Literature / Classics & Essays / History from Adamstown Books

Knoxville TN: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition hardcover, 203 pp. Examines the role of literature in the lives of New Englanders before the Civil War. Using primary sources, the effect of books, lectures, and speeches show across socio-economic groupings and show how the written word addressed… Read more about this item

Hartford CT: Transcendental Books, 1971. Book. Good Plus. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Oversize library binding of 1971 reprints (single sided pages) of two essays by Frederick Wahr issued in 1915 and 1941. Book Condition : Good+, Ex-College Library; no text marks; catalog label at bottom left front cover; bookplate inside front cover; pocket and label on… Read more about this item

Athens OH: Ohio University Press, 1998. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition hardcover, 203 pp. Examines the literary sketch (and the Golden Age of magazines) as a genre more accessible and less confined by critics than the novel. The author sees this as playing an important part in the shaping of American… Read more about this item

Ams Pr Inc, 1992. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, 267 pp. 17 essay collection originally part of Georgiua State Literary Studies series. "Each of these essays demonstrates how 18th century authors and texts fulfilled their instructive intent by vexing the reader, to echo Swift's famous phrase..." Authors covered include Swift, Pope, Fielding, Philips,… Read more about this item

Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Book. Good. Hardcover. Hardcover, 307 pp. 1st Edition. Traces the 300+ year history of the diary novel focusing especially on French, German, and English works. Considers works by Defoe, Gide, Rilke, Frisch, Butor, and Lessing. Book Condition : Good; a few margin notes in pencil; light bumping to spine ends; a few stains… Read more about this item

Charlottesville VA : University of Virginia Press, 1999. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, 1st Edition, 201 pp. Reassesses Gaskell's ideology and feminism through the Victorian literary marketplace, arguing that her popular standing allowed her to express or suggest previously hidden or unconventional views. Part of UVA's Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Book Condition… Read more about this item

Athens GA: University of Georgia Press, 1992. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, 310 pp. 1st Edition. Collection of 17 essays organized into three themes: Christine and the beginnings of feminist thought; Christine's place in medieval French literature; and, her relationship to the Church Fathers and the humanists. Significant study on this… Read more about this item

Charlottesville VA : University of Virginia Press, 1998. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Argues that there is an additional tradition in Victorian literature, feminine political fiction. This emerged as women authors (Bronte, Gaskell, Gissing, and more) imagined more involvement in the public political sphere during the Industrial Revolution. Book Condition : Near Fine; check… Read more about this item

Paris France: Bibliotheque Nationale, 1948. Book. Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. In French. Ex-College Library in library binding. 1948 introduction and text catalog for a retrospective exhibition at the French National Library on noted Decadent author Joris Karl Huysmans. 2 b&w photos. Book Condition : Good, Ex-College Library; vertical crease to all pages; no text marks;… Read more about this item

Durham NC: Duke University Press, 1992. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Examines narrative theory as it relates to the later works of some well known authors to see how their prior structures are discarded due to changes in the authors' lives. Works surveyed include The Vicar of Wakefield, Persuasion, To Have… Read more about this item