)
Softcover, Picador USA
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The year is 1808, the place Burgundy, France. Among the lush vines of his family's vineyard, Jodeau, 18 years old and frustrated in love, is about to come face to face with a celestial being. But this is no sentimental "Touched by an Angel" seraph; as imagined by Elizabeth Knox in her wildly evocative and original novel, Xas is equipped with a glorious pair of wings ("pure sinew and bone under a cushion of feathers") and an appetite for earthly pleasures--wine, books, gardening, conversation, and, eventually, carnal love.
The fateful meeting between man and angel occurs on June 27. After an evening during which Sobran spills all his troubles and Xas gently advises him, the angel promises to return on the same night next year to toast Sobran's marriage. Thus begins a friendship that will last for 55 years, spanning marriages, wars, births, deaths, and even the vast distances between heaven, earth, and hell. In addition to the wonderfully flawed Sobran and his mysterious angel, Knox brilliantly limns secondary characters who are deeply sympathetic--from Sobran's unstable wife, Celeste, and his troubled brother, Leon, to his dear friend and confidante, the Baroness Aurora. Love, murder, madness, and a singular theology that would make a believer out of the most hardened atheist all add up, in The Vintner's Luck, to a novel that will break your heart yet leave you wishing for more. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Wordsworth and Coleridge: Lyrical Ballads, 1798by W. J. B. OwenISBN 0199110069 (0-19-911006-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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