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Suggested Titles
The following is a sample from our catalog.
Charlotte Brontë by Call Number: 823.8 B789YgISBN: 0393314480Publication Date:This highly acclaimed biography looks beyond the insistent image of the modest Victorian lady, the slave to duty in the shadow of tombstones. Instead we see a strong, fiery woman who shaped her own life and transformed it into art.
A Companion to the Victorian Novel by Call Number: eBookISBN: 1405132914Publication Date:The Companion to the Victorian Novel provides contextual and critical information about the entire range of British fiction published between and .
Double Jeopardy by Call Number: eBookISBN: 0813163765Publication Date:Murder fascinates readers, and when a woman murders, that fascination is compounded. The paradox of mother, lover, or wife as killer fills us with shock. A woman’s violence is unexpected, unacceptable. Yet killing an abusive man can make her a cultural heroine. In Double Jeopardy, Virginia Morris examines the complex roots of contemporary attitudes toward women who kill by providing a new perspective on violent women in Victorian literature.
The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, Volume 1: – by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780773585096Publication Date:This edition reproduces her earliest journals in their original form, replacing omitted and altered passages. It shows her development as an artist and contains typically vivid sketches of her family, friends, and acquaintances in London and the country.
Ghost-Seers, Detectives, and Spiritualists by Call Number: 823.809 Sm15gISBN: 0521191882Publication Date:This book is a study of the narrative techniques that developed for two very popular forms of fiction in the nineteenth century—ghost stories and detective stories—and the surprising similarities between them in the context of contemporary theories of vision and sight.
The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer by Call Number: 823.7 P799pISBN: 0226675289Publication Date:Interpreting novels, letters, journals, and political tracts in the context of cultural strictures, Poovey makes an important contribution to English social and literary history and to feminist theory.
Recreating Jane Austen by Call Number: eBookISBN: 0511012993Publication Date:John Wiltshire examines how Jane Austen’s work has been recreated in other mediums.
