Literature / Classics & Essays / Literary Criticism 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

New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 1931. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, 379 pp. 1st Edition. Yale Romantic Series, III. Literary biography of the French Romantic author and playwright. Sensation novels. Book Condition: Near Fine; owner's name on front free end paper; no other text marks noted. Dust Jacket Condition :… Read more about this item

University Of Iowa Press, 2006. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, 356 pp. Examines Snyder's role in an artistic and counter-cultural identification with the East (particularly the Pacific Rim) during the San Fransisco renaissance of the 1950's and 60's. Book Condition : Fine; unmarked; binding tight, appears unread. Dust Jacket Condition : Near Fine;… 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

Rindge NH: Richard R. Smith, 1956. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 64 pp.Short chapters on famous authors and individual religious themes, such as Shakespeare and Sin; Browning and Service; Tennyson and Faith; Emerson and Prayer; Hawthorne and the Puritan Soul; and more. Book Condition : Very Good; no text marks; owner's rubber stamp on… Read more about this item

New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 1970. Book. Fair. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1966 1st Printing Hardcover, 238 pp. Yale Publications in Religion, 12. Sections include : Religion and the Arts; The Nature and Function of Literature; The Christian Life; and, Literature and the Christian Life. Topics include : Christian Aesthetics, Discipleship, Christian Discrimination, and more.… Read more about this item

Boston MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1918. Book. Good -. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 1918 1st Edition. "Presidential Address to the Classical Association January 8,1918". Classical scholar mixes humanism and pragmatism in defending the value of history and literature against modernism. Book Condition : Good-; pencil underlining to 6 pp., owner's inscription on front free end… 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

NewYork NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1921. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Collection of Van Dyke's poetic criticism of Tennyson. Subjects include Milton and Tennyson; The Bible in Tennyson; and more. Book Condition : Very Good; no text marks; slight sunlight fading to spine; binding slightly relaxed; light scuffing to rear cover; some pages uncut.… Read more about this item

Menasha WI: George Banta, 1954. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Literary criticism of the French philosophic tale in the 18th century. Special attention is paid to Voltaire and Gracian. Book Condition : very Good; no text marks; age toning inside covers; top right corner creasing to first few pages; fading to title on… 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

New York NY: Garland Publishing, 1991. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Collection of essays by noted historian of British poetry and literature offers scholarly and critical consideration of Milton. Essays include : Satan's heresies in "Paradise Regained", Sly Milton : The Meaning Lurking in the Contexts of His Quotations, Shakespeare's Emilia and Milton's… Read more about this item

Antwerp Belgium: MIM Publishing Co, 1991. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Oversize hardcover, 440 pp. w/ color and b&w plates throughout. A history of the city of Antwerp in the twentieth century, especially between the World Wars. The focus is on the visual arts as well as demographics, urbanization, industrialization, and the development… Read more about this item

Albany NY: State University of New York Press, 1993. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This work examines the symbol of the virgin in a variety of Victorian literary works : Frankenstein, The Woman in White, Dracula, Tess of the Durbervilles. It also examines virginity in the poetry of Coventry Patmore, Elizabeth Barrett… Read more about this item

London, England: Longmans, Green & Co., 1963. Book. Very Good. Pamphlet. Probable First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This pamphlet, part of the British Council's series "Writers and Their Work", is a brief biography of noted Victorian essayist Walter Bagehot. Editior-In-Chief of The Economist, Bagehot wrote extensively on economic, government, and society as well as literary… Read more about this item