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Books by Josephine Mcdonagh






George Eliot
(Writers and Their Work (Paperback))
by Josephine Mcdonagh, Bryan Loughrey, Emeritus Professor Isobel Armstrong
Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 1997 by Northcote House Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-0-7463-0799-1, ISBN: 0-7463-0799-3

"Available for the first time in the United States a new series of innovative critical studies introducing writers and their contexts to a wide range of readers. Drawing upon the mast recent thinking in English studies, each book considers biographical material, examines recent criticism, includes a detailed bibliography, and offers a concise but challenging reappraisal of a writer's major work. Published in the U. K. by Northcote House ..."






Transactions and Encounters
Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century Vol.
by Roger Luckhurst, Josephine Mcdonagh
Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2002 by Manchester University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7190-5911-7, ISBN: 0-7190-5911-9

"18 Julia Kristeva, 'Giotto's Joy', in Kristeva, Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art, ed Leon S. Rondiez, trans. Thomas Gora, Alice Jardine and Leon S. Rondiez (Oxford: Blackwell, 1980), pp. 210-36. 19 Ibid., pp. 220-1. 20 Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Most Eminent Painters (London: Allen Lane , 1978). 21 Lodovico Dolce, Dialogo Delia Pittura (1557), in M. Roskill (ed.), Dolce s 'Aretino' and Venetian Art The ..."






Commodities and Culture in the Colonial World(1st Edition)
(Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories)
by Supriya Chaudhuri, Brian Murray, Rajeswari Rajan, Josephine Mcdonagh
Paperback, 228 Pages, Published 2019 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-367-89011-7, ISBN: 0-367-89011-9

"Commodity culture and colonialism are intimately related and mutually constitutive. This book analyses the transformation of local cultures in the context of global interaction in the period 1851-1914."






Nineteenth-Century Radical Traditions(Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016)
(Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture)
by Joseph Bristow, Josephine Mcdonagh
Paperback, 258 Pages, Published 2018 by Palgrave Macmillan, United Kingdom
ISBN-13: 978-1-349-95565-7, ISBN: 1-349-95565-5






The Tenant of Wildfell Hall(Updated)
(Oxford World's Classics)
by Josephine Mcdonagh, Anne Bronte, Herbert Rosengarten, Robert Louis Stevenson, Alan Macdonald, Anne Bront12
Paperback, 496 Pages, Published 2008 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-920755-8, ISBN: 0-19-920755-0

"Combining a sensational story of a man's physical and moral decline through alcohol, a study of marital breakdown, a disquisition on the care and upbringing of children, and a hard-hitting critique of the position of women in Victorian society, this passionate tale of betrayal is set within a stern moral framework tempered by Anne Bronte's optimistic belief in universal redemption. It tells the story of the estranged wife of a dissolute ..."






Commodities and Cultures in the Colonial World(1st Edition)
(Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories)
by Supriya Chaudhuri, Brian H. Murray, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Josephine Mcdonagh
Hardcover, 242 Pages, Published 2017 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-21473-6, ISBN: 1-138-21473-6

"Commodity culture and colonialism are intimately related and mutually constitutive. The desire for commodities drove colonial expansion, at the same time that colonial expansion fuelled technological invention, created new markets for goods, displaced populations, and transformed local and indigenous cultures in dramatic and often violent ways. Contemporary interest in the object and its affective regimes has intensified following the r ..."






Nineteenth-Century Radical Traditions(1st Edition)
(Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture)
by Joseph Bristow, Josephine Mcdonagh
Hardcover, 243 Pages, Published 2016 by Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-13: 978-1-137-59705-2, ISBN: 1-137-59705-4

"This book takes a fresh look at the progressive interventions of writers in the nineteenth century. From Cobbett to Dickens and George Eliot, and including a host of lesser known figures – popular novelists, poets, journalists, political activists – writers shared a commitment to exploring the potential of literature as a medium in which to imagine new and better worlds. The essays in this volume ask how we should understand these inter ..."






Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities and the French Revolution
(Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture)
by Josephine Mcdonagh, Jon Mee, Colin Jones
Hardcover, 212 Pages, Published 2009 by Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-13: 978-0-230-53778-1, ISBN: 0-230-53778-2

"A Tale of Two Cities has always been one of Dickens’s most popular texts. Using a variety of disciplinary approaches, this new collection of essays examines the origins of Dickens vision of the French Revolution, the literary power of the text itself, and its enduring place in British culture through stage and screen adaptations. "






Child Murder and British Culture, 1720 -1900(1st Edition)
(Paperback)
by Josephine Mcdonagh
Paperback, 292 Pages, Published 2008 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-05456-0, ISBN: 0-521-05456-7






De Quincey's Disciplines(1st Edition)
(Hardcover)
by Josephine Mcdonagh, University Of Exeter
Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 1994 by Clarendon Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-811285-3, ISBN: 0-19-811285-8

"Drawing on a broad range of rarely studied sources, "De Quincey's Disciplines" reveals the English opium-eater to be a more complex and contradictory figure than the latter-day Romantic and psychedelic dreamer usually portrayed. De Quincey is shown here to have been a prolific contributor to the periodicals of his day on subjects as diverse as astronomy, economics, psychology and politics. Taking a theoretical, new historicist stance, J ..."






Commodities and Culture in the Colonial World
by Supriya Chaudhuri, Josephine Mcdonagh, Brian H. Murray, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
228 Pages, Published 2017 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-351-62000-0, ISBN: 1-351-62000-2

"... replete with stories of these marvellous recordings. One of them may give an indication of the value of the music that was actually recorded. In the late 1940s Bhurji Khan, the representative of the Jaipur-Atrauli school of vocal music, came to the residence of the princes of Jamkhandi for a concert, accompanied by his son Azizuddin Khan and his student Mallikarjun Mansur. The host entertained his guest by playing for him a ban ..."






Nineteenth-Century Radical Traditions
by Joseph Bristow, Josephine Mcdonagh
243 Pages, Published 2016 by Springer
ISBN-13: 978-1-137-59706-9, ISBN: 1-137-59706-2

"More recently, P.J. Keating has classified Owen (and Mattie) as a 'rags to riches' tale, a category of writing where '[a]part from an occasional, sentimentally presented exemplary working man, the poor are shown to be morally and physically inferior to other classes, their way of life something to escape from as soon as possible'.66 However, Robinson's novel overall indicates a more nuanced negotiation of working-class identity—inc ..."






Political Gender
Texts and Contexts
by Jane Spencer, Josephine Mcdonagh, Sally Ledger
237 Pages, Published 2014 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-317-86672-5, ISBN: 1-317-86672-X

"'bottom' who has control of the 'safe word' to bring the infliction of pain to an end - that is, at the point where pain can no longer be safely tolerated. ... Such viewers, adds Williams, 'owing to their different gendered identifications and object choices, find both power and pleasure in identifying not only with a sadist's control but also with a masochist's abandon'.20 Her conclusion is that such films keep in play a range of ..."






Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture Ser.
Charles Dickens, a Tale of Two Cities and the French Revolution
by Colin Jones, Josephine Mcdonagh, Jon Mee
212 Pages, Published 2009 by Springer
ISBN-13: 978-0-230-27389-4, ISBN: 0-230-27389-0

"me,' Darnay cries to Lucie, in the Surreyside Tale of Two Cities, 1860; 'Away! ... This is not only bad writing; it is a recognition of the structural implications of Dickens's novel, as a critic like Eve Sedgwick ... homoerotic desire: Darnay's reprobate lookalike was not only, all at once, potent and castrated (the symbolic sire of Lucie's son, the childless bachelor), he was also gay and not-gay. In Carton's sacrifice, the appar ..."






Calculus, Second Edition(2nd Edition)
by Author: Gilbert Strang, Josephine Mcdonagh
Hardcover, 770 Pages, Published 2010 by Wellesley-Cambridge
ISBN-13: 978-0-9802327-4-5, ISBN: 0-9802327-4-0

"Gilbert Strang's clear, direct style and detailed, intensive explanations make this textbook ideal as both a course companion and for self-study. Single variable and multivariable calculus are covered in depth. Key examples of the application of calculus to areas such as physics, engineering and economics are included in order to enhance students' understanding. New to the second edition is a chapter on the 'Highlights of Calculus', whi ..."






Child Murder and British Culture, 1720-1900
(Hardback)
by Josephine Mcdonagh
Hardcover, 292 Pages, Published 2003 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-78193-0, ISBN: 0-521-78193-0

"For the influence of Swift on radical satire in the early decades of the century, see Marcus Wood, Radical Satire and Print Culture, 1790-1822 (Oxford, 1994), p. 36. 26. NL (26 January 1839), p. 3. 27. NL (i March 1839), p. 3. 28. Doubleday was one of the editors and main contributors to the Northern Liberator; his novel, Political Pilgrim's Progress, was serialised in the preceding numbers of the paper . Of middle-class origins, he ..."






Transactions and Encounters
Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century Vol.
by Roger Luckhurst, Josephine Mcdonagh
Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2002 by Manchester University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7190-5910-0, ISBN: 0-7190-5910-0

"The psychical researcher William Barrett had in fact first coined 'thought transference' as a way of theorising the ... had joined the vice-president of the Royal Society, the astronomer William Huggins, and the chemist and editor William Crookes ..."






Literature in a Time of Migration
British Fiction and the Movement of People, 1815–1876
by McDonagh, Josephine
Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2021 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-289575-2, ISBN: 0-19-289575-3

"Examines nineteenth-century British fiction in the light of the new realities of human migration."






George Eliot
by Josephine Mcdonagh
114 Pages, Published 2018 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-78694-666-9, ISBN: 1-78694-666-1

"Since the publication of her first full length novel, Adam Bede, in 1859 George Eliot has enjoyed the reputation of the greatest realist novelist in English and as the guardian of traditional English values."






Political Gender(1st Edition)
Texts & Contexts
by Sally Ledger, Jane Spencer, Josephine Mcdonagh
Paperback, 254 Pages, Published 1994 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-7450-1562-0, ISBN: 0-7450-1562-X

"In recent years, feminist scholars, through their insistence on the key role of gender in critical analysis, have brought about a profound revitalization of literary and cultural studies. This text draws together work by leading exponents in the field. The essays explore the operations of gender in the production of knowledge and the formation of cultural representations in a wide variety of contexts, from German romantic poetry to the ..."



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