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Walter Macken
The Silent People

'The long tale of terror and bravery . . . is told with the deftness of a professional storyteller' -Irish Press 1826. Millions in Ireland know only famine, oppression and degradation. The landlords have …

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Madness in Literature and Visual Culture

A wide-ranging, future-focused study from a variety of cultural and academic perspectives, this illustrated book brings together a range of internationally recognised scholars committed to mapping and unp…

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Jane Austen,
Emma

The Cambridge Jane Austen

Jane Austen's stylish masterpiece, Emma is a brilliant psychological comedy about the mind's deception of itself. It speaks to the tedium of family and social existence, yet does so in a sparkling, utterl…

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Jane Austen,
Later Manuscripts

The Cambridge Jane Austen

Gathering together all the unpublished mature work of Jane Austen, this volume comprises poems, a novella, unfinished novels, literary spoofs and a series of letters giving advice on how to write fiction.…

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Alexis Chema
Adorned

Ornamental verses abound in Romantic-era commonplace books, albums, epitaphs, pamphlets, personal and commercial anthologies, newspapers, magazines, and periodicals -- that is, in the repositories where h…

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Jane Austen,
Pride and Prejudice

The Cambridge Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice is the most popular of Austen's six remarkable novels. Full of crackling dialogue, it achieves the finest balance of comedy and reflection, liveliness and solemnity. While revealing th…

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Jane Austen,
Childhood Writings

The Cambridge Jane Austen

In her earliest writings, a precocious, alarmingly assured Jane Austen views the adult world with wide, clear eyes, cheekily amused at the emotions, pomposity, intrigues and bustle of family and friends. …

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Jane Austen,
Sense and Sensibility

The Cambridge Jane Austen

Money and destructive passion overshadow romance in this darkly humorous novel of sexual manoeuvring and greed. Appearing anonymously in 1811 under the attribution 'By A Lady', Sense and Sensibility is Ja…

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Jane Austen,
Persuasion

The Cambridge Jane Austen

A powerful portrait of grief triumphantly overcome, Persuasion is Austen's most passionate work: more than any previous novel, it concentrates on the intense inner life of the heroine. It opens with Anne …

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Alexis Chema
Adorned

Ornamental verses abound in Romantic-era commonplace books, albums, epitaphs, pamphlets, personal and commercial anthologies, newspapers, magazines, and periodicals -- that is, in the repositories where h…

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Jane Austen,
Mansfield Park

The Cambridge Jane Austen

Many critics regard Mansfield Park as Austen's supreme achievement. It is a serious, even earnest work, but never dull, finding its comedy less in dialogue than in situation. It has wonderful set pieces i…

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Jane Austen,
Northanger Abbey

The Cambridge Jane Austen

Northanger Abbey is both an ingenious Gothic parody and a realistic portrait of the social education of a naive young girl in late eighteenth-century England. Conceived in the 1790s but not published unti…

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Walter Macken
Seek the Fair Land

'An adventure story that is both exciting and moving' - The Times 1649. As English soldiers trample Irish homesteads, leaving behind them a trail of barbarity and destruction, a few brave men set out to s…

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Michael DC Drout
The Tower and the Ruin

No writer has surpassed the epic achievement of J.R.R. Tolkien, who spent decades refining his world of Middle-earth. In The Tower and the Ruin , Michael D.C. Drout explores Tolkien's genius, allowing us …

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Holly May Walker-Dunseith
Traditional Medicine in the Irish Literary Revival

This book explores representations of traditional medicine and healing practices in Irish Revival-era literature spanning from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. Specifically, the…

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A C Benson,
The Benson Diary

The diary of A. C. Benson, poet and educationalist, illuminate a career at the heart of the Edwardian establishment, and a tortured private life. Introduction, footnotes, chronology.A. C. Benson (1862-192…

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Giuseppe Pezzini
Tolkien and the Mystery of Literary Creation

Taking his readers into the depths of a majestic and expansive literary world, one to which he brings fresh illumination as if to the darkness of Khazad-dûm, Giuseppe Pezzini combines rigorous scholarship…

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Jonathan Hay
Science Fiction and Posthumanism in the Anthropocene

With science fiction stories imagining futures and worlds vastly different from our own, and posthuman philosophies radically reconceptualising our species' place within our own world, this book is a deep…

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Kim Wheatley
John Cowper Powys and the Afterlife of Romanticism

This study bridges the chronological divide between the Romantic era and the first six decades of the 20th century, interpreting John Cowper Powys (1872 -1963) as a major, under-recognized contributor to …

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Oliver Basciano
Outcast

The story of how one misunderstood disease became the global blueprint for stigma and ostracizationOutcast: A History of Leprosy, Humanity and the Modern World reveals leprosy as the world's foundational …

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