LInnocente (1892) is a psychological novel by the renowned Italian author Gabriele DAnnunzio. Lara Gochin Raffaelli has produced an expert new English translation of a DAnnunzios masterpiece, maintaining his lyrical rhythms and rich imagery, while...Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1901 and this English translation in 1970, Footprints in the Snow is one of the most popular novels in modern Japan. It is the story of the struggle of a penniless Japanese boy Shintaro Kikuchi, for education and emancipation....Lasīt vairāk
This is the first book-length, English-language translation of the work of this high-profile, prolific New Woman writer from Northeast China....Lasīt vairāk
Christian Isobel Johnstones Clan-Albin: A National Tale was published in 1815. In her novel, Johnstone engages with themes on British imperial expansion, metropolitan Englands economic and political relationships with the Celtic peripheries, and the...Lasīt vairāk
Christian Isobel Johnstones Clan-Albin: A National Tale was published in 1815. In her novel, Johnstone engages with themes on British imperial expansion, metropolitan Englands economic and political relationships with the Celtic peripheries, and the...Lasīt vairāk
This scholarly edition of Du Boiss 1770 novel, Theodora, A Novel, introduces readers to a unique voice in womens writing of the eighteenth century that has been undeservedly dismissed by literary history for far too long....Lasīt vairāk
Matilde Serao (1857-1927) was a successful and prolific journalist and novelist. This book tells the story of the arrival in Rome of a provincial deputy from the poor South. It paints a portrait of political and social life in contemporary Rome....Lasīt vairāk
The best-known novel of Sophie von La Roche, a German 18th-century woman writer. The plot reflects typical 18th-century concerns: the value of sentiment and the importance of virtue in attaining a good life. The publication of this novel reflects a...Lasīt vairāk
Covers four texts from the 1890s that helped to crystallize the idea of the New Woman during a period where the role of women was increasingly debated and challenged, not least due to the growth of the suffrage movement...Lasīt vairāk
The novels in this collection include one by a fierce opponent to the New Woman movement, as well as two from women whose work can be seen as archetypal New Woman fiction...Lasīt vairāk
The novels in this collection include one by a fierce opponent to the New Woman movement, as well as two from women whose work can be seen as archetypal New Woman fiction...Lasīt vairāk
Florence Nightingale is famous as the heroine of the Crimean War and later as a campaigner for medical care founded on a clean environment and good nursing. Suggestions for Thought, which contains the novel Cassandra, is a central text in nineteenth...Lasīt vairāk
This novel intervenes in many of the literary and philosophical debates of the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century, forging a connection between the eighteenth-century discourse of sentiment and the emergent nineteenth-century conce...Lasīt vairāk
Ann Gomersalls The Citizen (1790) is an epistolary novel, written over two volumes. Gomersall came out of the merchant class in Leeds and little else is known about her, but she began writing to raise funds for her merchant husband to re-enter busin...Lasīt vairāk
Published in 1763, The History of Lady Julia Mandeville was Frances Brookes first and most successful novel. This modern critical edition contains an introductory essay on the text, endnotes and textual variants as well as appendices containing cont...Lasīt vairāk
This is the first modern scholarly edition of Florence Macarthy: An Irish Tale (1818). Owensons seventh novel, it is the most sophisticated of her four national tales. Owenson combined conventional romance plotlines with the political and social...Lasīt vairāk
Eliza Haywood was one of the most popular and versatile writers of the eighteenth century. The two novellas in this edition The Rash Resolve (1724) and Lifes Progress (1748) show her developing and adapting her ideas on the subject of passion and...Lasīt vairāk
Born in Dublin into the Anglo-Irish gentry, Anna Maria Hall moved to London when she was fifteen where she became famous for her books, plays and travel writing. It was her book, Sketches of Irish Character (1829) which made her a household name. Th...Lasīt vairāk
Thomas Holcrofts 1786 translation of Isabelle de Montolieus novel is a textual encounter between a rather conventional Swiss woman and a British radical. Just as Montolieu did in her own translations, Holcroft reworked parts of the novel to make it...Lasīt vairāk
Self-Control (1811) was a literary sensation, going into four editions in its first year. The first novelist to set her story against a strong Scottish background, Brunton set the scene for other writers such as Walter Scott. Jane Austen was also a...Lasīt vairāk
The Victim of Fancy was first published in December 1787 and, despite favourable reviews, has not been published since. Cooks new scholarly edition of this forgotten novel will be of paramount importance in allowing new insights into the form of th...Lasīt vairāk
Ned Evans is a rags-to-riches hero, whose early existence in poverty in Wales is dramatically changed when he saves the beautiful Lady Cecilia Rivers from an assault and is invited to Ireland by her father. After spending time with the great and the...Lasīt vairāk
This edition of Romance Readers and Romance Writers (1810) is the first modern scholarly publication of what is arguably Greens most famous novel. As with many of her other works, Green adopts numerous sophisticated methods to parody her contempora...Lasīt vairāk
This critical edition of Julia is the first modern printing of a novel that blends the character development of a poet with critical reflections on social injustice....Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1759, this novel aims to promote the cause of the Magdalen House, a charity which sought to rehabilitate prostitutes by fitting them for a life of virtuous industry. It challenges long-standing prejudices against prostitutes by pr...Lasīt vairāk
Contains two tales - The Renunciation, which presents a colourful picture of life abroad, when an English girl travels to Italy in search of kin and supports herself as an artist, offering an early feminist heroine; and, The Hermitage, a psychol...Lasīt vairāk
A novel, which addresses central themes of adultery, obsession and inheritance. It follows the fortunes of Matilda Melbourne who displays virtue, delicacy and an unwavering commitment to the sometimes ruthless demands of parental authority....Lasīt vairāk
Some of the theories Genlis adopts in the education of the eponymous children have their roots in Rousseaus Emile. However, Genlis herself suggested that Rousseau knew little of the practical education of children. This work is placed within the...Lasīt vairāk
Charlotte Dacres debut novel was a bestseller, with two subsequent editions in two years. It tells the story of the wilful Cazire, whose passionate yet destructive adventures are recounted from the monastery where she now lives. The book will be of...Lasīt vairāk
The writings of Frances Trollope have been subject to increasing academic interest in recent years, and are now widely studied. In this four-volume set her comical, yet subversive, treatment of Victorian marriage provides an interesting contrast to...Lasīt vairāk
An account of rural and agricultural life in Japan in the early 1900s. It also provides information about farming, courtship, marriage, child-rearing, health care, folk religion and funeral customs in the late Meiji era, when Japans transformation...Lasīt vairāk
Regularly the subject of cartoonists and satirical novelists, Mary Robinson achieved public notoriety as the mistress of the young Prince of Wales (George IV). Her association with figures such as William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, and comparis...Lasīt vairāk
Regularly the subject of cartoonists and satirical novelists, Mary Robinson achieved public notoriety as the mistress of the young Prince of Wales (George IV). Her association with figures such as William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, and comparis...Lasīt vairāk
Offers the works of Lady Caroline Lamb (1785-1828), the late Romantic-era novelist most famous for her affair with Lord Byron. Presenting Lambs works in a scholarly format, this book situates her literary achievements within the context of her Whig...Lasīt vairāk
Frances Milton Trollope (1779-1863) was a prolific, provocative and hugely successful novelist. She greatly influenced the generation of Victorian novelists who came after her such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot and Elizabeth Gaskell. This book fe...Lasīt vairāk
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81) was one of the most important political figures in 19th century Britain. However, before rising to political prominence he had established himself as a major literary figure. This set takes a critical look at Disraelis e...Lasīt vairāk
This collected edition makes available all of Maria Edgeworths major fiction for adults, much of her juvenile fiction, and also a selection of her educational and occasional writings. A dual pagination system indicates original page numbers for sch...Lasīt vairāk
Presents scholars, students and general readers with the major fiction for adults, much of the best of juvenile fiction, and a selection of the educational and occasional writings of Maria Edgeworth....Lasīt vairāk
This edition makes available in a single edition all of Hunts major works, fully annotated and with a consolidated index. The set will include all of Hunts poetry, and an extensive selection of his periodical essays....Lasīt vairāk
