The Romance of the Forest, Radcliffe, Ann

Автор: Radcliffe
Название: The Romance of the Forest
ISBN: 0192837133 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780192837134
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: This Gothic mystery was Mrs Radcliffe`s first novel and was considered by contemporary critics to be her finest.

Автор: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Название: The Blithedale Romance
ISBN: 0393928616 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780393928617
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Описание: This Norton Critical Edition of The Blithedale Romance is based on the Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, widely considered the best available edition. It is accompanied by explanatory annotations to help readers with Hawthorne's many historical and literary references as well as with other possible sources of difficulty in the text. "Contexts" is thematically organized and includes a rich and varied selection of materials, both public and private, focusing on Hawthorne's inspirations for the novel. Included are letters, excerpts from journals, published accounts of Brook Farm and the growth of antebellum social reform, Hawthorne's letters to Sophia Peabody and Louisa Hawthorne about his first days at Brook Farm, and later letters describing his growing reservations about and decision to leave the utopian community. The Blithedale Romance raises interesting questions about the role of women, the popularity of mesmerism, and the growth of cities in mid-nineteenth-century America. Margaret Fuller, Charles Baudelaire, and Hawthorne, among others, provide invaluable insight. "Criticism" begins with major contemporary reviews by Herman Melville, William B. Pike, George S. Hillard, James T. Fields, Henry Fothergill Chorley, and others that suggest The Blithedale Romance's initial reception. "Selections from Classic Studies" reprints key excerpts from influential essays published through the 1970s, including those by Henry James, D. H. Lawrence, Irving Howe, and James McIntosh. "Recent Criticism" collects a striking range of scholarly interpretation by Nina Baym, Joel Pfister, Gillian Brown, Richard H. Brodhead, Lauren Berlant, Russ Castronovo, Robert S. Levine, and Richard H. Millington. A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are also included.

Автор: Abbott
Название: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
ISBN: 019953750X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199537501
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Описание: How would a creature limited to two dimensions be able to grasp the possibility of a third? In Flatland, A Square`s linear world is invaded by a Sphere bringing the gospel of the third dimension. Part geometry lesson, part social satire, the novel enlarges readers` imaginations beyond the limits of our `respective dimensional prejudices`.

Автор: Herbert Wells
Название: The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance
ISBN: 0198702671 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198702672
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Описание: One night in the depths of winter, a bizarre and sinister stranger wrapped in bandages and eccentric clothing arrives in a remote English village. In this pioneering novella, Wells combines comedy, both farcical and satirical, and tragedy - to superbly unsettling effect.

Автор: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Название: The Blithedale Romance
ISBN: 0199554862 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199554867
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Описание: Based on Hawthorne's own experience of a Utopian socialist community outside Boston, The Blithedale Romance tells of the attempts of a like-minded group to begin reforming a dissipated America. However, rather than dropping bad habits and changing the world, Coverdale the prurient bachelor, Hollingsworth the furious philanthropist, Zenobia the voluptuous feminist, and Priscilla the vulnerable seamstress soon find themselves pursuing egotistical paths which must lead ultimately to tragedy. Evoking a bright rural idyll which fails to survive the ravages of lust and power, Hawthorne cynically undermines the fatuities of nineteenth-century American idealism.