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The memoirs of Walter Bagehot
Published 2013An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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War memoirs, 1917-1919
Published 1997An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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For the duration a lighthearted WAAF memoir /
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Revolutionary subjects in the English "Jacobin" novel, 1790-1805
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Ives (1792) and Hermsprong (1796) -- Female suffering and witnessing subjects in Hays's The victim of prejudice (1799) -- Subjects of property and The memoirs of Bryan Perdue (1805) -- Anti-Jacobin re-visions and relational subjects in Edmund Oliver (1798) and Adeline Mowbray (1805) -- Anti-Jacobin parody and the reformist continuum: Memoirs of modern philosophers (1805) -- Conclusion: revolutionary subjectivities and rights discourse.…”
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Rival queens actresses, performance, and the eighteenth-century British theater /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Introduction: at stage's edge -- The economics of celebrity -- Real, beautiful women: rival queens -- Actresses' memoirs: exceptional virtue -- Actresses and patrons: the theatrical contract -- The actress and performative property: Catherine Clive -- The actress, travesty, and nation: Margaret Woffington -- The actress and material femininity: Frances Abington -- Epilogue: contracted virtue.…”
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The not so blank "blank page" the politics of narrative and the woman narrator in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English novel /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…Locating the female voice : the politics of narrative and the question of "the blank page" -- Concerning leave to speak : Moll Flanders' suit -- Speaking of chastity, virtue, honor : the life of Harriot Stuart written by herself -- The entangled "I" : memoirs of Emma Courtney -- Meaning on the margin : the third-story frame in Jane Eyre -- There's a ghost in it : Esther's Portion of Bleak House -- Babel deferred?.…”
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Romantic writing and the empire of signs periodical culture and post-Napoleonic authorship /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Introduction : empire, periodicals, and late Romantic writing -- China for sale : porcelain economy in Lamb's Essays of Elia -- Deciphering The private memoirs : James Hogg's Napoleon complex -- "But another name for her who wrote" : Corinne and the making of Landon's giftbook style -- Only "a little above the usual run of periodical poesy" : Byron's Island and The liberal -- Conclusion : space, time, and the periodical collaborator.…”
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Spectacular Disappearances Celebrity and Privacy, 1696-1801 /
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The celebrity emerges as the deformed king: Richard III, the king of the dunces, and the overexpression of Englishness -- The growth of celebrity culture: Colley Cibber, Charlotte Charke, and the overexpression of gender -- The canon of print: Laurence Sterne and the overexpression of character -- The fate of overexpression in the age of sentiment: David Garrick, George Anne Bellamy, and the paradox of the actor -- The memoirs of Perdita and the language of loss: Mary Robinson's alternative to overexpression -- Coda: overexpression and its legacy.…”
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Spectacular Disappearances : Celebrity and Privacy, 1696-1801 /
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The celebrity emerges as the deformed king: Richard III, the king of the dunces, and the overexpression of Englishness -- The growth of celebrity culture: Colley Cibber, Charlotte Charke, and the overexpression of gender -- The canon of print: Laurence Sterne and the overexpression of character -- The fate of overexpression in the age of sentiment: David Garrick, George Anne Bellamy, and the paradox of the actor -- The memoirs of Perdita and the language of loss: Mary Robinson's alternative to overexpression -- Coda: overexpression and its legacy.…”
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Spectacular Disappearances : Celebrity and Privacy, 1696-1801 /
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The celebrity emerges as the deformed king: Richard III, the king of the dunces, and the overexpression of Englishness -- The growth of celebrity culture: Colley Cibber, Charlotte Charke, and the overexpression of gender -- The canon of print: Laurence Sterne and the overexpression of character -- The fate of overexpression in the age of sentiment: David Garrick, George Anne Bellamy, and the paradox of the actor -- The memoirs of Perdita and the language of loss: Mary Robinson's alternative to overexpression -- Coda: overexpression and its legacy.…”
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Romantic narrative : Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollstonecraft /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Irvyne, and Prometheus unbound -- Unbinding the personal: autonarration, epistolarity and genotext in Mary Hays' Memoirs of Emma Courtney -- The scene of judgment: trial and confession in Godwin's Caleb Williams and other fiction -- Gambling, alchemy, speculation: Godwin's critique of pure reason in St. …”
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Romantic Narrative Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollstonecraft /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Irvyne, and Prometheus unbound -- Unbinding the personal: autonarration, epistolarity and genotext in Mary Hays' Memoirs of Emma Courtney -- The scene of judgment: trial and confession in Godwin's Caleb Williams and other fiction -- Gambling, alchemy, speculation: Godwin's critique of pure reason in St. …”
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Romantic Narrative : Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollstonecraft /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Irvyne, and Prometheus unbound -- Unbinding the personal: autonarration, epistolarity and genotext in Mary Hays' Memoirs of Emma Courtney -- The scene of judgment: trial and confession in Godwin's Caleb Williams and other fiction -- Gambling, alchemy, speculation: Godwin's critique of pure reason in St. …”
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Romantic Narrative : Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollstonecraft /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Irvyne, and Prometheus unbound -- Unbinding the personal: autonarration, epistolarity and genotext in Mary Hays' Memoirs of Emma Courtney -- The scene of judgment: trial and confession in Godwin's Caleb Williams and other fiction -- Gambling, alchemy, speculation: Godwin's critique of pure reason in St. …”
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Politics and culture in Victorian Britain essays in memory of Colin Matthew /
Published 2006Table of Contents: “…A brief word on "politics" and "culture" / Peter Ghosh and Lawrence Goldman -- Colin Matthew (1941-1999) / Boyd Hilton -- Colin Matthew : a memoir / Ross McKibbin -- Colin Matthew : a bibliography / Peter Ghosh and Lawrence Goldman -- Gladstone and Peel / Peter Ghosh -- Gladstone and a liberal theory of international relations / Martin Ceadel -- The enfranchisement of the urban poor in late-Victorian Britain / John Davis -- The defection of the middle class : the Endowed Schools Act, the Liberal Party and the 1874 election / Lawrence Goldman -- Liberal passions : reason and emotion in late- and post-Victorian liberal thought / Michael Freeden -- The Church of England and women's higher education, c. 1840-1914 / Janet Howarth -- Protestant histories : James Anthony Froude, partisanship, and national identity / Jane Garnett -- Roman candles : Catholic converts among authors in late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain / Philip Waller -- Scenes from professional life : medicine, moral conduct, and interconnectedness in Middlemarch / Margaret Pelling -- Victorian interpretations of Thomas Hobbes / Jose Harris.…”
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Re-reading Richard Hoggart life, literature, language, education /
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Lawrence / Sean Matthews -- The anxiety of influence : Hoggart, liminality and Melvyn Bragg's Crossing the line / Katie Wales -- Stances and tones before life : Richard Hoggart and the question of voice / Simon Grimble -- Local habitations : working-class childhood and its uses in the memoirs of Richard Hoggart and others / Michael Rosenfeld -- Questions of taste and class : Richard Hoggart and Bonamy Dobrée / Tom Steele -- Promoting international understanding and cooperation : Richard Hoggart's UNESCO years (1970-1975) / Malcolm Hadley -- Letter from W.H. …”
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Colonial citizenship and everyday transnationalism : an immigrant's story /
Published 2020Taylor & Francis
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The Novel and the Menagerie : Totality, Englishness, and Empire /
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